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A Philosophy of Prayer
Nothingness, Language, and Hope
George Pattison
Series edited by John D. Caputo
Perspectives in Continental Philosophy
July 2024 192pp
9781531506834 £25.99/ $30.00 PB
9781531506827 £94.00/ $105.00 HB
FORDHAM UNIVERSITY PRESS
Exploring the silence of prayer in Post-Kantian philosophy and traditional spirituality. Pattison pays particular attention to the question of language and the implications of the role given to silence in traditional texts, arguing that language remains a defining element of the human–God relationship.
Aquinas and the Infused Moral Virtues
Angela McKay Knobel
February 2024 228pp
9780268201104 £40.00/ $45.00 NIP
UNIVERSITY OF NOTRE DAME PRESS
This study locates Aquinas’s theory of infused and acquired virtue in his foundational understanding of nature and grace. In this important book, Angela McKay Knobel provides a detailed examination of Aquinas’s theory of infused moral virtue, with special attention to the question of how the infused and acquired moral virtues are related.
Between Life and Thought
Existential Anthropology and the Study of Religion
March 2024 288pp 8 b&w illus.
9781487554750 £23.99 / $34.95 PB
9781487552589 £66.00 / $95.00 HB
UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO PRESS
Bringing together major scholars, Between Life and Thought explores the burgeoning subfield of existential anthropology as a truly humanistic social science, a space of convergence for anthropology, philosophy, and religious studies.
From 1st April 2024
Agrarian Spirit
Cultivating Faith, Community, and the Land
Norman Wirzba
February 2024 264pp
9780268203108 £20.99/ $24.00 NIP
UNIVERSITY OF NOTRE DAME PRESS
In Agrarian Spirit, Norman Wirzba demonstrates how agrarianism is of vital and continuing significance for spiritual life today. Far from being the exclusive concern of a dwindling number of farmers, this book shows how agrarian practices are an important corrective to the political and economic policies that are doing so much harm to our society and habitats.
Assembling Futures Economy, Ecology, Democracy, and Religion
Edited by Jennifer Quigley & Catherine KellerTransdisciplinary Theological Colloquia
August 2024 240pp
9781531506551 £29.99/ $35.00 PB
9781531506544 £112.00/ $125.00 HB
FORDHAM UNIVERSITY PRESS
The essays in Assembling Futures reflect scholarly conversations among historians, political scientists, theologians, biblical studies scholars, and scholars of religion that transgress disciplinary boundaries to consider urgent matters expressive of the values, practices, and questions that shape human existence.
Beyond Sectarianism
Ambiguity, Hermeneutics, and the Formations of Religious Identity in Islam
Tehseen Thaver
June 2024 320pp
9781512825947 £45.00/ $49.95 HB
UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA PRESS
In this groundbreaking book, Tehseen Thaver offers a fundamental reevaluation of how one should think about the relationship between the Qur’an, Shi‘ism, and religious identity through the highly influential poet al-Sharif al-Radi (d. 1015). Thaver leads her readers to consider their assumptions about sectarian identity and scriptural interpretation in the study of Islam, religion and sectarianism.
Catholicism and Native Americans in Early North America
Parish, Church, and Mission
Editedby
Kathleen DeaganApril 2024 266pp 33 b&w illus., 3 tables
9780268207557 £76.00/ $85.00 HB
UNIVERSITY OF NOTRE DAME PRESS
Catholicism and Native Americans in Early North America interrogates the profound cultural impacts of Catholic policies and practice in La Florida during the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. This groundbreaking volume moves beyond the missions to reveal how Native people, friars, secular priests, and Spanish parishioners practiced Catholicism across what is now the southeastern United States.
Extinction and Religion
Edited by Jeremy H. Kidwell & Stefan SkrimshireReligion and the Human
January 2024 398pp 8 b&w illus.
9780253068477 £40.00/ $45.00 PB
9780253068460 £76.00/ $85.00 HB
INDIANA UNIVERSITY PRESS
Extinction and Religion is a collection of wide-ranging chapters that explore the implications for religious faith and experience as it relates to a "sixth mass extinction" in Earth's history. Further it seeks to answer the question as to how religious and spiritual practices are shaping responses to the crisis?
Forever Familias
Race, Gender, and Indigeneity in Peruvian Mormonism
Jason Palmer
June 2024 344pp 5 b&w photos., 2 maps, 1 table
9780252087950 £29.99/ $35.00 PB
9780252045851 £112.00/ $125.00 HB
UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS PRESS
Peruvian members of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints face the dilemma of embracing their faith while finding space to nourish their Peruvianness. Jason Palmer draws on eight years of fieldwork to provide an on-the-ground look at the relationship between Peruvian Saints and the racial and gender complexities of the contemporary Church.
July 2024 160pp
Enlightened Spirituality
Immanuel Kant, Paul Tillich, and Reinhold Neibuhr
Edited by Roger Haight, Alfred Pach & Amanda Avila Kaminski
Past Light on Present Life: Theology, Ethics, and Spirituality
9781531505738 £8.99/ $9.95 PB
FORDHAM UNIVERSITY PRESS
Presents reflections on the nature of Christian spirituality in the light of Kant’s work Fundamental Principles of the Metaphysic of Morals.
Following Christ and Confucius
Wang Mingdao and Chinese Christianity
Christopher Payk
Liu Institute Series in Chinese Christianities
March 2024 288pp
9780268208240 £58.00/ $65.00 HB
UNIVERSITY OF NOTRE DAME PRESS
The first full-length critical biography and theological analysis of Wang Mingdao, the spiritual father of China’s House Church Movement. One of the most influential figures in Chinese Christianity, church leader and evangelist Wang Mingdao rejected state control of religion in favor of the religious freedom of the unregistered House Churches—a choice that made him a frequent target of government persecution.
Guiding God's Marriage
Faith and Social Change in Premarital Counseling
Courtney Ann Irby
May 2024 272pp 4 b&w images
9781479822157 £25.99/ $30.00 PB
9781479822140 £80.00/ $89.00 HB
NEW YORK UNIVERSITY PRESS
Guiding God’s Marriage offers an examination of Christian marriage preparation programs, exploring their efforts to stabilize the institution of marriage and highlighting the tension with individualism. Featuring archival research as well as first hand observations of four marriage preparation courses, the book offers a rare view of visions about how to realize a successful and faithfilled relationship.
Joseph White Musser
A Mormon Fundamentalist
Cristina M. Rosetti
Introductions to Mormon Thought
February 2024 128pp
9780252087752 £12.99/ $14.95 PB
9780252045639 £99.00/ $110.00 HB
UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS PRESS
In 1921, the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints excommunicated Joseph White Musser for his refusal to give up plural marriage. Rosetti tells the story of how a Church leader followed his beliefs into exile. The first book-length account of the Mormon thinker, Musser reveals the figure whose teachings helped mold a movement.
Messianic Zionism in the Digital Age Jews, Noahides, and the Third Temple Imaginary
Rachel Z. Feldman
March 2024 238pp 6 b&w images
9781978828179 £23.99/ $27.95 PB
9781978828186 £134.00/ $150.00 HB
RUTGERS UNIVERSITY PRESS
The role of technology in this movement’s globalization has been critical. Feldman skillfully highlights the ways in which the internet and social media have contributed to the movement's growth beyond the streets of Jerusalem into communities of former Christians around the world who now identify as the Children of Noah (Bnei Noah).
Orthodox Sisters
Religion, Community, and the Challenge of Modernity in Imperial and Early Soviet Russia
William G. Wagner
NIU Series in Orthodox Christian Studies
July 2024 414pp 8 b&w hts., 7 color hts., 1 map
9781501775727 £58.00/ $64.95 HB
CORNELL UNIVERSITY PRESS
Explores the relationship between women, religion, and social, cultural, and economic change between 1700 and 1935. Focusing primarily on the Convent of the Exaltation of the Cross, Wagner places the women's experiences in the broader context of developments in female monasticism and religious life in Russia, as well as in Europe and North America over the same period.
Laws of the Spirit
Ritual,
Mysticism, andthe Commandmentsin Early Hasidism
Ariel Evan Mayse
Stanford Studies in Jewish History and Culture
May 2024 400pp
9781503638273 £63.00/ $70.00 HB
STANFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS
The compelling vision of religious life and practice found in Hasidic sources has made it the most enduring and successful Jewish movement of spiritual renewal of all time. Mayse argues that the exceptionality of Hasidism lies not in whether its leaders broke or upheld rabbinic norms, but in the movement's vivid attempt to rethink the purpose of Jewish ritual and practice.
Missionary Interests
Protestant and Mormon Missions of the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries
Edited by David Golding & Christopher Cannon JonesApril 2024 230pp 18 b&w hts.
9781501774430 £24.99/ $28.95 PB
9781501774423 £112.00/ $125.00 HB
CORNELL UNIVERSITY PRESS
The authors bring together works about Protestant and Mormon missionaries in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, charting new directions for the historical study of these zealous evangelists for their faith. The chapters dismantle easy characterizations of missions and conversion and offer an overlooked juxtaposition between Mormon and Protestant missionary efforts.
Petrarch's Penitential Psalms and Prayers
Edited and translated by Demetrio S. Yocum & Francesco Petrarca
William and Katherine Devers Series in Dante and Medieval Italian Literature
May 2024 146pp
9780268207854 £29.99/ $35.00 PB
UNIVERSITY OF NOTRE DAME PRESS
The Psalms and Prayers are intricately crafted poetic and devotional works, presented in facing Latin/ English format. In his extensive introduction and commentary, Yocum situates these bold, original compositions within their historical, literary, and religious contexts, deftly drawing connections to classical texts, the Bible and the writings of the church fathers, and Petrarch’s own life, work, and poetics.
Protestant Missionaries in China
Robert Morrison and Early Sinology
Jonathan A. Seitz
Liu Institute Series in Chinese Christianities
March 2024 246pp 6 b&w illus.
9780268208042 £63.00/ $70.00 HB
UNIVERSITY OF NOTRE DAME PRESS
Evaluates the role of 19th-century British missionaries in the early development of the crosscultural relationship between China and the Englishspeaking world. Seitz proposes that Robert Morrison and his fellow missionaries were instrumental in creating a new map of cross-cultural engagement that would evolve, ultimately, into modern sinology.
Sins of Christendom
Anti-Mormonism and the Making of Evangelicalism
Nathaniel Wiewora
March 2024 232pp
9780252087783 £25.99/ $30.00 PB
9780252045677 £99.00/ $110.00 HB
UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS PRESS
Evangelical criticism of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints dates back to the earliest days of the Church. Nathaniel Wiewora uses the diverse animus expressed by evangelicals to illuminate how they used an imaginary Church as a proxy to disagree, attack, compromise, and settle differences among themselves.
The Catholic Case against War
A Brief Guide
David Carroll Cochran
March 2024 208pp
9780268207892 £27.99/ $32.00 PB
UNIVERSITY OF NOTRE DAME PRESS
Over the last 5 decades, the Catholic Church has emerged as a powerful critic of war and as an advocate for its alternatives. At the same time, researchers of armed conflict have produced a considerable body of scholarship on war and its prevention. The Catholic Case against War compares these seemingly disparate lines of thought and finds a remarkable harmony between the two.
Seductive Spirits
Deliverance, Demons, and Sexual Worldmaking in Ghanaian Pentecostalism
Nathanael Homewood
Spiritual Phenomena
March 2024 292pp
9781503638068 £25.99/ $30.00 PB
9781503637931 £108.00/ $120.00 HB
STANFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS
Homewood examines the frequent and varied experiences of spirit possession and sex with demons that constitute a vital part of Pentecostal deliverance ministries, offering insight into these practices assembled from long-term ethnographic engagement with four churches in Accra, the capital of Ghana.
The Afternoon of Christianity
The Courage to Change
Tomáš Halík
Translated by Gerald Turner
March 2024 264pp
9780268207472 £21.99/ $25.00 HB
UNIVERSITY OF NOTRE DAME PRESS
In a world transformed by secularization and globalization, torn by stark political and social distrust, and ravaged by war and pandemic, Christians are facing a crisis of faith. In The Afternoon of Christianity, Tomáš Halík reflects on past and present challenges confronting Christian faith, drawing together strands from the Bible, historic Christian theology, philosophy, psychology, and classic literature.
The Coloniality of the Secular Race, Religion, and Poetics of World-Making
Yountae An
January 2024 240pp
9781478025108 £22.99/ $26.95 PB
9781478020127 £92.00/ $102.95 HB DUKE UNIVERSITY PRESS
An Yountae investigates the collusive ties between the modern concepts of the secular, religion, race, and coloniality in the Americas, showing how decolonial thought incorporates religion into its vision of liberation.
