Religion and Religious Studies Catalog

RELIGIOUS STUDIES new titles and selected backlist penn state university press New New Contents ORDER INFORMATION A Time of Sifting After Identity New Titles . 1–20 Individuals: Mystical Marriage and the Crisis of Mennonite Writing in North America Religion Around Series . .3 We encourage ordering through your Moravian Piety in the Eighteenth Edited by Robert Zacharias local bookstore. If your store doesn’t Century Signifying (on) Scriptures Series . 4 “Showcasing some of the best new carry a particular book from this Paul Peucker scholarship in cultural studies, After Magic in History Series. .10–13 catalogue, please ask the bookstore Identity explodes the tight bound- Journals . 21 to order it. To order directly from “Paul Peucker’s creative and skillfully re- aries of Mennonite culture and Penn State Press, please use the order searched new work sheds equal light on Selected Backlist. .22–23 points us toward the new literary form at the back of this catalogue or the enthusiastic history of eighteenth- representations that are redefining Index . 24 simply order online at www.psupress century religion and on the complex Mennonite identity in the twenty- Order Form. .25 .org. Payment must accompany all way in which subsequent generations first century. An important book direct orders. of Protestants have remembered that formative time in their past. His his- for anyone interested in the debates In cooperation with Penn State tory of the Moravian Sifting Time skill- around culture, identity, and writing University Libraries, Penn State Uni- in the United States and Canada.” The Pennsylvania State University Press has a long and well-regarded history of fully interweaves theology, mysticism, versity Press will donate 10 percent —Felipe Hinojosa, the history of gender and sexuality, publishing books and journals in religion and religious studies. Our current list of proceeds from all orders placed Texas A&M University practical exigencies, and personalities. places a special emphasis on religious history across confessional boundaries, directly on its website to help defray This volume will be important to his- For decades, the field of Mennonite the high cost of student textbooks. the philosophy of religion, religion and race, and religion and culture. Within torians of early modern religion both literature has been dominated by the these areas, our book series—both established and new—reflect the chang- Libraries: within and beyond German Pietism.” question of Mennonite identity. After ing shape of the study of religion. Religion Around, for example, examines the Please attach your purchase order. —Kate Carté Engel, Identity interrogates this prolonged preoccupation and explores the po- religious worlds surrounding cultural icons throughout history and within Retailers: Southern Methodist University tential to move beyond it to a truly contemporary society. Dimyonot: Jews and the Cultural Imagination reflects Please contact “A major achievement of scholarship that reads like a mystery novel! Peucker post-identity Mennonite literature. the growing impact of interdisciplinary research in Jewish studies. Africana Kathleen Scholz-Jaffe, Sales Manager solves the enigma of the Sifting Time and shows that the controversial moment Religions presents pathbreaking work on the religions of Africa and the African Penn State University Press was even more interesting than earlier historians had assumed. He reveals a The twelve essays collected here view diaspora. Inventing Christianity probes how early Christianity is continually re- 820 N. University Drive, USB 1, Suite C scandal at the heart of the Moravian Church—brothers becoming sisters, anti- Mennonite writing as transitioning University Park, PA 16802-1003 beyond a tradition concerned primar- cast in ever-changing historical contexts. Signifying (on) Scriptures expands our nomian beliefs that Christ had forgiven not only past but also future sins—so 814-867-2224; Fax 814-863-1408 troubling to church leaders that they purged their own archives to cover it up. ily with defining itself and its cultural view of the complex notion of “scriptures” and the meanings that emerge out of E-mail: [email protected] Although focused on one specific moment, Peucker’s study explains the forces milieu. What this means for the fu- cultural or individual “signification.” Pietist, Moravian, and Anabaptist Studies ture of Mennonite literature and its Examination Copies: that reshaped the Moravian Church during the entire eighteenth century.” brings innovative and multidisciplinary perspectives to the study of Pietism and attendant criticism is the question at To receive an examination copy of —Scott Paul Gordon, Lehigh University the heart of this volume. Contribu- radical Protestantism. Magic in History explores the role magic and the occult one of our books, please see the “No one knows the sources better than Paul Peucker, and the story he tells here tors explore the histories and con- have played in European culture, religion, science, and politics, and the Magic examination copy policy on our web- of the Sichtungszeit is extraordinarily well crafted. Addressing long-held miscon- texts—as well as the gaps—that have in History Sourcebooks series offers an exciting new venue for original-source site at www.psupress.org/ordering/ ceptions, Peucker reconstructs from the surviving records a rich and at times informed and diverted the perennial order_main.html. translations of works related to magic and the occult in European history. Our startling account of this critical juncture in Moravian history. His book will focus on identity in Mennonite litera- journals in religious studies include Journal of Africana Religions; Journal of Titles, publication dates, and prices change the way we look at Zinzendorf, the Moravian movement, and the role of ture, even as that identity is reread, Jewish Ethics; Journal of World Christianity; Moravian History; and Wesleyan and announced in this catalogue are sub- radical religion in Pietism. His historical sensitivity and interpretive verve open reframed, and expanded. Methodist Studies. ject to change without notice. new avenues for understanding religion and culture in the eighteenth century.” 256 pages | 1 illustration | 6 × 9 | 2015 —Jonathan Strom, Emory University isbn 978-0-271-07037-7 | cloth: $89.95 sh Abbreviations Co-published with University of Manitoba Press Cover illustration: Antoinette von Damnitz, Two Moravian tr: trade discount; sh: short discount “Drawing on archival sources and the latest scholarship in the field, Peucker Not for sale in Canada Sisters in the Grave with Jesus, ca. 1750. Unity Archives, Penn State is an affirmative action, offers a new and authoritative interpretation of a crucial period in Moravian Herrnhut, Germany, TS Mp.375.7. equal opportunity University. history. His book is now the indispensable reference work for understanding U. Ed. LIB. 15-503 eighteenth-century Moravian communal life.” —Douglas H. Shantz, University of Calgary 264 pages | 10 illustrations | 6 × 9 | 2015 isbn 978-0-271-06643-1 | cloth: $84.95 sh Pietist, Moravian, and Anabaptist Studies Series www.psupress.org | 1 New New in Paperback New Toward a Humean True Receptive Human Virtues The Salem Belle Religion Around Emily Religion Around Religion A New Reading of Jonathan Edwards’s A Tale of 1692 Dickinson Shakespeare Genuine Theism, Moderate Hope, and Ethics Ebenezer Wheelwright W. Clark Gilpin Peter Iver Kaufman Practical Morality Elizabeth Agnew Cochran Edited, with an introduction and notes, by Richard Kopley “Thorough and revealing, replete with “As endless numbers of biographical Andre C. Willis “Cochran presents a creative, concise, poem exempla and references to the studies demonstrate, Shakespeare “It is wonderful to have The Salem “Andre Willis’s book is an original and lucid account that deserves principal spokespersons of that era, remains frustratingly elusive on Belle back in print, edited expertly treatment and superb analysis of serious consideration by historians, Gilpin’s study contributes significantly questions of religion. What were his by Richard Kopley. Published eight Hume’s conception of ‘true religion.’ theologians, and ethicists.” to illuminating both Dickinson’s po- religious allegiances? We cannot tell; years before The Scarlet Letter, Willis’s meticulous scholarship —B. M. Stephens, Choice etry and the culture that inspired it.” the evidence of his life says little, Wheelwright’s novel was an impor- ranges across the magisterial corpus —R. R. Jolly, Choice and his plays say less. Although “To restore virtue to the heart of tant part of the cultural mix behind of the most profound and powerful he tackles large philosophical and morality, today’s theological ethicists Hawthorne’s masterpiece, as Kopley “In this illuminating, deeply researched philosopher in the English language. religious questions of identity, ex- retrieve and mine the works of demonstrates in his perceptive intro- book, W. Clark Gilpin probes the mul- His synthetic perspective situates istence, ethics, and the afterlife, he Augustine and Aquinas, as well as duction. Also, The Salem Belle stands tifaceted religious contexts—historical, Hume’s conception of ‘true religion’ never weighs into specific doctrinal their philosophical precursors, Plato on its own as a thought-provoking biographical, cultural, and theo- within the context of Hume’s quest debates of his lifetime. That high- and Aristotle. Into this pantheon novel about Puritan times written logical—of

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