Religion

Moral Responsibility and the Psychopath

The Value of Others Jim Baxter

Draws on insights from several disciplines to answer questions of widespread interest about how to understand and treat psychopaths.

October 2021 229 x 152 mm c.230pp 978-1-316-51686-7 Hardback £75.00 / US$99.99 X

Plato’s Sun-Like Good

Dialectic in the Republic Sarah Broadie

An original and lucid discussion of the Republic’s philosopherrulers, their dialectic, and their relationship to the form of the good.

July 2021 229 x 152 mm c.240pp 978-1-316-51687-4 Hardback £75.00 / US$99.99 X

Sharing Knowledge

A Functionalist Account of Assertion Christoph Kelp Mona Simion

This book develops a novel account of assertion in terms of its function of sharing knowledge.

Cambridge Studies in Philosophy

November 2021 229 x 152 mm c.220pp 978-1-316-51713-0 Hardback £75.00 / US$99.99 X

Hegel’s Century

Alienation and Recognition in a Time of Revolution Jon Stewart

This book shows how Hegel’s concepts of alienation and recognition constituted the central motifs of philosophy in the 19th century.

October 2021 229 x 152 mm c.395pp 978-1-316-51998-1 Hardback £29.99 / US$39.99 P RELIGION

Greek Religion

Volume 46 Second edition

Jan Bremmer

This second edition volume presents an updated outline of Greek religion in the classical period.

New Surveys in the Classics, 46

May 2021 234 x 156 mm 188pp 978-1-00-904879-8 Paperback £16.99 / US$29.99 X

Israel and Judah Redefined

Migration, Trauma, and Empire in the Sixth Century BCE C. L. Crouch

Uses migration research, trauma studies, and postcolonial theory to explore the Babylonian exiles effect on Israelite and Judahite identity.

Society for Old Testament Study Monographs

August 2021 216 x 140 mm c.350pp 978-1-108-47376-7 Hardback £75.00 / US$99.99 C

Judgement and Sense in Modern French Philosophy

A New Reading of Six Thinkers Henry Somers-Hall

Develops new readings of key figures in the French tradition that together constitute a new reading of the tradition itself.

Modern European Philosophy

November 2021 229 x 152 mm c.270pp 978-1-316-51790-1 Hardback £75.00 / US$99.99 X

Jesus in Context

Making Sense of the Historical Figure David Wenham

This accessible and comprehensive introduction examines the evidence and offers a coherent picture of Jesus of Nazareth in his context.

Cambridge Studies in Religion, Philosophy, and Society

November 2021 229 x 152 mm c.200pp 978-1-108-47626-3 Hardback £69.99 / US$89.99 P

Lone Wolf Race Warriors and White Genocide

Mattias Gardell

This Element discusses the question: what makes a man randomly kill unarmed people, and why do some consider him a hero?

Elements in Religion and Violence

July 2021 178 x 127 mm c.75pp 978-1-108-71113-5 Paperback £15.00 / US$20.00 P

Judaism and Violence

A Historical Analysis with Insights from Social Psychology Robert Eisen

This Element provides an insightful analysis of Judaism and violence, with special attention given to Zionism and the Middle East conflict.

Elements in Religion and Violence

September 2021 178 x 127 mm c.75pp 978-1-108-94067-2 Paperback £15.00 / US$20.00 P

The Axiology of Theism

Klaas J. Kraay

Here’s a provocative question: does it matter whether God exists? This Element systematically explores a range of controversial philosophical responses.

Elements in the Philosophy of Religion

September 2021 229 x 152 mm c.75pp 978-1-108-74227-6 Paperback £15.00 / US$20.00 P

The War on Witchcraft

Andrew Dickson White, George Lincoln Burr, and the Origins of Witchcraft Historiography Jan Machielsen

How did nineteenth-century historians construct the popular understanding of witchcraft as representing the irrational past?

Elements in Magic

July 2021 229 x 152 mm c.75pp 978-1-108-94874-6 Paperback £15.00 / US$20.00 P

Celsus in his World

Philosophy, Polemic and Religion in the Second Century James Carleton Paget Simon Gathercole

This book provides a multidimensional account of the ancient Greek philosopher, Celsus.

July 2021 228 x 152 mm c.350pp 978-1-108-83244-1 Hardback £75.00 / US$99.00 X

Monotheism and Human Nature

Andrew M. Bailey

This Element is an engaging exercise in natural theology and metaphysics that illuminates connections between God’s nature and our own.

Elements in Religion and Monotheism

June 2021 229 x 152 mm c.75pp 978-1-108-96440-1 Paperback £15.00 / US$20.00 P

What Are the Humanities For?

Willem B. Drees

It offers readers bold ideas about how to think with greater humanistic coherence.

April 2021 216 x 140 mm 202pp 978-1-108-83841-2 Hardback £24.99 / US$32.99 G

Inspiration and Institution in Christian History

Volume 57

Charlotte Methuen Alec Ryrie Andrew Spicer

This volume explores the interplay between inspirational movements and institutional structures throughout Christianity’s history.

Studies in Church History

July 2021 228 x 138 mm 398pp 978-1-316-51480-1 Hardback £65.00 / US$105.00 X

This Sacred Life

Humanity’s Place in a Wounded World Norman Wirzba

This Sacred Life redescribes the meaning of this world and the value and purpose of human life within it.

October 2021 229 x 152 mm c.300pp 978-1-316-51564-8 Hardback £64.99 / US$84.99 P

Zionism’s Redemptions

Images of the Past and Visions of the Future in Jewish Nationalism Arieh Saposnik

Zionism combined dialogues with Jewish, Christian, and secular messianisms to create a politics based in redemptive visions of its own.

December 2021 229 x 152 mm c.300pp 978-1-316-51711-6 Hardback c. £80.00 / c. US$105.00 C

Crown, Mitre and People in the Nineteenth Century

The Church of England, Establishment and the State G. R. Evans

Disestablishment remains a controversial subject. Evans shows how Church and State in the nineteenth century led to fractious modern debate.

September 2021 229 x 152 mm c.350pp 978-1-316-51597-6 Hardback £75.00 / US$99.99 X

Purity and Pollution in the Hebrew Bible

From Embodied Experience to Moral Metaphor Yitzhaq Feder

A novel account of pollution in the Hebrew Bible, from its embodied origins, to its metaphorical expression in moral discourse.

November 2021 229 x 152 mm c.350pp 978-1-316-51757-4 Hardback £75.00 / US$99.99 X

Performing Early Christian Literature

Audience Experience and Interpretation of the Gospels Kelly Iverson

Performance creates a unique space for audience experience and influences how traditions, like the Gospels, are received and interpreted.

November 2021 216 x 140 mm c.256pp 978-1-316-51622-5 Hardback £75.00 / US$99.99 X

Pragmatist Truth in the Post-Truth Age

Sincerity, Normativity, and Humanism Sami Pihlström

Engages in a self-critical examination of the pragmatist conception of truth integrating ethics, epistemology, and philosophy of religion.

November 2021 229 x 152 mm c.260pp 978-1-316-51770-3 Hardback £75.00 / US$99.99 X

The Aura of Confucius

Relics and Representations of the Sage at the Kongzhai Shrine in Shanghai Julia K. Murray

This groundbreaking study highlights the importance of images within Confucianism and to a shrine-tomb for Confucius’s buried robe and cap.

December 2021 228 x 152 mm c.350pp 978-1-316-51632-4 Hardback £75.00 / US$99.99 X

Sacred Modes of Being in a Postsecular World

Andrew W. Hass

A powerful new exploration of the sacred, from many distinguished theologians, that speaks to a postsecular context and its challenges.

December 2021 229 x 152 mm c.288pp 978-1-316-51791-8 Hardback £75.00 / US$99.99 X