NEW AND FORTHCOMING TITLES IN
RELIGION 2022-2023
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HIGHLIGHTS THE WOMEN’S MOSQUE OF AMERICA
BLACK BUDDHISTS AND THE BLACK RADICAL TRADITION
Authroity & Community in Islam Tazeen M. Ali
The Practice of Stillness in the Movement for Liberation Rima Vesely-Flad
Analyzes how American Muslim women approach the Qur’an as a tool for social justice and community building 288 PP | PAPER | $30 9781479811304
344 PP | PAPER | $30 9781479810499
THE FORBIDDEN BODY
MUSLIMS OF THE HEARTLAND
From creature features to indie horror flicks, find out what happens when sex, horror, and the religious imagination come together
“Draws on rich archival sources to create a vivid portrait of Syrian communities... A fresh portrayal of American history and identity.” ~Kirkus Reviews
Sex, Horror, and the Religious Imagination Douglas E. Cowan
328 PP | PAPER | $30 9781479803118
How Syrian Immigrants Made a Home in the American Midwest Edward E. Curtis IV
256 | CLOTH | $30 9781479812561
RELIGION, RACE, AND COVID-19
JEWISH SOLDIERS IN THE CIVIL WAR
Confronting White Supremacy in the Pandemic Stacey M. Floyd-Thomas
312 PP | PAPER | $30 9781479810222
How the dynamics emerging from the pandemic affect our most vulnerable populations and shape a new religious landscape In Religion and Social Transformation
The Union Army Adam D. Mendelsohn
336 PP | CLOTH | $35 9781479812233
BEYOND DOUBT
Religion in a World of Movement Simon Coleman A groundbreaking reframing of religious pilgrimage to include everyday locations
Demonstrates definitively that the secularization thesis is correct, and religion is losing its grip on societies worldwide In Secular Studies
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“Compelling and complex. The author examines the overall Jewish experience, including why they enlisted and how they sought community during the war.” ~Library Journal
POWERS OF PILGRIMAGE
The Secularization of Society Isabella Kasselstrand, Phil Zuckerman, and Ryan T. Cragun
240 PP | PAPER | $30 9781479814282
Explores how Black teachers and practitioners interpret Western Buddhism in spiritual and communal ways
312 PP | PAPER | $35 9781479811946
NORTH AMERICAN RELIGIONS SERIES RELIGION AND US EMPIRE
VERNACULAR RELIGION
Shows how American forms of religion and empire developed in tandem, shaping and reshaping each other over the course of American history
A comprehensive collection of the pioneering work of Leonard Norman Primiano, one of the preeminent scholars in religious studies
Critical New Histories Edited by Tisa Wenger and Sylvester A. Johnson
384 PP | PAPER | $38 9781479810390
Collected Essays of Leonard Norman Primiano Edited by Deborah Dash Moore
344 PP | PAPER | $30 9781479818679
THE COURSE OF GOD’S PROVIDENCE
WHEN THE MEDIUM WAS THE MISSION
Shows that a religious understanding of illness and health persisted well into post-Enlightenment early America
FINALIST, 2022 PROSE Award in Theology & Religious Studies
Religion, Health, and the Body in Early America Philippa Koch
280 PP | CLOTH | $38 9781479806683
The Atlantic Telegraph and the Religious Origins of Network Culture Jenna Supp-Montgomerie
312 PP | PAPER | $35 9781479801497
LIFEBLOOD OF THE PARISH
FEAR IN OUR HEARTS
Men and Catholic Devotion in Williamsburg, Brooklyn Alyssa Maldonado-Estrada
What Islamophobia Tells Us about America Caleb Iyer Elfenbein Argues that anti-Muslim activity reveals how fear is corroding core American values
A New York City ethnography that explores men’s unique approaches to Catholic devotion 296 PP | PAPER | $32 9781479830497
248 PP | PAPER $19.95 9781479820528
OLD CANAAN IN A NEW WORLD
BEYOND THE SYNAGOGUE
Were indigenous Americans descendants of the lost tribes of Israel?
Finalist for the 2021 National Jewish Book Award in American Jewish Studies
Native Americans and the Lost Tribes of Israel Elizabeth Fenton
256 PP | PAPER | $25 9781479820481
An innovative exploration of religion’s influence on communication networks
Jewish Nostalgia as Religious Practice Rachel B. Gross
272 PP | PAPER | $24 9781479820511
Honorable Mention, 2021 Saul Viener Book Prize, given by the American Jewish Historical Society
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AFRICANA RELIGION IN THE SHADOW OF EBENEZER
RASTAFARI
The Evolution of a People and Their Identity Charles Price
A Black Catholic Parish in the Age of Civil Rights and Vatican II Leah Mickens
Illuminates how the Rastafari movement managed to evolve in the face of severe biases
Uncovers how the Civil Rights Movement and Vatican II affected African American Catholics in Atlanta 216 PP | PAPER | $30 9781479816507
352 PP | PAPER | $30 9781479888122
THE BLACK COPTIC CHURCH
SMART SUITS, TATTERED BOOTS
Provides an illuminating look at the diverse world of Black religious life in North America, focusing particularly outside of mainstream Christian churches. In Religion, Race, and Ethnicity
Explores the complex role that Black religious leaders play—or don’t play—in twenty-first-century racial justice efforts
Race and Imagination in a New Religion Leonard Cornell McKinnis II
256 PP | PAPER | $30 9781479816460
Black Ministers Mobilizing the Black Church in the Twenty-First Century Korie Little Edwards and Michelle Oyakawa
200 PP | PAPER | $27 9781479812530
BLACK FUNDAMENTALISTS
NETWORKING THE BLACK CHURCH
Reveals the role of Black Fundamentalists during the early part of the twentieth century
Provides a timely portrait of young Black Christians and how digital technology is transforming the Black Church
Conservative Christianity and Racial Identity in the Segregation Era Daniel R. Bare
272 PP | PAPER | $30 9781479803279
Digital Black Christians and Hip Hop Erika D. Gault
312 PP | PAPER | $35 9781479805822
LIFT EVERY VOICE AND SWING
THE DIVIDED MIND OF THE BLACK CHURCH
Black Musicians and Religious Culture in the Jazz Century Vaughn A. Booker
344 PP | PAPER | $35 9781479890804
Explores the role of jazz celebrities like Ella Fitzgerald, Cab Calloway, Duke Ellington, and Mary Lou Williams as representatives of African American religion in the twentieth century
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In Religion and Social Transformation
Theology, Piety, and Public Witness Raphael G. Warnock “An autobiographical work on the pietistic and prophetic traditions of the black church.” ~Black Theology 276 PP | PAPER | $19.95 9781479806003
In Religion, Race, and Ethnicity
WOMEN IN RELIGIOUS SERIES THEORY OF WOMEN IN RELIGIONS
WOMEN IN YORUBA RELIGIONS
An introduction to the study of women in diverse religious cultures
Uncovers the influence of Yoruba culture on women’s religious lives and leadership in religions practiced by Yoruba people
Catherine Wessinger
232 PP | PAPER | $22 9781479809462
Oyèrónké Oládém
200 PP | PAPER | $22 9781479813995
WOMEN IN NEW RELIGIONS
WOMEN IN CHRISTIAN TRADITIONS
Laura Vance
Rebecca Moore
An in-depth history of selected New Religions that highlights the roles of women in their founding and continual practice
224 PP | PAPER | $18 9781479816026
Uncovers women’s participation and impact on defining historical moments and themes of Christian traditions
224 PP | PAPER | $22 978147982175
WOMEN IN BUDDHIST TRADITIONS
WOMEN IN JAPANESE RELIGIONS
Subtitle Author
Barbara R. Ambros A comprehensive history of women in Japanese religious traditions
A new history of Buddhism that highlights the insights and experiences of women from diverse communities and traditions around the world 232 PP | PAPER | $22 9781479803422
240 PP | PAPER | $20 9781479884063
ABOUT THE SERIES This carefully curated series offers volumes on women in selected religious traditions. Each book provides a short, single-authored, very accessible introduction to women and their roles, representations, and challenges within each religious tradition discussed. nyupress.org
CHRISTIANITY THE MYTH OF COLORBLIND CHRISTIANS
ONE FAITH NO LONGER
Reveals how Christian colorblindness expanded white evangelicalism and excluded Black evangelicals
Irreconcilable differences drive the division between progressive and conservative Christians—is there a divorce coming?
The Transformation of Christianity in Red and Blue America George Yancey and Ashlee Quosigk
Evangelicals and White Supremacy in the Civil Rights Era Jesse Curtis
304 PP | PAPER | $32 9781479809387
304 PP | PAPER | $32 9781479808687
THE SEX OBSESSION
CREATING THE CREATION MUSEUM
Perversity and Possibility in American Politics Janet R. Jakobsen
How Fundamentalist Beliefs Come to Life Kathleen C. Oberlin
Offers a way to undo the inextricable American knot of sex, politics, religion, and power In Sexual Cultures 304 PP | PAPER | $23 9781479856916
280 PP | PAPER | $30 9781479805709
OPEN HEARTS, CLOSED DOORS
CHRISTIAN NATIONALISM AND THE BIRTH OF THE WAR ON DRUGS
Immigration Reform and the Waning of Mainline Protestantism Nicholas T. Pruitt
Andrew Monteith
A history of mainline Protestant responses to immigrants and refugees during the twentieth century 296 PP | CLOTH | $45 9781479803545
Investigates how the Christian fundamentalist movement brings Creationism into the mainstream through a Kentucky museum
Recovers the religious origins of the War on Drugs 320 PP | PAPER | $30 9781479817924
EVIL DEEDS IN HIGH PLACES
THE CHURCH OF THE DEAD
Christian America’s Moral Struggle with Watergate David E. Settje
The Epidemic of 1576 and the Birth of Christianity in the Americas Jennifer Scheper Hughes
Highlights Watergate as a critical turning point in Christian engagement in US politics
288 PP | CLOTH | $49 9781479803149
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264 PP | PAPER | $23 9781479825936
Tells the story of the founding of American Christianity against the backdrop of disease, and of the Indigenous survivors who kept the faith alive In North American Religions
ISLAM SOUNDTRACK TO A MOVEMENT
MUSLIMS ON THE MARGINS
FINALIST for the 2022 PROSE Award in Music & the Performing Arts Explores how jazz helped propel the rise of African American Islam
Offers vivid stories of nonconformist Muslim communities
African American Islam, Jazz, and Black Internationalism Richard Brent Turner
256 PP | PAPER | $30 9781479806768
Creating Queer Religious Community in North America Katrina Daly Thompson
In North American Religions 272 PP | PAPER | $30 9781479814350
MUSLIM AMERICAN CITY
BROKEN
The Failed Promise of Muslim Inclusion Evelyn Alsultany
Gender and Religion in Metro Detroit Alisa Perkins
How diversity initiatives end up marginalizing Arab Americans and US Muslims
Explores how Muslim Americans test the boundaries of American pluralism
264 PP | PAPER | $30 9781479892013
320PP | CLOTH | $30 9781479823963
SECULAR STUDIES THE SECULAR PARADOX
THE NEW HERETICS
On the Religiosity of the Not Religious Joseph Blankholm
Skepticism, Secularism, and Progressive Christianity Rebekka King
A radically new way of understanding secularism which explains why being secular can seem so strangely religious In Secular Studies 312 PP | PAPER | $32 9781479809509
264 PP | PAPER | $30 9781479836147
NONE OF THE ABOVE
SOCIETY WITHOUT GOD, SECOND EDITION
Nonreligious Identity in the US and Canada Joel Thiessen and Sarah Wilkins-Laflamme
What the Least Religious Nations Can Tell Us about Contentment Phil zuckerman
Compares secular attitudes characterizing “religious nones” in the United States and Canada
An updated edition showcasing the social health of the least religious nations in the world
In Secular Studies 296 PP | PAPER | $30 9781479860807
Charts the development of progressive Christianity’s engagement with modern science, historical criticism, and liberal humanism
296 PP | PAPER | $30 9781479878086
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CATHOLICISM THE MAKING OF AMERICAN CATHOLICISM
336 PP | PAPER | $45 9781479889426
Regional Culture and the Catholic Experience Michael J. Pfeifer Traces the development of Catholic cultures in the South, the Midwest, the West, and the Northeast, and their contribution to larger patterns of Catholicism in the US
CHRISTIAN ANARCHIST
Ammon Hennacy, A Life on the Catholic Lef William Marling A biography of a remarkable figure, whose politics prefigured today’s social justice, ecology, and gender equality movements 248 PP | PAPER | $30 9781479889426
CATHOLIC ACTIVISM TODAY
CATHOLIC SOCIAL ACTIVISM
Individual Transformation and the Struggle for Social Justice Maureen K. Day
Sharon Erickson Nepstad A history of Catholic social thought
Uncovers why Catholic organizations fail to foster civic activism In Religion and Social Transformation 224 PP | PAPER | $30 9781479851331
320 PP | CLOTH | $39 9781479879229
RACE AND ETHNICITY RACE IN A GODLESS WORLD
FAITH AND POWER Latino Religious Politics Since 1945 Edited by Felipe Hinojosa, Maggie Elmore, and Sergio M. González
Atheism, Race, and Civilization, 1850–1914 Nathan G. Alexander
A historical analysis of the racial views of atheists in the United States and Britain
Illuminates how religion shapes Latino politics and community building
In Secular Studies 256 PP | PAPER | $39 9781479835003
352 PP | PAPER | $35 9781479804528
ADOPTING FOR GOD
The Mission to Change America through Transnational Adoption Soojin Chung Explores the role played by missionaries in the twentieth-century transnational adoption movement 232 PP | PAPER | $30 9781479808854
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JEWISH STUDIES QUEER JUDAISM
THE STATE OF DESIRE
LGBT Activism and the Remaking of Jewish Orthodoxy in Israel Orit Avishai
Religion and Reproductive Politics in the Promised Land Lea Taragin-Zeller
Offers a compelling look at how Orthodox Jewish LGBT persons in Israel became more accepted
320 PP | PAPER | $30 9781479810031
An intimate account of Orthodox family planning amid shifting state policies in Israel 208 PP | PAPER | $28 9781479817368
KABBALAH AND THE FOUNDING OF AMERICA
JEWISH SUNDAY SCHOOLS Teaching Religion in Nineteenth-Century America Laura Yares
The Early Influence of Jewish Thought in the New World Brian Ogren Explores the influence of Kabbalah in shaping America’s religious identity 328 PP | PAPER | $35 9781479807987
272 PP | CLOTH | $39 9781479822270
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MY SECONDFAVORITE COUNTRY
HONEY ON THE PAGE
Reveals how young American Jewish children come to develop their views about Israel
Winner, 2021 Reference & Bibliography Award in the ‘Reference’ Section, given by the Association of Jewish Libraries
A Treasury of Yiddish Children’s Literature Edited and translated by Miriam Ude
How American Jewish Children Think About Israe Sivan Zakai
264 PP | PAPER | $25 9781479808984
352 PP | PAPER | $29.95 9781479874132
JEWS IN THE SOVIET UNION: A HISTORY
JEWS IN THE SOVIET UNION: A HISTORY
War, Conquest, and Catastrophe, 1939–1945, Volume 3 Oleg Budnitskii, David Engel, Gennady Estraikh, and Anna Shternshis
440 PP | CLOTH | $35 9781479819430
Charts how changes to Jewish education in the 19th century served as a site for the wholescale reimagining of Judaism itself
Provides a comprehensive history of Soviet Jewry during WWII
After Stalin, 1953–1967, Volume 5 Gennady Estraikh
Offers an analysis of Soviet Jewish society after the death of Joseph Stalin
432 PP | CLOTH | $35 978147981946
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LIBRARY OF ARABIC LITERATURE THE ESSENCE OF REALITY
THE REQUIREMENTS OF THE SUFI PATH
A Defense of Philosophical Sufism Ayn al-Qudat
A Defense of the Mystical Tradition by Ibn Khaldūn
Edited and translated by Mohammed Rustom
Edited and translated by Carolyn Baugh
A groundbreaking exposition of Islamic mysticism 350 PP | CLOTH | $35 9781479816590
A mystical guide book to help others on their spiritual path 210 PP | PAPER | $15 9781479806331
THE DISCOURSES
THE YOGA SUTRAS OF PATAÑJALI
Reflections on History, Sufism, Theology, and Literature—Volume One al-Hasan al-Yusi
Abū Rayḥān al-Bīrūn
Translated by Mario Kozah A brilliant cross-cultural Arabic interpretation of a key text of yoga philosophy
Translated by Justin Stearns Wide-ranging essays on Moroccan history, Sufism, and religious life
280 PP | PAPER | $15 9781479810581
300 PP | PAPER | $15 9781479813216
LIGHT IN THE HEAVENS
THE PHILOSOPHER RESPONDS
Sayings of the Prophet Muhammad by al-Qāḍī al-Quḍāʿī
by Abū Ḥayyān al-Tawḥīdī and Abū ʿAlī Miskawayh
Translated by Tahera Qutbuddin
Translated by Sophia Vasalou and James E. Montgomery
Humanitarian lessons and practical insights from the prophet of Islam 192 PP | PAPER | $15 9781479864485
446 PP | PAPER | $15 9781479806355
A TREASURY OF VIRTUES
THE PRINCIPLES OF SUFISM
Sayings, Sermons, and Teachings of ‘Ali, with the One Hundred Proverbs attributed to al-Jahiz al-Qadi al-Quda’i
A’ishah al-Ba’uniyyah
Translated by Th. Emil Homerin Sufism through the eyes of a legal scholar
Translated by Tahera Qutbuddin
196 PP | PAPER | $15 9781479896530
A collection of sayings, sermons, and teachings attributed to the cousin and son-in-law of the Prophet Muhammad
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Questions and answers from two great philosophers
320 PP | CLOTH | $30 9781479829248
GREAT FOR COURSES WHITE CHRISTIAN PRIVILEGE
CIVIL RELIGION TODAY
“Explores the structures of white Christian privilege embedded in American institutions, laws, and culture ... Insightful.” ~Library Journal
Moves the discussion of American civil religion into the twenty-first century
The Illusion of Religious Equality in America Khyati Y. Joshi
256 PP | PAPER | $16.95 9781479812004
Religion and the American Nation in the Twenty-First Century Edited by Rhys H. Williams, Raymond Haberski Jr., and Philip Goff
240 PP | PAPER | $30 9781479809851
STUDYING LIVED RELIGION
CRITICAL RACE THEORY, FOURTH EDITION
Contexts and Practices Nancy Tatom Ammerman
An Introduction Richard Delgado and Jean Stefancic
Offers an overarching definition and framework for the study of religion as it manifests itself in everyday life
272 PP | PAPER | $30 9781479804344
A new edition of a seminal text in Critical Race Theory In Critical America 224 PP | PAPER | $20 9781479818259
CREOLE RELIGIONS OF THE CARIBBEAN, THIRD EDITION
RELIGION IS RACED
Understanding American Religion in the Twenty-First Century Edited by Grace Yukich and Penny Edgell
An Introduction Margarite Fernández Olmos and Lizabeth Paravisini-Gebert
392 PP | PAPER | $30 9781479803484
An updated introduction to the religions developed in the Caribbean region In Religion, Race, and Ethnicity
Demonstrates how race and power help to explain American religion in the twenty-first century 344 PP | PAPER | $35 9781479808748
UNIVERSITY OF REGINA PRESS HONOURING THE DECLARATION
LOSS OF INDIGENOUS EDEN AND THE FALL OF SPIRITUALITY
Church Commitments to Reconciliation and the UN Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples Edited by Paul L. Gareau and Don Schweitzer
Blair A. Stonechild
A framework for indigenous and settler reparations 312 PP | PAPER | $34.95 9780889778320
344 PP | PAPER | $27.95 9780889776999
Highlights the commonalities between Indigenous nations, while calling for global recognition and respect of their rights and spirituality.
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