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Religious & Biblical Studies Aarhus University Press Photo: Glowing gullies in Kaiser crater dunes, Mars. NASA/JPL-Caltech/Univ. of Arizona (Public domain). 70 Enterprise Drive, Suite 2 • Bristol, CT 06010, USA Distributor of phone: (+1) 860 584 6546 • fax: (+1) 860 516 4873 Scholarly Books www.isdistribution.com • [email protected] Constructing “Data” Theorizing “Religion” in Antiquity in Religious Studies edited by Nickolas P. Roubekas Examining the Architecture This volume examines theoretical discourses of the Academy on the specificity, origin, and function of edited by Leslie Dorrough Smith ‘religion’ in antiquity, broadly defined here Constructing “Data” in Religious Studies as the period from the 6th century BCE to provides a critical introduction to the ways the 4th century CE. In addition, it explores in which the category “data” is understood, the crucial question of what is meant by produced, and deployed in the discipline the term ‘religion’ and its applicability of religious studies. The volume’s aim is to when employed to describe traditions that reflect, first, on the problems, strategies, and antedate the historical periods known as the political structures through which scholars identify (and thus create) data, Enlightenment and the Reformation. and second, on the institutions, extensions, and applications of that data. 458p (Equinox Publishing, May 2019, Studies in Ancient Religion and Culture) 310p (Equinox Publishing, October 2019, Working Papers) paperback, 9781781793572, $45.00. Special Offer $36.00 paperback, 9781781796764, $35.00. Special Offer $28.00 hardcover, 9781781793565, $115.00. Special Offer $92.00 hardcover, 9781781796757, $100.00. Special Offer $80.00 Strategic Acts in the Miniature Books Study of Identity The Format and Function Towards a Dynamic Theory of Tiny Religious Texts of People and Place edited by Kristina Myrvold edited by Vaia Touna and Dorina Miller Parmenter Six scholars of religion engage in a constructive This volume focuses on religious miniature dialogue mediating and critically cross-exam- books in Jewish, Christian, Muslim, Hindu ining issues of identity formation, suggesting and Buddhist traditions. It presents vari- ways of achieving greater theoretical clarity in ous empirical contexts for how they were the study of identity, or identity claims, as it produced, distributed, and used in different takes shape over time and space. times and cultures. 256p (Equinox Publishing, January 2019, Culture on the Edge: Studies in Identity 246p, 29 col & b/w illus (Equinox Publishing, October 2019, Comparative Formation) paperback, 9781781790731, $29.95. Special Offer $24.00 Research on Iconic and Performative Texts) hardcover, 9781781790724, $100.00. Special Offer $80.00 paperback, 9781781798614, $35.00. Special Offer $28.00 hardcover, 9781781798607, $100.00. Special Offer $80.00 The Qur’ān and Kerygma Biblical Receptions of the Muslim Scripture across a Millennium How and Why Books Matter by Jeffrey Einboden Essays on the Social Function of Iconic Texts Rather than read the Muslim scripture in light of its biblical antecedents, this by James W. Watts book adopts the inverse approach, situating the Qur’an as itself the formative By calling attention to the iconic dimension of books, James Watts argues that foreground to Western literary innovation and biblical exegesis, stretching we can better understand how physical books mediate social value and power from late antiquity in the 9th century to postmodernity in the 20th. The book within and between religious communities, nations, academic disciplines, argues, in particular, that Qur’anic readings and renditions have provoked and and societies both ancient and modern. paralleled key developments in the Christian canon and its critique. 200p, 8 illus (Equinox Publishing, February 2019, Comparative Research on 256p (Equinox Publishing, June 2019, Themes in Qur’anic Studies) Iconic and Performative Texts) paperback, 9781781797686, $29.95. paperback, 9781781794111, $29.95. Special Offer $24.00 Special Offer $24.00; hardcover, 9781781797679, $100.00. Special Offer $80.00 hardcover, 9781781794104, $100.00. Special Offer $80.00 2 www.isdistribution.com Quote promotional code 1442–19 for Special Offers (+1) (860) 584 6546 Religions of a Single God A Critical Introduction to Monotheisms from Judaism to Baha’i by Zeba A. Crook Rather than claim to show the “essence” of Judaism, Christianity, or Islam, this book shows the diversity within Jewish, Christian, and Islamic experience, theological dispute, and practice. Rather than rely solely on the traditional theorists of religion, the “giants,” this book updates the approach, relying also on the newest critical thinkers on defining, classifying, and studying religion. Rather than present Latter-Day Saints and Baha’i Religion as among the New Religious Movements, this book treats them as part of the continuing history of religion, growing out of and within Christianity and Islam respec- tively. Religion, in other words, is not a thing of the past. It’s happening right now, all around us. 320p (Equinox Publishing, March 2019) paperback, 9781781798065, $50.00. Special Offer $40.00 hardcover, 9781781798058, $100.00. Special Offer $80.00 Understanding The Invention of Religions Religious Experience by Daniel Dubuisson by Peter Connolly For nearly thirty years, a scientific revolu- This work addresses issues such as what it is tion has taken place in the religious studies that makes experiences ‘religious,’ whether departments of several North American and some religious experiences are more British universities, obliging us to envisage ‘authentic’ than others and whether these new ways of conceiving of this academic experiences provide insights into otherwise field. This volume considers anew the origins inaccessible regions of reality or are products and Christian history of the notion of religion, of the brains of those who have them. The which allows us to identify dead ends and author draws upon a number of scholarly contradictions within the traditional History perspectives in the course of this project, primarily phenomenological, philo- of Religions approach. Its second part is dedicated to the synthetic presenta- sophical and psychological ones. tion of the concepts, methods, and controversies that distinguish this current. 224p (Equinox Publishing, February 2019) paperback, 9781781797334, $29.95. 224p (Equinox Publishing, October 2019) paperback, 9781781798133, $30.95. Special Offer $24.00; hardcover, 9781781797327, $100.00. Special Offer $80.00 Special Offer $25.00; hardcover, 9781781798126, $100.00. Special Offer $80.00 The Insider/Outsider Debate Indigenising Movements New Perspectives in Europe in the Study of Religion by Graham Harvey edited by George D. Chryssides Religious movements identifying themselves and Stephen E. Gregg as Paganism, shamanism, and others have This volume discusses a number of points experimented with two forms of indigeneity. that stem from the different positionings of One claims to be reviving previously hidden religious adherents as well as scholars. The religious practices from ancestral times. questioning of these boundaries has many The other is found in lessons learnt from implications for numerous methodological Indigenous peoples. In the last decade in issues in the study of religion. A particular particular these two trends have sometimes focus is to provide critiques of these methodological issues within the most fused in what we call “indigenizing movements.” This book tests the interpre- recent academic approaches to religion. tive and methodological value of this. 434p (Equinox Publishing, October 2019) paperback, 9781781793442, $42.00. 256p (Equinox Publishing, October 2019) paperback, 9781781797914, $29.95. Special Offer $34.00; hardcover, 9781781793435, $105.00. Special Offer $84.00 Special Offer $24.00; hardcover, 9781781797907, $100.00. Special Offer $80.00 www.isdistribution.com Quote promotional code 1442–19 for Special Offers (+1) (860) 584 6546 3 Men, Spirituality, and Gender- Reading the Gospel of Mark specific Biblical Hermeneutics in the Twenty-First Century by Armin M. Kummer Method and Meaning With the rise of feminism, issues of gender edited by Geert van Oyen have become more important in many Since the beginning of the twenty-first walks of life, but the specific problems and century, there has been an increasing need to challenges faced by men have not at- examine each method’s added value to the tracted much scholarly interest in theology. better understanding of Mark’s Gospel. In this This book looks at the challenges for men volume, forty-two researchers reflect on the as described in popular and academic success of the various approaches. The book publications. integrates their reflections on methodology, 137p (Peeters Publishers, April 2019, Annua Nuntia Lovaniensia 78) hardcover, specific passages, and particular topics of the Gospel. 9789042939165, $68.00. Special Offer $55.00 957p (Peeters Publishers, July 2019, Bibliotheca Ephemeridum Theologicarum PDF e-book, 9789042939172, $85.00 Lovaniensium 301) paperback, 9789042938977, $132.00. Special Offer $106.00 PDF e-book, 9789042938984, $132.00 John Chrysostom The Spirit, Hermeneutics, and Severian of Gabala and Dialogues Homilists, Exegetes and Theologians edited by Reimund Bieringer, edited by Johan Leemans, Peter De Mey, Ma. Marilou S. Ibita Geert Roskam and Josien Segers and Didier Pollefeyt The homiletic corpora of John Chrysostom The second half of the