Religion 2010

press.princeton.edu Table of Contents 1 General Interest 16 Princeton Readings in 5 American Religion Religion 8 Jews, Christians and Muslims 17 Buddhisms from the Ancient to the 17 Philosophy and Religion Modern World 18 Kierkegaard 9 Princeton Studies in Muslim 20 Of Related Interest Politics 21 Index 10 Jewish Studies 13 Comparative Religion and History of Religion

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New Forthcoming A Very Brief History of Pen of Iron Eternity American Prose and the King James Carlos Eire Bible Robert Alter “Strikingly erudite and profound yet “In this subtle and impressive work, Robert Alter accessible, this book shows us in great, attentive detail what style is, will appeal to anyone demonstrating the work of language on every who takes pleasure page and revealing the extraordinary things that in being enlightened American writers have done with the language and entertained at of the King James Bible.” the same time.” —Michael Wood, Princeton University —Peter Iver Kauf- The simple yet grand language of the King James man, University of Bible has pervaded American culture from the Richmond beginning—and its powerful eloquence contin- In A Very Brief History ues to be felt even today. In this book, acclaimed of Eternity, Carlos Eire has written a brilliant short biblical translator and literary critic Robert history of eternity in Western culture. Tracing the Alter traces some of the fascinating ways that idea from ancient times to the present, Eire ex- American novelists—from Melville, Hemingway, amines the rise and fall of five different concep- and Faulkner to Bellow, Marilynne Robinson, tions of eternity, exploring how they developed and Cormac McCarthy—have drawn on the rich and how they have helped shape individual and stylistic resources of the canonical English Bible collective self-understanding. to fashion their own strongly resonant styles and distinctive visions of reality. Carlos Eire is the Riggs Professor of History and Religious Studies at Yale University. Robert Alter has taught Hebrew and comparative literature at the University of California, Berkeley, 2009. 296 pages. 16 halftones. 2 line illus. 2 tables. Cl: 978-0-691-13357-7 $24.95 | £16.95 since 1967.

April 2010. 208 pages. Cl: 978-0-691-12881-8 $19.95 | £13.95

Cover photo: Fragment of Matthew, P.Monts.Roca 1. Photo courtesy of Abadia de Montserrat.©Abadia de Montserrat New Forthcoming Saving God A Short History of the Jews Religion after Idolatry Michael Brenner Mark Johnston Translated by Jeremiah Riemer “This book is a “Brenner is a proven author with a broad brilliantly conceived competence in Jewish history, which makes him contribution to one of the few Jewish historians able to handle natural theology.” a volume of such large scope. His book has a —Jeffrey Stout, novel approach that sets it apart from other one- author of Democracy volume histories. It is intended as a first book in and Tradition and Jewish history for readers with little knowledge Ethics after Babel of the subject. The style is extraordinarily read- In this book, Mark able.” Johnston argues —Michael A. Meyer, author of Judaism within that God needs to Modernity be saved not only Michael Brenner is professor of Jewish history from the distortions of the “undergraduate and culture at the University of Munich. atheists” (Richard Dawkins, Christopher Hitchens, and Sam Harris) but, more importantly, from June 2010. 432 pages. 90 color illus. Cl: 978-0-691-14351-4 $27.95 | £19.95 the idolatrous tendencies of religion itself. Each monotheistic religion has its characteristic ways of domesticating True Divinity, of taming God’s Forthcoming demands so that they do not radically threaten The Rebbe our self-love and false righteousness. Turning The Life and Afterlife of Menachem the monotheistic critique of idolatry on the Mendel Schneerson monotheisms themselves, Johnston shows that much in these traditions must be condemned as Samuel Heilman & false and spiritually debilitating. Menachem Friedman

Mark Johnston is the Walter Cerf Professor of “There are few subjects in the study of contem- Philosophy at Princeton University. porary Judaism of greater interest or relevance than the messianic legacy of the Rebbe. This 2009. 216 pages. 1 halftone. Cl: 978-0-691-14394-1 $24.95 | £16.95 book will become the definitive study on the subject.” Also by Mark Johnston —David N. Myers, author of Resisting History: Forthcoming Historicism and Its Discontents in German-Jewish Surviving Death Thought Samuel Heilman is Distinguished Professor of So- “This is a major and highly original work of ciology at Queens College, City University of New philosophy that culminates in a fascinating York. Menachem Friedman is professor emeritus argument that, without making any supernatural of sociology at Bar-Ilan University in Israel. assumptions, one can literally survive bodily death. The book is elegantly written and the May 2010. 280 pages. Cl: 978-0-691-13888-6 $26.95 | £18.95 promise of a breathtaking conclusion pulls the reader along.” —Alex Byrne, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

February 2010. 352 pages. 3 color illus. 2 line illus. Cl: 978-0-691-13012-5 $35.00 | £24.95 press.princeton.edu General Interest • 1 Forthcoming New Taming the Gods A Necessary Engagement Religion and Democracy on Three Reinventing America’s Relations with Continents the Muslim World Ian Buruma Emile Nakhleh

“Ian Buruma broaches the biggest themes in “Nakhleh . . . argue[s] contemporary world politics in this book: what that the majority of are the relations, actual and possible, between Muslims strongly religion and democracy in a globalized world? oppose terrorism In setting out his thoughts, Buruma marshals and want good pungent quotation after pungent quotation governance and a from Spinoza, Tocqueville, and Voltaire—not functional relation- to mention Jefferson, Locke, and Hume; classic ship with the U.S.” Chinese and Japanese texts; and a wide range of —Publishers Weekly modern commentators, politicians, activists, and Emile Nakhleh agitators.” was director of —Andrew Barshay, University of California, the Political Islam Berkeley Strategic Analysis Program in the Directorate of Ian Buruma is the Henry R. Luce Professor of Intelligence at the Central Intelligence Agency. Democracy, Human Rights & Journalism at Bard Princeton Studies in Muslim Politics College. 2009. 184 pages. Cl: 978-0-691-13525-0 $26.95 | £18.95 March 2010. 176 pages. Cl: 978-0-691-13489-5 $24.95 | £16.95 New Paperback With a new introduction by David Gordon New Paperback White Souled Out Yoga Reclaiming Faith and Politics after Immortality and Freedom the Religious Right Mircea Eliade E. J. Dionne Jr. Translated from the French by Willard R. Trask “[A] deeply personal and searchingly “[Yoga: Immortality intelligent reflection and Freedom] states on the noble history, with clarity and recent travails, and precision what the likely prospects of beliefs and practices American liberalism.” of yoga are, and how —R. Scott Appleby, they originated from New York Times Book the primeval Indic Review religions.” —New Yorker E. J. Dionne Jr. is a senior fellow at the Mircea Eliade Brookings Institution and a professor at George- (1907–1986) was for town University. many years the Sewell L. Avery Distinguished

2009. 254 pages. Service Professor of the History of Religion at the Pa: 978-0-691-14329-3 $17.95 | £12.50 University of Chicago. Cl: 978-0-691-13458-1 $24.95 | £16.95 Princeton Classic Editions 2009. 568 pages. Pa: 978-0-691-14203-6 $24.95 Not for sale in the Commonwealth (except Canada) 2 • General Interest New Forthcoming Paperback Questioning the Veil With a new foreword by Richard Jaffe Open Letters to Muslim Women Zen and Japanese Culture Marnia Lazreg Daisetz T. Suzuki

“A wonderful read: well-written, well-construct- Praise for Princeton’s ed, well-argued, and highly significant. Lazreg previous editions: addresses a controversial topic and takes intel- “As one turns the lectual risks. This little gem of a book is brilliant.” pages of this delight- —Sondra Hale, University of California, Los ful book, one seems Angeles to catch intimations Marnia Lazreg is professor of sociology at the of how and why Graduate Center and Hunter College, City Univer- certain aspects of sity of New York. the ‘spirit of Zen’ are

2009. 168 pages. making themselves Cl: 978-0-691-13818-3 $22.95 | £15.95 felt in America today.” Winner of the 2007 Award for Excellence in the —New York Times Study of Religion, Analytical-Descriptive Studies, American Academy of Religion Daisetz T. Suzuki (1870–1966) was Japan’s fore- Evil Incarnate most authority on Zen Buddhism and the author Rumors of Demonic Conspiracy and Satanic of over one hundred books on the subject. Abuse in History Bollingen Series, Mythos David Frankfurter June 2010. 608 pages. Pa: 978-0-691-14462-7 $24.95 | £16.95 “Mr. Frankfurter . . . shows just how similar stories about evil have been.” New —Edward Rothstein, New York Times

2008. 304 pages. 10 halftones. Lost in the Sacred Pa: 978-0-691-13629-5 $19.95 | £13.95 Why the Muslim World Stood Still Cl: 978-0-691-11350-0 $29.95 | £20.95 Dan Diner Winner of the 2009 Award of Merit for History/ Translated by Steven Rendall Biography, Christianity Today “Dan Diner’s breadth of knowledge, capacity God and Race in American for clear and broad interpretation, and stylistic Politics sovereignty will no doubt make this a classic in A Short History the field.” Mark A. Noll —Anson Rabinbach, Princeton University

2008. 224 pages. 3 line illus. 8 tables. Dan Diner is professor of modern history at the Cl: 978-0-691-12536-7 $22.95 | £15.95 Hebrew University of Jerusalem and director of the Simon Dubnow Institute for Jewish History Honorable Mention, 2008 PROSE Award for and Culture at the University of Leipzig. Excellence in Media and Cultural Studies, Association of American Publishers 2008. 226 pages. Cl: 978-0-691-12911-2 $29.95 | £20.95 The Art of the Public Grovel Sexual Sin and Public Confession in America Susan Wise Bauer The Faith of Scientists In Their Own Words 2008. 352 pages. 10 halftones. Cl: 978-0-691-13810-7 $26.95 | £18.95 Edited by Nancy K. Frankenberry

2008. 544 pages. Cl: 978-0-691-13487-1 $29.95 | £20.95 press.princeton.edu General Interest • 3 Forthcoming Paperback Also by Robert Wuthnow After the Baby Boomers American Mythos How Twenty- and Thirty-Somethings Why Our Best Efforts to Be a Better Nation Are Shaping the Future of American Fall Short Religion “Wuthnow provides an important reminder that amid the din of the culture wars, our storytelling Robert Wuthnow matters; and that America is a story best told from the bottom up.” “[This book pro- —Robert K. Vischer, Commonweal vides] a challenge 2008. 304 pages. to think more Pa: 978-0-691-13855-8 $18.95 | £12.95 broadly about the future of the Winner of the 2007 Mirra Komarovsky Award, church, assisted Eastern Sociological Society by a leading soci- Finalist, 2006 Award for Excellence in the Study of ologist’s analysis of Religion, Analytical-Descriptive Studies, American Academy of Religion current trends.” Finalist, 2006 Christianity Today Book Award, —Brian D. McLaren, Christianity and Culture Category Christian Century America and the Challenges of Robert Wuthnow is Religious Diversity the Gerhard R. Andlinger ’52 Professor of Sociol- 2007. 416 pages. 13 tables. ogy and director of the Center for the Study of Pa: 978-0-691-13411-6 $22.95 | £15.95 Religion at Princeton University. Cl: 978-0-691-11976-2 $52.00 | £35.95

March 2010. 320 pages. 68 line illus. 4 tables. Pa: 978-0-691-14614-0 $24.95 | £16.95 Cl: 978-0-691-12765-1 $32.95 | £22.95 Saving America? Faith-Based Services and the Future of Civil Society

2006. 376 pages. 64 tables. Pa: 978-0-691-12628-9 $26.95 | £18.95

The Aryan Jesus Winner of the 1998 Louisville Grawemeyer Award in Christian Theologians and the Bible Religion, University of Louisville and the Louisville in Nazi Germany Presbyterian Theological Seminary Co-winner of the 1998 Towson University Prize for Susannah Heschel Literature “Susannah Heschel’s The Aryan Jesus is a brilliant With a new preface by the author and erudite investigation of the convergence between major trends in German Protestantism and God’s Long Summer Nazi racial anti-Semitism.” Stories of Faith and Civil Rights —Saul Friedlander, University of California, Los Charles Marsh Angeles “A significant contribution to our understanding of 2008. 360 pages. 31 halftones. those men and women who fought those terrible Cl: 978-0-691-12531-2 $29.95 | £20.95 wars in what seems so long ago but was, in fact, only yesterday.” Russian Orthodoxy Resurgent —Jonathan Yardley, Washington Post Book World Faith and Power in the New Russia 2008. 312 pages. 16 halftones. John Garrard & Carol Garrard Pa: 978-0-691-13067-5 $22.95 | £15.95 “In this rewarding book, the Garrards humanize and deliver with great learning the epic story of the revival of the Russian Orthodox Church.” —Richard Stites, Georgetown University

2008. 352 pages. 24 halftones. Cl: 978-0-691-12573-2 $29.95 | £20.95 4 • General Interest New New Paperback The Democratic Virtues of One of Choice’s Outstanding Academic Titles for 2006 the Christian Right Religion and the Jon A. Shields Constitution, Volume I “Shields shows that Free Exercise and Fairness antiabortion activ- Kent Greenawalt ists—far more than their pro-choice “Greenawalt is a masterful guide to the range counterparts—bend of issues and varied sources concerning free over backwards to exercise.” engage respectfully —L. Joseph Hebert, Law and Politics Book with opponents and Review promote high stan- dards of democratic Kent Greenawalt is University Professor at discourse. Liberal Columbia University. academics will resist 2009. 480 pages. his thesis but it will Pa: 978-0-691-14113-8 $27.95 | £19.95 Cl: 978-0-691-12582-4 $45.00 | £30.95 stand up to rigorous scrutiny.” —Paul J. Quirk, University of British Columbia Also by Kent Greenawalt Jon A. Shields is assistant professor of govern- New Paperback ment at Claremont McKenna College. Religion and the 2009. 216 pages. 2 line illus. 19 tables. Cl: 978-0-691-13740-7 $29.95 | £20.95 Constitution, Volume 2 Establishment and Fairness New “This is a superb overview of a broad range Prison Religion of First Amendment issues from a powerful Faith-Based Reform and the analytic mind with a profound knowledge of Constitution the field.” Winnifred Fallers Sullivan —Andrew Koppelman, Northwestern University

2009. 568 pages. “In this brilliant book, Pa: 978-0-691-14114-5 $27.95 | £19.95 Winnifred Fallers Sullivan mines her Cl: 978-0-691-12583-1 $45.00 | £30.95 experience as an Does God Belong in Public expert witness in the Schools? extraordinary case of 2007. 272 pages. the ‘God Pod,’ a sec- Pa: 978-0-691-13065-1 $22.95 | £15.95 tion of an Iowa state Cl: 978-0-691-12111-6 $58.00 | £39.95 prison administered by a faith-based orga- nization that equated crime with sin.” —Sarah Barringer Also by Winnifred Fallers Sullivan Gordon, University of Pennsylvania Law School The Impossibility of Religious Winnifred Fallers Sullivan is associate professor Freedom of law and director of the Law and Religion Program at the University of Buffalo Law School, 2007. 321 pages. 20 halftones. Pa: 978-0-691-13058-3 $23.95 | £16.95 State University of New York.

2009. 320 pages. Cl: 978-0-691-13359-1 $35.00 | £24.95 press.princeton.edu American Religion • 5 New Forthcoming The Religious Left and Heavenly Merchandize Church-State Relations Ministers, Merchants, and the Market Steven H. Shiffrin in Puritan New England Mark Valeri “Building on the recent invigoration “Heavenly Merchandize treats the interconnected of progressive reli- transformations of theology and the market in gion, Shiffrin’s crisp New England from earliest settlement in the and tightly-argued 1620s to the mid-eighteenth century. The bril- call for a renewed liance of Valeri’s presentation is that he grounds liberal support for it in the biographies and extensive testimonies religious freedom in of Boston merchants. In thoroughness, depth, law and politics is a scope, and significance, I rank this among a very welcome addition elite group of truly seminal books.” to the growing —Mark A. Noll, University of Notre Dame scholarship on Mark Valeri is the Ernest Trice Thompson Profes- the progressive sor of Church History at the Union Theological resurgence.” Seminary and Presbyterian School of Christian —Sarah Barringer Gordon, University of Penn- Education in Virginia. sylvania June 2010. 360 pages. 16 halftones. Steven H. Shiffrin is the Charles Frank Reavis Sr. Cl: 978-0-691-14359-0 $35.00 | £24.95 Professor of Law at Cornell University.

2009. 256 pages. American Christians and Islam Cl: 978-0-691-14144-2 $35.00 | £24.95 Evangelical Culture and Muslims from the Colonial Period to the Age of Terrorism Forthcoming Thomas S. Kidd “This concise and well- Faith in the Fight organized study offers Religion and the American Soldier in readers an excellent the Great War summary of American popular attitudes toward Jonathan H. Ebel Islam from the eigh- teenth century onward.” “Employing a wide variety of sources, Jonathan —Walter Russell Mead, Ebel reconstructs the religious meaning of World Foreign Affairs War I for American soldiers and civilians, and his 2008. 224 pages. 10 halftones. findings are highly revisionary. The conventional Cl: 978-0-691-13349-2 wisdom has been that the Civil War was the last $29.95 | £20.95 ‘romantic’ war and that cynicism and disillusion- ment have ruled ever since. Yet when Ebel actu- ally looks at the evidence, a very different picture emerges—one of deep-seated faith and an The Founders on Religion idealistic belief in America as a Christian nation.” A Book of Quotations —Harry S. Stout, Yale University Edited and introduced by Jonathan H. Ebel is assistant professor of religion James H. Hutson at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign. 2007. 288 pages. Pa: 978-0-691-13383-6 $16.95 | £11.95 May 2010. 248 pages. 8 line illus. Cl: 978-0-691-13992-0 $35.00 | £24.95

6 • American Religion Forthcoming Paperback Finalist, 2007 Berkshire Conference First Book Prize, Berkshire Conference of Women Historians Religion in American Politics Finalist, 2008 Best First Book in the History of A Short History Religions, American Academy of Religion Frank Lambert Culture and Redemption Religion, the Secular, and American Literature “Lambert’s new book Tracy Fessenden . . . gives a history of the intertwining of “Culture and Redemption is a wonderfully refreshing book about anomalies of power among America’s evangelical faith and religions and cultures.” political engagement —Jon Butler, Yale University in America that 2007. 352 pages. 6 line illus. displays no obvious Cl: 978-0-691-04963-2 $37.50 | £26.95 agenda other than to illuminate.” —Publishers Weekly One of Choice’s Outstanding Academic Titles for 2005 Frank Lambert is Winner of the 2005 Award for Excellence in the professor of history at Purdue University. Study of Religion, Constructive-Reflective Studies, February 2010. 304 pages. American Academy of Religion Pa: 978-0-691-14613-3 $18.95 | £12.95 Cl: 978-0-691-12833-7 $24.95 | £16.95 Between Heaven and Earth Also by Frank Lambert The Religious Worlds People Make and the One of Choice’s Outstanding Academic Titles for 2003 Scholars Who Study Them Robert A. Orsi The Founding Fathers and the 2006. 264 pages. 15 halftones. Place of Religion in America Pa: 978-0-691-12776-7 $22.95 | £15.95

2006. 344 pages. Pa: 978-0-691-12602-9 $26.95 | £18.95 Cl: 978-0-691-08829-7 $50.00 | £34.95 Winner of the 2006 Illinois State Historical Society Publications Award Passionately Human, Getting Saved in America No Less Divine Taiwanese Immigration and Religious Religion and Culture in Black Chicago, 1915– Experience 1952 Carolyn Chen Wallace D. Best “This book explores the role of religion in helping 2007. 272 pages. 12 halftones. 3 line illus. 3 tables. Taiwanese immigrants adapt to American society Pa: 978-0-691-13375-1 $27.95 | £19.95 and develop a new, American identity.” —Richard Madsen, University of California, San Diego Co-winner of the 2007 Oliver Cromwell Cox Award, 2008. 248 pages. Racial and Ethnic Minorities Section, American Cl: 978-0-691-11962-5 $38.50 | £26.95 Sociological Association One of Choice’s Outstanding Academic Titles for 2006 Now in Paperback People of the Dream Jonathan Edwards’s Philosophy Multiracial Congregations in the United States of History Michael O. Emerson The Reenchantment of the World in the Age of With Rodney M. Woo Enlightenment “The book’s bottom line: Multiracial churches are Avihu Zakai rare, hard to sustain and worth the trouble.” —Sam Hodges, Dallas Morning News 2009. 368 pages. Pa: 978-0-691-14430-6 $28.95 | £19.95 2008. 288 pages. 8 halftones. 2 line illus. 8 tables. Pa: 978-0-691-13627-1 $21.95 | £14.95 press.princeton.edu American Religion • 7 Jews, Christians & Muslims from the Ancient to the Modern World Michael Cook, William C. Jordan & Peter Schäfer, Series Editors New The Religious Enlightenment Protestants, Jews, and Catholics from London Maimonides in His World to Vienna Portrait of a Mediterranean Thinker David Sorkin Sarah Stroumsa “Powerfully cogent. “Stroumsa paints a Sorkin seeks to show that the ‘religious richly documented, Enlightenment’ was nuanced portrait not a contradiction of Maimonides as a in terms but was an bold, open thinker integral and central part of the Enlighten- whose sometimes ment. Anyone inter- revolutionary con- ested in the history ception of Judaism of the Enlightenment draws freely from in particular or the eighteenth century in the multiple philo- general will want to sophical, theologi- read this book. Sorkin cal, scientific, and is one of the leading scholars working in the field. His scholarship is as wide as it is deep.” ideological currents —Tim Blanning, University of Cambridge of his contemporary Mediterranean world.” —Josef Stern, University of Chicago 2008. 360 pages. 12 line illus. Cl: 978-0-691-13502-1 $35.00 | £24.95 Sarah Stroumsa is the Alice and Jack Ormut Pro- fessor of Arabic Studies at the Hebrew University American Evangelicals in Egypt of Jerusalem. Missionary Encounters in an Age of Empire 2009. 244 pages. Heather J. Sharkey Cl: 978-0-691-13763-6 $39.50 | £27.95 “A fine piece of historical scholarship: soundly argued and finely nuanced. It is a fair and bal- One of Choice’s Outstanding Academic Titles for 2006 anced portrayal of the relationship between Runner-up, 2006 National Jewish Book Award in History, Jewish Book Council American missionaries and Egyptians—both Reckless Rites Christian and Muslim.” Purim and the Legacy of Jewish Violence —Dana L. Robert, Boston University Elliott Horowitz 2008. 336 pages. 10 halftones. Cl: 978-0-691-12261-8 $39.50 | £27.95 “Elliott Horowitz’s learned, Winner of the 2008 Albert C. Outler Prize, American humane, and exciting book Society of Church History will rattle many platitudes and disturb many pieties. The Church in the Shadow of the Purim will never be quite Mosque the same; and the complica- Christians and Muslims in the World of Islam tions that Horowitz intro- Sidney H. Griffith

duces into the history of 2007. 240 pages. 8 halftones. Jewish self-representation Cl: 978-0-691-13015-6 $38.50 | £26.95 will be ferociously debated for many years to come.” —Leon Wieseltier

2008. 360 pages. 17 halftones. Pa: 978-0-691-13824-4 $24.95 | £16.95 Cl: 978-0-691-12491-9 $44.00 | £29.95

8 • Jews, Christians & Muslims from the Ancient to the Modern World Princeton Studies in Muslim Politics Dale F. Eickelman & Augustus Richard Norton, Series Editors New New Princeton Readings in Can Islam Be French? Islamist Thought Pluralism and Pragmatism in a Texts and Contexts from al-Banna to Secularist State Bin Laden John R. Bowen

Edited and with an introduction “John Bowen has by Roxanne L. Euben & produced an unpar- Muhammad Qasim Zaman alleled oeuvre on Islam in France.” “This book is an excellent primer on the —Paul Silverstein, key ideas and prominent thinkers that have Reed College shaped Islamism over the past century.” —Vali Nasr, author of Forces of Fortune: The John R. Bowen is the Rise of a New Muslim Middle Class and What it Dunbar-Van Cleve Means for Our World Professor in Arts & Sci- ences at Washington Roxanne L. Euben is the Ralph Emerson and University in St. Louis. Alice Freeman Palmer Professor of Political Science at Wellesley College. Muhammad 2009. 248 pages. 7 halftones. Cl: 978-0-691-13283-9 Qasim Zaman is the Robert H. Niehaus ’77 $35.00 | £24.95 Professor of Near Eastern Studies and Religion Also by John R. Bowen at Princeton University. Why the French Don’t Like 2009. 536 pages. 10 halftones. Pa: 978-0-691-13588-5 $26.95 | £18.95 Headscarves Cl: 978-0-691-13587-8 $69.50 | £48.95 Islam, the State, and Public Space

Also by Roxanne L. Euben 2008. 304 pages. 6 halftones. Pa: 978-0-691-13839-8 $19.95 | £13.95 Journeys to the Other Shore Cl: 978-0-691-12506-0 $35.00 | £24.95 Muslim and Western Travelers in Search of Knowledge New 2008. 328 pages. Islamism and Democracy in Pa: 978-0-691-13840-4 $22.95 | £15.95 Also by Muhammed Qasim Zaman India The Transformation of Jamaat-e-Islami The Ulama in Contemporary Islam Custodians of Change Irfan Ahmad

2007. 312 pages. 3 tables. “This is an outstanding historical and ethno- Pa: 978-0-691-13070-5 $23.95 | £16.95 graphic account of one of the most influential Islamist movements in South Asia. The book’s New Paperback thesis that even a radically antisecular Islamist With a new afterword by the author movement can be transformed into supporting Hezbollah secular democracy is an extremely important A Short History contribution to today’s global discussions.” —Peter van der Veer, author of Imperial Encounters Augustus Richard Norton Irfan Ahmad is an anthropologist and assistant “[T]he best recent study of Hezbollah.” professor of politics in the School of Political and —Fareed Zakaria, Newsweek Social Inquiry at Monash University in Australia.

Augustus Richard Norton is professor of inter- 2009. 328 pages. 15 halftones. 6 tables. national relations and anthropology at Boston Pa: 978-0-691-13920-3 $24.95 | £16.95 Cl: 978-0-691-13919-7 $65.00 | £44.95 University. Not for sale in South Asia

2009. 208 pages. 11 halftones. 1 table. 2 maps. Pa: 978-0-691-14107-7 $12.95 | £8.95 Princeton Studies in Muslim Politics • 9 New New Egypt after Mubarak Were the Jews a Liberalism, Islam, and Democracy in Mediterranean Society? the Arab World Reciprocity and Solidarity in Ancient Bruce K. Rutherford Judaism “Rutherford’s study Seth Schwartz deepens our under- “Seth Schwartz takes standing of how the on the very biggest characteristics of question of Second both an authoritar- Temple Judaism: ian and a democratic how different were political order come the Jews from together and the Greco-Roman persist in the hybrid society in which regimes of the Arab they lived? And he world.” does so with sharp —Mark Tessler, Uni- sophistication and versity of Michigan profound learning.” Bruce K. Rutherford is assistant professor of —Simon Goldhill, political science at Colgate University. University of Cambridge

2009. 304 pages. 1 table. Seth Schwartz is the Lucius N. Littauer Professor Cl: 978-0-691-13665-3 $35.00 | £24.95 of Classical Jewish Civilization and professor of religion at Columbia University.

An Enchanted Modern 2009. 224 pages. Gender and Public Piety in Shi’i Lebanon Cl: 978-0-691-14054-4 $29.95 | £20.95 Lara Deeb New 2006. 288 pages. 18 halftones. Pa: 978-0-691-12421-6 $27.95 | £19.95 Mitzvah Girls Bringing Up the Next Generation of Of Related Interest Hasidic Jews in Brooklyn Winner of the 2008 PROSE Award for Excellence in Government and Politics, Association of American Ayala Fader Publishers “This is a superb The Fall and Rise of the Islamic State book. All manner Noah Feldman of readers will find 2008. 200 pages. themselves moved Cl: 978-0-691-12045-4 $22.95 | £15.95 by this beautifully rendered portrait of Winner of the 2005 Victoria Schuck Award, American Political Science Association the process by which Honorable Mention, 2005 Albert Hourani Book Hasidic girls become Award, Middle East Studies Association Hasidic women.” Politics of Piety —Joel Robbins, Uni- The Islamic Revival and the Feminist Subject versity of California, Saba Mahmood San Diego

2004. 256 pages. Ayala Fader is assistant professor of anthropol- Pa: 978-0-691-08695-8 $26.95 | £18.95 ogy at Fordham University, Lincoln Center.

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2009. 296 pages. New Paperback Pa: 978-0-691-14123-7 $18.95 | £12.95 Cl: 978-0-691-12122-2 $24.95 | £16.95 Jesus in the Talmud Peter Schäfer Jewish Questions “[Schäfer’s] great Responsa on Sephardic Life in the Early Modern Period scholarship now provides Jews and Matt Goldish Christians interested “The selection of responsa in this book is a serious in developing a new contribution to preserving not only memory of those responsa, but also perpetuating an under- and better relation- standing of the Jewish communities in which they ship with a way to were written.” work through many —Jay Levinson, Jewish Magazine of the hateful things 2008. 248 pages. that we have said Pa: 978-0-691-12265-6 $22.95 | £15.95 about each other in Cl: 978-0-691-12264-9 $60.00 | £41.95 the past.” —David Novak, New Republic

Peter Schäfer is the Perelman Professor of Judaic Studies and director of the Program in Judaic Studies at Princeton University.

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