Theory and Philosophy of Religion

Sister Death

Political Theologies for Living and Dying Beatrice Marovich

Drawing on a wide range of sources—from Toni Morrison to Derrida to grassroots “death positive” movements—Beatrice Marovich critiques a political theology that pits life and death against each other in a state of endless war. Adapting the figure of “Sister Death” from Saint Francis, she calls for recognizing that life and death are family.

$32.00 / £25.00 paper 978-0-231-20837-6 $125.00 / £98.00 cloth 978-0-231-20836-9 January 2023 304 pages 26 illus.

Liquid Light

Ayahuasca Spirituality and the Santo Daime Tradition G. William Barnard

The Santo Daime is a syncretic religion whose spiritual practice is based around the sacramental use of ayahuasca. G. William Barnard—an initiate of the religion and a scholar of religious studies—considers the religious practice and transformative inner experiences of the Santo Daime community.

$35.00 / £30.00 paper 978-0-231-18661-2 $140.00 / £108.00 cloth 978-0-231-18660-5 2022 360 pages Energy and Change

A New Materialist Cosmotheology Clayton Crockett

Clayton Crockett offers an innovative philosophy of energy that cuts across a number of leadingedge disciplines. Drawing from contemporary philosophies of new materialism, non-Western traditions, and the sciences, he develops a comprehensive vision of energy as a material process spanning physics, biology, politics, ecology, and religion.

$35.00 / £28.00 paper 978-0-231-20611-2 $140.00 / £108.00 cloth 978-0-231-20610-5 2022 304 pages

A Friendship in Twilight

Lockdown Conversations on Death and Life Jack Miles and Mark C. Taylor

Jack Miles and Mark Taylor have both in different ways brought religious and philosophical concerns into the wider world. Approaching the end of their careers as well as the end of their lives, they were prompted by the advent of a deadly pandemic amid worldwide political crises to discuss, among other issues: Can philosophy help us intellectually, emotionally, and spiritually understand and accept our fundamental impermanence?

$26.00 / £20.00 paper 978-0-231-20595-5 $110.00 / £92.00 cloth 978-0-231-20594-8 2022 400 pages

A Cultural History of the Soul

Europe and North America from 1870 to the Present Kocku von Stuckrad

This book uncovers the history of the concept of the soul in twentieth-century Europe and North America. Beginning in fin-de-siècle Germany, Kocku von Stuckrad examines an astonishingly wide range of figures and movements.

$30.00 / £25.00 paper 978-0-231-20037-0 $120.00 / £94.00 cloth 978-0-231-20036-3 2022 352 pages Living in Refuge

Ritualization and Religiosity in a Christian and a Muslim Palestinian Refugee Camp in Lebanon Leonardo Schiocchet

This comparative ethnography of a Muslim and a Christian Palestinian refugee camp in Lebanon focuses on contrasting social belonging processes through a ritualization approach. Leonardo Schiocchet argues that contrasts emerge out of the intersections of religiosity, nationhood, refugeeness, and politics.

$40.00 paper 978-3-8376-6074-6 2022 264 pages

The Notion of “Holy” in Ancient Armenian Texts from the Fifth Century CE

A Comparative Approach Using Digital Tools and Methods Thomas Jurczyk

Thomas Jurczyk conducts a diachronic comparison of the meaning and application of two notions and their related word fields that are commonly associated with a broader comparative notion of holy, namely the Ancient Armenian term »surb« and its related words and the English word field associated with "holy."

$60.00 paper 978-3-8376-6181-1 2022 380 pages

The Christian Right in Europe

Movements, Networks and Denominations Edited by Gionathan Lo Mascolo

Inspired by the success of the U.S. Christian Right and the rise of the global far right, ultraconservative Christians in Europe are joining forces and seek to reshape Europe. This anthology is the first to bring together case studies on the Christian Right in over twenty European countries, providing a transnational perspective and an accessible insight for clergy, politicians, and academics alike.

$50.00 paper 978-3-8376-6038-8 November 2022 330 pages

The Shape of Sex

Nonbinary Gender from Genesis to the Renaissance Leah DeVun

The Shape of Sex is a pathbreaking history of nonbinary sex, focusing on ideas and individuals who allegedly combined or crossed sex or gender categories from 200–1400 C.E. Ranging widely across premodern European thought and culture, Leah DeVun reveals how and why efforts to define “the human” so often hinged on ideas about nonbinary sex.

$35.00 / £28.00 paper 978-0-231-19551-5 $105.00 / £81.00 cloth 978-0-231-19550-8 2021 336 pages 40 illus. Dostoyevsky, or the Flood of Language

Julia Kristeva Translated by Jody Gladding. Foreword by Rowan Williams.

Julia Kristeva embarks on a wide-ranging and stimulating inquiry into Dostoyevsky’s work and the profound ways it has influenced her own thinking. Reading across his major novels and shorter works, Kristeva offers incandescent insights into the potent themes that draw her back to the Russian master.

$20.00 / £14.99 cloth 978-0-231-20332-6 2021 112 pages

Philosophy’s Big Questions

Comparing Buddhist and Western Approaches Edited by Steven M. Emmanuel

The essays in this book turn to the major figures and texts of the Buddhist tradition in order to expand and enrich our thinking on enduring philosophical questions. Featuring striking and generative comparisons, Philosophy’s Big Questions offers readers new conceptual tools, methods, and insights for the pursuit of a good and happy life.

$30.00 / £25.00 paper 978-0-231-17487-9 $120.00 / £94.00 cloth 978-0-231-17486-2 2021 336 pages Pantheologies

Gods, Worlds, Monsters Mary-Jane Rubenstein

Mary-Jane Rubenstein provides a conceptual genealogy of pantheisms. What makes pantheism “monstrous”—at once repellent and seductive—is that it scrambles the raced and gendered distinctions that Western philosophy and theology insist on drawing between activity and passivity, spirit and matter, animacy and inanimacy, and creator and created.

$26.00 / £20.00 paper 978-0-231-18947-7 $37.00 / £30.00 cloth 978-0-231-18946-0 2021 320 pages