RELIGIOUS STUDIES
THE UNIVERSITY OF
CH IC AG O PR ES S
Class 200: New Studies in Religion
Promiscuous Grace Imagining Beauty and Holiness with Saint Mary of Egypt
Sonia Velázquez
A meditation on holiness and beauty through the study of Saint Mary of Egypt. 2023 224 p. 6 x 9 15 halftones 1 Paper ISBN: 978-0-226-82610-3 $27.50 Your Price: $19.25
Slandering the Sacred
Blasphemy Law and Religious Affect in Colonial India
J. Barton Scott
A history of global secularism and political feeling through colonial blasphemy law.
Earthquakes and Gardens Saint Hilarion’s Cyprus
Virginia Burrus
Essays about ruination, resilience, reading, and religion generated by a reflection on a fourth-century hagiography.
2023 272 p. 6 x 9 15 halftones 2 Paper ISBN: 978-0-226-82490-1 $30.00 Your Price: $21.00
2023 208 p. 6 x 9 35 halftones 3 Paper ISBN: 978-0-226-82456-7 $27.50 Your Price: $19.25
Unbridled
Awkward Rituals
Sincerely Held
William Robert
Dana W. Logan
Charles McCrary
Studying Religion in Performance A study of religion through the lens of Peter Shaffer’s play Equus. 2022 144 p. 6 x 9 4 Paper ISBN: 978-0-226-81690-6 $22.50 Your Price: $15.75
Sensations of Governance in Protestant America
American Secularism and Its Believers
A fresh account of early American religious history that argues for a new understanding of ritual.
A novel account of the relationship between sincerity, religious freedom, and the secular in the United States.
2022 192 p. 6 x 9 6 halftones 5 Paper ISBN: 978-0-226-81850-4 $27.50 Your Price: $19.25
2022 304 p. 6 x 9 6 Paper ISBN: 978-0-226-81795-8 $30.00 Your Price: $21.00
Class 200: New Studies in Religion 1
Profaning Paul
Making a Mantra
A critical reconsideration of the repeated use of the biblical letters of Paul.
Ellen Gough
Cavan W. Concannon
2021 192 p. 6 x 9 7 Paper ISBN: 978-0-226-81565-7 $27.50 Your Price: $19.25
Tantric Ritual and Renunciation on the Jain Path to Liberation Redefines our understanding of Tantra by exploring something that has never been considered “tantric." 2021 296 p. 6 x 9 20 halftones 8 Paper ISBN: 978-0-226-76706-2 $30.00 Your Price: $21.00
Kindred Spirits
Friendship and Resistance at the Edges of Modern Catholicism
Brenna Moore
Inside the network that pushed against both the right and leftist movements in interwar Europe. 2021 336 p. 6 x 9 12 halftones 10 Paper ISBN: 978-0-226-78701-5 $32.50 Your Price: $22.75
The Privilege of Being Banal Art, Secularism, and Catholicism in Paris
Elayne Oliphant
The banality of Catholicism in French history and culture. 2021 280 p. 6 x 9 8 halftones 11 Paper ISBN: 978-0-226-73126-1 $30.00 Your Price: $21.00
Neuromatic
Or, A Particular History of Religion and the Brain
John Lardas Modern
John Modern offers a powerful and original critique of neurology’s pivotal role in religious history. 2021 392 p. 6 x 9 76 halftones 9 Paper ISBN: 978-0-226-79962-9 $32.50 Your Price: $22.75
The Lives of Objects
Material Culture, Experience, and the Real in the History of Early Christianity
Maia Kotrosits
Draws on various fields to form an expanded definition of materiality in Jewish and Early Christian studies. 2020 232 p. 6 x 9 12 Paper ISBN: 978-0-226-70758-7 $30.00 Your Price: $21.00
2 Religion & Philosophy
Don't Forget to Live
The Superhumanities
Pierre Hadot
Jeffrey J. Kripal
Goethe and the Tradition of Spiritual Exercises The esteemed French philosopher Pierre Hadot’s final work, now available in English. The France Chicago Collection
Historical Precedents, Moral Objections, New Realities A bold challenge to rethink the humanities as intimately connected to the superhuman and to “decolonize reality itself.”
Lands of Likeness For a Poetics of Contemplation
Kevin Hart
An exploration of contemplation from philosopher, theologian, and poet Kevin Hart. 2023 432 p. 6 x 9 15 Paper ISBN: 978-0-226-82758-2 $37.50 Your Price: $26.25
2023 200 p. 51/2 x 81/2 7 halftones 13 Cloth ISBN: 978-0-226-49716-7 $25.00 Your Price: $17.50
2022 256 p. 6 x 9 1 halftones 14 Cloth ISBN: 978-0-226-82024-8 $35.00 Your Price: $24.50
The Best Effect
The Varieties of Atheism
Metamodernism
Edited by David Newheiser
Storm moves beyond postmodern critiques, offering a new model for theory that he calls metamodernism.
Theology and the Origins of Consequentialism
Ryan Darr
A theological history of consequentialism and a new, more expansive vision for teleological ethics. 2023 320 p. 6 x 9 16 Paper ISBN: 978-0-226-82999-9 $35.00 Your Price: $24.50
Connecting Religion and Its Critics
Thoughtful essays to revive dialogue about atheism beyond belief. 2022 224 p. 6 x 9 17 Paper ISBN: 978-0-226-82269-3 $32.50 Your Price: $22.75
The Future of Theory
Jason Ananda Josephson Storm
2021 328 p. 6 x 9 18 Paper ISBN: 978-0-226-78665-0 $30.00 Your Price: $21.00
Religion & Philosophy 3
Devotion
Three Inquiries in Religion, Literature, and Political Imagination
Constance M. Furey, Sarah Hammerschlag, and Amy Hollywood Three scholars of religion explore literature and the literary as sites of critical transformation. TRIOS 2021 200 p. 51/2 x 81/2 3 halftones 19 Paper ISBN: 978-0-226-81612-8 $25.00 Your Price: $17.50
The Ethics of Oneness
Emerson, Whitman, and the Bhagavad Gita
Jeremy David Engels
Presents the notion that individuals are fundamentally interconnected in their shared divinity - everything is one. 2021 272 p. 6 x 9 22 Paper ISBN: 978-0-226-74602-9 $27.50 Your Price: $19.25
Image
Three Inquiries in Technology and Imagination
Mark C. Taylor, Mary-Jane Rubenstein, and Thomas A. Carlson Explores the modern power of the visual at the intersection of the human and the technological. TRIOS 2021 240 p. 51/2 x 81/2 21 halftones 20 Paper ISBN: 978-0-226-78228-7 $25.00 Your Price: $17.50
To Flourish or Destruct
A Personalist Theory of Human Goods, Motivations, Failure, and Evil
Christian Smith
Situates the idea of personhood at the center of our attempts to understand how we might shape good human lives and societies. 2021 384 p. 6 x 9 8 line drawings, 2 tables 23 Paper ISBN: 978-0-226-75992-0 $36.00 Your Price: $25.20
A Swedenborg Perpetual Calendar Thoughts for the Day to Return to Year after Year
Emanuel Swedenborg A daily book of insights from Emanuel Swedenborg.
Distributed for Swedenborg Foundation Publishers 2023 168 p. 43/4 x 63/4 21 Paper ISBN: 978-0-87785-424-1 $19.95 Your Price: $13.96
The Saint and the Atheist Thomas Aquinas and Jean-Paul Sartre
Joseph S. Catalano Brings St. Thomas Aquinas and JeanPaul Sartre together to think through the central questions about faith. 2021 176 p. 51/2 x 81/2 24 Cloth ISBN: 978-0-226-71943-6 $30.00 Your Price: $21.00
4 Religion & Philosophy
Seeing Silence Mark C. Taylor
Explores the many variations of silence by considering the work of leading visual artists and philosophers. 2022 328 p. 6 x 9 14 halftones, 1 table 25 Paper ISBN: 978-0-226-82003-3 $25.00 Your Price: $17.50
Fragments
The Existential Situation of Our Time: Selected Essays, Volume 1
David Tracy
These are two volumes of selected essays from the most important Catholic theologian in North America. 2020 408 p. 6 x 9 26 Cloth ISBN: 978-0-226-56729-7 $42.00 Your Price: $29.40
A Brief Apology for Apocalypse of a Catholic Moment Truth Jean-Luc Marion
Provides guidance into what “catholic" in the present political and cultural moment truly means. 2021 120 p. 51/2 x 81/2 28 Paper ISBN: 978-0-226-75829-9 $22.50 Your Price: $15.75
Heideggerian Meditations
Jean Vioulac
French philosopher Vioulac radicalizes Heidegger’s understanding of truth as disclosure through the notion of truth as apocalypse or absence. 2021 208 p. 6 x 9 29 Cloth ISBN: 978-0-226-76673-7 $40.00 Your Price: $28.00
Filaments
Theological Profiles: Selected Essays, Volume 2
David Tracy
These are two volumes of selected essays from the most important Catholic theologian in North America. 2020 432 p. 6 x 9 4 halftones 27 Cloth ISBN: 978-0-226-56732-7 $42.00 Your Price: $29.40
Negative Certainties
Jean-Luc Marion Now in paperback, Jean-Luc Marion's groundbreaking philosophy of human uncertainty. Religion and Postmodernism 2015 288 p. 6 x 9 30 Cloth ISBN: 978-0-226-50561-9 $48.00 Your Price: $24.50
Judaism 5
Space and Time under Persecution
The German-Jewish Experience in the Third Reich
Guy Miron
How the Nazi era upended GermanJewish experiences of space and time. 2023 288 p. 6 x 9 8 halftones 31 Paper ISBN: 978-0-226-82815-2 $32.50 Your Price: $22.75
The Last Consolation Vanished
The Testimony of a Sonderkommando in Auschwitz
Zalmen Gradowski
A unique and haunting first-person Holocaust account by a prisoner killed in Auschwitz.
Essays on Ancient and Modern Judaism Arnaldo Momigliano
Brings together twenty-six essays by a significant scholar of ancient history. 2023 270 p. 6 x 9 33 Paper ISBN: 978-0-226-79492-1 $35.00 Your Price: $24.50
2022 248 p. 51/2 x 81/2 7 halftones 32 Cloth ISBN: 978-0-226-63678-8 $25.00 Your Price: $17.50
Cultural Disjunctions
The Jewish Decadence
Paul Mendes-Flohr
Jonathan Freedman
Post-Traditional Jewish Identities Guides us through the tangles of twentieth-century Jewish cultural identities and commitments. 2021 144 p. 51/2 x 81/2 1 halftone 34 Cloth ISBN: 978-0-226-78486-1 $27.50 Your Price: $19.25
Jews and the Aesthetics of Modernity An exploration of Jewish engagement with decadence. 2021 304 p. 6 x 9 41 halftones 35 Paper ISBN: 978-0-226-58108-8 $30.00 Your Price: $21.00
Fragile Finitude A Jewish Hermeneutical Theology
Michael Fishbane
Offers a contemporary engagement with the four classical types of Jewish Scriptural exegesis. 2021 208 p. 6 x 9 36 Cloth ISBN: 978-0-226-76415-3 $35.00 Your Price: $24.50
6 Judaism
Jewish Universalisms
Mendelssohn, Cohen, and Humanity’s Highest Good
Jeremy Fogel
An original and comprehensive comparison of the universalisms of two major modern Jewish philosophers. The Tauber Institute Series for the Study of European Jewry Distributed for Brandeis University Press 2023 368 p. 6 x 9 37 Paper ISBN: 978-1-68458-172-6 $45.00 Your Price: $31.50
Resplendent Synagogue
Architecture and Worship in an Eighteenth-Century Polish Community
Thomas C. Hubka
This unique exploration of a lost religious and cultural artifact. The Tauber Institute Series for the Study of European Jewry Distributed for Brandeis University Press 2022 264 p. 81/2 x 11 8 color plates, 160 figures 40 Paper ISBN: 978-1-68458-133-7 $50.00 Your Price: $35.00
First Impressions Sefer Hasidim and Early Modern Hebrew Printing
Joseph A. Skloot
Uncovers the history of creative adaptation and transformation through a close analysis of the creation of the Sefer Hasidim book. The Tauber Institute Series for the Study of European Jewry Distributed for Brandeis University Press 2023 268 p. 6 x 9 11 halftones 38 Paper ISBN: 978-1-68458-149-8 $40.00 Your Price: $28.00
Dirshuni
Contemporary Women’s Midrash
Edited by Tamar Biala
A unique compilation of contemporary women’s midrashim.
Dynamic Repetition
History and Messianism in Modern Jewish Thought
Gilad Sharvit
A fine example of the best scholarship that lies at the intersection of philosophy, religion, and history. The Tauber Institute Series for the Study of European Jewry Distributed for Brandeis University Press 2022 332 p. 6 x 9 39 Paper ISBN: 978-1-68458-103-0 $45.00 Your Price: $31.50
Come and Hear
What I Saw in My Seven-anda-Half-Year Journey through the Talmud
Adam Kirsch
HBI Series on Jewish Women
A literary critic’s journey through the Talmud.
Distributed for Brandeis University Press
Distributed for Brandeis University Press
2022 304 p. 6 x 9 41 Cloth ISBN: 978-1-68458-095-8 $30.00 Your Price: $21.00
2021 256 p. 6 x 9 42 Cloth ISBN: 978-1-68458-067-5 $32.50 Your Price: $22.75
Judaism 7
Archaeology, History, and Formation of Identity in Ancient Israel
Figuring Jerusalem
A critical examination of the history of Israel.
2022 352 p. 6 x 9 11 halftones 44 Paper ISBN: 978-0-226-78746-6 $35.00 Your Price: $24.50
Filip Capek
Distributed for Karolinum Press
Politics and Poetics in the Sacred Center
Sidra DeKoven Ezrahi
How Hebrew writers have imagined Jerusalem, both from the distance of exile and from within its sacred walls.
Writings on Neo-Kantianism and Jewish Philosophy
Edited by Samuel Moyn and Robert Schine A fresh collection of writings by Hermann Cohen that sheds light on an often overlooked scholar. Brandeis Library of Modern Jewish Thought Distributed for Brandeis University Press 2021 275 p. 6 x 9 46 Paper ISBN: 978-1-68458-043-9 $29.95 Your Price: $20.96
Edited by Rebecca Abrams & César Merchán-Hamann Hebrew manuscripts offer a fascinating journey through Jewish intellectual and social history. Distributed for Bodleian Library Publishing 2020 304 p. 91/2 x 101/4 136 color plates 45 Cloth ISBN: 978-1-85124-502-4 $55.00 Your Price: $38.50
2024 355 p. 61/2 x 91/4 27 color plates, 1 halftone, 38 maps 43 Paper ISBN: 978-80-246-5417-1 $35.00 Your Price: $24.50
Hermann Cohen
Jewish Treasures from Oxford Libraries
Expanding the Palace of Torah
Orthodoxy and Feminism
Tamar Ross
Offers a broad philosophical overview of the challenges the women’s revolution poses to Orthodox Judaism. HBI Series on Jewish Women Distributed for Brandeis University Press 2021 352 p. 61/8 x 91/4 47 Paper ISBN: 978-1-68458-051-4 $40.00 Your Price: $28.00
The Anti-Journalist Karl Kraus and Jewish SelfFashioning in Fin-de-Siècle Europe
Paul Reitter
Study of Karl Kraus’s writings, situating them in the context of fin-de-siècle German-Jewish intellectual society. Studies in German-Jewish Cultural History and Literature, Franz Rosenzweig Minerva Research Center, Hebrew University of Jerusalem 2020 256 p. 6 x 9 48 Paper ISBN: 978-0-226-75457-4 $37.00 Your Price: $25.90
8 Islam
The Arab Christ
Towards an Arab Christian Theology of Conviviality
Mouchir Basile Aoun
A reflection on Christianity in Arab society. Distributed for Gingko 2023 350 p. 6 x 9 49 Cloth ISBN: 978-1-914983-02-3 $70.00 Your Price: $49.00
Plants of the Qur'an History & culture
Shahina Ghazanfar The first book to examine the flora mentioned in this major religious text, illustrated with fifty vivid new paintings. Distributed for Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew 2023 208 p. 91/2 x 11 50 botanical paintings 52 Cloth ISBN: 978-1-84246-717-6 $35.00 Your Price: $24.50
Believing in South Central
Everyday Islam in the City of Angels
Pamela J. Prickett
Reveals the day-to-day lived faith of African-American Muslims in the Los Angeles area of South Central. 2021 192 p. 6 x 9 1 tables 50 Paper ISBN: 978-0-226-74728-6 $20.00 Your Price: $14.00
The Feeling of History
Islam, Romanticism, and Andalusia
Charles Hirschkind
Examines the idea of Andalucismo— a modern tradition founded on the principle that contemporary Andalusia is connected in vitally important ways with medieval Islamic Iberia. 2020 216 p. 6 x 9 1 halftones 53 Paper ISBN: 978-0-226-74695-1 $27.50 Your Price: $19.25
Ambient Sufism
Ritual Niches and the Social Work of Musical Form
Richard C. Jankowsky
Invokes the healing powers of Muslim saints through music-driven trance rituals. Chicago Studies in Ethnomusicology 2021 272 p. 6 x 9 9 halftones, 20 musical examples, 9 tables 51 Paper ISBN: 978-0-226-72347-1 $27.50 Your Price: $19.25
Hijrah
In the Footsteps of the Prophet
Edited by Idries Trevathan A retelling of the famous Hijrah story through previously unseen artifacts from Saudi Arabia. Distributed for Hirmer Publishers 2022 240 p. 91/2 x 113/4 167 color plates 54 Cloth ISBN: 978-3-7774-3996-9 $70.00 Your Price: $49.00
Islam 9
Jihadism, Sectarianism and Politics in a Changing Middle East Adib Abdulmajid
Explores sectarianism, Islamism, and jihadism in the contemporary Middle East.
Mary in the Qur'an
Friend of God, Virgin, Mother
Muna Tatari and Klaus von Stosch
A sensitive consideration of Mary, mother of Jesus, in the Qur’an. Distributed for Gingko 2022 350 p. 6 x 91/4 1 halftone 56 Cloth ISBN: 978-1-909942-62-2 $44.95 Your Price: $31.46
2022 276 p. 61/4 x 91/2 55 Paper ISBN: 978-94-6301-344-4 $34.00 Your Price: $23.80
Incivility, Caste, and Contention in Europe
Elisabeth Becker
A look inside two of Europe’s largest mosques and the communities they support. 2021 288 p. 6 x 9 10 halftones 58 Paper ISBN: 978-0-226-78164-8 $30.00 Your Price: $21.00
Muslim Minorities and the Democratic Ethos
Elisabeth Ivarsflaten and Paul M. Sniderman Investigates the struggle for inclusion of Muslim immigrants in contemporary liberal democracies. 2022 224 p. 6 x 9 3 halftones, 57 line drawings, 12 tables 57 Paper ISBN: 978-0-226-80741-6 $30.00 Your Price: $21.00
Distributed for Eburon Academic Publishers
Mosques in the Metropolis
The Struggle for Inclusion
Epidemic Empire Anjuli Fatima Raza Kolb
The Umayyad Mosque of Damascus
Approaches the global War on Terror from a postcolonial literary perspective.
Alain George
Colonialism, Contagion, and Terror, 1817–2020
2021 392 p. 6 x 9 24 halftones 59 Paper ISBN: 978-0-226-73935-9 $35.00 Your Price: $24.50
Art, Faith and Empire in Early Islam An expansive illustrated history of the historic Umayyad Mosque in Damascus. Distributed for Gingko 2021 264 p. 91/2 x 113/4 150 color plates 60 Cloth ISBN: 978-1-909942-45-5 $85.00 Your Price: $59.50
10 Asian Religions
The Path of Desire Living Tantra in Northeast India
Hugh B. Urban
A ethnography of Tantra as a dynamic living tradition. 2024 288 p. 6 x 9 36 halftones, 2 line drawings, 3 tables 61 Paper ISBN: 978-0-226-83112-1 $30.00 Your Price: $21.00
When Death Falls Apart
Making and Unmaking the Necromaterial Traditions of Contemporary Japan
Hannah Gould
Understanding the changes in death rituals through Japan’s Buddhist goods industry. 2023 208 p. 6 x 9 8 color plates, 23 halftones 62 Paper ISBN: 978-0-226-82901-2 $30.00 Your Price: $21.00
The Evolution of Pragmatism in India
Mandalay and the Art of Building Cities in Burma
Scott R. Stroud
Explores the founding of Mandalay through original Burmese texts and illustrations.
Ambedkar, Dewey, and the Rhetoric of Reconstruction Indian reformer Bhimrao Ambedkar reimagines John Dewey’s pragmatism. 2023 320 p. 6 x 9 64 Paper ISBN: 978-0-226-82432-1 $29.00 Your Price: $20.30
François Tainturier
Distributed for National University of Singapore Press 2021 240 p. 71/4 x 91/4 76 color plates, 10 halftones 65 Cloth ISBN: 978-981-4722-77-3 $45.00 Your Price: $31.50
Tibetan Mustang A Cultural Renaissance
Luigi Fieni and Kenneth Parker Words and photographs evoke the remote beauty of Nepal’s Mustang region. Distributed for Hirmer Publishers 2023 248 p. 11 x 14 180 color plates 63 Cloth ISBN: 978-3-7774-4197-9 $70.00 Your Price: $49.00
Divine Custody
A History of Singapore's Oldest Teochew Temple
Yeo Kang Shua
An architectural and historical study of Singapore’s oldest Teochew Temple. Distributed for National University of Singapore Press 2021 288 p. 71/4 x 91/4 74 color plates, 43 halftones 66 Cloth ISBN: 978-981-325-144-1 $48.00 Your Price: $33.60
Asian Religions 11
Renunciation and Longing
The Life of a TwentiethCentury Himalayan Buddhist Saint
Annabella Pitkin
Through the eventful life of a Himalayan Buddhist teacher, Khunu Lama, we explore Tibetan Buddhist approaches to modernity. Buddhism and Modernity 2022 288 p. 6 x 9 7 halftones 67 Paper ISBN: 978-0-226-81692-0 $32.50 Your Price: $22.75
Wayward Distractions
Ornament, Emotion, Zombies and the Study of Buddhism in Thailand
Justin Thomas McDaniel
A collection of essays engaging with Buddhism in Thailand. Kyoto-CSEAS Series on Asian Studies Distributed for National University of Singapore Press 2021 360 p. 6 x 9 24 halftones 70 Paper ISBN: 978-981-325-150-2 $32.00 Your Price: $22.40
The Buddha's Tooth
Western Tales of a Sri Lankan Relic
John S. Strong
Unravels the storm of influences shaping the received narratives of two iconic sacred objects. Buddhism and Modernity 2021 352 p. 6 x 9 9 halftones, 2 tables 68 Paper ISBN: 978-0-226-80173-5 $35.00 Your Price: $24.50
Seeking Sakyamuni South Asia in the Formation of Modern Japanese Buddhism
Richard M. Jaffe
Reveals the experiences of the first Japanese Buddhists who traveled to South Asia in 1873. Buddhism and Modernity 2019 320 p. 6 x 9 34 halftones, 1 table 69 Paper ISBN: 978-0-226-39115-1 $35.00 Your Price: $24.50
Gazing Eastwards
A Sanskrit Treasury
Romila Thapar
Camillo A. Formigatti
Of Buddhist Monks and Revolutionaries in China, 1957 A captivating travelogue, take a tour of midcentury China. Distributed for Seagull Books 2021 296 p. 6 x 9 20 color plates, 12 halftones 71 Cloth ISBN: 978-0-85742-816-5 $25.00 Your Price: $17.50
A Compendium of Literature from the Clay Sanskrit Library A collection of renowned stories, poems, and myths of South Asian literature. Distributed for Bodleian Library Publishing 2019 288 p. 95/8 x 111/4 120 color plates 72 Cloth ISBN: 978-1-85124-531-4 $80.00 Your Price: $56.00
12 Christianity
The Delight Makers The Feeling of Anglo-American Metaphysical Forgetting Religion and the Pursuit of Happiness
Catherine L. Albanese An ambitious history of desire in American religion across three centuries. 2023 384 p. 6 x 9 73 Paper ISBN: 978-0-226-82354-6 $30.00 Your Price: $21.00
Cloven Country
The Devil and the English Landscape
Jeremy Harte
Now in paperback, an exploration of the myths of England’s deceptively bucolic rolling hills and country lanes believed to be created and shaped by the Dark Lord himself. Distributed for Reaktion Books 2023 296 p. 5 x 73/4 25 halftones 76 Paper ISBN: 978-1-78914-833-6 $16.00 Your Price: $11.20
Christianity, Race, and Violence in America
John Corrigan
Examines how religious practices of forgetting drive white Christian nationalism. 2023 256 p. 6 x 9 1 line drawings 74 Paper ISBN: 978-0-226-82765-0 $30.00 Your Price: $21.00
Glossolalia and the Problem of Language Nicholas Harkness
Analyzes one of evangelicalism's most enigmatic practices while surveying the power of language. 2021 240 p. 6 x 9 28 halftones, 5 tables 77 Paper ISBN: 978-0-226-74941-9 $35.00 Your Price: $24.50
The English Soul Faith of a Nation
Peter Ackroyd
From celebrated historian and writer Peter Ackroyd, a magisterial portrayal of English Christianity over the centuries. Distributed for Reaktion Books 2024 416 p. 6.14 x 9.21 21 halftones 75 Cloth ISBN: 978-1-78914-845-9 $30.00 Your Price: $21.00
Encounters in the New World Jesuit Cartography of the Americas
Mirela Altic
Traces the Jesuits’ significant contributions to mapping and mapmaking from their arrival in the New World. 2022 504 p. 7 x 10 48 color plates, 121 halftones 78 Cloth ISBN: 978-0-226-79105-0 $75.00 Your Price: $52.50
Christianity 13
The Spiritual Life and Other Writings
Follow Your Conscience
A new edition of all of de Varano's known works, several of which have never before appeared in English.
Peter Cajka
Camilla Battista Da Varano
The Other Voice in Early Modern Europe: The Toronto Series Distributed for Iter Press 2023 372 p. 6 x 9 5 color plates 79 Paper ISBN: 978-1-64959-094-7 $61.95 Your Price: $43.37
Diagramming Devotion
Berthold of Nuremberg’s Transformation of Hrabanus Maurus’s Poems in Praise of the Cross
Jeffrey F. Hamburger
An examination of a famous set of theological picture poems from 800 AD. Louise Smith Bross Lecture Series 2020 384 p. 81/2 x 11 220 color plates, 1 halftone 82 Cloth ISBN: 978-0-226-64281-9 $65.00 Your Price: $45.50
The Catholic Church and the Spirit of the Sixties How even staunch Catholics were transformed by the maelstrom of the American Sixties. 2021 232 p. 6 x 9 11 halftones 80 Cloth ISBN: 978-0-226-76205-0 $45.00 Your Price: $31.50
Unequal Partners In Search of Transnational Catholic Sisterhood
Casey Ritchie Clevenger Looks at international relationships in a Catholic order, the Sisters of Notre Dame de Namur. 2020 288 p. 6 x 9 8 halftones, 3 tables 83 Paper ISBN: 978-0-226-69755-0 $35.00 Your Price: $24.50
Ancient Egypt
Cradle of Early Christianity
Tjeu van den Berk
Traces the sources of the Christian religion to ancient Egypt. Distributed for Eburon Academic Publishers 2022 257 p. 6 x 9 37 halftones, 36 line drawings 81 Paper ISBN: 978-94-6301-333-8 $24.00 Your Price: $16.80
The Kingdom and the Garden Giorgio Agamben
Shows that the Garden of Eden has always served as a symbol for humanity’s true nature. The Italian List Distributed for Seagull Books 2020 164 p. 51/2 x 73/4 84 Cloth ISBN: 978-0-85742-786-1 $19.00 Your Price: $13.30
14 Religion & Art
Temptation Transformed
The Story of How the Forbidden Fruit Became an Apple
Azzan Yadin-Israel
Why the forbidden fruit became an apple. 2023 232 p. 6 x 9 12 color plates, 37 halftones 85 Cloth ISBN: 978-0-226-82076-7 $27.50 Your Price: $19.25
The Beauty of the Hebrew Letter
From Sacred Scrolls to Graffiti
Izzy Pludwinski
A celebration of the beauty of the Hebrew aleph-bet from sacred scrolls to graffiti. Distributed for Brandeis University Press 2023 240 p. 10 x 10 218 color plates 88 Cloth ISBN: 978-1-68458-146-7 $50.00 Your Price: $35.00
Spiritual Moderns
Twentieth-Century American Artists and Religion
Erika Doss
Examines how and why religion matters in the history of modern American art. 2023 352 p. 7 x 10 122 halftones 86 Cloth ISBN: 978-0-226-82091-0 $35.00 Your Price: $24.50
One Site. One Space. One Work.
30 Years of Art Projects in the Stommeln Synagogue
Edited by Synagoge Stommeln—Stadt Pulheim
How contemporary art contributes to the culture of remembrance. Distributed for Hirmer Publishers 2023 336 p. 63/4 x 91/2 160 color plates 89 Cloth ISBN: 978-3-7774-3787-3 $35.00 Your Price: $24.50
Saint Cecilia in the Renaissance The Emergence of a Musical Icon
John A. Rice
Uncovers how Saint Cecilia came to be closely associated with music and musicians. 2022 384 p. 7 x 10 73 color plates, 7 halftones, 53 line drawings, 30 tables 87 Cloth ISBN: 978-0-226-81710-1 $65.00 Your Price: $45.50
Holy Smoke
Censers Across Cultures
Edited by Beate Fricke Draws on religious art from four continents to investigate the materiality of the sacred. Distributed for Hirmer Publishers 2023 348 p. 81/2 x 12 170 color plates 90 Cloth ISBN: 978-3-7774-3948-8 $50.00 Your Price: $35.00
Religion & Art 15
The Art of Orientation
An Exploration of the Mosque Through Objects
Edited by Idries Trevathan, Mona Aljalhami, Murdo Macleod, and Mona Mansour The history of the mosque through 125 fascinating objects. Distributed for Hirmer Publishers 2021 300 p. 91/2 x 113/4 200 color plates 91 Cloth ISBN: 978-3-7774-3593-0 $65.00 Your Price: $45.50
Reconstructing God
Style, Hydraulics, Political Power and Angkor's West Mebon Visnu
Marnie Feneley
An historical analysis of one of the most important artworks of Angkor. Distributed for National University of Singapore Press
Iconoclasm
David Freedberg Renowned art historian compiles key texts on iconoclasm and censorship, bringing five key works back into print alongside new assessments of places ranging from the Near and Middle East to the United States. 2021 368 p. 7 x 10 57 halftones 93 Cloth ISBN: 978-0-226-44533-5 $40.00 Your Price: $28.00
2023 368 p. 71/4 x 9 163 colour illustrations, 47 b/w illustrations 92 Cloth ISBN: 978-981-325-053-6 $85.00 Your Price: $59.50
Icons
The Idols of ISIS
Andrey Rublev
Edited by Christoph Grunenberg and Eva Fischer-Hausdorfer
Aaron Tugendhaft
Robin Milner-Gulland
Worship and Adoration
Defining the term “icon” through notable works. Distributed for Hirmer Publishers 2020 384 p. 6 x 73/4 168 color plates 94 Cloth ISBN: 978-3-7774-3396-7 $50.00 Your Price: $35.00
From Assyria to the Internet
The Artist and His World
Unpacks the smashing of sculptures in Iraq’s Mosul Museum by the Islamic State as part of a mission to cleanse the world of idolatry.
A critical biography of the most celebrated religious icon painter in medieval Russia.
2020 136 p. 51/2 x 81/4 35 halftones 95 Paper ISBN: 978-0-226-73756-0 $18.00 Your Price: $12.60
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16 Religion & Society
Righting the American Dream
How the Media Mainstreamed Reagan's Evangelical Vision
Diane Winston
How news media facilitated the Reagan Revolution and rise of the religious Right.
Street Scriptures
Between God and Hip-Hop
Alejandro Nava
Explores an important aspect of hiphop that is rarely considered: its deep entanglement with spiritual life. 2022 256 p. 6 x 9 5 halftones 98 Paper ISBN: 978-0-226-81916-7 $27.50 Your Price: $19.25
2023 256 p. 6 x 9 26 halftones 97 Cloth ISBN: 978-0-226-82452-9 $35.00 Your Price: $24.50
The Moulids of Egypt
Egyptian Saint’s Day Festivals
Edited and Annotated by J.W. McPherson
A contribution to the study of Egypt’s religious folklore. Distributed for Gingko 2023 397 p. 61/4 x 91/4 35 halftones, 50 maps 100 Cloth ISBN: 978-1-914983-10-8 $70.00 Your Price: $49.00
Errand into the Wilderness of Mirrors
Religion and the History of the CIA
Michael Graziano
Reveals the influence of religious thought in building the foundations of the CIA. 2023 240 p. 6 x 9 2 line drawings 99 Paper ISBN: 978-0-226-82943-2 $36.00 Your Price: $25.20
Astrotopia
The Dangerous Religion of the Corporate Space Race
Mary-Jane Rubenstein
A revealing look at the parallel mythologies behind the colonization of Earth and space. 2022 224 p. 6 x 9 12 halftones 101 Cloth ISBN: 978-0-226-82112-2 $24.00 Your Price: $16.80
City of Dignity
Christianity, Liberalism, and the Making of Global Los Angeles
Sean T. Dempsey
How liberal Protestants shaped the progressive ethics of postwar Los Angeles. Historical Studies of Urban America 2022 224 p. 6 x 9 4 halftones 102 Cloth ISBN: 978-0-226-82376-8 $45.00 Your Price: $31.50
Religion & Society 17
The Atheist's Bible
The Copy Generic
Georges Minois
Scott MacLochlainn
The Most Dangerous Book That Never Existed
A comprehensive biography of the Treatise of the Three Impostors, a controversial nonexistent medieval book. 2022 264 p. 51/2 x 81/2 1 halftone, 2 line drawings 103 Paper ISBN: 978-0-226-82106-1 $25.00 Your Price: $17.50
How the Nonspecific Makes Our Social Worlds
A look at the concept of the generic and its role in making meaning in the world. 2022 232 p. 6 x 9 22 halftones 104 Paper ISBN: 978-0-226-82277-8 $27.50 Your Price: $19.25
How Eight Best Sellers Reconnected Christianity and the Sciences on the Eve of the Victorian Age
Jonathan R. Topham
A powerful reimagining of the world in which a young Charles Darwin developed his theory of evolution. 2022 544 p. 6 x 9 47 halftones, 2 tables 105 Cloth ISBN: 978-0-226-81576-3 $47.50 Your Price: $33.25
Accidental Pluralism
The Index of Prohibited Books
Evan Haefeli
Robin Vose
America and the Religious Politics of English Expansion, 1497-1662
Reading the Book of Nature
Four Centuries of Struggle over Word and Image for the Greater Glory of God
The origins of American religious life are reexamined.
A comprehensive history of the Catholic Church’s notorious Index.
American Beginnings, 1500-1900
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Dæmons Are Forever
Contacts and Exchanges in the Eurasian Pandemonium
David Gordon White
A record of archaic human-dæmon contact and an account of exchanges. Silk Roads 2021 360 p. 6 x 9 30 color plates, 38 halftones 108 Paper ISBN: 978-0-226-71490-5 $35.00 Your Price: $24.50
18 Religion & Society
Old Thiess, a Livonian Werewolf
A Classic Case in Comparative Perspective
Carlo Ginzburg and Bruce Lincoln
A comparative look at the trial and startling testimony of Old Thiess. 2020 272 p. 51/2 x 81/2 12 halftones, 3 tables 109 Paper ISBN: 978-0-226-67441-4 $29.00 Your Price: $20.30
Living with the Dead How We Care for the Deceased
Vibeke Maria Viestad and Andreas Viestad Spanning geographies, cultures, and the ages, a moving journey into the physical facts and metaphysical mysteries of how the living care for the dead.
Water Beings
Faith or Fraud
Veronica Strang
Jeremy Patrick
From Nature Worship to the Environmental Crisis Looking to the vast human history of water worship, a crucial study of our broken relationship with all things aquatic—and how we might mend it.
Fortune-Telling, Spirituality, and the Law Exposes the law’s failure to recognize individual spirituality. Law and Society
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2023 280 p. 71/2 x 93/4 126 color plates, 5 halftones 110 Cloth ISBN: 978-1-78914-688-2 $45.00 Your Price: $31.50
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Puritan Spirits in the Abolitionist Imagination
Religious Intolerance, America, and the World
Kenyon Gradert
Redefines our historical understanding of antebellum abolitionists and colonial Puritans. American Beginnings, 1500-1900
A History of Forgetting and Remembering
John Corrigan
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A historical look at the whiplash between America's overseas condemnations of religious intolerance and its domestic silence on the same issue.
2023 248 p. 51/2 x 81/2 112 Cloth ISBN: 978-1-78914-768-1 $25.00 Your Price: $17.50
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Religion & Literature 19
The Abyss or Life Is Simple
Fragments of a World
Courtney Bender, Jeremy Biles, Liane Carlson, Joshua Dubler, Hannah C. Garvey, M. Cooper Harriss, Winnifred Fallers Sullivan, and Erik Thorstensen
Lesley Smith
Reading Knausgaard Writing Religion
Essays on religious textures in Knausgaard’s writings and our time.
William of Auvergne and His Medieval Life The first modern biography of medieval French scholar and bishop William of Auvergne. 2023 312 p. 51/2 x 81/2 2 halftones 116 Cloth ISBN: 978-0-226-82618-9 $45.00 Your Price: $31.50
Textual Magic
Charms and Written Amulets in Medieval England
Katherine Storm Hindley
An expansive consideration of charms as a deeply integrated aspect of the English Middle Ages. 2023 312 p. 6 x 9 18 halftones, 26 tables 117 Cloth ISBN: 978-0-226-82533-5 $45.00 Your Price: $31.50
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Bede and the Theory of Everything Michelle P. Brown
An accessible biography of the venerable Bede, regarded as the father of English history. Medieval Lives Distributed for Reaktion Books 2023 312 p. 51/2 x 81/2 32 color plates, 20 halftones 118 Cloth ISBN: 978-1-78914-788-9 $25.00 Your Price: $17.50
Margery Kempe A Mixed Life
Francis of Assisi
Anthony Bale
His Life, Vision and Companions
A fresh account of the medieval mystic, traveling pilgrim, and pioneering memoirist Margery Kempe.
An accessible introduction to the life of this most-venerated saint.
Michael F. Cusato
Medieval Lives
Medieval Lives
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2022 256 p. 51/2 x 81/2 23 color plates, 6 halftones 119 Cloth ISBN: 978-1-78914-470-3 $22.50 Your Price: $15.75
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RELIGION AND ARCHAEOLOGY FROM CHICAGO HISTORY OF RELIGIONS
Sets the standard for the study of religious phenomena from prehistory to modern times Four issues/year • ISSN: 0018-2710; E-ISSN: 1545-6935
THE JOURNAL OF RELIGION A lively forum for the latest in religious studies
Four issues/year • ISSN: 0022-4189; E-ISSN: 1549-6538
AMERICAN JOURNAL OF ARCHAEOLOGY
Original research on the archaeology of the Mediterranean and related areas, from prehistory through late antiquity Four issues/year • ISSN: 0002-9114; E-ISSN: 1939-828X
MAARAV
A leading journal of Northwest Semitic grammar and epigraphy Two issues/year • ISSN: 0149-5712; E-ISSN: 2836-7103
JOURNAL OF NEAR EASTERN STUDIES
Devoted to the study of all aspects of the civilizations of the ancient and medieval Near East Two issues/year • ISSN: 0022-2968; E-ISSN: 1545-6978
JOURNAL OF CUNEIFORM STUDIES
Features the history and languages of ancient Mesopotamian and Anatolian cultures One issue/year • ISSN: 0022-0256; E-ISSN: 2325-6737
BULLETIN OF ASOR
The interdisciplinary forum for scholars of the ancient Near East Two issues/year • ISSN: 0003-097X; E-ISSN: 2161-8062
NEAR EASTERN ARCHAEOLOGY Brings the ancient Middle East to life
Four issues/year • ISSN: 1094-2076; E-ISSN: 2325-5404
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