New Religious Studies Titles from UNC Press

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The Son of God and the Saga of Race in America

Anti-Mormonism and the Making of Religion in Nineteenth-Century America

Catholics, Protestants, and Fourth-Day Spirituality

The Color of Christ

“A Peculiar People”

Edward J. Blum and Paul J. Spencer Fluhman Harvey “[Blum and Harvey] masterfully probe “As Fluhman shows in marvelous detail, Mormonism was the great how a sacred icon can be a tool at scandal of American nineteenthonce of racial oppression and liberation. . . . This book will forever change century religion.”—The New Yorker the way you look at images of Jesus.” 2012 240 pp., 12 illus. —Publishers Weekly Starred Review 978-0-8078-3571-5 2012 352 pp., 19 illus.

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Across God’s Frontiers Catholic Sisters in the American West, 1850-1920 Anne M. Butler “A profound undertaking that demonstrates the powerful nexus between gender, religion, and region.” —Roberto R. Treviño, University of Texas, Arlington 2012 448 pp., 25 illus. 978-0-8078-3565-4 $45.00 cloth | Now $36.00

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The Gospel of Freedom and Power Protestant Missionaries in American Culture after World War II Sarah E. Ruble “A valuable contribution to ongoing conversations about national power, gender, religion, and popular culture.”—Melani McAlister, The George Washington University 2012 232 pp. 978-0-8078-3581-4 $37.50 cloth | Now $30.00

Kristy Nabhan-Warren “Richly textured and very readable. Describes and analyzes a sometimes invisible but important slice of American Christianity.”—Chester Gillis, Georgetown University 2013 368 pp., 12 illus 978-1-4696-0715-3 $69.95 cloth | Now $55.96 978-1-4696-0716-0 $29.95 paper | Now $23.96

Sufi Narratives of Intimacy Ibn ʿArabī, Gender, and Sexuality

The Science of the Soul in Colonial New England

Sa ʿdiyya Shaikh “A revolutionary work of scholarship.” —Vincent J. Cornell, Emory University

Sarah Rivett 2011 Frank S. and Elizabeth D. Brewer Prize, American Society of Church History

Islamic Civilization and Muslim Networks 2012 304 pp., 1 figure 978-0-8078-3533-3 $49.95 cloth | Now $39.96

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Dixie Dharma

“Trac[es] the astonishing ways in which early empiricism and Protestant theology and conversionary practices intersected and diverged.”—Teresa Toulouse, University of Colorado Published for the Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture, Williamsburg, Virginia

Inside a Buddhist Temple in the American South Jeff Wilson “Wilson presents an impressive view of a plural Buddhism finding a place in the midst of the evangelical South.” —Religion in American History

2011 384 pp., 20 illus. 978-0-8078-3524-1 $45.00 cloth | Now $36

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A Harmony of the Spirits

2012 304 pp., 18 illus., 6 tables 978-0-8078-3545-6 $36.95 cloth | Now $29.56

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Into the Pulpit Southern Baptist Women and Power since World War II

Elizabeth H. Flowers “Helps readers to see the utter Most UNC Press books are ubiquity of women’s issues in one also available as E-Books. very important source of conservative evangelical culture.”—Margaret For information about Bendroth, Congregational Christian Historical Society examination copies, visit

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The Cursillo Movement in America

Translation and the Language of Community in Early Pennsylvania Patrick M. Erben “Restore[s] our understanding of the utopian culture shared by the linguistically diverse believers.’” —Mark Peterson, University of California, Berkeley Published for the Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture, Williamsburg, Virginia 2012 352 pp., 18 illus. 978-0-8078-3557-9 $45.00 cloth | Now $36

2012 288 pp. 978-0-8078-3534-0 $47.50 cloth | Now $38.00

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