This book offers a new history of a major medieval genre, affective meditations on the Passion. It argues that women were instrumental in the creation of this genre, and it illuminates how these scripts for the performance of prayer served to construct compassion itself as an intimate and feminine emotion.
A small-town Sri Lankan merchant family, their homes, and daily lives reveal how class, kinship, and ambition unfold after war. A Merchant’s House shows how domestic spaces shape social relations, moral decisions, and family futures in ways that reflect the pressures and possibilities of postwar life.
Mindful Nationalism and Value Conflict Among Religious Israelis
Ori Mautner
Price: $59.95
ISBN: 9781512830651
Pub Date: February 2027
Format: Hardcover
240 Pages
Based on extensive fieldwork, this intimate ethnography explores how orthodox Jewish Israelis devoted to settling the occupied West Bank adopt Buddhist-derived meditation to encounter God within and promote redemption. Settling the Mind, Settling the Land reveals how self-reflection can reinforce rather than challenge nationalist commitments.
Isaac Abravanel, New Imperial Thinking, and Critical Historiography
Cedric Cohen-Skalli
Price: $79.95
ISBN: 9781512830637
Pub Date: February 2027
Format: Hardcover
304 Pages
Through the life and writings of Isaac Abravanel (1437–1508), Forgotten Paths to Modernity illuminates two distinct yet overlapping intellectual developments of early modern thought: Jewish intercultural understanding of the rising early modern empires before and after1492 and the interreligious history of early modern historical criticism.
Proclaim Liberty chronicles the Jubilee’s interpretation in the ancient texts of early Judaism and Christianity. By analyzing the practice and the idea in conversation with Utopian Studies, Jonathan Kaplan demonstrates how the Jubilee was employed to shape visions for renewing Jewish economic practices and to frame new ways of thinking about time.
Dyan Elliott demonstrates how scandal-averse policies in conjunction with the requirement of clerical celibacy resulted in the widespread sexual abuse of boys from late antiquity through the later Middle Ages, and argues that the same clerical prerogatives and strategies for the cover-up of abuse remain in place today.
Lorenzo Dow was the most famous early nineteenth-century American preacher and one of the United States’ first truly national celebrities. In this book, Seth Perry shows how he helped create the confident, aggressive brand of Protestantism that continues to dominate American culture and politics.
Tacit Textuality is an ethnography about the practice of kombe in Zanzibar, in which Qurʾanic verses are liquefied and consumed as medicine across religious divides. Hanna Nieber investigates three foci: kombe’smateriality, its social context that includes interreligious relations, and how the materiality of the book becomes part of the story.
