Chicago, Ethiopianism, and the Black Apocalyptic Imagination
Kai Parker
Price: $49.95
ISBN: 9781512827521
Pub Date: May 2025
Format: Hardcover
288 Pages
City of Black Souls uncovers the history of how, from the late nineteenth to the mid-twentieth century, Black Protestants in Chicago created a transnational religious movement, known as Ethiopianism, that connected the Black struggle for freedom in the United States to the global Black fight against Western imperialism.
Law, Spirituality, and the Literature of Concealment in Early Medieval England
Benjamin A. Saltzman
Price: $34.95
ISBN: 9781512827903
Pub Date: February 2025
Format: Paperback
360 Pages
Bonds of Secrecy illuminates the relationship between human experiences of secrecy and early medieval beliefs about divine omniscience. Benjamin A. Saltzman argues that this relationship was fundamental to early English legal and monastic culture and profoundly shaped the practices of literary interpretation in the Middle Ages.
Religion in the Public Square examines how three very different members of clergy—Ven. Fulton J. Sheen, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., and Rev. Jerry Falwell—each persuaded politicians and ordinary people that his theological ideas formed the foundation of American politics.
Friars, Sisters, and the Dominican Rite, 1256-1516
CJ Jones
Price: $75.00
ISBN: 9781512825688
Pub Date: July 2024
Format: Hardcover
456 Pages
Through a set of never-before-studied records, CJ Jones illustrates how Dominicans reconciled their order’s rules with their own concrete circumstances and with the changing world around them and offers a new history of the medieval liturgy from the perspective of women’s communities.
The Permeable Self offers medievalists new insight into the appeal and dangers of the erotics of pedagogy; the remarkable influence of courtly romance conventions on hagiography and mysticism; and the unexpected ways that pregnancy—often devalued in mothers—could be positively ascribed to men, virgins, and God.
Volume editor Elizabeth A. Foster and Udi Greenberg
Price: $39.95
ISBN: 9781512824964
Pub Date: August 2023
Format: Hardcover
288 Pages
This collection of essays charts the evolution of Christian practice and institutions across the world throughout decolonization. Contributors argue that Western imperialism’s formal collapse ultimately triggered a radical change in the trajectory of global Christianity as the center of growth shifted from Europe to Asia, Latin America, and Africa.
God's Country tells the complete story of Christian Zionism in American political and religious thought from the Puritans to 9/11. Combining original research with insights from the work of historians of American religion, Samuel Goldman provides an accessible yet provocative introduction to Americans' attachment to the State of Israel.
Ritual Objects and Silent Subjects in Late Antiquity
Georgia Frank
Price: $59.95
ISBN: 9781512823950
Pub Date: February 2023
Format: Hardcover
208 Pages
Unfinished Christians explores the sensory and affective dimensions of ordinary Christians’ ritual lives in late antiquity. With few first-person accounts by ordinary Christians, it relies on written sources not typically associated with lived religion: sermons, liturgical instruction books, and festal hymns from Greek-speaking communities.
