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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
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Into the Pulpit Southern Baptist Women and Power since World War II
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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
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How to Read the Qur’an A New Guide, with Select Translations Carl W. Ernst “Illuminating and well-written. . . . Demonstrat[es] that the Qur’an can actually be read, rather than just quoted, dissected, summarized, ridiculed, glorified or studied for its obvious importance in later Islam.” —Times Literary Supplement 2011 288 pp., 2 charts, 8 illus. 978-0-8078-3516-6 $30.00 cloth | Now $24.00
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No Sympathy for the Devil Gender, Sainthood, and Everyday Practice in South Asian Shiʿism
Karen G. Ruffle “Ruffle provides valuable, thorough, and original insight into Shiʿa devotional literature and ritual practice.”—David Pinault, Santa Clara University Islamic Civilization and Muslim Networks
Christian Pop Music and the Transformation of American Evangelicalism
The Furnace of Affliction Prisons and Religion in Antebellum America Jennifer Graber “This provocative, important, and thoughtful book illuminates the history of the intersection of religious beliefs and practices with the larger structure of the U.S. penitentiary.” —Michael Meranze, University of California, Los Angeles
David W. Stowe “Stowe follows Christian pop as it evolves from sound-tracking the left-leaning countercultural Jesus movement, with its saucer-eyed teen burnouts baptized in the surf of ’60s Corona del Mar, California, to mobilizing Jerry Falwell’s Moral Majority and the Reagan Revolution.”—Bookforum
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Native Americans, Christianity, and the Reshaping of the American Religious Landscape
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Edited by Joel W. Martin and Mark A. Nicholas
Foreword by Michelene Pesantubbee “A wonderful group of scholars . . . the scope and depth of the essays are excellent.”—Jace Weaver, University of Georgia 2010 344 pp., 2 maps 978-0-8078-3406-0 $78.95 cloth | Now $63.16 978-0-8078-7145-4 $28.95 paper | Now $23.16
A History of Dominance and Diversity
Globalization and Identity in a Muslim Community
Edited by Catherine A. Brekus and W. Clark Gilpin “Ideal for undergraduate and graduate classes. . . . Illuminates corners of American Christianities that have been missing from mainstream scholarship.”—Diane Winston, University of Southern California
Jonah Steinberg “[A] pioneering study.”—Times Literary Supplement Islamic Civilization and Muslim Networks 2011 264 pp., 6 illus., 1 map 978-0-8078-3407-7 $59.95 cloth | Now $47.96 978-0-8078-7165-2 $24.95 paper | Now $19.96
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Almighty God Created the Races
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Christianity, Interracial Marriage, and American Law
With a New Foreword by the Author “Rescues the New England Puritans from the dark myths of repression. . . . Reveals our original revolutionaries in search of equity, justice, and community.”—Alan Taylor, author of The Civil War of 1812 2012 288 pp. 978-0-8078-7311-3 $24.95 paper | Now $19.96
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