University of Chicago Press 2023 Religious Studies Catalog

RELIGIOUS STUDIES

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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.

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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

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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

2022 184 p. 6 x 9 9 halftones 115 Paper ISBN: 978-0-226-82134-4 $25.00 Your Price: $17.50

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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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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