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New in cloth and paperback The Against the Academics A St. Augustine’s Cassiciacum Dialogues, Volume 1 DAVID BENTLEY HART TRANSLATION, ANNOTATION, AND COMMENTARY BY From one of our most celebrated writers MICHAEL P. FOLEY on religion comes this fresh, bold, and The first four works written by St. Augus- unsettling new translation of the New tine of Hippo after his conversion to Chris- Testament. Reproducing the texts’ often tianity are the influential “Cassiciacum fragmentary formulations without dialogues.” In this first dialogue, expertly augmentation or correction, Hart has translated by Michael Foley, Augustine produced a pitilessly literal translation, and his interlocutors explore the history one that captures the texts’ sometimes and teachings of Academic skepticism. raw, astonished, and halting prose. Available in June 2019 320 pp. Hardcover 2017 616 pp. Hardcover 978-0-300-23851-8 $60.00 978-0-300-18609-3 $35.00 Paper 978-0-300-23855-6 $18.00 & The Experience of New in cloth and paperback Being, Consciousness, Bliss On the Happy Life DAVID BENTLEY HART St. Augustine’s Cassiciacum Dialogues, Volume 2 Are those who ferociously debate the existence of God even arguing about TRANSLATION, ANNOTATION, AND COMMENTARY BY the same thing? What is God? A revered MICHAEL P. FOLEY religious scholar brings reason to the In this second dialogue, expertly translat- discussion, exploring how the world’s ed by Michael Foley, Augustine discusses major religions define God and demol- the nature of , concluding that ishing misconceptions that confuse the the truly happy life consists of “having conversation. God” through faith, hope, and charity. Paper 2014 376 pp. Available in June 2019 224 pp. 978-0-300-20935-8 $17.00 Hardcover 978-0-300-23852-5 $60.00 Paper 978-0-300-23858-7 $18.00 & Atheist Delusions New The Christian Revolution and Its Fashionable Enemies and the New Spirit of Capitalism DAVID BENTLEY HART In this provocative book, David Bentley KATHRYN TANNER Hart dismantles distorted religious “ In this significant reimagining of Max histories” offered up by Christopher Weber’s classic The Protestant Ethic and Hitchens, Richard Dawkins, and other the Spirit of Capitalism, Kathryn Tanner contemporary critics of religion. He provocatively reverses Weber’s thesis, counters their polemics with a brilliant arguing that Christianity can offer a direct account of Christianity and its message of challenge to the largely uncontested human charity as the most revolutionary growth of finance-dominated capitalism. movement in all of Western history. Hardcover 2019 256 pp. Paper 2010 272 pp. 978-0-300-21903-6 $35.00 978-0-300-16429-9 $20.00

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New New Ezekiel 38–48 Matthew within Sectarian A New Translation with Introduction and An Examination Commentary JOHN KAMPEN STEPHEN L. COOK In this masterful study, John Kampen The final sections of Ezekiel comprise deftly argues that the Gospel of Mat- some of the most challenging texts of thew advocates for a distinctive Jewish scripture. This welcome and innovative sectarianism. Never before has a scholar translation from Stephen L. Cook offers a so exhaustively employed the contents new approach to these passages, which of the Dead Sea Scrolls in the service of detail God’s utopian temple and the end- reading Matthew. time assault of Gog of Magog on Israel. THE ANCHOR YALE BIBLE REFERENCE LIBRARY THE ANCHOR YALE BIBLE COMMENTARIES Hardcover 2019 320 pp. Hardcover 2018 368 pp. 10 b/w illus. 978-0-300-17156-3 $65.00 978-0-300-21881-7 $65.00 The Responsive Self The Birth of Christian History Personal Religion in Biblical Literature of the Memory and Time from Mark to Luke-Acts Neo-Babylonian and Persian Periods EVE-MARIE BECKER SUSAN NIDITCH This first comprehensive account to ex- Author Susan Niditch draws from biblical plore early Christian writing through the literature to explore religion as lived lenses of memory, time, and history traces during the period from the Babylonian the origins of ancient historiography to conquest through the takeover and rule the Gospel of Mark and Luke-Acts. by imperial Persia, arguing that personal THE ANCHOR YALE BIBLE REFERENCE LIBRARY religion was as relevant to the ancient Hardcover 2017 280 pp. Israelites as it is to believers today. 978-0-300-16509-8 $65.00 THE ANCHOR YALE BIBLE REFERENCE LIBRARY Cloth 2015 200 pp. The House of the Mother 978-0-300-16636-1 $50.00 The Social Roles of Maternal Kin in Biblical Hebrew Narrative and Poetry Philo of Alexandria CYNTHIA R. CHAPMAN An Intellectual Biography Drawing on twenty years of research, MAREN R. NIEHOFF Cynthia Chapman challenges traditional Anyone grappling with multiculturalism scholarship on Israelite kinship, arguing today, as well as historians and students that maternal kinship bonds played key of classics, Jewish studies, and early Chris- social, economic, and political roles for tianity, will profit from this pioneering sons who aspired to inherit their father’s intellectual biography of one of the Helle- household. nistic world’s most prolific philosophers. THE ANCHOR YALE BIBLE REFERENCE LIBRARY THE ANCHOR YALE BIBLE REFERENCE LIBRARY Hardcover 2016 360 pp. 12 b/w illus. Hardcover 2018 336 pp. 978-0-300-19794-5 $85.00 978-0-300-17523-3 $38.00

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New Apocalypse as Holy War The Temple in Early Christianity Divine Politics and Polemics in the Letters of Paul Experiencing the Sacred EMMA WASSERMAN EYAL REGEV Prevailing theories of early Christian A full-scale discussion and interpretation apocalypticism assert that a cataclysmic of the importance of the Jewish Temple battle between good and evil is needed to in the thought and practice of and reassert God’s dominion. This bold schol- early Christianity, this work will enable arly work challenges this interpretation, both Jews and Christians to better under- reframing Paul’s myths as less about good stand their respective and how each versus evil than about divine politics and grows out of this once crucial institution. heroic submission. THE ANCHOR YALE BIBLE REFERENCE LIBRARY THE ANCHOR YALE BIBLE REFERENCE LIBRARY Hardcover 2019 480 pp. Hardcover 2018 352 pp. 978-0-300-19788-4 $65.00 978-0-300-20402-5 $65.00

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New Charity Bedouin Culture in the Bible The Place of the Poor in the Biblical Tradition CLINTON BAILEY GARY A. ANDERSON This groundbreaking book sheds original The acclaimed author of Sin: A History light on significant points of convergence here turns his attention to the essential between Bedouin and early Israelite role of charity in the Judeo-Christian cultures, as manifested in the Hebrew tradition, how it has been clouded in Bible. Bailey compares Bedouin and modern times, and what the Bible asserts biblical sources, identifying overlaps in about almsgiving and its relation to the economic activity, material culture, social goodness of God’s creation. values, social organization, laws, religious Paper 2014 232 pp. practices, and oral traditions. 978-0-300-19883-6 $20.00 Hardcover 2018 288 pp. 28 b/w illus. 978-0-300-12182-7 $55.00 Sin A History Now available in paperback GARY A. ANDERSON Holy Resilience In this sensitive, imaginative, and original The Bible’s Traumatic Origins work, Gary A. Anderson shows how changing conceptions of sin and forgive- DAVID M. CARR ness lay at the very heart of the biblical A provocative reinterpretation of the Bible’s tradition. Spanning nearly two thousand origins by an eminent biblical scholar years, the book brilliantly demonstrates suggests that catastrophic trauma gave how sin, once conceived of as a physical birth to the holy scriptures of Judaism burden, becomes, over time, eclipsed by and Christianity, and examines how the economic metaphors. These changing Bible’s ability to speak to human suffering notions profoundly shaped both Jewish has enabled it to retain its power and and Christian practices, provided a spur relevance for thousands of years. for the Protestant Reformation, and Paper 2018 336 pp. created a legacy that endures until today. 978-0-300-24000-9 $22.00 Paper 2010 272 pp. 978-0-300-16809-9 $22.00 New Divine Bodies & Biblical Truths Resurrecting Perfection in the New Testament The Meaning of Scripture in the Twenty-first and Early Christianity Century CANDIDA R. MOSS DALE B. MARTIN Drawing upon previously unexplored How can a modern person, informed by evidence in ancient medicine, philosophy, science and history, continue to recite the and culture, this illuminating book both traditional creeds and confessions of the revisits central texts and mines virtu- Christian church? In this groundbreaking ally ignored passages in the Gospels to work, one of today’s best-known New show how the resurrection of the body Testament scholars answers this question, addresses larger questions about identity challenging the historical realism that has and the self. dominated the discipline for more than Available in April 2019 two centuries. Hardcover 2019 192 pp. Hardcover 2017 408 pp. 978-0-300-17976-7 $45.00 978-0-300-22283-8 $40.00

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The Ten Commandments New A Short History of an Ancient Text When Christians Were Jews MICHAEL COOGAN The First Generation In this lively and provocative book, a PAULA FREDRIKSEN leading biblical scholar investigates the How did a group of charismatic Jewish history of the Ten Commandments, their end up becoming the foun- inconsistencies, their afterlives, and dation of the gentile church? In this more to arrive at surprising conclusions. electrifying history, Paula Fredriksen Paper 2015 192 pp. 9 b/w illus. uncovers the social and spiritual 978-0-300-21250-1 $18.00 dynamics embedded in the New Testament documents, revealing the & Introduction to the Bible story of when Christians were Jews. CHRISTINE HAYES Hardcover 2018 272 pp. 2 b/w illus. This introduction to the 24 short books 978-0-300-19051-9 $27.50 common to all Jewish and Christian Bibles examines the struggles of generations Now available in paperback of biblical writers to make sense of their & Paul own and their nation’s experiences over The Pagans’ Apostle a span of many centuries. PAULA FREDRIKSEN THE OPEN YALE COURSES SERIES History sees Paul as a founder of Chris- Paper 2012 448 pp. 10 b/w illus. + 6 maps tianity. But Paul saw himself as Christ’s 978-0-300-18179-1 $25.00 messenger, living and working in history’s final hour. By situating Paul in his complex & New Testament History social world of Jews and pagans, angels and Literature and demons, gods and humans, Paula DALE B. MARTIN Fredriksen offers a compelling new In this engaging introduction to the New portrait of the apostle. Testament, a distinguished Yale professor Winner of the 2018 Prose Award in Theology presents a historical study of the origins and Religious Studies of Christianity by analyzing the literature Paper 2018 336 pp. of the earliest Christian movements. 978-0-300-24015-3 $22.00 THE OPEN YALE COURSES SERIES Paper 2012 464 pp. 12 b/w illus. & Augustine and the Jews 978-0-300-18085-5 $22.00 A Christian Defense of Jews and Judaism PAULA FREDRIKSEN How the Bible Became Holy Fredriksen’s provocative book traces the MICHAEL L. SATLOW social and intellectual forces that led Synthesizing an enormous body of to the development of Christian anti- scholarly work, Professor Satlow’s Judaism and shows how and why groundbreaking study offers provocative Augustine challenged this toxic tradition. new assertions about how an ancient Paper 2010 528 pp. collection of seemingly obscure Israelite 978-0-300-16628-6 $20.00 writings became the founding texts of both Judaism and Christianity, considered & From Jesus to Christ holy by followers of each faith. The Origins of the New Testament Images of Paper 2015 368 pp. 25 b/w illus. Christ, Second Edition 978-0-300-17192-1 $25.00 PAULA FREDRIKSEN How did Jesus of Nazareth become the Christ of the Christian tradition? In this book, Fredriksen answers this question by Order our print editions from placing the various canonical images of your favorite retailers, including Jesus within their historical context—the Amazon, Barnes & Noble, Hellenistic and Judaic cultures from which the Christian communities grew. Indigo, and IndieBound. Paper 2000 288 pp. 978-0-300-08457-3 $15.95

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New One True Life God’s Library The Stoics and Early Christians as Rival The Archaeology of the Earliest Christian Traditions Manuscripts C. KAVIN ROWE BRENT NONGBRI In a unique, cross-disciplinary merging In this bold and groundbreaking book, of philosophy and biblical studies, a Brent Nongbri vividly shows that the New Testament scholar reconceives the earliest Christian books are more than relationship between Stoic philosophy just carriers of texts or samples of and early Christianity as a rivalry between handwriting. They are three-dimensional strong truth-seeking traditions and archaeological artifacts with fascinating maintains that a commitment to one stories to tell, if we’re willing to listen. particular form of philosophical life Hardcover 2018 416 pp. 73 b/w illus. offers the surest path to existential truth. 978-0-300-21541-0 $35.00 Cloth 2016 344 pp. 978-0-300-18012-1 $40.00 A Spiritual Economy Gift Exchange in the Letters of Paul of Tarsus Mary in Early Christian Faith and Devotion THOMAS R. BLANTON, IV Biblical scholar Thomas Blanton provides STEPHEN J. SHOEMAKER a comprehensive interdisciplinary explora- For the first time the full story of the tion of gift giving in the letters of Paul of emergence and development of the Tarsus, the first-century Jewish evangelist Marian in early Christianity comes who had a significant impact on both to light in a fascinating work of theolog- Greco-Roman and modern conceptions ical scholarship that challenges many of gift exchange. conventional beliefs surrounding the SYNKRISIS subject of Mary, Mother of God. Hardcover 2017 240 pp. Cloth 2016 304 pp. 978-0-300-22040-7 $85.00 978-0-300-21721-6 $38.00

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Now available in paperback Catholics on the Barricades & Reformations Poland, France, and “Revolution,” 1891–1956 The Early Modern World, 1450–1650 PIOTR H. KOSICKI CARLOS M. N. EIRE This transnational history is the first to In this lively, page-turning history of triangulate the intellectual worlds of Western civilization’s transition from the France, Poland, and the , Middle Ages to modernity, the author examining generations of Catholics who investigates the Protestant and Catholic believed that they had found the key to Reformations and reveals how their legacy building a just society on earth without continues to shape our world and define waiting for the Last Judgment. who we are today. YALE-HOOVER SERIES ON AUTHORITARIAN REGIMES Winner of the 2017 R.R. Hawkins Award Hardcover 2018 424 pp. 13 b/w illus. Paper 2018 920 pp. 155 b/w illus. 978-0-300-22551-8 $40.00 978-0-300-24003-0 $25.00 Conscience and Conversion Now available in paperback Religious Liberty in Post-Revolutionary France & Cunegonde’s Kidnapping THOMAS KSELMAN A Story of Religious Conflict in the Age of Thomas Kselman looks at several Enlightenment individuals in Restoration France whose high-profile conversions fascinated their BENJAMIN J. KAPLAN contemporaries. Exploring their reasons In 1762 a erupted when a and the repercussions they faced, Ksel- young Catholic woman named Cune- man demonstrates how this expanded gonde tried to kidnap a baby to prevent sense of liberty our secular age. it from being baptized in a Protestant HC-Paper over Board 2018 400 pp. 9 b/w illus. church. This gripping book shows how, in 978-0-300-22613-3 $85.00 the supposedly tolerant Age of Enlighten- ment, such interfaith strife was possible. Thomas Cranmer THE LEWIS WALPOLE SERIES IN EIGHTEENTH-CENTURY A Life CULTURE AND HISTORY Available in February 2019 DIARMAID MACCULLOCH Paper 2019 312 pp. 30 b/w illus. This prizewinning biography provides the 978-0-300-24441-0 $27.50 definitive account of Thomas Cranmer, archbishop of Canterbury, architect of the Holy Rus’ Anglican Book of Common Prayer, King Henry VIII’s guide, and ultimately a martyr The Rebirth of in the New for his Protestant faith. JOHN P. BURGESS Winner of the 1996 Whitbread Biography A noted theologian offers a fascinating, Award; Winner of the Duff Cooper Prize vivid, and on-the-ground account of the Paper 2017 704 pp. 44 b/w illus. resurgent Orthodox Church while exam- 978-0-300-22657-7 $35.00 ining its potential to become one of the best hopes for a more just and democratic Now available in paperback Russian society. & Hardcover 2017 280 pp. 10 b/w illus. Heretics and Believers A History of the English Reformation 978-0-300-22224-1 $30.00 PETER MARSHALL Martin Luther Peter Marshall’s sumptuously written Visionary Reformer people’s history is a major retelling of the story of England’s Reformation. SCOTT H. HENDRIX Winner of the 2018 History Prize A definitive biography of Martin Luther Paper 2018 672 pp. 32 b/w illus. provides a fresh, bold, and insightful 978-0-300-23458-9 $25.00 perspective on the man most responsible for the Protestant Reformation of the sixteenth century, focusing on Luther’s entire life, his personal relationships and political motivations, rather than on his theology alone. Paper 2017 pp. 25 b/w illus. 978-0-300-22637-9 $22.00

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New New The History of the Future in Liberty in the Things of God Colonial Mexico The Christian Origins of Religious Freedom MATTHEW D. O’HARA ROBERT LOUIS WILKEN A prominent scholar of colonial-era Chronicling the history of the struggle for Mexican and Latin American history chal- religious freedom from the early Christian lenges the field’s focus on historical mem- movement through the seventeenth cen- ory. His work demonstrates how colonial tury, Robert Louis Wilken shows that the subjects used the resources of tradition origins of religious freedom and liberty and Catholicism to craft new futures. of conscience are religious, not political, Hardcover 2018 272 pp. 12 b/w illus. in origin. 978-0-300-23393-3 $38.00 Available in May 2019 Hardcover 2019 256 pp. New 978-0-300-22663-8 $26.00 The Crusader Armies 1099–1187 & The First Thousand Years A Global History of Christianity STEVE TIBBLE This volume documents the strength and ROBERT LOUIS WILKEN sophistication of the Western and Muslim Beginning with the life of Jesus, Robert armies during the Crusades. Historian Louis Wilken narrates the dramatic spread Steve Tibble also makes the controversial and development of a global Christianity proposition that the Crusades were driven over the first thousand years of its history as much by sedentary versus nomadic and shows how it constituted one of the tribal concerns as by religious conflict. most profound revolutions the world has Hardcover 2018 424 pp. 20 color illus. known. + 21 maps and figs. Paper 2013 416 pp. 28 b/w illus. 978-0-300-21814-5 $35.00 978-0-300-19838-6 $22.00

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New New Menasseh ben Israel Martin Buber Rabbi of Amsterdam A Life of Faith and Dissent STEVEN NADLER PAUL MENDES-FLOHR In this vividly written biography, Steven Paul Mendes-Flohr offers the first major Nadler explores the life and impact of biography in English in thirty years of Menasseh ben Israel (1604–1657). the seminal Jewish philosopher Martin Exhaustively researched, Nadler’s book Buber. In this accessible new biography, considers Menasseh’s contribution to Mendes-Flohr situates Buber’s life and Amsterdam, one of the most vital Jewish legacy in the intellectual and cultural communities of early modern Europe, and life of German Jewry and in the broader his role in the intellectual and political European intellectual life of the first half history of European Jewry. of the twentieth century. JEWISH LIVES JEWISH LIVES Hardcover 2018 312 pp. 1 b/w illus. Available in February 2019 978-0-300-22410-8 $25.00 Hardcover 2019 440 pp. 9 b/w illus. 978-0-300-15304-0 $26.00 Now available in paperback Jabotinsky Now available in paperback A Life & Yitzhak Rabin HILLEL HALKIN Soldier, Leader, Statesman This insightful biography of the contro- ITAMAR RABINOVICH versial, fervent Zionist leader of the 1920s Assassinated in 1995, Israeli Prime and ‘30s sets aside stereotypes that have Minister Rabin remains his nation’s most miscast him and reveals the full extent admired modern leader. In this insider’s of his gifts, achievements, failures, and account of Rabin’s life, peace policies, and perplexing contradictions. contributions, one of his closest aides JEWISH LIVES provides extraordinary insights into the Available in February 2019 valiant efforts to resolve the Israeli- Paper 2019 256 pp. 1 b/w illus. Palestinian conflict, the Oslo Accords, 978-0-300-24438-0 $16.00 and the bitter consequences of Rabin’s sudden death. Gershom Scholem Winner of the Washington Institute Book Prize Master of the Kabbalah Gold Medal for 2017 DAVID BIALE JEWISH LIVES This new and deeply researched biogra- Paper 2018 304 pp. phy of Gershom Scholem provides the 978-0-300-23463-3 $15.00 most intimate portrait yet of the man who became a towering twentieth- David century historian, the founder of the The Divided Heart academic study of Jewish , DAVID WOLPE and a profoundly important figure in David Wolpe, “the most influential rabbi the Zionist movement. in America” (Newsweek), offers a fresh JEWISH LIVES and fascinating appraisal of the biblical Hardcover 2018 256 pp. 1 b/w illus. David—warrior, king, poet, deceiver, 978-0-300-21590-8 $25.00 adulterer—in an attempt to unravel the mysteries of the Bible’s most enig- matic, contradictory, and deeply flawed personage. Our e-book editions are available JEWISH LIVES from most major e-book stores, Paper 2017 176 pp. 1 b/w illus. including the Amazon Kindle 978-0-300-23074-1 $15.00 store, B&N’s Nook store, Google editions, Kobo, and Sony. For a full listing of Jewish Lives titles, visit www.jewishlives.org

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Now available in paperback Now available in paperback & Breaking White Supremacy Benjamin Franklin Martin Luther King Jr. and the Black Social The Religious Life of a Founding Father Gospel THOMAS S. KIDD GARY DORRIEN As a teenager, Benjamin Franklin rejected Acclaimed scholar Gary Dorrien continues his Calvinist upbringing in favor of . the magisterial story he began with his As an adult, he wrote prodigiously about Grawemeyer Award winner, The New the evolution of his faith, yet maintained Abolition. Shifting his focus to Martin close ties with devout Christians. Thomas Luther King Jr., Dorrien explores a S. Kidd’s rich biography explores the com- long-overlooked aspect of the martyred plex spiritual life of one of America’s most civil rights visionary’s work: King’s early beloved figures. embrace of the internationalist social Paper 2018 288 pp. gospel and its enduring relevance today. 978-0-300-24017-7 $20.00 Paper 2019 632 pp. 6 b/w illus. 978-0-300-24433-5 $30.00 George Whitefield America’s Spiritual Founding Father New THOMAS S. KIDD Social Democracy in the Making Thomas Kidd’s fascinating new biogra- Political and Religious Roots of European phy explores the extraordinary career of Socialism evangelical preacher George Whitefield, GARY DORRIEN trailblazer of the Great Awakening, the This magisterial investigation of Christian most controversial and influential reli- socialism and Social Democratic politics gious leader of the late-colonial era, and in Britain and Germany traces the the most famous man in America in the story of democratic socialism from years preceding the Revolutionary War. its nineteenth-century roots through Paper 2016 344 pp. 13 b/w illus. the mid-1960s. Examining how the 978-0-300-22358-3 $25.00 movement adapted to different cultural, religious, and political contexts, Gary & American Colonial History Dorrien argues for a decentralized Clashing Cultures and Faiths economic democracy and anti-imperial THOMAS S. KIDD internationalism. This lively volume interweaves primary Hardcover 2019 600 pp. sources with narrative and incorporates 978-0-300-23602-6 $37.50 the Caribbean, the American West, and the lives of Africans within the American Now available in paperback Colonial experience, providing readers & The New Abolition with fresh perspectives on specific events W. E. B. Du Bois and the Black Social Gospel and the period as a whole. GARY DORRIEN Paper 2016 344 pp. 24 b/w illus. In this groundbreaking work, Gary Dorrien 978-0-300-18732-8 $20.00 describes the early history of the black social gospel from its nineteenth-century & The Great Awakening founding to its close association in the The Roots of Evangelical Christianity in twentieth century with W. E. B. Du Bois. Colonial America He offers a new perspective on modern THOMAS S. KIDD Christianity and the civil rights era. In the mid-1700s, an outbreak of religious Winner of the 2017 Grawemeyer Award revivals shook American colonial society. Paper 2018 672 pp. 12 b/w illus. This book provides a definitive history 978-0-300-23059-8 $30.00 of these revivals, called the First Great Awakening, and shows how the evangel- ical movement’s radical notions of the spiritual equality of all people encouraged the democratic style that later came to characterize the American republic. Paper 2009 416 pp. 15 b/w illus. 978-0-300-15846-5 $27.00

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New New America’s Religious Wars American Dharma The Embattled Heart of Our Public Life Beyond Modernity KATHLEEN M. SANDS ANN GLEIG Approaching religion as a symbolic In this fascinating portrait of a rapidly vehicle for many American conflicts, changing religious landscape, Ann Gleig Kathleen Sands explores the ways illuminates developments in American religion-talk signals deep disagreements Buddhism during a period she identifies about the foundations of our society as a distinct stage in the assimilation of while making them even harder to resolve. Buddhism to the West. Available in May 2019 Available in February 2019 Hardcover 2019 320 pp. 14 b/w illus. Hardcover 2019 376 pp. 978-0-300-21386-7 $30.00 978-0-300-21580-9 $35.00

& American Religion, & Sarah Osborn’s American Politics Collected Writings An Anthology EDITED BY CATHERINE A. BREKUS EDITED BY JOSEPH KIP KOSEK; FOREWORD BY JON BUTLER This masterfully edited volume reprints The contentious in selections from Osborn’s writings, provid- American politics is explored in an an- ing a rare opportunity to hear a powerful thology of primary documents, covering a early American woman speak about her wide range of topics including slavery, the faith and personal struggles alongside controversy over Mormon polygamy in the the great events of her age. 1800s, and today’s debates over same-sex Hardcover 2017 448 pp. 13 b/w illus. marriage and terrorism. 978-0-300-18289-7 $40.00 Paper 2017 272 pp. 978-0-300-20351-6 $30.00 & Sarah Osborn’s World The Rise of Evangelical Christianity Now available in paperback in Early America & The Many Captivities CATHERINE A. BREKUS of Esther Wheelwright A charismatic leader among eigh- ANN M. LITTLE teenth-century American evangelical Esther Wheelwright (1696–1780) was Christians, Sarah Osborn recorded the born among New England Protestants, details of her life and spiritual quest for was raised by Native Americans, and more than thirty years. Her eloquent came of age in a French-Canadian con- writings open a new window on the roots vent. Ann Little’s absorbing biography of the evangelical movement. explores one of colonial America’s most Winner of the 2015 Outler Prize sponsored by fascinating women. the American Society for Chruch History THE LEWIS WALPOLE SERIES IN EIGHTEENTH-CENTURY CULTURE NEW DIRECTIONS IN NARRATIVE HISTORY AND HISTORY Paper 2017 448 pp. 23 b/w illus. Paper 2018 304 pp. 978-0-300-22691-1 $30.00 978-0-300-23457-2 $30.00 The Now available in paperback The Earliest Text & The Tragedy EDITED BY ROYAL SKOUSEN; TRANSLATED BY of U.S. Foreign Policy As the most accurate and readable version How America’s Civil Religion Betrayed of theBook of Mormon ever published, the National Interest Royal Skousen’s corrected text represents a work of remarkable dedication and a WALTER A. MCDOUGALL; WITH A NEW PREFACE A Pulitzer Prize–winning historian ex- landmark in American religious scholarship. plores the role of civil religion in shaping Cloth 2009 848 pp. the domestic and foreign policy of a “God 978-0-300-14218-1 $40.00 blessed America,” from the era of the Founding Fathers through the present day. Available in March 2019 & = recommended for course use Paper 2019 424 pp. 978-0-300-24453-3 $20.00

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Now available in paperback New Secular Buddhism Ganges Imagining the Dharma in an Uncertain World The Many Pasts of an Indian River STEPHEN BATCHELOR SUDIPTA SEN From the classroom to the workplace The Ganges is the world’s third-largest to the hospital room, mindfulness river. Tracing its past from prehistoric in the West has become a times through the ages, this sweeping, common practice. Many of its Western interdisciplinary history offers a remark- practitioners, however, do not identify able portrait of India’s most sacred and as Buddhist. In this thought-provoking important river, a potent symbol across collection, Stephen Batchelor explores the South Asia. implications of Buddhism’s . Hardcover 2019 464 pp. 66 b/w illus. Paper 2018 296 pp. 1 b/w illus. 978-0-300-11916-9 $30.00 978-0-300-23425-1 $17.00 New After Buddhism The Spirit of Rethinking the Dharma for a Secular Age SAM VAN SCHAIK STEPHEN BATCHELOR Featuring the first full English translation In this provocative book, a world- of an ancient and important text, The renowned Buddhist teacher reexamines Masters of the Lanka, Sam van Schaik the earliest Buddhist texts to show what sheds new light on Zen and explores how was and remains so startling about the it fits into the wider Buddhist tradition. Buddha’s vision of human flourishing. THE SPIRIT OF ... Paper 2017 400 pp. Paper 2019 272 pp. 978-0-300-22434-4 $18.00 978-0-300-22145-9 $17.00

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Everyday Mysticism New A Contemplative Community at Work From Victims to Suspects in the Desert Muslim Women Since 9/11 ARIEL GLUCKLICH SHAKIRA HUSSEIN A noted religion scholar invites readers Once regarded as passive victims waiting into Neot Smadar, a dynamic farming to be rescued, Muslim women are now community and spiritual oasis in Israel’s widely regarded as the arbiters of “terror” arid Negev desert that puts ancient Bud- and a potential threat. Drawing on dhist and Hindu principles of mindfulness interviews and examples from across the and contemplation into everyday practice globe, Hussein shows how this shift in as ways of living and working. attitude has taken place and the impact Hardcover 2017 280 pp. 18 b/w illus. that it is having. 978-0-300-21209-9 $45.00 Available in February 2019 Hardcover 2019 272 pp. The Monastery and the Microscope 978-0-300-23042-0 $30.00 Conversations with the Dalai Lama on Mind, Mindfulness, and the Nature of Reality & Islamism EDITED BY WENDY HASENKAMP WITH JANNA R. WHITE A History of Political from the Fall of the In 2013, the Dalai Lama gathered with Ottoman Empire to the Rise of ISIS leading scientists, philosophers, and TAREK OSMAN monks for in-depth discussions on the Tarek Osman examines the political, nature of reality, consciousness, and the social, and cultural battle currently raging human mind. This eye-opening book throughout the Middle East, offering an presents a record of those spirited and insightful analysis of Islamist movements wide-ranging dialogues. in the region and what their thinking, Hardcover 2017 400 pp. 47 b/w illus. operations, and future portends for the 978-0-300-21808-4 $38.00 region and the Western world. Paper 2017 328 pp. 8 pp. b/w illus. From Christ to Confucius 978-0-300-23096-3 $25.00 German Missionaries, Chinese Christians, and the Globalization of Christianity, 1860–1950 Black Banners of ISIS ALBERT MONSHAN WU The Roots of the New Caliphate In this bold and original study, Albert Wu DAVID J. WASSERSTEIN documents how German missionaries be- In this eye-opening book, a historian of came surprising agents of secularization Islam shows how ISIS is not only a military in Germany and, more broadly, Europe. and political movement but also, and Chastened by their failure to convert the primarily, a religious one, possessing a Chinese to Christianity, these missionar- coherent worldview, a patent strategy, ies reconsidered their attitudes toward and a clear goal: the re-creation of a Chinese culture, catalyzing a revolution in medieval caliphate. thinking about Christianity itself. Hardcover 2017 280 pp. 1 b/w illus. HC-Paper over Board 2016 344 pp. 10 b/w illus. 978-0-300-22835-9 $26.00 978-0-300-21707-0 $85.00 Critique of Religious Discourse Chinese Theology NASR HAMID ABU ZAYD; TRANSLATED BY Text and Context JONATHAN WRIGHT; WITH A SCHOLARLY CHLOË STARR INTRODUCTION BY CAROOL KERSTEN In this groundbreaking and authoritative First published in Arabic in 1994, pro- study, Chloë Starr explores key writings gressive Muslim scholar Nasr Hamid Abu of the most important Chinese Christian Zayd’s controversial work of contemporary intellectuals from the late imperial era Islamic thought argues against the pro- into the twenty-first century. grammatic use of Islamic religious texts Hardcover 2016 392 pp. to support fundamentalist beliefs. 978-0-300-20421-6 $50.00 WORLD THOUGHT IN TRANSLATION HC - Paper over Board 2018 320 pp. 978-0-300-20712-5 $85.00 & = recommended for course use

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& Radical Love & The Qur’an and the Bible Teachings from the Islamic Mystical Tradition Text and Commentary

TRANSLATED AND EDITED BY OMID SAFI GABRIEL SAID REYNOLDS; TRANSLATED BY ALI QULI QARAI At a time when the association of Islam The first comprehensive study to compare with violence dominates headlines, this the sacred texts of Islam, Judaism, and beautiful collection allows us to encoun- Christianity, this groundbreaking book ter a radically different face of the Islamic includes a full translation of the Qur’an, tradition. It traces a soaring, poetic, excerpts from the Bible, and revelatory popular tradition that celebrates love for commentary that demonstrates how the both humanity and Divine as the ultimate sacred scriptures of the three Abrahamic path leading humanity to God. faiths are intrinsically connected. Hardcover 2018 336 pp. Hardcover 2018 1,032 pp. 978-0-300-22581-5 $25.00 978-0-300-18132-6 $40.00

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Religious Thought...... 2-3 Judaism & Jewish History...... 12-13

David Bentley Hart...... 3 Jewish Lives...... 14-15

The Anchor Yale Garry Dorrien...... 16 Bible Series...... 4-6 Thomas S. Kidd...... 16 The Bible...... 7-8 Religion in America...... 17 Ancient Religion & Asian Religions...... 18-19 Early Christianity……...... 8-9 Islam...... 19-20 History of Christianity...... 10-11 World Religions...... 20 Robert L. Wilken...... 11 Also of Interest…...... 21-22

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Cover Illustration: The mystic Ahmad Ghazali conversing with a young man. From a manuscript of a work attributed to Gazurgahi,Majalis al-‘Ushshaq (Meetings of Lovers), dated ah 959 (ad 1552), Bodleian Library, University of Oxford, MS Ouseley Add 24, fol. 42r. From Radical Love (page 20).