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Putin’s Russia, Eighth Edition
Edited by Darrell Slider - With Stephen K. Wegren Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
July 2022 • 454 pages
Hardback 978 1 5381 4867 9 • $104.00 / £80.00
Paperback 978 1 5381 8686 6 • $49.00 / £38.00 eBook 978 1 5381 4869 3 • $47.00 / £36.00
Thoroughly revised, expanded, and updated edition, this classic text provides the most authoritative and current analysis of contemporary Russia. Leading scholars explore the domestic and international problems Russia confronts, considering a comprehensive array of economic, political, foreign policy, and social issues.
World / Russian & Former Soviet Union
Russian Conservatism Managing Change under Permanent Revolution
By Glenn Diesen
Rowman & Littlefield International
August 2022 • 256 pages
Paperback 978 1 5381 5000 9 • $36.00 / £28.00
Previously published in hardback 978 1 5381 9980 0 • $120.00 / £92.00
eBook 978 1 5381 4999 7 • $34.00 / £26.00
An analysis of Russian conservatism from the 19th century to contemporary Russia.
World / Russian & Former Soviet Union
The Long Telegram 2.0 A Neo-Kennanite Approach to Russia
By Peter Eltsov
Lexington Books
March 2022 • 198 pages
Paperback 978 1 7936 0240 4 • $39.99 / £31.00
Previously published in hardback 978 1 7936 2381 1 • $100.00 / £77.00
eBook 978 1 7936 0239 8 • $38.00 / £29.00
Inspired by the telegram that the legendary American diplomat and historian George F. Kennan sent from Moscow to Washington in February 1946, The Long Telegram 2.0 provides an original explanation of contemporary Russia, exploring its resurgent imperial character and predicting its forthcoming disintegration.
World / Russian & Former Soviet Union
By Brian J. Robinson
Fortress
Being Subordinate Men offers a gender critical examination of Paul’s use of gender and power in the argument of 1 Corinthians, showing that the apostle consistently undermines first-century Roman norms of masculinity.
Biblical Criticism & Interpretation / New Testament
Russia’s Foreign Policy Change and Continuity in National Identity, Sixth Edition
By Andrei P. Tsygankov
Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
July 2022 • 298 pages
Hardback 978 1 5381 6148 7 • $95.00 / £73.00
Paperback 978 1 5381 1494 4 • $36.00 / £28.00 eBook 978 1 5381 6150 0 • $34.00 / £26.00
This book focuses on Russia’s distinct concepts of the national interest and attempts to cooperate and compete with the West. It explains foreign policy by changes in Russia’s identity and interaction with the Western powers. It also evaluates Russia’s international accomplishments and losses, and it draws lessons for policy makers.
World / Russian & Former Soviet Union
Russian Studies, Political Science, and the Philosophy of Technology
Edited by Guoli Liu and Joanna Drzewieniecki
Lexington Books
April 2022 • 482 pages
Hardback 978 1 6669 0635 6 • $135.00 / £104.00 eBook 978 1 6669 6363 3 • $50.00 / £38.00
This collection presents state-of-the-art creative scholarship in political science and area studies. The contributors examine governance issues in Russia in comparative perspective and examine key theoretical issues, such as incorporating the philosophies of science and technology into political studies.
World / Russian & Former Soviet Union
The Bahá’í Faith and African American Studies Perspectives on Racial Justice
Edited by Loni Bramson and Layli Maparyan
Lexington Books
December 2022 • 316 pages
Hardback 978 1 6669 0016 3 • $110.00 / £85.00
eBook 978 1 6669 0170 0 • $45.00 / £35.00
This book provides new material on the members of the Bahá’í Faith, for whom the pursuit of racial justice, healing, and harmony is central to their religious expression. Using historical research, social scientific analysis, and personal memoir, the contributors document the Bahá’ís’ efforts to address America’s “most challenging issue.”
Baha’i
Gender and Second-Temple Judaism
Edited by Kathy Ehrensperger and Shayna Sheinfeld
Fortress Academic
September 2022 • 260 pages
Paperback 978 1 9787 0788 7 • $39.99 / £31.00
Previously published in hardback 978 1 9787 7863 3 • $111.00 / £85.00
eBook 978 1 9787 0787 0 • $38.00 / £29.00
Gender and Second Temple Judaism examines the myriad constructions of gender in Second Temple Judaism including early Christianity. The chapters examine the state of the field and methodology and hone in on specific texts.
Biblical Criticism & Interpretation / New Testament
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Subordinate Men Paul’s Rhetoric of Gender and Power in
Corinthians
Being
1
Academic August 2022 • 282 pages Paperback 978 1 9787 0335 3 • $39.99 / £31.00 Previously published in hardback 978 1 9787 3339 9 • $122.00 / £94.00 eBook 978 1 9787 0334 6 • $38.00 / £29.00
How Ancient Narratives Persuade Acts in Its Literary Context
By Eric Clouston
Fortress Academic
March 2022 • 280 pages
Paperback 978 1 9787 0662 0 • $39.99 / £31.00
Previously published in hardback 978 1 9787 6606 6 • $111.00 / £85.00 eBook 978 1 9787 0661 3 • $38.00 / £29.00
In How Ancient Narratives Persuade: Acts in Its Literary Context, Eric Clouston brings a new approach to the interpretation of Acts by treating it as a persuasive narrative.
Biblical Criticism & Interpretation / New Testament
Minoritized Women Reading Race and Ethnicity Intersectional Approaches to Constructed Identity and Early Christian Texts
Edited by Jin Young Choi and Mitzi J. Smith
Lexington Books
May 2022 • 164 pages • Part of the Feminist Studies and Sacred Texts series
Paperback 978 1 4985 9160 7 • $39.99 / £31.00
Previously published in hardback 978 1 4985 1584 4 • $95.00 / £73.00 eBook 978 1 4985 9159 1 • $38.00 / £29.00
This book consists of cutting-edge analyses of constructions of racial/ ethnic identities in early Christian texts and contemporary contexts from the perspectives of minoritized nonwhite women New Testament scholars. The range of intersectionality comprises gender/sexuality, class, patriarchy, slavery, religion, and empire.
Biblical Criticism & Interpretation / New Testament
Rhetoric, History, and Theology
Interpreting the New Testament
Edited by Todd D. Still and Jason A. Myer
Fortress Academic
March 2022 • 350 pages
Hardback 978 1 9787 0972 0 • $120.00 / £92.00
eBook 978 1 9787 9737 7 • $45.00 / £35.00
In Rhetoric, History, and Theology: Interpreting the New Testament, the contributors interpret the New Testament and early Christian literature in light of their rhetorical, historical, and theological elements.
Biblical Criticism & Interpretation / New Testament
Begging for Their Daily Bread
Beggar-Centric Interpretations of Matthew 6
By Zhenya Gurina-Rodríguez
Fortress Academic
October 2022 • 152 pages
Hardback 978 1 9787 1062 7 • $95.00 / £73.00
eBook 978 1 9787 0634 4 • $45.00 / £35.00
In Begging for Their Daily Bread, Zhenya Gurina-Rodriguez formulates a beggars-centric hermeneutic and interprets Matthew 6 through this lense, arguing that this text could be both engaging and alienating to beggars in the first-century Jesus movement. Gurina-Rodriguez also reconstructs the voices of beggars in antiquity that are often absent from academic discourse.
Biblical Studies / Exegesis & Hermeneutics
Jesus the Sacrifice A Historical and Theological Study
By Scott Shauf
Fortress Academic
April 2022 • 238 pages
Hardback 978 1 9787 1389 5 • $100.00 / £77.00 eBook 978 1 9787 3901 1 • $45.00 / £35.00
This book is a study of the New Testament interpretations of Jesus’ death as a sacrifice. Scott Shauf shows that such interpretations are not limited to the idea of atonement but serve in multiple ways to relate Jesus’ death to early Christian identity and practice.
Biblical Criticism & Interpretation / New Testament
Morality, Not Mortality
Moral Psychology and the Language of Death in Romans 5–8
By William Horst
Lexington Books
June 2022 • 250 pages
Hardback 978 1 6669 0028 6 • $100.00 / £77.00 eBook 978 1 6669 0293 3 • $45.00 / £35.00
This study argues that in Romans 5–8, the present plight of “death” refers to a state of moral bondage in which a person’s will is dominated by passions. It is death of this sort, rather than human mortality or a “cosmic power,” that entered the world through Adam.
Biblical Criticism & Interpretation / New Testament
The Meaning and Interpretation of Desire in the Bible
The Semantic Study of hmd and ‘wh Word Fields
By Samo Skralovnik
Lexington Books
August 2022 • 262 pages
Hardback 978 1 7936 5287 4 • $105.00 / £81.00
eBook 978 1 7936 2881 1 • $45.00 / £35.00
This book is a comprehensive semantic analysis of the lexical roots ??? and ??? serve for the interpretation of the roots in both versions of the Decalogue (Exod 20:17 and Deut 5:21) to resolve questions concerning the meaning of the desire in Tenth Commandment.
Biblical Criticism & Interpretation / Old Testament
Bitter
the Chastening Rod
Africana Biblical Interpretation after Stony the Road We Trod in the Age of BLM, SayHerName, and MeToo
Edited by Mitzi J. Smith; Angela N. Parker and Ericka S. Dunbar Hil
Fortress Academic
February 2022 • 298 pages
Hardback 978 1 9787 1200 3 • $110.00 / £85.00
eBook 978 1 9787 2010 0 • $45.00 / £35.00
In this book, Africana biblical scholars argue that race, class, gender, and sexuality still matter for doing biblical interpretation/translation, centering the socio-political and cultural contexts of Africana peoples negotiating life, death, and hope in the age of #BLM, #SayHerName, #MeToo, and a global pandemic.
Biblical Studies / Exegesis & Hermeneutics
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Black Flesh Matters Essays on Runagate Interpretation
By Vincent L. Wimbush
Fortress Academic
March 2022 • 420 pages
Hardback 978 1 9787 1269 0 • $125.00 / £96.00
eBook 978 1 9787 2706 6 • $50.00 / £38.00
This book models an ex-centric orientation to the study of modern formation as the study of the hyper-signification (“scripturalization”) of difference as racialization/racism. As Black flesh came to be identified as persistent baseline for difference, it opens windows onto mimetic translations (“scripturalizing”) of all modern subjectivities.
Biblical Studies / Exegesis & Hermeneutics
Latinx Perspectives on the New Testament
Edited by Osvaldo D. Vena and Leticia A. GuardiolaSáenz - Foreword by Fernando F. Segovia
Fortress Academic March 2022 • 514 pages
Hardback 978 1 9787 0510 4 • $135.00 / £104.00 eBook 978 1 9787 5111 1 • $50.00 / £38.00
Going against the false perception that all Latinx views on the Bible are homogeneous, the contributors in this book use different hermeneutic perspectives to examine and interpret each of the twenty-seven books that make up the New Testament.
Biblical Studies / Exegesis & Hermeneutics
Oral Law of Ancient Israel
By Robert D. Miller II, OFS
Fortress Academic October 2022 • 172 pages • Part of the
Coniectanea Biblica series
Hardback 978 1 9787 1521 9 • $95.00 / £73.00 eBook 978 1 9787 5226 6 • $45.00 / £35.00
Ancient Israel’s legal system was both oral and written, its law both preserved in written forms and performed orally. By unpacking this system, Robert D. Miller II, OFS, sheds light on its practitioners, venues, verbal forms, and connections to neighboring peoples.
Biblical Studies / History & Culture
The Solar Nature of Yahweh Reconsidering the Identity of the Ancient Israelite Deity
By Daniel Sarlo
Fortress Academic
October 2022 • 244 pages • Part of the Coniectanea Biblica series
Hardback 978 1 9787 1431 1 • $100.00 / £77.00
eBook 978 1 9787 4328 8 • $45.00 / £30.99
In this book, the original nature of the ancient Israelite god, Yahweh, is reconsidered. Daniel Sarlo challenges the current belief that Yahweh was initially a storm god by examining the relevant biblical texts and comparing them with Ancient Near Eastern texts, ultimately arguing that Yahweh was a solar deity.
Biblical Studies / History & Culture
Daniel’s Mysticism of Resistance in Its Seleucid Context
By Timothy L. Seals
Fortress Academic
October 2022 • 176 pages
Hardback 978 1 9787 1314 7 • $95.00 / £73.00 eBook 978 1 9787 3154 4 • $45.00 / £35.00
The prophet Daniel practiced a mysticism that was resistant to the repressive measures of Antiochus IV in 167 BCE. In this book, Timothy L. Seals argues for a postcolonial interpretation of Daniel that can serve as a spiritual resource in the on-going process of the decolonization of the world and hearts.
Biblical Studies / Exegesis & Hermeneutics
Theologies of Human Agency
Counterbalancing Divine In/Activity in the Megilloth
By Megan Fullerton Strollo
Fortress Academic
December 2022 • 238 pages
Hardback 978 1 9787 1380 2 • $100.00 / £77.00 eBook 978 1 9787 3819 9 • $45.00 / £35.00
Theologies of Human Agency: Counterbalancing Divine In/Activity in the Megilloth demonstrates the diversity of theological thought implicit in the Hebrew Bible through an examination of the books of Ruth, Song of Songs, Ecclesiastes, Lamentations, and Esther. These post exilic works portray human agency as a vital counterpoint to divine skepticism.
Biblical Studies / Exegesis & Hermeneutics
The Dynamics of Human Life in the Bible Receptivity and Power
By Martin J. Buss
Lexington Books
April 2022 • 192 pages
Hardback 978 1 7936 4699 6 • $95.00 / £73.00
eBook 978 1 7936 7009 9 • $45.00 / £35.00
In The Dynamics of Human Life in the Bible: Receptivity and Power, Martin J. Buss describes the dynamics of human life that are encouraged in the Bible and how biblical guidance parallels those of non-Christian religious traditions.
Biblical Studies / History & Culture
Paul and the Image of God
By Chris Kugler - Foreword by N. T. Wright
Fortress Academic
September 2022 • 264 pages
Paperback 978 1 9787 0740 5 • $39.99 / £31.00
Previously published in hardback 978 1 9787 7382 2 • $105.00 / £81.00
eBook 978 1 9787 0739 9 • $38.00 / £29.00
In Paul and the Image of God, Chris Kugler argues that Paul adapted Jewish wisdom and Middle Platonic intermediary traditions so as to present the preexistent Jesus as the cosmogonical image of God, according to which Adam himself was made and toward which the whole of humanity was destined.
Biblical Studies / New Testament / Paul’s Letters
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Receiving Back One’s Deeds A Protestant Reading of Justification and Final Judgment according to Works in 2 Corinthians
By Benjamin M. Dally
Fortress Academic
November 2022 • 316 pages
Hardback 978 1 9787 0873 0 • $110.00 / £85.00 eBook 978 1 9787 8747 7 • $45.00 / £35.00
This book investigates the relationship between justification by faith and final judgment according to works as found in Paul’s second epistle to the Corinthians within a Protestant (Lutheran, Reformed, Anabaptist, and Anglican) theological framework.
Biblical Studies / New Testament / Paul’s Letters
To Know All Mysteries
The Mystagogue Figure in Classical Antiquity and in Saint Paul’s Letters to the Corinthians
By C. Andrew Ballard
Fortress Academic
September 2022 • 404 pages • Part of the Paul in Critical Contexts series Hardback 978 1 9787 1110 5 • $125.00 / £96.00 eBook 978 1 9787 1112 2 • $50.00 / £38.00
This book examines the way that Paul presents himself as a guide into mysteries, a “mystagogue,” in 1-2 Corinthians. Paul employed the figure of the mystagogue as a strategic tool in his communication with the Corinthians in order to persuade the Corinthians that he was the legitimate mystery teacher for the community.
Biblical Studies / New Testament / Paul’s Letters
Follow Me
The Benefits of Discipleship in the Gospel of John
By Mark Zhakevich
Fortress Academic September 2022 • 232 pages • Part of the Interpreting Johannine Literature series Paperback 978 1 9787 1028 3 • $39.99 / £31.00
Previously published in hardback 978 1 9787 0269 9 • $105.00 / £81.00 eBook 978 1 9787 1027 6 • $38.00 / £29.00
In this book, Mark Zhakevich investigates the rewards of following Jesus alongside the call toward continuous discipleship. He argues that John’s bouquet of benefits is held together with three primary promises— adoption, friendship, and abiding—which function as motivations toward faithful commitment to Jesus.
Biblical Studies / New Testament / Jesus, the Gospels & Acts
Jesus the Epic Hero
The Theology of Empress Eudocia’s Homeric Gospel
By Karl Olav Sandnes
Lexington Books
August 2022 • 206 pages
Hardback 978 1 6669 0862 6 • $95.00 / £73.00
eBook 978 1 6669 8633 3 • $45.00 / £30.99
What happens to Jesus when his story and ministry are told in narratives and lines lifted from Homer’s epics? Empress Eudocia told the Jesus Story in this way, and provided through this a genuinely interesting, prolific, and special piece of theological work.
Biblical Studies / New Testament / Jesus, the Gospels & Acts
Scriptures, Texts, and Tracings in 2 Corinthians and Philippians
Edited by A. Andrew Das and B. J. OropezaAfterword by David E. Garlan
Fortress Academic March 2022 • 286 pages
Hardback 978 1 9787 1353 6 • $105.00 / £81.00 eBook 978 1 9787 3543 3 • $45.00 / £35.00
This book advances the interpretation of 2 Corinthians and Philippians by exploring how the Apostle Paul quotes, alludes to, or “echoes” the Jewish Scriptures. Identification of allusions is at the forefront, as are questions about the Torah, God’s righteousness, reconciliation, lament language, cultic metaphors, canon, rhetoric, and more.
Biblical Studies / New Testament / Paul’s Letters
Divine Shepherd Christology in the Gospel of Matthew
By Wayne Baxter
Fortress Academic September 2022 • 214 pages
Hardback 978 1 9787 0447 3 • $95.00 / £73.00 eBook 978 1 9787 4480 0 • $45.00 / £35.00
Wayne Baxter examines Matthew’s Shepherd Christology against the backdrop of the metaphor’s appropriation in the biblical tradition, in the writings of Second Temple Judaism, and in the New Testament. The convergences and divergences between the Evangelist and these three groups of authors reveals Matthew’s high Christology: Jesus is YHWH. Biblical Studies / New Testament / Jesus, the Gospels & Acts
Jesus and Materialism in the Gospel of Mark Traveling Light on the Way
By Robert Ewusie Moses
Fortress Academic
March 2022 • 278 pages Hardback 978 1 9787 0093 2 • $105.00 / £81.00 eBook 978 1 9787 0949 9 • $45.00 / £35.00
Mark presents discipleship as a journey on “the way” with Jesus. Robert Ewusie Moses argues that the journey is a call for believers to reassess their relationship with material possessions and their desire for wealth and power.
Biblical Studies / New Testament / Jesus, the Gospels & Acts
Mark and Literary Materialism A Lesson in Reading Liberation
By Niall McKay
Lexington Books
August 2022 • 206 pages • Part of the Postcolonial and Decolonial Studies in Religion and Theology series
Hardback 978 1 6669 0226 6 • $95.00 / £73.00
eBook 978 1 6669 2273 3 • $45.00 / £35.00
Niall McKay explores the use of Christian scriptures to resist apartheid in South Africa. From this, the author develops an approach to reading the gospel of Mark which is shaped by literary materialism and examples an approach to religious texts for the sake of liberative theory and action.
Biblical Studies / New Testament / Jesus, the Gospels & Acts
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Matthew and the Roman Military How the Gospel Portrays and Negotiates Imperial Power
By John E. Christianson
Fortress Academic
May 2022 • 254 pages
Hardback 978 1 9787 1221 8 • $105.00 / £81.00
eBook 978 1 9787 2225 5 • $45.00 / £35.00
This book addresses the ways that the Gospel of Matthew portrays Roman military power. Christianson argues that Matthew seeks to help his audience negotiate imperial military control through strategies of avoidance, accommodation, non-violent resistance, mimicry, and dreams of divine retribution and eschatological fulfillment.
Biblical Studies / New Testament / Jesus, the Gospels & Acts
Reading John through Johannine Lenses
By Stan Harstine
Fortress Academic
February 2022 • 144 pages • Part of the Interpreting Johannine Literature series
Hardback 978 1 9787 1293 5 • $90.00 / £69.00 eBook 978 1 9787 2942 2 • $45.00 / £35.00
In this book, Stan Harstine examines three passages in the Gospel of John in order to illustrate how diachronic and synchronic methodological approaches produce distinct results. Using Leitwörter from the gospel’s opening verses to shape an interpretive lens, Harstine identifies these passages as crucial transition points in the plot of the Gospel.
Biblical Studies / New Testament / Jesus, the Gospels & Acts
The Sheep and the Goats A Matthean Teaching in Historical Context
By Chad Venters
Fortress Academic
August 2022 • 232 pages
Hardback 978 1 9787 0807 5 • $100.00 / £77.00 eBook 978 1 9787 8082 2 • $45.00 / £35.00
In this book, Chad Venters argues that Psalm 80 (Psalm 79 LXX) is an important source for the composition of Matthew 25:31—46 and provides a religio—political background for understanding the devastation facing Israel at the hands of the Romans.
Biblical Studies / New Testament / Jesus, the Gospels & Acts
Buddhist Ecological Protection of Space A Guide for Sustainable Off-Earth Travel
By
Daniel Capper - Foreword by Bonnie Cooper
Lexington Books
November 2022 • 178 pages
Hardback 978 1 6669 2240 0 • $95.00 / £73.00
eBook 978 1 6669 2417 7 • $45.00 / £35.00
This book provides essential guidance that we need to act as responsible ecological citizens while we expand our reach beyond Earth. The author not only examines the science and morals behind ecological pitfall scenarios, but he also provides groundbreaking policy responses founded upon ethics from both Buddhists and American ethnographers alike.
Buddhism / General
Matthew, Disability, and Stress Examining Impaired Characters in the Context of Empire
By Jillian D. Engelhardt
Fortress Academic
December 2022 • 248 pages
Hardback 978 1 9787 1203 4 • $100.00 / £77.00 eBook 978 1 9787 2041 1 • $45.00 / £35.00
This book examines four Matthean healing narratives, focusing on the impaired characters in the scenes. Informed by both empire studies and social stress theory, Jillian D. Engelhardt argues that more nuanced characterizations of the impaired characters and their social and somatic circumstances results in ambiguous interpretations.
Biblical Studies / New Testament / Jesus, the Gospels & Acts
The Identity of John the Evangelist Revision and Reinterpretation in Early Christian Sources
By Dean Furlong
Fortress Academic March 2022 • 204 pages
Paperback 978 1 9787 0932 4 • $39.99 / £31.00
Previously published in hardback 978 1 9787 9300 0 • $100.00 / £77.00 eBook 978 1 9787 0931 7 • $38.00 / £29.00
This book examines how the identification of John the Evangelist with the Apostle John, the son of Zebedee, from around the third century, gave rise to various conflated narratives. Dean Furlong argues that this culminated in Eusebius’s synthesis of the traditions, which provided the template for the traditional Johannine narrative.
Biblical Studies / New Testament / Jesus, the Gospels & Acts
The Supporting Cast of the Bible Reading on Behalf of the Multitude
By Gina Hens-Piazza
Fortress Academic March 2022 • 134 pages
Paperback 978 1 9787 0695 8 • $39.99 / £31.00
Previously published in hardback 978 1 9787 6934 4 • $95.00 / £73.00
eBook 978 1 9787 0694 1 • $38.00 / £29.00
Focusing on supporting characters in the Old Testament, Gina HensPiazza argues against the caste system of the biblical narratives and provides insight into the many and different “others” who make up the anonymous multitude in the biblical world.
Biblical Studies / Old Testament / Historical Books
The African Church and COVID-19 Human Security, the Church, and Society in Kenya
Edited by Martin Munyao; Joseph Muutuki; Patrick Musembi and Daniel Kaunga
Lexington Books
January 2022 • 230 pages
Hardback 978 1 7936 5098 6 • $100.00 / £77.00
eBook 978 1 7936 0993 3 • $45.00 / £35.00
This book explores the ways in which the COVID-19 pandemic exposed fragilities in socio-economic and political structures in Africa as well as the weaknesses in the African Church’s role in helping and serving African communities. The book also analyzes how the African Church should move forward in a post-COVID-19 era to address these failures.
Christian Church / General
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Ministry in the Anglican Tradition from Henry VIII to 1900
By John L. Kater
Fortress Academic
June 2022 • 332 pages • Part of the Anglican Studies series
Hardback 978 1 9787 1482 3 • $120.00 / £92.00
eBook 978 1 9787 4830 0 • $45.00 / £35.00
In this book, John L. Kater traces the process by which Anglican ministry evolved over time from the Reformation in dialogue with social and political changes and the ways in which Anglicans in multiple contexts have contributed to the emergence of a globally diverse and unique way of practicing the Church’s ministry.
Christian Church / History
Before Belief
Discovering First Spiritual Awareness
By Bruce A. Stevens
Lexington Books
March 2022 • 156 pages • Part of the Emerging Perspectives in Pastoral Theology and Care series
Paperback 978 1 7936 0723 2 • $39.99 / £31.00
Previously published in hardback
978 1 7936 7218 8 • $95.00 / £73.00
eBook 978 1 7936 0722 5 • $38.00 / £29.00
Before Belief explores our first spiritual awareness, before language and cognitive understanding. This unconscious spiritual learning, beginning in infancy, is foundational for a relationship with God. The theoretical approach advanced in this volume is both constructive and pastorally sensitive.
Christian Living / Spiritual Growth
Migration, Transnationalism, and Faith in Missiological Perspective
Los Angeles as a Global Crossroads
Edited by Kirsteen Kim and Alexia SalvatierraForeword by Amos Yon
Fortress Academic April 2022 • 228 pages
Hardback 978 1 9787 1374 1 • $100.00 / £77.00
eBook 978 1 9787 3758 8 • $45.00 / £35.00
Like other megacities, Los Angeles is a crossroads of migrating communities who are motivated or sustained by a faith that is also challenged in the encounter with others. Using sociological, missiological, and theological methods, the contributors examine the migrant landscape of Southern California—its injustices, innovations, and global impact.
Christian Ministry / Missions
Explore
Vocational Discovery in Ministry
Edited by Kristina Lizardy-Hajbi and Matthew Floding
Alban Books
September 2022 • 240 pages • Part of the
Explorations in Theological Field Education series
Hardback 978 1 5381 6763 2 • $80.00 / £62.00
Paperback 978 1 5381 7649 9 • $28.00 / £21.99
eBook 978 1 5381 6765 6 • $26.00 / £19.99
This volume helps ministerial leadership students engage the tools of discernment while introducing the various roles that seminarians may pursue, including pastors, varieties of chaplaincy, clinical pastoral educators, academics, and nonprofit leaders. It is an ideal resource for seminarians, particularly during theological field education.
Christian Ministry / Pastoral Resources
Re-membering the Reign of God The Decolonial Witness of El Salvador’s Church of the Poor
By Elizabeth O’Donnell Gandolfo and Laurel Marshall Potter
Lexington Books
August 2022 • 394 pages • Part of the Postcolonial and Decolonial Studies in Religion and Theology series
Hardback 978 1 7936 1895 5 • $125.00 / £96.00 eBook 978 1 7936 8962 2 • $50.00 / £38.00
Reflecting theologically on the 50-year history of ecclesial base communities in El Salvador, this book argues that the church of the poor is a decolonial sacrament of the reign of God. The authors challenge Christians to unlearn colonial expressions of faith, concluding with a retrieval of solidarity in the Catholic social tradition.
Christian Church / History
Pastoral Care in the Anthropocene Age Facing a Dire Future Now
By Ryan LaMothe
Lexington Books
October 2022 • 232 pages • Part of the Emerging Perspectives in Pastoral Theology and Care series
Hardback 978 1 7936 4147 2 • $100.00 / £77.00
eBook 978 1 7936 1489 9 • $45.00 / £30.99
Drawing on current climate research, LaMothe explores the implications of the present climate emergency for pastoral care and theology. In particular, LaMothe argues that the key theological question of the Anthropocene Age is how will we dwell together, which includes attending to the needs of other species and the earth.
Christian Ministry / General
A Postcolonial Political Theology of Care and Praxis in Ethiopia’s Era of Identity Politics Reframing Hegemonic and Fragmented Identities through Subjective In-Betweenness
By Rode Molla
Lexington Books
November 2022 • 218 pages • Part of the Emerging Perspectives in Pastoral Theology and Care series
Hardback 978 1 6669 2288 2 • $95.00 / £73.00
eBook 978 1 6669 2899 9 • $45.00 / £35.00
The author resists identity politics through a postcolonial political pastoral care and praxis that decolonizes biopolitical governmentalities, reframes hegemonic and fragmented identities, and restores the inbetween spaces and in-between subjectivities of Ethiopians.
Christian Ministry / Pastoral Resources
Finding Yourself in Chaos Self-Discovery for Religious Leaders in a Time of Transition
By James R. Newby and Mark Minear
Alban Books
September 2022 • 168 pages
Hardback 978 1 5381 6674 1 • $65.00 / £50.00
Paperback 978 1 5381 6758 8 • $22.00 / £16.99
eBook 978 1 5381 6676 5 • $20.00 / £14.99
This volume guides religious leaders during turbulent life events that challenge their ability to serve as effective ministers. Encouraging careful introspection and a focus on personal fulfillment and self-care, the book challenges all readers to build support systems for themselves and their faith communities.
Christian Ministry / Pastoral Resources
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The Speed Method, Awareness in Four Steps Lonergan’s Approach for Pastoral and Spiritual Counseling
By Barbara Marchica
Lexington Books
November 2022 • 224 pages • Part of the Emerging Perspectives in Pastoral Theology and Care series
Hardback 978 1 6669 0037 8 • $100.00 / £77.00
eBook 978 1 6669 0385 5 • $45.00 / £30.99
How to improve your spiritual growth? The author, creator of the Speed ??Method, presents a theoretical-practical training manual which becomes an opportunity and a concrete support for the counselors in view of a new spiritual springtime for the Church and human care.
Christian Ministry / Pastoral Resources
Embodied Idolatry A Critique of Christian Nationalism
By Kyle Edward Haden
Lexington Books
March 2022 • 174 pages
Paperback 978 1 7936 1111 6 • $39.99 / £31.00
Previously published in hardback 978 1 7936 1093 3 • $100.00 / £77.00 eBook 978 1 7936 1110 9 • $38.00 / £29.00
This book is a critique of Christian nationalism and an analysis of Christian theological ethics and practice in the US. Utilizing Pierre Bourdieu’s sociology and René Girard’s mimetic theories, Haden identifies the problematic dynamics of US Christians embodying idolatrous ideological beliefs and calls for Christian conversion from such practices.
Christian Theology / Anthropology
Worshiping in Season Ecology and Christ through the Liturgical Year
By Joseph E. Bush Jr.
Alban Books
March 2022 • 334 pages
Hardback 978 1 5381 2198 6 • $75.00 / £58.00
Paperback 978 1 5381 1993 3 • $30.00 / £22.99 eBook 978 1 5381 2200 6 • $28.50 / £21.99
Worshiping in Season guides ministers through a meaningful framework for ecologically oriented worship. Following the liturgical calendar and maintaining a Christocentric emphasis, Joseph E. Bush Jr. aligns earthly seasons with the liturgy and suggests readings, songs, and other acts of worship to amplify an ecologically informed Christology.
Christian Theology / Christology
Truth-Telling and Other Ecclesial Practices of Resistance
Edited by Christine Helmer
Fortress Academic September 2022 • 204 pages
Paperback 978 1 9787 1211 9 • $39.99 / £31.00
Previously published in hardback
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eBook 978 1 9787 1210 2 • $38.00 / £29.00
In this book leading American Lutheran theologians address the ways in which Christian communities might be mobilized for embodied works of resistance against systemic injustices in our times, and examine how the call to resistance reframes classic Lutheran doctrinal commitments to truth and sacramental theology, and in some cases, redefines them.
Christian Theology / Ecclesiology
Unmasking White Preaching Racial Hegemony, Resistance, and Possibilities in Homiletics
Edited by Lis Valle-Ruiz and Andrew Wymer
Lexington Books
April 2022 • 246 pages • Part of the Postcolonial and Decolonial Studies in Religion and Theology series
Hardback 978 1 7936 5299 7 • $105.00 / £81.00 eBook 978 1 7936 3000 0 • $45.00 / £35.00
This book unmasks and destabilizes the white, colonial hegemony that continues to shape the field of homiletics today and explores alternative, non-dominant homiletical pathways toward a more just future for the church and the world.
Christian Ministry / Preaching
The Cry of the Poor Liberation Ethics and Justice in
By Alexandre A. Martins
Lexington Books
March 2022 • 336 pages
Health Care
Paperback 978 1 4985 9220 8 • $42.99 / £33.00
Previously published in hardback 978 1 4985 2185 5 • $128.00 / £98.00 eBook 978 1 4985 9219 2 • $40.50 / £31.00
This book offers an interdisciplinary effort to address global health issues grounded on a human rights framework seen from the perspective of those who are more vulnerable to be sick and die prematurely: the poor.
Christian Theology / Anthropology
The Evangelical Doctrine of the Church The Church and Kingdom Communities of Those Who Belong to the Lord
By Robert Doyle
Fortress Academic
August 2022 • 376 pages
Hardback 978 1 9787 0411 4 • $125.00 / £96.00 eBook 978 1 9787 4121 1 • $50.00 / £38.00
In this book, Robert Doyle provides a disciplined introduction to ecclesiology using descriptive criticism of biblical themes and careful analysis of the history of interpretation.
Christian Theology / Ecclesiology
Dread and Hope Christian Eschatology and Pop Culture
By Joshua Wise
Fortress Academic
February 2022 • 174 pages • Part of the Theology, Religion, and Pop Culture series
Hardback 978 1 9787 0816 7 • $95.00 / £73.00
eBook 978 1 9787 8174 4 • $45.00 / £35.00
Dread and Hope brings early Christian hopes concerning the consummation of the cosmos and modern apocalyptic pop-culture into dialog. Drawing from a wide range of research and media, Joshua Wise examines how figures like Antiochus IV, Damien from The Omen, the Emperor Nero, and Winston Smith from Orwell’s 1984 inform each other.
Christian Theology / Eschatology
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A Christian and African Ethic of Women’s Political Participation Living as Risen Beings
By Léocadie W. Lushombo
Lexington Books
November 2022 • 302 pages • Part of the Postcolonial and Decolonial Studies in Religion and Theology series
Hardback 978 1 7936 4774 0 • $110.00 / £85.00 eBook 978 1 7936 7757 7 • $45.00 / £35.00
Anthropological poverty has long been overlooked in Christian theology. It disproportionately affects women, striking at the heart of their existence. However, when women are empowered to follow Christ and live as risen beings, they can radically contribute to a Catholic Christian theology that claims solidarity with the poor and oppressed.
Christian Theology / Ethics
Christian Theology After Christendom
Engaging the Thought of Douglas John Hall
Edited by Patricia G. Kirkpatrick and Pamela R. McCarroll - Foreword by Walter BrueggemannAfterword by Douglas John Hal
Fortress Academic
August 2022 • 212 pages
Paperback 978 1 9787 0698 9 • $39.99 / £31.00
Previously published in hardback 978 1 9787 6965 5 • $100.00 / £77.00
eBook 978 1 9787 0697 2 • $38.00 / £29.00
Christian Theology after Christendom brings together contemporary thinkers to engage and build upon Douglas John Hall’s work—and to take up his challenge to reclaim a contextual and de-colonizing theology of the cross as a means to speak of the realities of life and faith today.
Christian Theology / Ethics
Embodying Aga Tausili A Public Theology from Oceania
By Mercy Ah Su-Maliko - Foreword by David Tombs
Fortress Academic September 2022 • 270 pages
Paperback 978 1 9787 0854 9 • $39.99 / £31.00
Previously published in hardback 978 1 9787 8525 5 • $110.00 / £85.00
eBook 978 1 9787 0853 2 • $38.00 / £29.00
Embodying Aga Tausili is a groundbreaking contextual approach to public theology which constructs a theological response to social problems by interweaving the Samoan and Christian values of service, respect, dialogue, love and justice. The public theology that emerges is then applied to the problem of violence against women in Samoa.
Christian Theology / Ethics
Insurrectionist Wisdoms Toward a North American Indigenized Pastoral Theology
By Marlene Mayra Ferreras
Lexington
Books
November 2022 • 192 pages • Part of the Environment and Religion in Feminist-Womanist, Queer, and Indigenous Perspectives series
Hardback 978 1 7936 4546 3 • $95.00 / £73.00
eBook 978 1 7936 5470 0 • $45.00 / £30.99
Through practical theological and anthro/gynopological methods, Insurrectionist Wisdoms offers an analysis of the situation of workingclass Maya mexicanas living in Yucatán, México, working on the assembly line of a multinational corporation.
Christian Theology / Ethics
Christian Social Ethics
By Elmar Nass
Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
October 2022 • 376 pages
Hardback 978 1 5381 6526 3 • $120.00 / £92.00 eBook 978 1 5381 5270 0 • $70.00 / £54.00
This book considers the relationship between Christian and general ethics in postmodernism.
Christian Theology / Ethics
Christian Theology in the Age of Migration
Implications for World Christianity
Edited by Peter C. Phan
Lexington Books
March 2022 • 360 pages
Paperback 978 1 7936 0075 2 • $42.99 / £33.00
Previously published in hardback 978 1 7936 0738 8 • $126.00 / £97.00 eBook 978 1 7936 0074 5 • $40.50 / £31.00
A pioneering study of how global migration challenges Christians to reinterpret the Old and New Testaments and church history by highlighting the impact of migration on the formation of the Bible and church historiography. It moves on to reformulate basic Christian beliefs (systematic theology), ethics, and practical theology.
Christian Theology / Ethics
God, Race, and History Liberating Providence
By Matt R. Jantzen
Lexington Books
August 2022 • 224 pages
Paperback 978 1 7936 1957 0 • $39.99 / £31.00
Previously published in hardback 978 1 7936 9556 6 • $100.00 / £77.00
eBook 978 1 7936 1956 3 • $38.00 / £29.00
God, Race, and History examines how Christian theologies of providence have served as sites at which race has been constructed and resisted in modernity. It articulates an account of providence as the presence of Jesus Christ in the struggles of ordinary, overlooked, and oppressed human creatures to survive and flourish.
Christian Theology / Ethics
Suffering and the Vulnerable Rule of God A Feminist Epistemology
By Kathleen McManus, OP
Fortress Academic
May 2022 • 248 pages
Hardback 978 1 9787 0150 2 • $105.00 / £81.00
eBook 978 1 9787 1519 9 • $45.00 / £35.00
Kathleen McManus employs Edward Schillebeeckx’s method of negative contrast experience to explore how the global suffering of the marginalized, particularly women, reveals God’s vulnerable rule, posing an ethical imperative for the church.
Christian Theology / Ethics
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The Colonial Compromise The Threat of the Gospel to the Indigenous Worldview
Edited by Miguel A. De La Torre
Fortress Academic
September 2022 • 196 pages
Paperback 978 1 9787 0374 2 • $39.99 / £31.00
Previously published in hardback 978 1 9787 3728 8 • $100.00 / £77.00
eBook 978 1 9787 0373 5 • $38.00 / £29.00
This book explores the different types of compromises Indian people were forced to make and must continue to do so in order to be included in the colonizer’s religion and culture. The contributors in this collection are in conversation with the contributions made by Tink Tinker.
Christian Theology / Ethics
The Holy Spirit and Moral Action in Thomas Aquinas
By Jack Mahoney, SJ
Fortress Academic
August 2022 • 194 pages
Paperback 978 1 9787 1046 7 • $39.99 / £31.00
Previously published in hardback 978 1 9787 0443 3 • $95.00 / £73.00 eBook 978 1 9787 1045 0 • $38.00 / £29.00
This book is a detailed study of how, according to Thomas Aquinas and his works, God’s Holy Spirit is continuously at work in and through human moral activity.
Christian Theology / Ethics
Theology and Black Mirror
Edited by Amber Bowen and John Anthony Dunne
Fortress Academic April 2022 • 354 pages • Part of the Theology, Religion, and Pop Culture series
Hardback 978 1 9787 1116 7 • $120.00 / £92.00 eBook 978 1 9787 1174 4 • $45.00 / £35.00
This book brings together scholars from various disciplines to think alongside Black Mirror with resources from the Christian tradition, discerning what the show and theology can teach us about how to live faithfully in a technocratic age.
Christian Theology / Ethics
Pastoral Virtues for Artificial Intelligence Care and the Algorithms that Guide Our Lives
By Jaco J. Hamman
Lexington Books
October 2022 • 264 pages • Part of the Emerging
Perspectives in Pastoral Theology and Care series
Hardback 978 1 7936 4045 1 • $105.00 / £81.00
eBook 978 1 7936 0468 8 • $45.00 / £30.99
Pastoral Virtues for Artificial Intelligence explores hope, patience, play, wisdom, and compassion as fundamental traits for artificial intelligence. Incorporating these values into algorithms will minimize AI’s biases of technological determinism, speed, objectivity, ignorance, and apathy.
Christian Theology / General
The
Devil’s Own Luck Lucifer, Luck, and Moral Responsibility
By John R. Gilhooly
Lexington Books
June 2022 • 114 pages
Hardback 978 1 7936 0018 9 • $85.00 / £65.00 eBook 978 1 7936 0196 6 • $45.00 / £35.00
This book argues that the sin of the devil compels a view of moral responsibility that undermines concerns about luck. It surveys the biblical account of the primal sin, its major interpretation in the tradition, and navigates that interpretation through objections from the perspective of moral luck.
Christian Theology / Ethics
The Other Black Church
Alternative Christian Movements and the Struggle for Black Freedom
By Joseph L. Tucker Edmonds
Fortress Academic
August 2022 • 192 pages
Paperback 978 1 9787 0482 4 • $39.99 / £31.00
Previously published in hardback 978 1 9787 4800 0 • $100.00 / £77.00 eBook 978 1 9787 0481 7 • $38.00 / £29.00
The Other Black Church places Father Divine, Charles Mason of COGIC, and Albert Cleage in conversation with the long history of Black theology and Black religious studies, and it suggests that alternative Christian movements are essential for thinking about African American critiques of and responses to the failures of US-based democracy.
Christian Theology / Ethics
Willful Ignorance Overcoming the Limitations of (Christian) Love for Refugees Seeking Asylum
By Helen T. Boursier
Lexington Books
April 2022 • 408 pages
Hardback 978 1 7936 2826 8 • $135.00 / £104.00 eBook 978 1 7936 8275 5 • $50.00 / £38.00
This book combines interviews of ethnically diverse clergy from various Christian traditions and their attitudes regarding forced migration at the U.S.-Mexico border with case studies and church history to argue for a compassionate response to refugees seeking asylum that resists racism and exclusion.
Christian Theology / Ethics
The Many and the One Creation as Participation in Augustine and Aquinas
By Yonghua Ge
Lexington Books
August 2022 • 196 pages
Paperback 978 1 7936 2912 8 • $39.99 / £31.00
Previously published in hardback 978 1 7936 9104 4 • $95.00 / £73.00
eBook 978 1 7936 2911 1 • $38.00 / £29.00
Ge argues that by transforming participatory ontology in light of creatio ex nihilo, Augustine and Aquinas have developed a distinctively Christian metaphysics that offers a promising solution to the modern dialectic of the One and the Many.
Christian Theology / General
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A Eucharist-shaped Church Prayer, Theology, Mission
Edited by Daniel J. Handschy; Donna R. HawkReinhard and Marshall E. Crossno
Fortress Academic
March 2022 • 434 pages • Part of the Anglican Studies series Hardback 978 1 9787 1449 6 • $135.00 / £104.00 eBook 978 1 9787 4502 2 • $50.00 / £38.00
A Eucharist-shaped Church: Prayer, Theology, Mission places a range of Anglican and Episcopal eucharistic theologies in their historical contexts, paying attention to the interplay between worship, theology and mission. It then applies these considerations to possible liturgical revisions.
Christian Theology / History
Sacramental Poetics in Richard Hooker and George Herbert Exploring the Abundance of God
By Brian Douglas
Fortress Academic
June 2022 • 152 pages • Part of the Anglican Studies series Hardback 978 1 9787 1407 6 • $95.00 / £73.00 eBook 978 1 9787 4083 3 • $45.00 / £35.00
This book explores sacramental poetics through the lens of moderate realism in relation to the thought and work of Anglican theologians Richard Hooker and George Herbert.
Christian Theology / History
Resisting Occupation A Global Struggle for Liberation
Edited by Miguel A. De La Torre and Mitri Rahe
Fortress Academic March 2022 • 262 pages • Part of the Decolonizing Theology series Hardback 978 1 9787 1137 2 • $95.00 / £73.00 eBook 978 1 9787 1389 9 • $45.00 / £35.00
In Resisting Occupation, scholars from around the globe discuss the radical denial of human flourishing caused by the occupation of mind, body, spirit, and land. They explore how religious perspectives can be, and often are, constructed to teach the colonized to want, yearn, and embrace their occupation.
Christian Theology / Liberation
Reciprocal Causality in an Event-Filled World
By Joseph A. Bracken, S.J.
Fortress Academic
March 2022 • 168 pages
Hardback 978 1 9787 0978 2 • $95.00 / £73.00
eBook 978 1 9787 9799 9 • $45.00 / £35.00
Joseph Bracken examines key writings of process-oriented philosophers like Alfred North Whitehead along with systems-oriented thinkers such as Ludwig von Bertalanffy to create a systems-oriented understanding of the God-world relation that serves as a complement to Pope Francis’s reflections on the environmental crisis.
Christian Theology / Process
Origen of Alexandria Master Theologian of the Early Church
By John Anthony McGuckin
Fortress Academic
March 2022 • 184 pages • Part of the Mapping the Tradition series Hardback 978 1 9787 0843 3 • $95.00 / £73.00 eBook 978 1 9787 8440 0 • $45.00 / £35.00
In this book, John A. McGuckin reviews and assesses the monumental influence that Origen of Alexandria has exercised over the shape and content of the Christian tradition over seventeen hundred years.
Christian Theology / History
The Church in the Latin Fathers Unity in Charity
By James K. Lee
Fortress Academic
September 2022 • 136 pages
Paperback 978 1 9787 0689 7 • $39.99 / £31.00
Previously published in hardback 978 1 9787 6873 3 • $95.00 / £73.00 eBook 978 1 9787 0688 0 • $38.00 / £29.00
The Church in the Latin Fathers analyzes the development of Latin ecclesiology over the course of the first five centuries of Christianity. James K. Lee explores how the church is one and holy, visible, and invisible, according to Latin theologians such as Tertullian, Cyprian, Augustine, and Leo the Great.
Christian Theology / History
Process Thought and Roman Catholicism Challenges and Promises
Edited by Marc A. Pugliese and John Becker
Lexington Books March 2022 • 264 pages • Part of the Religion and Borders series Hardback 978 1 7936 2778 0 • $105.00 / £81.00 eBook 978 1 7936 7797 7 • $45.00 / £35.00
This book explores convergences and divergences between process thought and Roman Catholicism. It examines why process philosophy and process theology have had a minimal impact in Roman Catholic circles compared to Protestantism, and investigates avenues of promising engagement between process thought and Roman Catholicism.
Christian Theology / Process
Total Atonement Trinitarian Participation in the Reconciliation of Humanity and Creation
By W. Ross Hastings
Fortress Academic
August 2022 • 320 pages
Paperback 978 1 9787 0215 8 • $42.99 / £33.00
Previously published in hardback 978 1 9787 2134 4 • $128.00 / £98.00
eBook 978 1 9787 0214 1 • $40.50 / £31.00
In this book, W. Ross Hastings re-imagines the mystery of the atonement within the framework of the participation of God in humanity and of humans in this life. He argues for a total approach to the atonement, involving the whole Trinity, the person and history of Christ, and all the biblical motifs and theological models.
Christian Theology / Soteriology
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The Dialogic Evangelical Theology of Veli-Matti Kärkkäinen
Exploring the Work of God in a Diverse Church and a Pluralistic World
Edited by Peter Goodwin Heltzel; Patrick Oden and Amos Yong - Foreword by Peter C. Phan
Fortress Academic February 2022 • 320 pages
Hardback 978 1 9787 1035 1 • $110.00 / £85.00 eBook 978 1 9787 0368 8 • $45.00 / £35.00
Veli-Matti Kärkkäinen broke new ground in developing a Christian systematic theology that embeds rich hospitable dialogue with many different areas of expertise and religions. This volume offers a response to his work by experts of these diverse fields, offering rich insights and points to continuing fruitful conversations.
Christian Theology / Systematic
The Trauma of Doctrine New Calvinism, Religious Abuse, and the Experience of God
By Paul Maxwell - Foreword by Kevin J. Vanhoozer
Fortress
Academic
August 2022 • 398 pages
Paperback 978 1 9787 0425 1 • $42.99 / £33.00
Previously published in hardback 978 1 9787 4237 7 • $125.00 / £96.00 eBook 978 1 9787 0424 4 • $40.50 / £31.00
The Trauma of Doctrine investigates the difficult relationship between traumatic experiences, maximalist religious beliefs, and the experience of God. The book highlights the dynamic and conflictive interplay between the timeless realities of abuse, divine control, and the psychology of religious participation.
Christianity / Calvinist
Holy Silence
By Michael Hickey
Hamilton Books
October 2022 • 138 pages
Paperback 978 0 7618 7366 2 • $19.00 / £14.99 eBook 978 0 7618 3679 9 • $18.00 / £13.99
Looking at Holy Silence and comprehending it more fully through understanding the role silence has played in the Bible, as well as with the Desert Fathers, and in Christian spirituality throughout the ages. We will discuss such areas as Benedictine spirituality, Hesychasm, Centering Prayer and the interface of silence with not only spirituality, but death, love, and the universe itself.
Christianity / Catholic
Christians, the State, and War An Ancient Tradition for the Modern World
By Gordon L. Heath
Fortress Academic
March 2022 • 272 pages
Hardback 978 1 9787 1290 4 • $110.00 / £85.00
eBook 978 1 9787 2911 1 • $45.00 / £35.00
In Christians, the State, and War: An Ancient Tradition for the Modern World, Gordon Heath rethinks the binary world of Christians and war. He proposes a different starting point for discussions of violence that originates and orients itself with a tradition found initially within the teaching and experience of the pre-Constantinian early church.
Christianity / History
The New Apologetics At the Intersection of Secularism, Science, and Spirituality
By Ian S. Markham
Fortress Academic
September 2022 • 256 pages
Paperback 978 1 9787 1136 5 • $39.99 / £31.00
Previously published in hardback 978 1 9787 1341 1 • $116.00 / £89.00 eBook 978 1 9787 1135 8 • $38.00 / £29.00
In The New Apologetics, Ian S. Markham presents a provocative defense of Christianity through a model of the world as a spiritually-infused universe. This book is an invitation to the church to rediscover a selfconfident account of the faith that can accommodate the insights of modern science.
Christian Theology / Systematic
Intergenerational Catechesis Revitalizing Faith through African-American Storytelling
By timone a davis Lexington Books
August 2022 • 110 pages
Paperback 978 1 4985 9596 4 • $39.99 / £31.00
Previously published in hardback 978 1 4985 5940 0 • $85.00 / £65.00
eBook 978 1 4985 9595 7 • $38.00 / £29.00
This book moves away from youth-centered catechesis toward a catechetical method that has applications for faith formation for all generations: storytelling. The author’s method of African-American storytelling brings to life the Christian story through our shared experiences with both the storyteller and listener embodying the story. Christianity / Catechisms
Building the Body of Christ Christian Art, Identity, and Community in Late Antique Italy
By Daniel C. Cochran
Fortress Academic September 2022 • 298 pages
Paperback 978 1 9787 0770 2 • $39.99 / £31.00
Previously published in hardback 978 1 9787 7689 9 • $116.00 / £89.00 eBook 978 1 9787 0769 6 • $38.00 / £29.00
Building the Body of Christ argues that monumental Christian art and architecture played a crucial role in the formation of new religious identities in late antique Italy. Bishops and their supporters employed the visual arts to articulate and encourage specific beliefs, practices, and values that shaped the emerging institutional church.
Christianity / History
Hildegard of Bingen, Gospel Interpreter
By Beverly Mayne Kienzle
Fortress Academic August 2022 • 216 pages • Part of the Mapping the Tradition series
Paperback 978 1 9787 0803 7 • $39.99 / £31.00
Previously published in hardback 978 1 9787 8013 3 • $100.00 / £77.00
eBook 978 1 9787 0802 0 • $38.00 / £29.00
This book probes how a twelfth-century woman became a Gospel interpreter, analyses the creative methodology and themes of the homilies, and deals with the vast legacy of Hildegard’s works, including their relevance for today.
Christianity / History
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Jan Hus Faithful Witness to Truth
By Jan Blahoslav Lášek and Angelo Shaun Franklin
Lexington Books
May 2022 • 202 pages • Part of the Czech
Theological Perspectives series
Hardback 978 1 7936 3742 0 • $95.00 / £73.00
eBook 978 1 7936 7437 7 • $45.00 / £35.00
The Bohemian reformer Jan Hus is an important figure for understanding both previous and later developments of the medieval church. This book probes the heart of Hus’s theological views concerning the human conscience, justice, and truth by examining his legal appeal to Jesus Christ against the pope and canon law and his preaching.
Christianity / History
Mary Magdalene, La Malinche, and the Ethics of Interpretation
By Jennifer Vija Pietz
Fortress Academic
December 2022 • 270 pages
Hardback 978 1 9787 1254 6 • $105.00 / £81.00 eBook 978 1 9787 2553 3 • $45.00 / £35.00
By critically comparing Mary Magdalene’s and La Malinche’s histories of interpretation, Jennifer Vija Pietz challenges these women’s popular images and reevaluates the use of past lives to address current concerns. She also posits strategies for developing historically plausible and ethically responsible interpretations of past people.
Christianity / History
The Walsingham Gambit Deception, Entrapment, and Execution of Mary Stuart, Queen of Scots
By R. Kent Tiernan - Foreword by John J. Dziak
Lexington Books
September 2022 • 286 pages
Hardback 978 1 7936 4702 3 • $105.00 / £81.00
eBook 978 1 7936 7030 0 • $45.00 / £35.00
Through the lens of a contemporary deception model, The Walsingham Gambit describes how the English deception planners led by Sir Francis Walsingham designed, engineered, and executed a complex seven-year operation to expand Queen Elizabeth I’s power by ending the life of Mary, Queen of Scots.
Christianity / History
Sex, Violence, and Early Christian Texts
Edited by Christy Cobb and Eric Vanden Eykel
Lexington Books
October 2022 • 298 pages
Hardback 978 1 7936 3784 0 • $110.00 / £85.00
eBook 978 1 7936 7857 7 • $45.00 / £35.00
Sex, Violence, and Early Christian Texts examines instances of sexual violence within a diversity of early Christian texts carefully, ethically, and with an eye toward shining a light on the scourge of sexual violence that is so often manifest in both ancient and contemporary Christian communities.
Christianity / Literature & the Arts
Martyrdom, Sacrificial Libation, and the Eucharist of Ignatius of Antioch
By Frederick C. Klawiter
Fortress Academic
September 2022 • 192 pages
Hardback 978 1 9787 1275 1 • $95.00 / £73.00 eBook 978 1 9787 2768 8 • $45.00 / £35.00
Frederick G. Klawiter argues that in Ignatius’ eucharist, a wine libation symbolized the pouring out of Jesus’ blood in his sacrificial death. By drinking from the libation cup in the eucharist/agape meal, Christians sought unity of agape with one another and the crucified, risen Jesus— while anticipating the possibility of martyrdom.
Christianity / History
Portraits of Jesus A Reading Guide, Fourth Edition
By Robert Imperato
Hamilton Books
September 2022 • 136 pages
Paperback 978 0 7618 7334 1 • $32.99 / £25.00 eBook 978 0 7618 3358 8 • $31.00 / £23.99
This is an introductory guide to the ways Jesus is depicted in the New Testament. Attention to Jesus’ political and historical contexts help to clarify the one Jesus behind the diverse portrayals.
Christianity / History
Hans Urs von Balthasar and the Phenomenology of Art Broken
Open by Beauty
By Brett David Potter
Lexington Books
October 2022 • 220 pages
Hardback 978 1 7936 4549 4 • $100.00 / £77.00
eBook 978 1 7936 5500 0 • $45.00 / £35.00
This book uncovers the theological aesthetics of Hans Urs von Balthasar (1905–1988), by sketching out a phenomenological approach to art and revelation, providing unexpected resources for a contemporary theology of art.
Christianity / Literature & the Arts
Orthodoxy and Fundamentalism
Contemporary Perspectives
Edited by Davor Džalto and George E. Demacopoulo
Fortress Academic
February 2022 • 248 pages
Hardback 978 1 9787 1245 4 • $105.00 / £81.00
eBook 978 1 9787 2461 1 • $45.00 / £35.00
This book brings together twelve essays by some of the leading scholars on Orthodox Christianity on the issue of fundamentalism and religious Orthodoxy in the contemporary world.
Christianity / Orthodox
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“Same Is Better”
A Qualitative Study of Latinx and White Young Adults in Churches of Christ in the Southwestern U.S.
By Cari Myers
Lexington Books
December 2022 • 210 pages
Hardback 978 1 7936 5512 7 • $95.00 / £73.00 eBook 978 1 7936 5134 4 • $45.00 / £35.00
Within the context of Churches of Christ in the southwestern United States, this study answers the question, “How do survival narratives contribute to the accumulation and transmission of capital across generations, and what do the differences between Latinx and white survival narratives expose about inequalities in evangelical social norms?” Christianity / Pentecostal & Charismatic
Elonei Mamre
The Encounter of Judaism and Orthodox Christianity
Edited by Nicholas de Lange; Elena Narinskaya and Sybil Sheridan
Fortress Academic
November 2022 • 206 pages
Hardback 978 1 9787 1398 7 • $95.00 / £73.00 eBook 978 1 9787 3994 4 • $45.00 / £35.00
This book contributes to dialogue between Judaism and Orthodox Christianity. Essays by prominent experts, writing within their own tradition, tackle key issues relating to theology and worship as well as the vexed question of antisemitism. The book identifies a great deal of common ground as well as points of tension.
Comparative Religion
Indigenous and Christian Perspectives in Dialogue
Kairotic Place and Borders
By Allen G. Jorgenson
Lexington Books
August 2022 • 136 pages • Part of the Religion and Borders series
Paperback 978 1 7936 1969 3 • $39.99 / £31.00
Previously published in hardback 978 1 7936 9679 9 • $95.00 / £73.00
eBook 978 1 7936 1968 6 • $38.00 / £29.00
In Indigenous and Christian Perspectives in Dialogue, the author uses the discipline of comparative theology to illumine how Indigenous insights can unearth a fresh theology of place. He proposes that certain places are kairotic, and so kenotic, harmonic, poetic and especially enlightening at the margins where we meet the religious other.
Comparative Religion
The Insurgency of the Spirit
Jesus’s Liberation Animist Spirituality, Empire, and Creating Christian Protectors
By Robert E. Shore-Goss
Lexington Books
May 2022 • 338 pages
Paperback 978 1 7936 2320 1 • $42.99 / £33.00
Previously published in hardback
978 1 7936 3188 8 • $126.00 / £97.00
eBook 978 1 7936 2319 5 • $40.50 / £31.00
This book is an animist Christian liberation theology and a call to insurrection against the fossil fuel empires that have created the climate catastrophe. As such, it retrieves the animist Jesus to inspire resistance to anti-ecological, contemporary settler colonization of the Earth.
Comparative Religion
Postcolonial Preaching Creating a Ripple Effect
By HyeRan Kim-Cragg - Foreword by John McClure - Afterword by Kathy Black
Lexington Books
August 2022 • 160 pages • Part of the Postcolonial and Decolonial Studies in Religion and Theology series
Paperback 978 1 7936 1711 8 • $39.99 / £31.00
Previously published in hardback 978 1 7936 7095 5 • $95.00 / £73.00
eBook 978 1 7936 1710 1 • $38.00 / £29.00
In this book, HyeRan Kim-Cragg calls for a postcolonial approach to preaching that takes identity, liturgy, migration and practice seriously. To address our current context, she proposes six concepts as essential elements of postcolonial homiletics: Rehearsal, Imagination, Place, Pattern, Language, Exegesis.
Clergy
Indian and Western Philosophical Concepts in Religion
Edited by Pankaj Jain and Jeffery D. Long Lexington Books
December 2022 • 172 pages • Part of the Explorations in Indic Traditions: Theological, Ethical, and Philosophical series
Hardback 978 1 7936 2315 7 • $95.00 / £73.00 eBook 978 1 7936 3164 4 • $45.00 / £35.00
This volume is based on innovative ideas coming from different Indic philosophies and how they can enrich the theory and methods in religious studies.
Comparative Religion
Jewish Church A Catholic Approach to Messianic Judaism
By Antoine Lévy O.P. - Foreword by Mark S. Kinzer
Lexington Books
August 2022 • 434 pages
Paperback 978 1 7936 3344 6 • $46.99 / £36.00
Previously published in hardback 978 1 7936 3422 2 • $125.00 / £96.00
eBook 978 1 7936 3343 9 • $44.50 / £34.00
For two millennia calling oneself a Jew and confessing Jesus-Christ was perceived as nonsense. This is no longer the case. Jewish believers in Christ - “Messianics”, Catholics, Orthodox, and so forth - are now reclaiming their Jewish identity. Jewish Church is about imagining what their home in the Church would look like.
Comparative Religion
Historical Dictionary of Daoism
By Ronnie L. Littlejohn
Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
March 2022 • 310 pages • Part of the Historical Dictionaries of Religions, Philosophies, and Movements series
Paperback 978 1 5381 6949 0 • $50.00 / £38.00
Previously published in hardback 978 1 5381 2730 0 • $100.00 / £77.00
eBook 978 1 5381 2274 7 • $95.00 / £73.00
Historical Dictionary of Daoism contains a chronology, an introduction, appendixes and an extensive bibliography. The dictionary section has over 400 cross-referenced entries on related to the Chinese belief and practice worldview known as Daoism including dozens of Daoist terms, names, and practices.
Deism
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Borderlands of Theological Education
Edited by Joshua B. Davis and Deirdre Goo
Fortress Academic
October 2022 • 180 pages • Part of the Borderlands of Theological Education series
Hardback 978 1 9787 1533 2 • $95.00 / £73.00 eBook 978 1 9787 5349 9 • $45.00 / £35.00
This book outlines a history and a new vision of the church as the primary location of ministerial formation for the future of theological education.
Education
Ecowomanism at the Panamá Canal Black Women, Labor, and Environmental Ethics
By Sofía Betancourt
Lexington
Books
February 2022 • 162 pages • Part of the Environment and Religion in Feminist-Womanist, Queer, and Indigenous Perspectives series Hardback 978 1 7936 4138 0 • $95.00 / £73.00 eBook 978 1 7936 1397 7 • $45.00 / £35.00
In Ecowomanism at the Panamá Canal, Sofia Betancourt constructs environmental ethics at the intersection of the global North and global South. Betancourt explores transnational environmental justice through the lived experience of women from the African Diaspora who migrated to Panamá to work on the Canal.
Ethics
Reconciling Opposites
Religious Freedom and Contractual Ethics in a Democratic Society
By W. Royce Clark
Fortress Academic February 2022 • 582 pages
Hardback 978 1 9787 0867 9 • $155.00 / £119.00
eBook 978 1 9787 8686 6 • $60.00 / £46.00
The American justice system was founded on the idea of “majorityrule,” but in a democracy this is achievable only if the majority has the interests of the whole at heart. As a solution, W. Royce Clark formulates a non-majoritarian ethic that would represent not just the interests of white Christian men, but all citizens.
Ethics
War and Negative Revelation
A Theoethical Reflection on Moral Injury
By Michael S. Yandell
Lexington Books
March 2022 • 146 pages
Hardback 978 1 7936 4192 2 • $90.00 / £69.00
eBook 978 1 7936 1939 9 • $45.00 / £35.00
From the concrete experience of war, Michael S. Yandell constructs a phenomenology of “negative revelation” in which false or distorted claims of goodness and justice disintegrate and become meaningless, adding depth to the term moral injury.
Ethics
Decolonizing Interreligious Education Developing Theologies of Accountability
By Shannon Frediani
Lexington
Books
September 2022 • 208 pages • Part of the Postcolonial and Decolonial Studies in Religion and Theology series
Hardback 978 1 7936 3859 5 • $95.00 / £73.00 eBook 978 1 7936 8601 1 • $45.00 / £35.00
Decolonizing Interreligious Education explores multiple injustices, focusing on the lived experience, unaddressed grief, and acts of resistance and resilience of populations impacted by coloniality and white supremacy. This book lifts up the voices of those speaking from embodied experience of suffering multiple oppressions. Education
Necropolitics
The Religious Crisis of Mass Incarceration in America
By Christophe D. Ringer
Lexington
Books
May 2022 • 162 pages • Part of the Religion and Race series
Paperback 978 1 7936 2681 3 • $39.99 / £31.00
Previously published in hardback 978 1 7936 6790 0 • $100.00 / £77.00 eBook 978 1 7936 2680 6 • $38.00 / £29.00
This book argues that the othering and criminalization of Black people in times of crisis is part of the religious meaning of America that fuels the problem of mass incarceration. The author develops a religious interpretation of the significance of these images to America’s political economy the produces the very problems we punish as a society.
Ethics
The Road to Sanctuary Building Power and Community in Philadelphia
Edited by Amada Armenta; Caitlin Barry and Abel Rodríguez - Foreword by Mayor Jim Kenne
Fortress Academic October 2022 • 206 pages
Hardback 978 1 9787 0465 7 • $95.00 / £73.00
eBook 978 1 9787 4664 4 • $45.00 / £35.00
Philadelphia is a leader in the modern sanctuary movement. This collection of essays and interviews, written by organizers, community leaders, and academics, examine the making of Philadelphia’s sanctuary movement from multiple perspectives.
Ethics
Decolonial Futures Intercultural and Interreligious Intelligence for Theological Education
By Christine J. Hong - Foreword by Marcia Y. Riggs
Lexington Books
August 2022 • 226 pages • Part of the Postcolonial and Decolonial Studies in Religion and Theology series
Paperback 978 1 4985 7938 4 • $39.99 / £31.00
Previously published in hardback
978 1 4985 9360 0 • $100.00 / £77.00
eBook 978 1 4985 7937 7 • $38.00 / £29.00
In theological education, we do the work of deconstructing and reconstructing teaching and learning for the sake of our collective decolonial futures. Decolonial Futures: Intercultural and Interreligious Intelligence for Theological Education invites teachers to imagine what that future might hold and how it might take shape.
General
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The Hindu Self and Its Muslim Neighbors Contested Borderlines on Bengali Landscapes
By Ankur Barua
Lexington Books
April 2022 • 234 pages • Part of the Explorations in Indic Traditions: Theological, Ethical, and Philosophical series
Hardback 978 1 7936 4258 5 • $100.00 / £77.00 eBook 978 1 7936 2592 2 • $45.00 / £35.00
The Hindu Self and its Muslim Neighbors sketches the contours of relations between Hindus and Muslims in Bengal. The central argument is that these relations are marked by various patterns of amicability and antipathy which emerge at dynamic intersections between Hindu selfunderstandings and social shifts on contested landscapes.
Hinduism / History
Africana Faith A Religious History of the African American Crusade in Islam
By James L. Conyers Jr.
Hamilton Books
October 2022 • 532 pages
Paperback 978 0 7618 7126 2 • $56.99 / £44.00
Previously published in hardback 978 0 7618 8729 9 • $139.00 / £107.00 eBook 978 0 7618 6873 6 • $54.00 / £42.00
This primer aspires to make a concentric analysis of the function and capacity of spirituality and religiosity, within the African American Muslim movement. This collection of essays places emphasis on the role and views of the missionary and voluntary spread of Islam among African Americans in the United States.
Islam / General
Emperor Zhu Yuanzhang’s Eulogy of the Prophet Muhammad Historical, Literary, and Linguistic Analyses
By Abdul Karim Bangura
Lexington Books
September 2022 • 278 pages
Hardback 978 1 7936 2336 2 • $110.00 / £85.00
eBook 978 1 7936 3379 9 • $45.00 / £35.00
The book engages in a multidisciplanary analysis of the Hongwu Emperor’s eulogy to Prophet Muhammad and Islam to better illuminate the interaction between China and Islam.
Islam / History
Prophet al-Khidr
Between
the Qur’anic Text and Islamic Contexts
By Irfan A. Omar
Lexington Books
September 2022 • 156 pages
Hardback 978 1 4985 9591 9 • $95.00 / £73.00
eBook 978 1 4985 5926 6 • $45.00 / £35.00
This work situates the Qur’anic story of Moses’ meeting with Khi?r (Surat al-Kahf, 18:60-82) in an ever-expanding network of intercultural and interreligious ideas about knowledge, humility, and spiritual excellence, where Moses and Khi?r are seen as representing the ?ahir (exoteric) and the ba?in (esoteric), respectively.
Islam / Koran & Sacred Writings
Anton Boisen Madness, Mysticism, and the Origins of Clinical Pastoral Education
By Sean J. LaBat
Fortress Academic
August 2022 • 190 pages
Paperback 978 1 9787 1157 0 • $39.99 / £31.00
Previously published in hardback 978 1 9787 1556 6 • $95.00 / £73.00 eBook 978 1 9787 1156 3 • $38.00 / £29.00
In this book, Sean J. LaBat provides a critical re-assessment of Anton Boisen’s life and work. He demonstrates how the founder of clinical pastoral education and institutional chaplaincy suffered from mental illness, yet was also a visionary who pioneered patient-centered care and reconciled science and religion in his work as a chaplain.
History
Courting Islam US-British Engagement with Islam since the European Colonial Period
By Sean Oliver-Dee
Lexington Books
March 2022 • 224 pages
Paperback 978 1 4985 0507 9 • $39.99 / £31.00
Previously published in hardback
978 1 4985 5055 5 • $100.00 / £77.00
eBook 978 1 4985 0506 2 • $38.00 / £29.00
This book is an exploration of the perceptions of the American and British governments about Islam and Muslims based upon their experiences over the past two centuries.
Islam / History
On Pain and Suffering A Qur’anic Perspective
By Abla Hasan - Foreword by Jonathan E. Brockopp
Lexington Books
February 2022 • 160 pages • Part of the Lexington Studies in Classical and Modern Islamic Thought series
Hardback 978 1 7936 5005 4 • $95.00 / £73.00
eBook 978 1 7936 0061 1 • $45.00 / £35.00
Driven by a careful hermeneutical investigation of the Qur’an, this book provides an invitation to reevaluate the real meaning of pain and suffering and humanity’s lost divine merit as God’s own representatives on Earth.
Islam / Koran & Sacred Writings
Forging Ideal Muslim Subjects Discursive Practices, Subject Formation, & Muslim Ethics
By Faraz Masood Sheikh Lexington Books
May 2022 • 198 pages • Part of the Lexington Studies in Classical and Modern Islamic Thought series
Paperback 978 1 7936 2014 9 • $39.99 / £31.00
Previously published in hardback 978 1 7936 0125 5 • $95.00 / £73.00
eBook 978 1 7936 2013 2 • $38.00 / £29.00
This book describes and analyzes Muhasibi’s and Nursi’s accounts of what it means to live an authentically Muslim ethical life. It documents and examines the discursive practice, reflectivity, dynamism and complexity involved in living properly as a Muslim individual and social being.
Islam / Theology
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Organ Donation in Islam
The Interplay of Jurisprudence, Ethics, and Society
Edited by Mahdiyah Jaffer; Aasim I. Padela and Gurch Randhawa
Lexington Books
December 2022 • 434 pages
Hardback 978 1 6669 0991 3 • $125.00 / £96.00 eBook 978 1 6669 9920 0 • $50.00 / £38.00
This book tackles the thorny issue of organ donation and Islam through a multidisciplinary lens giving voice to the various stakeholders involved, including potential donors and Islamic scholars. The collection provides fresh ethical, empirical and sociological insights into the engagement of the Islamic tradition with modern biomedicine.
Islam / Theology
Peak TV’s Unapologetic Jewish Woman Exploring Jewish Female Representation in Contemporary Television Comedy
By Samantha Pickette
Lexington Books
December 2022 • 242 pages • Part of the Jewish Women in the Americas series
Hardback 978 1 7936 3315 6 • $100.00 / £77.00 eBook 978 1 7936 3163 3 • $45.00 / £35.00
This book analyzes how contemporary representations of Jewish women on television challenge stereotypes of Jewish femininity, using a variety of series created by Jewish women to explore how this selfrepresentation and evolving industry practices have come together to establish new, more diverse paradigms of Jewish femininity.
Judaism / General
Victimhood Discourse in Contemporary Israel
Edited by Ilan Peleg
Lexington Books
March 2022 • 222 pages
Paperback 978 1 4985 5352 0 • $39.99 / £31.00
Previously published in hardback 978 1 4985 3506 6 • $100.00 / £77.00
eBook 978 1 4985 5351 3 • $38.00 / £29.00
This book provides an analysis of the politics of victimhood in contemporary Israel and the Palestine. Its insights about victimhood are conceptual, empirical and comparative.
Judaism / General
Jewish Studies and Israel Studies in the TwentyFirst Century Intersections and Prospects
Edited by Carsten Schapkow and Klaus Hödl
Lexington Books
March 2022 • 330 pages • Part of the Lexington Studies in Modern Jewish History, Historiography, and Memory series
Paperback 978 1 7936 0511 5 • $39.99 / £31.00
Previously published in hardback
978 1 7936 5092 2 • $128.00 / £98.00
eBook 978 1 7936 0510 8 • $38.00 / £29.00
This book discusses the multiple intersections between Jewish studies and Israel studies in the twenty-first century. The volume offers a stimulating and thought-provoking discussion of the current state of scholarship with an outlook toward future areas of research and cross-pollination.
Judaism / History
Haunted Laughter Representations of Adolf Hitler, the Third Reich, and the Holocaust in Comedic Film and Television
By Jonathan C. Friedman
Lexington Books
March 2022 • 240 pages
Hardback 978 1 7936 4015 4 • $105.00 / £81.00 eBook 978 1 7936 0161 1 • $45.00 / £35.00
Haunted Laughter is a comprehensive study of film productions that have used comedy to represent Adolf Hitler, the Third Reich, and the Holocaust. Author Jonathan Friedman proposes a model and a set of criteria to evaluate the effective use of comedy as a means of representation.
Judaism / General
Reenvisioning Israel through Political Cartoons Visual Discourses During the 2018–2021 Electoral Crisis
By Matt Reingold
Lexington Books
March 2022 • 216 pages • Part of the Lexington Studies in Jewish Literature series
Hardback 978 1 6669 0683 7 • $100.00 / £77.00 eBook 978 1 6669 6844 4 • $45.00 / £35.00
This book explores Israeli political cartoons produced during the politically fraught and culturally divided period between December 2018 and June 2021. The author argues that the work of Israel’s political cartoonists presents visual commentary to critique the status quo and to envision alternative realities for their country.
Judaism / General
Francophone Sephardic Fiction Writing Migration, Diaspora, and Modernity
By Judith Roumani
Lexington Books
April 2022 • 182 pages • Part of the Sephardic and Mizrahi Studies series
Hardback 978 1 7936 2009 5 • $95.00 / £73.00 eBook 978 1 7936 0101 1 • $45.00 / £35.00
This book argues that modern francophone Sephardic novels, mainly from North Africa, draw on oral storytelling as well as modern and postmodern techniques to express the experience of migration, producing innovative imagined portable homelands with which the migrants successfully confront new societies, languages, and cultures.
Judaism / History
Jews in Southern Tuscany during the Holocaust Ambiguous Refuge
By Judith Roumani
Lexington Books
May 2022 • 226 pages • Part of the Sephardic and Mizrahi Studies series
Paperback 978 1 7936 2981 4 • $39.99 / £31.00
Previously published in hardback
978 1 7936 9791 1 • $105.00 / £81.00
eBook 978 1 7936 2980 7 • $38.00 / £29.00
This book illuminates the troubled history of how Italian and foreign Jews in an internment camp were deported to Auschwitz in full view of a bishop who supposedly was protecting them. Elsewhere brave farmers hid local Jews in caves and farms from the Fascist/Nazi hunters.
Judaism / History
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The Age of the Parákletos A Historical Defense of Rabbinic Knowledge
By Ron Naiweld
Lexington Books
January 2022 • 124 pages
Hardback 978 1 7936 5503 5 • $90.00 / £69.00
eBook 978 1 7936 5042 2 • $45.00 / £35.00
This book presents the history of the theological-political conversation that started with the publication of the Torah in Jerusalem of the Persian period. It shows how this conversation, which still engages us today, evolved around political and social issues rather than theological ones.
Judaism / History
Translated Memories
Transgenerational Perspectives on the Holocaust
Edited by Ursula Reuter and Bettina Hofmann
Lexington Books
May 2022 • 404 pages • Part of the Lexington
Studies in Jewish Literature series
Paperback 978 1 7936 0608 2 • $46.99 / £36.00
Previously published in hardback 978 1 7936 6068 8 • $130.00 / £100.00 eBook 978 1 7936 0607 5 • $44.50 / £34.00
This book engages with cultural memory in literature and other media of the second and third generations of Holocaust survivors who are confronted with language loss, language acquisition and multiple issues of translation of inherited and received cultural memory.
Judaism / History
Enchanted Dulcinea
By Angelina Muñiz-Huberman – Translated by Rebecca Marquis – Introduction and notes by Rebecca Marquis
Lexington Books
March 2022 • 186 pages • Part of the Jewish Women in the Americas series
Hardback 978 1 7936 3483 2 • $95.00 / £73.00 eBook 978 1 7936 4849 9 • $45.00 / £35.00
This annotated translation of Enchanted Dulcinea by Mexican author Angelina Muñiz-Huberman features a narrator traveling through memories, times, and places. The author’s mystical novel exemplifies crypto-Judaism and exile in Latin America and highlights her importance in the Sephardic literary tradition.
Judaism / Sacred Writings
Transforming Conflict
The Blessings of Congregational Turmoil
By Terasa Cooley – Foreword by Gil Rendle
Alban Books
June 2022 • 160 pages
Hardback 978 1 5381 6182 1 • $75.00 / £58.00
Paperback 978 1 5381 1838 8 • $22.00 / £16.99
eBook 978 1 5381 6184 5 • $20.50 / £15.99
With more than three decades of ministry and conflict resolution research, Rev. Dr. Terasa Cooley embraces conflict as an opportunity for growth within church congregations. Exploring the neuroscience and psychology of conflict, Cooley reveals new response patterns and includes exercises and discussion questions for individuals or group seminars.
Leadership
The History of Galilee, 1538–1949 Mysticism, Modernization, and War
By M. M. Silver
Lexington Books
January 2022 • 402 pages
Hardback 978 1 7936 4942 3 • $125.00 / £96.00 eBook 978 1 7936 9430 0 • $50.00 / £38.00
This book traces the history of Galilee from its biblical roots to the eruption of the Arab-Jewish conflict in 1948, illustrating how modernization in the region was intertwined with mystical beliefs and practices and developed among Palestinians, Orthodox Jews, Christians, and Druze without being a byproduct of Western intervention.
Judaism / History
Applying Jewish Ethics
Beyond the Rabbinic Tradition
Edited by Jennifer A. Thompson and Allison B. Wolf
Lexington Books
December 2022 • 216 pages • Part of the New
Directions in Applied Jewish Ethics series
Hardback 978 1 7936 5530 1 • $95.00 / £73.00 eBook 978 1 7936 5318 8 • $45.00 / £35.00
Applying Jewish Ethics: Beyond the Rabbinic Tradition is a groundbreaking collection that introduces the reader to applied ethics and examines various social issues from contemporary and largely under-represented, Jewish ethical perspectives.
Judaism
/ Rituals & Practice
Torah Encounters Numbers
By Rabbi Daniel Pressman
United Synagogue Of Conservative Judaism
September 2022 • 118 pages • Part of the Torah Encounters series
Paperback 978 1 5381 7416 6 • $25.00 / £18.99 eBook 978 1 5381 4173 3 • $23.50 / £18.99
The fourth in the five-volume Torah Encounters series, Numbers offers Torah commentary and discussion guides for each Torah portion. It shares observations drawing from each parasha and from historical and contemporary commentators and Rabbi Pressman. A wonderful resource for clergy, personal study, or adult or high school Hebrew education.
Judaism / Sacred Writings
Dreams Beyond Time
On Sacred Encounter and Spiritual Transformation
By Lee Irwin
Lexington Books
May 2022 • 366 pages
Hardback 978 1 7936 4261 5 • $120.00 / £92.00
eBook 978 1 7936 2622 2 • $45.00 / £35.00
Dreams Beyond Time describes a variety of dream types related to nonordinary and exceptional dreams, including mythic, paranormal, and transpersonal dreaming. The book describes a metaphysics of discovery as intrinsic to dreaming in a pan-sentience cosmos, where dreams reveal human potential for personal spiritual development.
Mysticism
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The Global Mystical Tradition
By Bruce Stephen Naschak Lexington Books
December 2022 • 260 pages
Hardback 978 1 7936 3790 1 • $105.00 / £81.00
eBook 978 1 7936 7918 8 • $45.00 / £35.00
Esoteric communities of masters and disciples (“Holy Traditions”) have, in both prehistoric and historical eras, developed doctrines and rituals to experience mystical union with the divine. The author describes these traditions, their ideas, and their practices—noting their similarities to and their interactions with other mystical traditions.
Mysticism
Printing Religion after the Enlightenment
By Timothy Stanley Lexington Books
July 2022 • 204 pages
Hardback 978 1 7936 3793 2 • $95.00 / £73.00
eBook 978 1 7936 7949 9 • $45.00 / £35.00
Over the course of the seventeenth to eighteenth centuries, an interior private notion of religion gained wide public recognition in Europe. This book provides a new model to study the interaction between religion and its publication through various material printed forms such as books, pamphlets, and newspapers.
Philosophy
The Perils of Human Exceptionalism Elements of a Nineteenth-Century Theological Anthropology
By Dennis L. Durst
Lexington Books
July 2022 • 278 pages
Hardback 978 1 6669 0019 4 • $105.00 / £81.00
eBook 978 1 6669 0200 0 • $45.00 / £35.00
Theological anthropology over the nineteenth century took on a naturalistic shape by viewing humanity through the lens of biology rather than theology. Elites criticized theological creeds as childish, attending instead to diverse subjective religious experiences, yielding a religious and cultural fragmentation.
Philosophy
The Whole Megilla Reading the Tractate on the Scroll of Esther in the Babylonian Talmud
By Joshua A. Fogel
Hamilton Books
July 2022 • 156 pages
Paperback 978 0 7618 7364 8 • $34.99 / £27.00
eBook 978 0 7618 3655 5 • $33.00 / £25.00
The Whole Megilla tracks tractate Megilla of the Babylonia Talmud page by page, offering an close reading and exegesis of the text. It makes this difficult work comprehensible.
Prayerbooks / Jewish
Ethics and the Future of Religion Redefining the Absolute
By W. Royce Clark
Fortress Academic
February 2022 • 476 pages
Hardback 978 1 9787 0864 8 • $135.00 / £104.00
eBook 978 1 9787 8655 5 • $50.00 / £38.00
Humanity needs a common ethic, but the ethics of various religions are tied to their unique claims, which merge history with mythology or metaphysics. To address this problem, W. Royce Clark examines the thought of Friedrich Schleiermacher, G.W.F. Hegel, Paul Tillich, and Robert P. Scharlemann for elements of a possible universal ethic.
Philosophy
The Non-Hierarchical Way from Yijing to Jeongyeok A New Paradigm for East Meeting West
By Young Woon Ko
Lexington Books
December 2022 • 256 pages
Hardback 978 1 4985 7392 4 • $105.00 / £81.00 eBook 978 1 4985 3931 1 • $45.00 / £35.00
This book discusses the structure of Yijing in relation to ideas developed in the West and presents the Jeongyeok to overcome any hierarchical system implied by the Yijing. Both the Yijing and the Jeongyeok are also examined as textual sources for kindling a discussion about divine impersonality and personality for the meeting of East and West.
Philosophy
The Rowman & Littlefield Handbook of Philosophy and Religion
Edited by Mark A. Lamport – Foreword by Michael L. Peterson – Introduction by Charles Taliaferro –Afterword by Ronald T. Michener Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
April 2022 • 452 pages • Part of the Rowman & Littlefield Handbook series
Hardback 978 1 5381 4127 4 • $140.00 / £108.00 eBook 978 1 5381 1281 1 • $133.00 / £102.00
Exploring mysteries that have evoked wonder and consternation for millennia, this handbook covers topics such as the nature of divinity and humanity, the legitimacy of religious experience, the possibility of miracles, and idea of life after death. As a reference volume and introductory text, this is an essential resource for students and scholars. Philosophy
The Rowman & Littlefield Handbook of Contemporary Christianity in the United States
Edited by Mark A. Lamport
Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
February 2022 • 584 pages • Part of the Rowman & Littlefield Handbook series
Hardback 978 1 5381 3880 9 • $140.00 / £108.00 eBook 978 1 5381 8816 6 • $133.00 / £102.00
This one-volume handbook examines Christianity’s contributions to and conflicts with the contemporary culture of the postmodern United States. Chapters present historical, cultural, and theological context for the ways conservative, mainline, and evangelical Christian traditions have influenced and responded to modern life.
Reference
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Religion, Women of Color, and the Suffrage Movement
The Journey to Holistic Freedom
Edited by SimonMary Asese A. Aihiokhai
Lexington Books
August 2022 • 358 pages • Part of the Feminist Studies and Sacred Texts series
Hardback 978 1 7936 2769 8 • $120.00 / £92.00 eBook 978 1 7936 7704 4 • $45.00 / £35.00
This edited collection focuses on the uncelebrated insights and perspectives of women of color in a world where systemic discrimination persists. It articulates new strategies and paradigms for recognizing their contributions to the broader struggles for freedom and equity of women in our world.
RELIGION / Politics & State
Religious Transhumanism and Its Critics
Edited by Arvin M. Gouw; Brian Patrick Green and Ted Peters – Foreword by Aubrey deGrey
Lexington Books
March 2022 • 494 pages • Part of the Religion and Science as a Critical Discourse series
Hardback 978 1 4985 8413 5 • $135.00 / £104.00 eBook 978 1 4985 4142 2 • $50.00 / £38.00
In this book, the contributors examine how various religious traditions engage with transhumanism and its vision for the future. Religion & Science
Religion and Sexuality in Zimbabwe
Edited by Francis Machingura and Ezra Chitando
Lexington Books
December 2022 • 212 pages
Hardback 978 1 6669 0328 7 • $95.00 / £73.00
eBook 978 1 6669 3294 4 • $45.00 / £35.00
This volume reviews the impact of African Indigenous Religions and Christianity in its varied forms on the construction and expression of sexuality in Zimbabwe. These contributors examine the role of indigenous beliefs and interpretations of sacred texts in the understanding of sexuality in Zimbabwe.
Sexuality & Gender Studies
Ecology of Vocation Recasting Calling in a New Planetary Era
By Kiara A. Jorgenson
Fortress Academic March 2022 • 222 pages
Paperback 978 1 9787 0023 9 • $39.99 / £31.00
Previously published in hardback 978 1 9787 0215 5 • $100.00 / £77.00 eBook 978 1 9787 0022 2 • $38.00 / £29.00
In this book, Kiara A. Jorgenson draws on early Protestant thought to recast vocation as the interrelated space between our myriad roles. When understood apart from the contexts of work-as-vocation or passion (as avocation), vocation can extend the conception of neighbor beyond the human and lead to ecologically responsible living.
Religion & Science
Sámi Nature-Centered Christianity in the European Arctic Indigenous Theology beyond Hierarchical Worldmaking
By Tore Johnsen
Lexington Books
July 2022 • 320 pages • Part of the Postcolonial and Decolonial Studies in Religion and Theology series
Hardback 978 1 7936 5293 5 • $120.00 / £92.00 eBook 978 1 7936 2942 2 • $45.00 / £35.00
Sámi Nature-Centered Christianity in the European Arctic unpacks the theological significance of North Sámi indigenous Christianity (Norway). Through thick description, critical analysis, and dialogue with African and Native American theologies, a nature-centered Christian paradigm is suggested.
Religious Intolerance, Persecution & Conflict
Religious Trauma Queer Stories in Estrangement and Return
By Brooke N. Petersen
Lexington Books
August 2022 • 186 pages • Part of the Emerging Perspectives in Pastoral Theology and Care series
Hardback 978 1 7936 4114 4 • $95.00 / £73.00
eBook 978 1 7936 1151 1 • $45.00 / £35.00
Through the rich stories of eight participants, the author explores the psychological, spiritual, and ritual dimensions of religious trauma among queer people and offers key recommendations for congregations and pastoral caregivers that seek to welcome those who have experienced religious trauma.
Sexuality & Gender Studies
Tilling
Sacred
Grounds Interiority, Black Women, and Religious Experience
By Phillis Isabella Sheppard
Lexington Books
March 2022 • 184 pages • Part of the Emerging Perspectives in Pastoral Theology and Care series
Hardback 978 1 7936 3862 5 • $95.00 / £73.00
eBook 978 1 7936 8632 2 • $45.00 / £35.00
Tilling Sacred Grounds centers Black women’s interiority as a site for religious experience. Phillis Isabella Sheppard argues that interiority is a site for the negotiation of gender, race, and sexuality and finds articulation in public religious practice.
Sexuality & Gender Studies
Women and Religion in Zimbabwe Strides and Struggles
Edited by Ezra Chitando; Sophia Chirongoma and Kudzai Biri
Lexington Books
July 2022 • 308 pages
Hardback 978 1 6669 0331 7 • $110.00 / £85.00
eBook 978 1 6669 3324 4 • $45.00 / £35.00
This volume reaffirms the fact that religion and culture often serve as a double-edged sword, that is, they can either obstruct or enrich African women’s flourishing. Drawing insights from African women’s experiences of religion and culture, the authors proffer gender sensitive and life-giving applications of African religio-cultural traditions.
Sexuality & Gender Studies
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A Playful Spirit Exploring the Theology, Philosophy, and Psychology of Play
By Mark W. Teismann – With Lynn Weber
Lexington Books
August 2022 • 174 pages
Paperback 978 1 7936 1843 6 • $39.99 / £31.00
Previously published in hardback 978 1 7936 8412 2 • $95.00 / £73.00
eBook 978 1 7936 1842 9 • $38.00 / £29.00
Teismann embarks on a whirlwind ride through different aspects of play and how they relate to spirituality. Drawing on classical philosophers, memories of childhood, developmental science, poets, and his long career as a psychotherapist, he explores how the spirit of play informs our moral pursuits and spiritual yearnings.
Spirituality
Dancing in the Muddy Temple A Moving Spirituality of Land and Body
By Eline Kieft
Lexington Books
June 2022 • 212 pages • Part of the Studies in Body and Religion series
Hardback 978 0 7391 8902 3 • $95.00 / £73.00
eBook 978 0 7391 9030 0 • $45.00 / £35.00
In this book, Eline Kieft creates an embodied spirituality that is based in improvised movement and embedded in the land. Weaving between theory and practice, this innovative work explores fundamental interconnections between self, surroundings, and the sacred.
Spirituality
A Church for the World
The Church’s Role in Fostering Democracy and Sustainable Development
Edited by Samuel Yonas Deressa and Josh de Keijzer – Foreword by Gary M. Simpso
Fortress Academic March 2022 • 284 pages
Paperback 978 1 9787 1079 5 • $39.99 / £31.00
Previously published in hardback 978 1 9787 0771 1 • $111.00 / £85.00
eBook 978 1 9787 1078 8 • $38.00 / £29.00
In A Church for the World, contributors from mostly non-Western theological communities offer historical, developmental, ecclesiastical, and theological perspectives on the church-world relationship, challenging misconceptions and practices that prevent the church from being salt and light in the world.
Theology
Bernard Bolzano
A New Evaluation of His Thought and His Circle
By Kamila Veverková – Translated by Angelo Shaun
Franklin
Lexington Books
September 2022 • 170 pages • Part of the Czech
Theological Perspectives series
Hardback 978 1 7936 5305 5 • $95.00 / £73.00
eBook 978 1 7936 3062 2 • $45.00 / £35.00
This book introduces the ethical, philosophical, and social legacy of Bernard Bolzano (1781–1848), emphasizing the theological dimension of his thought. The author situates Bolzano as a significant and influential figure in the late Enlightenment in Bohemia, which developed in the politically unfavorable times of the early nineteenth century.
Theology
Awakening Exploring Spirituality, Emergent Creativity, and Reconciliation
Edited by Vern Neufeld Redekop and Gloria Neufeld Redekop
Lexington Books
March 2022 • 372 pages
Paperback 978 1 4985 9311 3 • $42.99 / £33.00
Previously published in hardback 978 1 4985 3090 0 • $128.00 / £98.00
eBook 978 1 4985 9310 6 • $40.50 / £31.00
Awakening illuminates key discoveries in the sciences, theology, psychology, spirituality, humanities, and peace and conflict studies. The process of awakening is seen through the lens of emergent creativity and spirituality with a view toward taking responsibility for relationships and creating justice.
Spirituality
Transforming Applying Spirituality, Emergent Creativity, and Reconciliation
Edited by Gloria Neufeld Redekop and Vern Neufeld Redekop
Lexington Books
March 2022 • 486 pages
Paperback 978 1 4985 9314 4 • $46.99 / £36.00
Previously published in hardback
978 1 4985 3120 0 • $135.00 / £104.00
eBook 978 1 4985 9313 7 • $44.50 / £34.00
Global crises—from pandemics to climate change—demonstrate the vulnerability of the biosphere and each of us as individuals, calling for responses guided by creative analysis and compassionate reflection.
Transforming explores actions that create paths of understanding and collaboration as the groundwork for transformative community.
Spirituality
A Postfoundationalist Comparative Christology Parity, Particularity, and Universality in Indian Interreligious Dialogues
By David Muthukumar Sivasubramanian – Foreword by Veli-Matti Kärkkäinen
Fortress Academic March 2022 • 214 pages
Hardback 978 1 9787 1383 3 • $100.00 / £77.00 eBook 978 1 9787 3840 0 • $45.00 / £35.00
This book offers a postfoundationalist comparative method, emerging from the Indian-Christian minority perspective, to affirm religious diversity and parity among religions. It upholds the particularity and universality of faith assertions across religions in dialogue by defining each religion’s attempt at their revealed truth as a parallel quest.
Theology
Bonhoeffer’s Religionless Christianity in Its Christological Context
By Peter Hooton
Fortress Academic September 2022 • 222 pages
Paperback 978 1 9787 0935 5 • $39.99 / £31.00
Previously published in hardback 978 1 9787 9331 1 • $100.00 / £77.00 eBook 978 1 9787 0934 8 • $38.00 / £29.00
In this book, Peter Hooton explores Bonhoeffer’s response to the challenge of a future “religionless age” in Western civilization and its place in his theology.
Theology
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Centering Hope as a Sustainable Decolonial Practice Esperanza en Práctica
By Yara González-Justiniano Lexington Books
October 2022 • 164 pages • Part of the Postcolonial and Decolonial Studies in Religion and Theology series
Hardback 978 1 7936 5089 4 • $95.00 / £73.00 eBook 978 1 7936 0900 0 • $45.00 / £35.00
In believing hope is at the center—and not at the end of things—this author illustrates models of hope as axis of our humanity, leaving us with a practical recipe to take with an apply to our ministerial and organizational contexts in search of a sustainable hope in the midst of crisis.
Theology
Deconstructing Undecidability Derrida, Justice, and Religious Discourse
By Michael Oliver
Fortress Academic
March 2022 • 266 pages
Paperback 978 1 9787 0440 4 • $39.99 / £31.00
Previously published in hardback 978 1 9787 4381 1 • $111.00 / £85.00
eBook 978 1 9787 0439 8 • $38.00 / £29.00
This book critically advances readings of Jacques Derrida to offer a renewed understanding of the problem of decision and its inherent exclusivity. Michael Oliver applies this deconstructive insight to the contexts of justice pursuits and theological negotiations of divine decision, arguing for the necessity of reckoning with difficult decisions.
Theology
Dissension and Tenacity Doing Theology with Nerves
Edited by Jione Havea
Fortress Academic December 2022 • 260 pages • Part of the Theology in the Age of Empire series Hardback 978 1 9787 1437 3 • $105.00 / £81.00 eBook 978 1 9787 4380 0 • $45.00 / £35.00
Doing theology requires dissension and tenacity. Dissension is required when scriptural texts, and the colonial bodies and traditions (read: Babylon) that capitalize upon those, inhibit or prohibit “rising to life.” The contributors in this book challenge the way Christian theology is currently done in the academy and the Western world.
Theology
Flesh Made Word
The Protestant Interpretation Problem and an Embodied Hermeneutic
By Lauren Smelser White
Fortress Academic
August 2022 • 236 pages
Hardback 978 1 9787 1104 4 • $105.00 / £81.00
eBook 978 1 9787 1051 1 • $45.00 / £35.00
Assessing the Protestant interpretive tradition in conversation with modern contemplative theologies, White argues that readers of Scripture cannot read well when primarily fixated upon the text’s objective meaning. They must instead risk finding themselves implicated in, and formed by, a Spirit-led hermeneutic process that is carefully embodied.
Theology
Cuban Feminist Theology Visions and Praxis
By Ofelia Ortega – Foreword by Mary E. Hunt
Fortress Academic
February 2022 • 324 pages • Part of the Decolonizing Theology series
Hardback 978 1 9787 1299 7 • $110.00 / £85.00 eBook 978 1 9787 3000 0 • $45.00 / £35.00
In this book, Ofelia Miriam Ortega describes the social, economic, and political realities in Cuba, the Caribbean and Latin America as the contexts of Cuban feminist theology.
Theology
Discipleship and Unity Bonhoeffer’s
Ecumenical Theology
By Cole Jodon
Fortress Academic June 2022 • 200 pages
Hardback 978 1 9787 1194 5 • $95.00 / £73.00 eBook 978 1 9787 1952 2 • $45.00 / £35.00
In Discipleship and Unity: Bonhoeffer’s Ecumenical Theology, Cole Jodon presents Bonhoeffer’s ecumenical theology — a theology grounded in an understanding of the church as the person of Christ, and practiced in active obedient discipleship.
Theology
Ethnoreligiosity in the Contemporary Societies of the Former Yugoslavia
The Veils of Christian Delusion
By Branko Sekulić
Fortress Academic February 2022 • 324 pages Hardback 978 1 9787 1296 6 • $120.00 / £92.00 eBook 978 1 9787 2973 3 • $45.00 / £35.00
Using Christian communities in the former Yugoslavia as a case study, Branko Sekulic introduces the concept of ethnoreligiosity in order to resolve the confusion that occurs when scholars talk about the concepts of ethno-religion or ethnoreligion.
Theology
Human Becoming in an Age of Science, Technology, and Faith
By Philip Hefner – Edited by Jason P. Roberts and Mladen Turk
Fortress Academic September 2022 • 246 pages
Hardback 978 1 9787 0837 2 • $100.00 / £77.00
eBook 978 1 9787 8389 9 • $45.00 / £35.00
In this book, Philip Hefner produces his final major work on the topic of the created co-creator, depicting Homo sapiens as a memoirist on an ambiguous journey of self-discovery. Hefner, editors Jason P. Roberts and Mladen Turk, and other contributors each give guidance for that journey in an age of science, technology, and faith.
Theology
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Marveling Religion
Critical Discourses, Religion, and the Marvel Cinematic Universe
Edited by Jennifer Baldwin and Daniel White Hodge
Lexington Books
September 2022 • 284 pages • Part of the Religion and Science as a Critical Discourse series
Hardback 978 1 7936 2138 2 • $110.00 / £85.00 eBook 978 1 7936 1399 9 • $45.00 / £35.00
Marveling Religion: Critical Discourses, Religion, and the Marvel Cinematic Universe explores the intersection of religion and cinema through the lenses of critical discourse.
Theology
The Crux of Theology
Luther’s Teachings and Our Work for Freedom, Justice, and Peace
Edited by Allen G. Jorgenson and Kristen E. Kva
Fortress Academic May 2022 • 222 pages Hardback 978 1 9787 1251 5 • $100.00 / £77.00 eBook 978 1 9787 2522 2 • $45.00 / £35.00
The Crux of Theology puts Luther’s teachings concerning the cross in dialogue with the preamble of the United Declaration’s Declaration of Human Rights, which advances a vision of the common good wherein freedom, justice and peace are enjoyed by all. Using diverse voices, it reframes theological loci and raises critical contextual questions.
Theology
The God Who Is with Us Theology of Mission in the Doctrine of Revelation
By Benjamin H. Kim
Fortress Academic
October 2022 • 258 pages
Hardback 978 1 9787 1530 1 • $105.00 / £81.00
eBook 978 1 9787 5318 8 • $45.00 / £30.99
This book explores the theology of the ission Dei by understanding mission as a revelatory concept of person. Mission as a concept of person recovers the original meaning of mission, which is a description of the trinitarian movement of God.
Theology
The Holy Spirit and Public Life Empowering Ecclesial Praxis
By Mark J. Cartledge
Fortress Academic
April 2022 • 264 pages
Hardback 978 1 9787 0234 9 • $105.00 / £81.00
eBook 978 1 9787 2356 6 • $45.00 / £35.00
Mark J. Cartledge argues that the church is called to be truthful with love in the public spheres of society. It does this by being empowered by the Holy Spirit to engage critically and graciously for the sake of the common good.
Theology
Taking It to the Streets
Public Theologies of Activism and Resistance
Edited by Jennifer Baldwin – Preface by Jennifer Baldwin
Lexington Books
July 2022 • 228 pages
Paperback 978 1 4985 9012 9 • $39.99 / £31.00
Previously published in hardback 978 1 4985 0105 5 • $111.00 / £85.00 eBook 978 1 4985 9011 2 • $38.00 / £29.00
Taking It to the Streets: Public Theologies of Activism and Resistance is an edited volume that explores public expressions of activism and resistance to social and political oppression. Contributors reflect on the need for resistance, strategies and resources for effective activism, and prominent areas of contemporary protest.
Theology
The European Reception of John D. Caputo’s Thought Radicalizing Theology
Edited by Joeri Schrijvers and Martin Koci
Lexington Books
November 2022 • 316 pages
Hardback 978 1 6669 0841 1 • $110.00 / £85.00 eBook 978 1 6669 8428 8 • $45.00 / £30.99
This book explores Caputo’s proposal for a radical theology of our time. Philosophers and theologians from within Europe respond to Caputo’s attempt to configure a less rigid, less dogmatic form of religion. These scholars, in turn, receive responses by Caputo, thereby strengthening the development of radical theology in Europe and abroad.
Theology
The Goldilocks God Searching for the via media
By Guy Collins
Fortress Academic August 2022 • 266 pages • Part of the Anglican Studies series
Hardback 978 1 9787 1347 5 • $105.00 / £81.00 eBook 978 1 9787 3482 2 • $45.00 / £35.00
The Goldilocks God explores the fertile middle ground between toxic Christianity and militant atheism. Illuminating ancient Christian practice with cutting-edge philosophy and theology, Guy Collins reveals the lifelong habits that are “just right” for encountering the mystery of God.
Theology
The Revolutionary Gospel Paul Lehmann and the Direction of Theology Today
Edited by Nancy J. Duff; Ry O. Siggelkow and Brandon K. Watson
Fortress Academic October 2022 • 414 pages
Hardback 978 1 9787 1224 9 • $125.00 / £96.00 eBook 978 1 9787 2256 6 • $50.00 / £38.99
This volume is a collection of 33 essays, sermons, and contemporaneous addresses by Paul L. Lehmann, some of which are published here for the first time. The material addresses the revolutionary dimension of Protestant thought, the contextual character of theological ethics, and the humanizing power of the gospel.
Theology
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Theologies on the Move
Religion, Migration, and Pilgrimage in the World of Neoliberal Capital
Edited by Joerg Rieger
Fortress Academic September 2022 • 206 pages • Part of the Decolonizing Theology series
Paperback 978 1 9787 0710 8 • $39.99 / £31.00 Previously published in hardback 978 1 9787 7085 5 • $105.00 / £81.00 eBook 978 1 9787 0709 2 • $38.00 / £29.00
Theologies on the Move examines how the experiences of migration and pilgrimage that are created as a result of the pressures of neoliberal capitalism shape theological and religious traditions. Based on these insights, the contributors examine what difference religion can make in a world dominated by the interests of the few rather than the many.
Theology
Theology and Breaking Bad
Edited by David K. Goodin and George Tsakiridis
Fortress Academic July 2022 • 202 pages • Part of the Theology, Religion, and Pop Culture series
Hardback 978 1 9787 1272 0 • $95.00 / £73.00 eBook 978 1 9787 2737 7 • $45.00 / £35.00
In Theology and Breaking Bad, the contributors explore the hidden theological themes woven into the show and its spinoff series, Better Call Saul.
Theology
Theology and H.P. Lovecraft
Edited by Austin M. Freeman
Fortress Academic August 2022 • 290 pages • Part of the Theology, Religion, and Pop Culture series Hardback 978 1 9787 1170 9 • $110.00 / £85.00 eBook 978 1 9787 1716 6 • $45.00 / £35.00
Theology and H.P. Lovecraft engages with the work of horror author H.P. Lovecraft from a theological perspective. With responses ranging from admiration to critique, the contributors explore the dark uncharted regions of Lovecraft’s dark mythology in the service of theological truth.
Theology
Theology as Threshold Invitations from Aotearoa New Zealand
Edited by Jione Havea; Emily Colgan and Nāsili Vaka‘uta
Fortress Academic
October 2022 • 286 pages • Part of the Decolonizing Theology series
Hardback 978 1 9787 1479 3 • $105.00 / £81.00
eBook 978 1 9787 4809 9 • $45.00 / £30.99
The future of theological education requires crossing thresholds that mainstream theologies blocked and engaging native heritage and wisdom. The contributions to this volume demonstrate that theological studies have a future, and there is a role for theologians and educators in and from Aotearoa New Zealand and Pasifika to play in navigating (into) that future.
Theology
Theology and Batman
Examining the Religious World of the Dark Knight
Edited by Matthew Brake and C. K. Robertson –Foreword by Paul Levitz – Afterword by Michael Uslan
Fortress Academic November 2022 • 312 pages • Part of the Theology, Religion, and Pop Culture series
Hardback 978 1 9787 1074 0 • $110.00 / £85.00 eBook 978 1 9787 0757 7 • $45.00 / £35.00
Theology and Batman examines theological themes such as theodicy and evil, ethics and morality, justice and vengeance, and the Divine in various stories featuring The Dark Knight from across different mediums, including comics, movies, and video games.
Theology
Theology and Game of Thrones
Edited by Matthew Brake
Fortress Academic
February 2022 • 342 pages • Part of the Theology, Religion, and Pop Culture series
Hardback 978 1 9787 0762 7 • $120.00 / £92.00 eBook 978 1 9787 7634 4 • $45.00 / £35.00
Theology and Game of Thrones explores themes of religion, institutional norms, and power, Christian ecclesiology, Augustinian thought, religious pluralism and representation, and theology’s relationship with sexual violence and death in the HBO television series and the original A Song of Ice and Fire novels.
Theology
Theology and the Star Wars Universe
Edited by Benjamin D. Espinoza
Fortress Academic July 2022 • 250 pages • Part of the Theology, Religion, and Pop Culture series Hardback 978 1 9787 0723 8 • $100.00 / £77.00 eBook 978 1 9787 7245 5 • $45.00 / £35.00
Theology and the Star Wars Universe is an engaging and enlightening foray into exploring the galaxy far, far away from a theological perspective. Written for an academic audience but accessible to fans of the franchise, the book will be an excellent addition to any collection.
Theology
Theology on a Defiant Earth Seeking Hope in the Anthropocene
Edited by Jonathan Cole and Peter Walker
Lexington Books
October 2022 • 256 pages • Part of the Religious Ethics and Environmental Challenges series Hardback 978 1 6669 0322 5 • $105.00 / £81.00 eBook 978 1 6669 3232 2 • $45.00 / £35.00
In this book, theologians and scholars of religion grapple with the political, philosophical, and ethical implications of a climate crisis provoked by one species, our own, serving its needs at the increasingly intolerable cost of all life on the planet.
Theology
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Theology, Religion, and Dystopia
Edited by Scott Donahue-Martens and Brandon Simonso
Fortress Academic
September 2022 • 208 pages • Part of the Theology, Religion, and Pop Culture series
Hardback 978 1 9787 1329 1 • $95.00 / £73.00 eBook 978 1 9787 3307 7 • $45.00 / £30.99
Ancient and modern readers alike turn to dystopian tales and topics in order to make sense of experiences of reality that are increasing negative and outside their control. This volume takes theological and religious approaches to dystopian works and themes as revelatory for human flourishing.
Theology
Uncovering Calvin’s God John Calvin on Predestination and the Love of God
By Forrest H. Buckner – Foreword by Oliver D. Crisp
Fortress Academic August 2022 • 250 pages
Paperback 978 1 9787 0386 5 • $39.99 / £31.00
Previously published in hardback 978 1 9787 3841 1 • $111.00 / £85.00
eBook 978 1 9787 0385 8 • $38.00 / £29.00
In Uncovering Calvin’s God, Forrest H. Buckner provides a robust exposition of John Calvin’s teaching and preaching to reveal that the controversial theologian believed in a God of love who is sovereign over predestination.
Theology
Climate Change Education Reimagining the Future with Alternative Forms of Storytelling
Edited by Rebecca L. Young Lexington Books
December 2022 • 278 pages
Hardback 978 1 6669 1579 2 • $105.00 / £81.00
eBook 978 1 6669 5808 8 • $45.00 / £35.00
This collection offers innovative approaches to using popular forms of storytelling as a lens for teaching about climate change. Contributors share their classroom experiences and guidance about how to engage students in productive conversations about the future with empathy and agency.
Environmental Conservation & Protection
Unconscious Christianity in Dietrich Bonhoeffer’s Late Theology Encounters with the Unknown Christ
By Eleanor McLaughlin – Foreword by Rowan Williams
Fortress Academic
March 2022 • 224 pages
Paperback 978 1 9787 0827 3 • $39.99 / £31.00
Previously published in hardback 978 1 9787 8259 9 • $105.00 / £81.00 eBook 978 1 9787 0826 6 • $38.00 / £29.00
Eleanor McLaughlin traces the development of Bonhoeffer’s work on unconscious Christianity in his writings and constructs a definition of the term, shedding light not only on Bonhoeffer’s later works, but his theological development as a whole.
Theology
Zygmunt Bauman and Pope Francis in Dialogue The Labyrinth of Liquid Modernity
By Zeger Polhuijs
Fortress Academic
February 2022 • 204 pages
Hardback 978 1 9787 1020 7 • $95.00 / £73.00
eBook 978 1 9787 0214 4 • $45.00 / £35.00
In Zygmunt Bauman and Pope Francis in Dialogue: The Labyrinth of Liquid Modernity, Zeger Polhuijs recounts the mutual exchanges between Zygmunt Bauman and Pope Francis and draws attention to the role this mutual influence has played in the developments of their social thought.
Theology
Critical Animal Studies and Social Justice Critical Theory, Dismantling Speciesism, and Total Liberation
Edited by Anthony J. Nocella II and Amber E. George - Foreword by Jordan Halliday and Tyler Lang
Lexington Books
March 2022 • 202 pages • Part of the Critical Animal Studies and Theory series
Hardback 978 1 7936 3522 8 • $95.00 / £73.00 eBook 978 1 7936 5235 5 • $45.00 / £35.00
By promoting total liberation, this volume challenges the reader to think about new approaches to justice, equity, diversity, and inclusion. The contributors examine and disrupt many of the exclusionary assumptions and behaviors by those working toward justice and liberation, encouraging the reader to reflect on their own thoughts and actions.
Animal Rights
Environment,
Social Justice, and the Media in the Age of the Anthropocene
Edited by Elizabeth G. Dobbins; Luigi Manca and Maria Lucia Piga
Lexington Books
May 2022 • 434 pages • Part of the Environment and Society series
Paperback 978 1 7936 0762 1 • $46.99 / £36.00
Previously published in hardback 978 1 7936 7607 7 • $137.00 / £105.00
eBook 978 1 7936 0761 4 • $44.50 / £34.00
This book defines for readers the ecological epoch known as the Anthropocene and brings together an interdisciplinary roster of researchers and scholars to address key imminent challenges to human society posed by climate crisis. The work also analyzes and provides a constructive vision on the relationship between social justice and the media.
Environmental Conservation & Protection
Environmental and Animal Abuse Denial Averting Our Gaze
Edited by Tomaž Grušovnik; Reingard Spannring and Karen Lykke Syse
Lexington Books
August 2022 • 242 pages • Part of the Environment and Society series
Paperback 978 1 7936 1048 5 • $39.99 / £31.00
Previously published in hardback
978 1 7936 0461 1 • $105.00 / £81.00
eBook 978 1 7936 1047 8 • $38.00 / £29.00
The theory of denialism proposes that people actively avoid information that threatens their established worldviews, lifestyles, and identities.
Environmental and Animal Abuse Denial: Averting Our Gaze analyzes how people use denialism to avoid awareness of climate change, environmental pollution, animal abuse, and the animal industrial complex.
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