BOOKS RECEIVED, 9/1/2018 to 9/15/2018
BOOKS RECEIVED, 9/1/2018 to 9/15/2018
Religion in North America
The History of the Negro Church. By Carter G. Woodson (University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Library, 9/1/18).
Escaped Nuns: True Womanhood and the Campaign Against Convents in Antebellum America. By Cassandra L. Yacovazzi (Oxford University Press, Incorporated, 9/21/18).
Buddhism
Object Relations, Buddhism, and Relationality in Womanist Practical Theology. By Pamela Ayo Yetunde (Palgrave Macmillan, 7/29/18).
Ethics without Self, Dharma without Atman: Western and Buddhist Philosophical Traditions in Dialogue (Sophia Studies in Cross-cultural Philosophy of Traditions and Cultures). By Gordon F. Davis (Palgrave Macmillian, 7/19/18).
Buddhist Law in Burma: A History of Dhammasattha Texts and Jurisprudence, 1250–1850. By D. Christian Lammerts (University of Hawaii Press, 8/31/18).
Christianity (mostly), history of
St. Cyprian of Carthage and the College of Bishops. By Benjamin Safranski (Lexington Books/Fortress Academic, 9/15/18).
Mystical Doctrines of Deification: Case Studies in the Christian Tradition. By Rob Faesen and John Arblaster (eds) (Routledge, 6/28/18).
Spirituality and Reform: Christianity in the West, ca. 1000–1800. By Calvin Lane (Lexington Books/Fortress Academic, 9/15/18).
The Birth of Modern Belief: Faith and Judgment from the Middle Ages to the Enlightenment. By Ethan H. Shagan (Princeton University Press, 12/11/18).
Cistercian Fathers and Forefathers: Essays and Conferences. By Thomas Merton; Patrick F. O'Connell (ed) (New City Press, 8/15/18).
Staging Contemplation: Participatory Theology in Middle English Prose, Verse, and Drama. By Eleanor Johnson (University of Chicago Press, 8/17/18).
Women Pioneers in Continental European Methodism, 1869-1914 (Routledge Methodist Studies Series). By Paul W. Chilcote and Ulrike Schuler (eds) (Routledge, 8/30/18).
Peasant Violence and Anti-Semitism in Early Twentieth-Century Eastern Europe. By Irina Marin (Palgrave Macmillan, 7/12/18).
Christianity, contemporary
Aspects of Pentecostal Christianity in Zimbabwe. By Lovemore Togarasei (ed) (Palgrave Macmillian, 7/14/18).
Christianity, theology
Christ Existing As Community: Bonhoeffer's Ecclesiology. By Michael Mawson (Oxford University Press, Incorporated, 9/12/18).
Prayer: A Guide for the Perplexed (Guides for the Perplexed). By Ashley Cocksworth (Bloomsbury Academic & Professional, 7/12/18).
Christos Yannaras: Philosophy, Theology, Culture. By Andreas Andreopoulos and Demetrios Harper (eds) (Routledge, 8/24/18).
Augustine and Wittgenstein (Augustine in Conversation: Tradition and Innovation). By John Doody, Alexander B. Eodice and Kim Paffenboth (eds) (Lexington Books/Fortress Academic, 9/15/18).
On the Resurrection of the Dead: A New Metaphysics of Afterlife for Christian Thought (Routledge New Critical Thinking in Religion, Theology and Biblical Studies). By James T. Turner (Routledge, 9/18/18).
Christianity, biblical interpretation and reception
The Emancipation of Biblical Philology in the Dutch Republic, 1590-1670. By Dirk van Miert (Oxford University Press, Incorporated, 9/18/18).
Spinoza and Biblical Philology in the Dutch Republic, 1660-1710. By Jetze Touber (Oxford University Press, Incorporated, 9/18/18).
Memory in a Time of Prose: Studies in Epistemology, Hebrew Scribalism, and the Biblical Past. By Daniel Pioske (Oxford University Press, Incorporated, 9/12/18).
The Letter and Spirit of Biblical Interpretation: From the Early Church to Modern Practice. By Keith D. Stanglin (Baker Academic, 8/21/18).
Prophetic Rivalry, Gender, and Economics: A Study in Revelation and Sibylline Oracles 4–5 (Wissenschaftliche Untersuchungen Zum Neuen Testament 2 Reihe). By Olivia Stewart Lester (Mohr Siebeck GmbH & Company KG, 7/1/18).
Reading Mark's Christology under Caesar: Jesus the Messiah and Roman Imperial Ideology. By Adam Winn (InterVarsity Press, 9/18/18).
The Oxford Handbook of Johannine Studies. By Judith M. Lieu (Editor),Martinus C. de Boer (Editor) (Oxford University Press, Incorporated, 9/26/18).
Christianity, ethics and social justice
Luther, Bonhoeffer, and Public Ethics: Re-Forming the Church of the Future. By Michael P. DeJonge and Clifford J. Green (eds) (Lexington Books/Fortress Academic, 9/15/18).
Moral Leadership for a Divided Age: Fourteen People Who Dared to Change Our World. By David P. Gushee and Colin Holtz (Brazos Press, 10/16/18).
Always with Us? What Jesus Really Said about the Poor (Prophetic Christianity Series (PC)). By Liz Theoharis (Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing, 4/21/17).
East Asian Religions, excluding Buddhism-only books
The Sea and the Sacred in Japan: Aspects of Maritime Religion (Bloomsbury Shinto Studies). By Fabio Rambelli (Bloomsbury Publishing Plc, 7/12/18).
Philosophers of the Warring States: A Sourcebook of Chinese Philosophy. By Kurtis Hagen and Steve Coutinho (eds) (Broadview Press, 10/5/18).
Hinduism
Modern Hinduism in Text and Context. By Lavanya Vemsani (ed) (Bloomsbury Academic & Professional, 7/26/18).
Islam
Archive of the Umarian Tijanniyya. By Christopher Wise (Sahel Nomad Books, 4/19/2017).
A History of Conversion to Islam in the United States, Volume 1: White American Muslims before 1975 (Muslim Minorities). By Patrick D. Bowen (Brill, 8/27/2015).
Beyond Accommodation: Everyday Narratives of Muslim Canadians. By Jennifer Selby, Amélie Barras and Lori G. Beaman (University of British Columbia Press, 9/1/18).
Salvation and Hell in Classical Islamic Thought: Can Allah Save Us All?. By Marco Demichelis (Bloomsbury Academic & Professional, 7/12/18).
How to Read Islamic Calligraphy. By Maryam D. Ekhtiar (Yale University Press, 9/3/18).
Christian Martyrs under Islam: Religious Violence and the Making of the Muslim World. By Christian C. Sahner (Princeton University Press, 8/14/18).
Islam and Muslims in the West: Major Issues and Debate (New Directions in Islam). By Adis Duderjia and Halim Rane (Palgrave Macmillan, 7/28/18).
Judaism
JewAsian: Race, Religion, and Identity for America's Newest Jews (Studies of Jews in Society Series). By Helen Kiyong Kim and Noah Samuel Leavitt (University of Nebraska Press, 7/1/16).
Turning Points in Jewish History. By Marc J. Rosenstein (The Jewish Publication Society, 7/1/18).
The Commentators' Bible: Genesis: The Rubin JPS Miqra'ot Gedolot. By Michael Carasik (Editor) (The Jewish Publication Society, 8/15/18).
Jewish-Christianity and the History of Judaism (Texts and Studies in Ancient Judaism). By Annette Yoshiko Reed (Mohr Siebeck GmbH & Company KG, 7/1/18).
Music and Religious Change among Progressive Jews in London: Being Liberal and Doing Traditional. By Ruth Illman (Lexington Books/Fortress Academic, 9/15/18).
Halakhah: The Rabbinic Idea of Law (Library of Jewish Ideas). By Chaim N. Saiman (Princeton University Press, 9/4/18).
Italian Jewish Networks from the Seventeenth to the Twentieth Century: Bridging Europe and the Mediterranean. By Francesca Bregoli, Carlotta Ferrara degli Uberti, and Guri Schwarz (eds) (Palgrave Macmillan, 7/27/18).
South Asian religions, excluding Hinduism-only or Islam-only books
Religious Journeys in India: Pilgrims, Tourists, and Travelers. By Andrea Marion Pinkney and John Whalen-Bridge (eds) (State University of New York Press, 9/1/18).
Critical Theory, Methods/Theories in Religious Studies
Trauma and Transcendence: Suffering and the Limits of Theory. By Eric Boynton and Peter Capretto (eds) (Fordham University Press, 8/7/18).
Philosophy of Religion
Pragmatic Inquiry and Religious Communities: Charles Pierce, Signs, and Inhabited Experiments. By Brandon Daniel-Hughes (Palgrave Macmillan, 7/25/18).
Comparative Religions, Anthropology of Religions
Fairies, Demons, and Nature Spirits: 'Small Gods' at the Margins of Christendom. By Michael Ostling (Palgrave Macmillan, 11/23/2017).
Enjoying Religion: Pleasure and Fun in Established and New Religious Movements. By Frans Jespers, Karin van Nieuwkerk and Paul van der Velde (eds) (Lexington Books/Fortress Academic, 9/15/18).
Postsecular Feminisms: Religion and Gender in Transnational Context. By Nandini Deo (Bloomsbury Academic & Professional, 7/26/18).
Religion and Technology into the Future: From Adam to Tomorrow's Eve (Studies in Body and Religion). By Sam Gill (Lexington Books, 9/15/18).
Digital Spirits in Religion and Media: Possession and Performance (Routledge Research in Religion, Media and Culture). By Alvin Eng Hui Lim (Routledge, 8/21/18).
Trauma and Lived Religion: Transcending the Ordinary (Palgrave Studies in Lived Religion and Societal Challenges). By R. Raud Ganzevoort and Srdjan Sremac (eds) (Palgrave Macmillan, 8/12/18).
Food, Festival and Religion: Materiality and Place in Italy (Bloomsbury Studies in Material Religion). By Francesca Ciancimino Howell (Bloomsbury Academic, 8/9/18).
Ritual, Performance and the Senses. By Michael Bull and Jon P. Mitchell (eds) (Bloomsbury Publishing Plc, 8/25/16).
Religion, Art, & Music
Foucault, Art, and Radical Theology: The Mystery of Things. By Petra Carlsson Redell (Routledge, 8/6/18).
The Art of Anatheism. By Richard Kearney and Matthew Clemente (eds) (Rowman & Littlefield International, 12/12/17).
Religion, Ethics, & Politics
Xenosophia and Religion: Biographical and Statistical Paths for a Culture of Welcome. By Heinz Streib and Constantin Klein (eds) (Palgrave Macmillan, 7/21/18).
Religion & Psychology
The Demons of William James: Religious Pragmatism Explores Unusual Mental States. By Tadd Ruetenik (Palgrave Macmillan, 7/16/18).
Religion & Science
Can a Scientist Believe in Miracles?: An MIT Professor Answers Questions on God and Science (Veritas). By Ian Hutchinson (InterVarsity Press, 9/11/18).
