Religion 2021-2022

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RELIGION 2021-2022

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HIGHLIGHTS STUDYING LIVED RELIGION

MUSLIMS OF THE HEARTLAND

Contexts and Practices NANCY TATOM AMMERMAN

How Syrian Immigrants Made a Home in the American Midwest

Offers an overarching definition and framework for the study of religion as it manifests itself in everyday life

Uncovers the surprising history of Muslim life in the early American Midwest

$30.00 • 288 Pages Paper • 978-1-4798-0434-4

$30.00 • 256 Pages Paper • 9781479891962

EDWARD E. CURTIS IV

Coming February 2022

THE CHURCH OF THE DEAD

CREOLE RELIGIONS OF THE CARIBBEAN, THIRD EDITION

The Epidemic of 1576 and the Birth of Christianity in the Americas

From Vodou and Santeria to Obeah and Espiritismo: An Introduction

JENNIFER SCHEPER HUGHES

MARGARITE FERNÁNDEZ OLMOS and LIZABETH PARAVISINI-GEBERT

Tells the story of the founding of American Christianity against the backdrop of devastating disease, and of the Indigenous survivors who kept the nascent faith alive

An updated introduction to the religions developed in the Caribbean region

$35.00 • 264 Pages Cloth • 978-1-4798-0255-5 In North American Religions

$30.00 • 384 Pages Paper • 978-1-4798-0348-4 In Religion, Race, and Ethnicity Coming August 2022

FEAR IN OUR HEARTS

RELIGION, RACE, AND COVID-19

What Islamophobia Tells Us about America CALEB IYER ELFENBEIN

Argues that anti-Muslim activity reveals how fear is corroding core American values $28.00 • 248 Pages Cloth • 978-1-4798-0458-0 In North American Religions

Confronting White Supremacy in the Pandemic Edited by STACEY M. FLOYDTHOMAS Examines how the dynamics emerging from the pandemic affect our most vulnerable populations and shape a new religious landscape

$30.00 • Paper 978-1-4798-1022-2 In Religion and Social Transformation Coming February 2022

FAITH AND POWER Latino Religious Politics Since 1945

Edited by FELIPE HINOJOSA, MAGGIE ELMORE and SERGIO M. GONZÁLEZ

Illuminates how religion shapes Latino politics and community building $35.00 • 352 Pages Paper • 978-1-4798-0452-8

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CIVIL RELIGION TODAY Religion and the American Nation in the Twenty-First Century Edited by RHYS H. WILLIAMS, RAYMOND HABERSKI JR. and PHILIP GOFF

Moves the discussion of American civil religion into the twenty-first century $30.00 • 240 Pages Paper • 978-1-4798-0985-1

RACE & RELIGION BLACK FUNDAMENTALISTS

SOUNDTRACK TO A MOVEMENT

Conservative Christianity and Racial Identity in the Segregation Era

African American Islam, Jazz, and Black Internationalism

DANIEL R. BARE

RICHARD BRENT TURNER

Uncovers the lost history of Black Fundamentalists in the early 20th century

Explores how jazz helped propel the rise of African American Islam during the era of global Black liberation

$30.00 • 272 Pages Paper • 978-1-4798-0327-9

LIFT EVERY VOICE AND SWING Black Musicians and Religious Culture in the Jazz Century

$30.00 • 256 Pages Paper • 978-1-4798-0676-8

BLACK BUDDHISTS AND THE BLACK RADICAL TRADITION

VAUGHN A. BOOKER

The Practice of Stillness in the Movement for Liberation

Explores the role of jazz celebrities as representatives of African American religion in the 21st century

Shows how Black Buddhist teachers adapt Buddhist teachings to facilitate liberation

RIMA VESELY-FLAD

$35.00 • 344 Pages Paper • 978-1-4798-9080-4

$30.00 • 336 Pages Paper • 978-1-4798-1049-9 Coming April 2022

NETWORKING THE BLACK CHURCH

THE MYTH OF COLORBLIND CHRISTIANS Evangelicals and White Supremacy in the Civil Rights Era

Digital Black Christians and Hip Hop

ERIKA D. GAULT

Provides a timely portrait of young Black Christians and how digital technology is transforming the Black Church $35.00 • 312 Pages Paper • 978-1-4798-0582-2 In Religion and Social Transformation

JESSE CURTIS

Reveals how Christian colorblindness expanded white evangelicalism and excluded Black evangelicals $32.00 • 320 Pages Paper • 978-1-4798-0938-7

Coming January 2022

SMART SUITS, TATTERED BOOTS Black Ministers Mobilizing the Black Church in the Twenty-First Century

KORIE LITTLE EDWARDS AND MICHELLE OYAKAWA

Explores the complex role that Black religious leaders play—or don’t play—in twenty-firstcentury racial justice efforts $27.00 • 208 pages Paper • 978-1-4798-1253-0 Coming February 2022

RELIGION IS RACED Understanding American Religion in the Twenty-First Century Edited by GRACE YUKICH and PENNY EDGELL

Demonstrates how race and power help to explain American religion in the twenty-first century $35.00 • 344 Pages Paper • 978-1-4798-0874-8

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RELIGION IN HISTORY RELIGION AND US EMPIRE Critical New Histories Edited by TISA WENGER and SYLVESTER A. JOHNSON

Shows how American forms of religion and empire developed in tandem, shaping and reshaping each other over the course of American history $38.00 • 384 Pages Paper • 978-1-4798-1039-0 In North American Religions

OLD CANAAN IN A NEW WORLD Native Americans and the Lost Tribes of Israel ELIZABETH FENTON

Were indigenous Americans descendants of the lost tribes of Israel? $35.00 • 272 Pages Cloth • 9781479891962 In North American Religions

Coming August 2022

WHEN THE MEDIUM WAS THE MISSION

THE COURSE OF GOD’S PROVIDENCE

The Atlantic Telegraph and the Religious Origins of Network Culture

Religion, Health, and the Body in Early America

JENNA SUPP-MONTGOMERIE

PHILIPPA KOCH

An innovative exploration of religion’s influence on communication networks

Shows that a religious understanding of illness and health persisted well into postEnlightenment early America

$35.00 • 312 Pages Paper • 978-1-4798-0149-7 In North American Religions

EVIL DEEDS IN HIGH PLACES Christian America’s Moral Struggle with Watergate DAVID E. SETTJE

Highlights Watergate as a critical turning point in Christian engagement in US politics $49.00 • 288 Pages Cloth • 978-1-4798-0314-9

VEXED WITH DEVILS Manhood and Witchcraft in Old and New England ERIKA GASSER

Stories of witchcraft and demonic possession from early modern England through the last official trials in colonial New England $25.00 • 272 Pages Paper • 978-1-4798-7113-1 In Early American Places GET 30% OFF AND FREE SHIPPING* WITH COUPON REL21-FM

$39.00 • 280 Pages Cloth • 978-1-4798-0668-3 In North American Religions

DIVIDING THE FAITH The Rise of Segregated Churches in the Early American North RICHARD J. BOLES

Uncovers the often overlooked participation of African Americans and Native Americans in early Protestant churches $35.00 • 344 Pages Cloth • 978-1-4798-0318-7 In Early American Places

KABBALAH AND THE FOUNDING OF AMERICA The Early Influence of Jewish Thought in the New World BRIAN OGREN

Explores the influence of Kabbalah in shaping America’s religious identity $35.00 • Cloth 978-1-4798-0798-7

RELIGION AND CONTEMPORARY CULTURE RELIGION IN VOGUE

MUSLIM AMERICAN CITY

Christianity and Fashion in America

Gender and Religion in Metro Detroit

LYNN S. NEAL

ALISA PERKINS

Shows how the fashion industry in the mid- to late twentieth century created a particular way of seeing religion as fashionable

Explores how Muslim Americans test the boundaries of American pluralism

$28.00 • 288 Pages Paper • 978-1-4798-1359-9

$30.00 • 264 Pages Paper • 978-1-4798-9201-3

POWERS OF PILGRIMAGE

CREATING THE CREATION MUSEUM

Religion in a World of Movement

How Fundamentalist Beliefs Come to Life

SIMON COLEMAN

A groundbreaking reframing of religious pilgrimage $35.00 • 344 Pages Paper • 978-1-4798-1194-6

KATHLEEN C. OBERLIN

Investigates how the Christian fundamentalist movement brings Creationism into the mainstream through a Kentucky museum $30.00 • 280 Pages Paper • 978-1-4798-0570-9

THE FORBIDDEN BODY Sex, Horror, and the Religious Imagination DOUGLAS E. COWAN

From creature features to indie horror flicks, find out what happens when sex, horror, and the religious imagination come together $30.00 • Paper 978-1-4798-0311-8

FILM AS RELIGION, 2ND EDITIION Myths, Morals, and Rituals JOHN C. LYDEN

Argues that popular films perform a religious function in our culture $28.00 • 320 Pages Paper • 978-1-4798-1199-1

Coming May 2022

THE DIVIDED MIND OF THE BLACK CHURCH Theology, Piety, and Public Witness

RAPHAEL G. WARNOCK

A revealing look at the identity and mission of the black church by now Senator Warnock $19.95 • 276 Pages Paper • 978-1-4798-0600-3 In Religion, Race, and Ethnicity

LOSS OF INDIGENOUS EDEN AND THE FALL OF SPIRITUALITY BLAIR A. STONECHILD Highlights the commonalities between Indigenous nations, while calling for global recognition and respect of their rights and spirituality.

$27.95 • 344 Pages Paper • 978-0-8897-7699-9 Published by University of Regina Press

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JEWISH STUDIES Honorable Mention, 2021 Saul Viener Book Prize, presented by the American Jewish Historical Society

Winner, 2017 National Jewish Book Award in American Jewish Studies presented by the Jewish Book Council

BEYOND THE SYNAGOGUE

JEWS ON THE FRONTIER

Jewish Nostalgia as Religious Practice

Religion and Mobility in Nineteenth-Century America

RACHEL B. GROSS

Reveals nostalgia as a new way of maintaining Jewish continuity $39.00 • 272 Pages Cloth • 978-1-4798-0338-5 In North American Religions

SHARI RABIN

An engaging history of how Jews forged their own religious culture on the American frontier $25.00 • 208 Pages Paper • 978-1-4798-3583-6 In North American Religions

MY SECOND-FAVORITE COUNTRY

FEASTING AND FASTING

How American Jewish Children Think About Israel

The History and Ethics of Jewish Food

SIVAN ZAKAI

Edited by AARON S. GROSS, JODY MYERS and JORDAN D.

Reveals how young American Jewish children come to develop their views about Israel

How Judaism and food are intertwined

ROSENBLUM

$25.00 • 272 Pages Paper • 978-1-4798-0898-4 Coming June 2022

$3500 • 384 Pages Paper • 9781479891962

POSTCARDS FROM AUSCHWITZ

HEAVENLY SEX

Holocaust Tourism and the Meaning of Remembrance

Sexuality and the Jewish Tradition DR. RUTH K. WESTHEIMER and JONATHAN MARK

The uneasy link between tourism and collective memory at Holocaust museums and memorials

Celebrated sex expert and bestselling author Dr. Ruth Westheimer bridges the gap between sex and religion in this provocative exploration of intimacy in the Jewish faith

$25.00 • 336 Pages Paper • 978-1-4798-0603-4

$20.00 • 200 Pages Paper • 978-1-4798-0552-5

DANIEL P. REYNOLDS

Winner, 2017 Jordan Schnitzer Book Award in Jewish Literature and Linguistics

GOLEM Modern Wars and Their Monsters

LOOKING TO REFRESH YOUR SYLLABUS?

MAYA BARZILAI

A monster tour of the Golem narrative across various cultural and historical landscapes $25.00 • 288 Pages Paper • 978-1-4798-4845-4

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CHRISTIANITY WHITE CHRISTIAN PRIVILEGE

THE MAKING OF AMERICAN CATHOLICISM

The Illusion of Religious Equality in America

Regional Culture and the Catholic Experience

KHYATI Y. JOSHI

MICHAEL J. PFEIFER

Exposes the invisible ways in which white Christian privilege disadvantages racial and religious minorities in America

Traces the development of Catholic cultures in the South, the Midwest, the West, and the Northeast, and their contribution to larger patterns of Catholicism in the United States

$16.95 • 256 Pages Paper • 978-1-4798-1200-4 Now available in paperback

$30.00 • 376 Pages Paper • 978-1-4798-8942-6

ONE FAITH NO LONGER

LIFEBLOOD OF THE PARISH

The Transformation of Christianity in Red and Blue America GEORGE YANCEY and ASHLEE

Men and Catholic Devotion in Williamsburg, Brooklyn

QUOSIGK

A New York City ethnography that explores men’s unique approaches to Catholic devotion

Irreconcilable differences drive the division between progressive and conservative Christians—is there a divorce coming? $30.00 • 304 Pages Paper • 978-1-4798-0868-7

CHRISTIAN ANARCHIST Ammon Hennacy, A Life on the Catholic Left WILLIAM MARLING

A biography of a remarkable figure, whose politics prefigured today’s social justice, ecology, and gender equality movements

ALYSSA MALDONADO-ESTRADA

$32.00 • 320 Pages Paper • 978-1-4798-3049-7 In North American Religions

CATHOLIC ACTIVISM TODAY Individual Transformation and the Struggle for Social Justice MAUREEN K. DAY

Uncovers why Catholic organizations fail to foster civic activism

$45.00 • Cloth 978-1-4798-1007-9 Coming January 2022

$39.00 • 320 Pages Cloth • 978-1-4798-5133-1 In Religion and Social Transformation

OPEN HEARTS, CLOSED DOORS

ADOPTING FOR GOD

Immigration Reform and the Waning of Mainline Protestantism NICHOLAS T. PRUITT

A history of mainline Protestant responses to immigrants and refugees during the twentieth century $45.00 • 296 Pages Cloth • 978-1-4798-0354-5

The Mission to Change America through Transnational Adoption SOOJIN CHUNG

Explores the role played by missionaries in the twentiethcentury transnational adoption movement $30.00 • Paper 978-1-4798-0885-4

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SECULAR STUDIES/WOMEN IN RELIGIONS SERIES THE SECULAR PARADOX

SOCIETY WITHOUT GOD, SECOND EDITION

JOSEPH BLANKHOLM

What the Least Religious Nations Can Tell Us about Contentment

Presents a radically new way of understanding secularism, explaining why being secular can seem so strangely religious

An updated edition showcasing the social health of the least religious nations in the world

On the Religiosity of the Not Religious

$32.00 • 336 Pages Paper • 978-1-4798-0950-9 In Secular Studies

PHIL ZUCKERMAN

$30.00 • 296 Pages Paper • 978-1-4798-7808-6

Coming June 2022

NONE OF THE ABOVE Nonreligious Identity in the US and Canada JOEL THIESSEN and SARAH

RACE IN A GODLESS WORLD Atheism, Race, and Civilization, 1850–1914

WILKINS-LAFLAMME

NATHAN G. ALEXANDER

Compares secular attitudes characterizing “religious nones” in the United States and Canada

A historical analysis of the racial views of atheists in the United States and Britain

$30.00 • 272 Pages Paper • 978-1-4798-6080-7 In Secular Studies

$39.00 • 256 Pages Cloth • 978-1-4798-3500-3 In Secular Studies

THE VARIETIES OF NONRELIGIOUS EXPERIENCE

THEORY OF WOMEN IN RELIGIONS

Atheism in American Culture JEROME P. BAGGETT

A fascinating exploration of the breadth of social, emotional, and spiritual experiences of atheists in America

CATHERINE WESSINGER

An introduction to the study of women in diverse religious cultures $22.00 • 232 Pages Paper • 978-1-4798-9196-2 In Women in Religions

$30.00 • 304 Pages Paper • 978-1-4798-8452-0 In Secular Studies

WOMEN IN BUDDHIST TRADITIONS KARMA LEKSHE TSOMO

WOMEN IN YORUBA RELIGIONS OYÈRÓNKÉ OLÁDÉMỌ

A new history of Buddhism that highlights the insights and experiences of women from diverse communities and traditions around the world

Uncovers the influence of Yoruba culture on women’s religious lives and leadership in religions practiced by Yoruba people

$22.00 • 232 Pages Paper • 978-1-4798-0342-2 In Women in Religions

$22.00 • Paper 978-1-4798-1399-5 In Women in Religions Coming July 2022

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