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A Letter from the Religion Editor It is with great pleasure that I present the Columbia University Press religion catalog for 2015. These titles, which span subjects from philosophy of religion to South and East Asian religions, American religions, and Middle Eastern religions, reflect the interdisciplinary and global approach of our list and exemplify the quality of scholarship that we value. Among the many outstanding titles in this year’s wide-ranging catalog several deserve special attention. Cloud of the Impossible, by ecotheologian Catherine Keller, offers a history of the unknown, the impossible, the unspeakable, and the unthinkable, a progressive force that disrupts traditional religion, globalism, and imperialism, from the multiple perspectives of continental philosophy, feminist and ecological theology, quantum theory, literature, and politics. Blood: A Critique of Christianity, by philosopher and religion scholar Gil Anidjar, is a profound examination of the symbol of blood throughout Western Christian history and culture and how it has shaped our vision of everything from religion and community to biology to law and nation to our concept of commerce. Teresa, My Love, by psychoanalyst Julia Kristeva, is a monumental work of hybrid genres—fiction, history, psychoanalysis, and personal fantasy—which interweaves elements of biography, autobiography, epistolary exchanges, theatrical dialogue, musical scores, and photographs of sculptures and paintings to reconstruct the life of Saint Teresa of Avila. Janet Gyatso’s Being Human in a Buddhist World is a groundbreaking work describing how Tibetan medicine arose from its Buddhist origins and became a distinct area of knowledge. And Evan Thompson’s Waking, Dreaming, Being sheds new light on consciousness and the profound mysteries of our existence from cutting-edge neuroscience, philosophy, and contemplative traditions. Other innovative authors and projects include The Columbia Sourcebook of Mormons in the United States, edited by Terryl Givens and Reid Nielson, the first collection of primary sources of the LDS Church in America; Ibn Sina’s Remarks and Admonitions: Physics and Metaphysics, translated and edited by Shams Inati, the first English translation of these important mature books by the renowned medieval Islamic thinker; and Religion, Food, and Eating in North America, based on a four-year seminar held at the American Academy of Religion. I am sure that you will find much to enjoy and ponder in these pages. I, and my colleagues at Columbia University Press, look forward to continuing our dialogue. Wendy Lochner Publisher, Philosophy, Religion, Political Theory, Animal Studies

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Religion in America ....................................... 3

Christianity .....................................................6

Islamic Studies ..............................................9

Jewish Studies ...............................................11

South Asian Religion ....................................13

New In Paper ................................................16

American Institute of Buddhist Studies........17

East Asian Religion .......................................18

Religion & Philosophy ..................................22

Religion & Science ........................................27

Religion & Politics ....................................... 29

Religion, Ethics & Animal Studies................31

Other Books of Interest ...............................33

Ordering Information .................................36

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RELIGION IN AMERICA

The Columbia Sourcebook of Mormons in the United StatesEdited by Terryl L. Givens and Reid L.

Neilson

"This is the most expansive and comprehen-sive collection of documents ever compiled about the LDS Church in the United States. Dealing with subjects varied and frequently controversial, from theology and polity to race and sexuality, Terryl L. Givens and Reid L. Neilson include glimpses of Mormonism as revealed, proscribed, and lived in many times and places. It will surely be an indis-pensable resource and starting point for anyone interested in the history and ongoing story of the Mormon faith for years to come."

— Laurie F. Maffly-Kipp, Washington University in St. Louis

$80.00 / £55.00 cloth 978-0-231-14942-6

2014 480 pages


RELIGION IN AMERICA

Religion, Food, and Eating in North AmericaEdited by Benjamin E. Zeller, Marie W.

Dallam, Reid L. Neilson, and Nora L. Rubel

"From a Georgia farm to the salmon runs of the Pacific Northwest, from Sylvester Graham to hip vegans, Americans draw tight links between their food and their faith. These essays investigate a broad set of religious traditions, and the results are theoretically rich yet accessible to nonspe-cialists. The volume helps us think about what it means to be American, as well as what it means to be religious, and forces us to broaden our definition of religion, with implications for health, commerce, and the environment."

— Daniel Sack, author of Whitebread Protestants: Food and Religion in American Culture

$35.00 / £24.00 paper 978-0-231-16031-5

$105.00 / £72.50 cloth 978-0-231-16030-8

2014 376 pages / 11 illus.

Arts and Traditions of the Table: Perspectives on Culinary History

Atheists in AmericaEdited by Melanie E. Brewster

"Atheists in America is a unique contribution to the literature on atheism touching on top-ics rarely discussed or researched. I do not know of any other book on the market that seeks to bring together individual narratives of deconversion and the challenges faced afterward."

— Amarnath Amarasingam, York University

This collection features more than two dozen narratives by atheists from differ-ent backgrounds across the United States. Ranging in age, race, sexual orientation, and religious upbringing, these individuals address deconversion, community build-ing, parenting, and romantic relationships, providing a nuanced look at living without a god in a predominantly Christian nation.

$28.00 / £19.502 cloth 978-0-231-16358-3

2014 272 pages


Buddhism in America, Revised and ExpandedRichard Hughes Seager

Praise for the previous edition:

“A comprehensive survey of a variety of Buddhist traditions in the contemporary U.S.

... [Its] strength, apart from being a mine of information, is Seager's insistence on tak-ing a historically informed and comparative perspective.”—Religious Studies Review

“This book cries out for use as a textbook for classes on Buddhism in America.”

—The Journal of Religion

This edition updates existing text and adds three new essays on contemporary develop-ments in American Buddhism, particularly the aging of the baby boom population and its effect on American Buddhism’s modern character. New material includes revised information on the full range of communi-ties profiled in the first edition; an added study of a second generation of young, Euro-American leaders and teachers; an accessible look at the increasing importance of meditation and neurobiological research; and a provocative consideration of the mind-fulness movement in American culture.

$27.50 / £19.00 paper 978-0-231-15973-9

$79.50 / £55.00 cloth 978-0-231-15972-2

2012 384 pages

Columbia Contemporary American Religion Series

RELIGION IN AMERICA

The Birth of Conservative JudaismSolomon Schechter’s Disciples and the Creation of an American Religious

Movement

Michael R. Cohen

"This path-breaking and provocative vol-ume challenges Conservative Judaism's founding myth and rewrites its subsequent history. The most important study of early Conservative Judaism in more than half-a-century, it should be required reading for all students of American Judaism and for any-one who cares about the Conservative move-ment's past, present, and future."

— Jonathan D. Sarna, Brandeis University,

author of American Judaism: A History

"Should quickly become the standard work on the emergence of the movement."

— H-Judaic

$50.00 / £34.50 cloth 978-0-231-15635-6

2012 232 pages / 10 illus.


CHRISTIANITY

BloodA Critique of Christianity

Gil Anidjar

"Ambitious and daring... Blood is bound to provoke heated discussion."

— Immanent Frame

"In this highly original book Anidjar decon-structs 'Christianity' into its element: blood. In doing so he demonstrates, with impres-sive skill, the ubiquity of blood–and its metamorphoses–in Christian history. In this exploration of the circulation of blood as the life of nation, state, and capital, the reader is presented with an extraordinary account of modernity no less. Scholars of modernity will learn to see 'Christianity' as something at once more and less than 'religion'–even though it is, as Anidjar argues, the (mislead-ing) prototype of all religions.' This is a work to be read carefully and its implications pondered over."

— Talal Asad, CUNY Graduate Center

$40.00 / £27.50 cloth 978-0-231-16720-8

2014 464 pages

Religion, Culture, and Public Life

A Materialism for the MassesSaint Paul and the Philosophy of Undying Life

Ward Blanton

“Ward Blanton further solidifies his reputa-tion as the most adventurous and rigorous scholar of his generation as he reimagines the historical meaning and political impetus of early Christianity and its ongoing...effect on the most enduring philosophical and ethi-cal questions of our time.”

— Hent de Vries, Johns Hopkins University

"Ward Blanton’s handling—and mastery—of Western philosophical traditions provides a much more convincing account of Christian origins as well as a greater appreciation of the ways in which power works in the present."

— James Crossley, University of Sheffield

$35.00 / £24.00 paper 978-0-231-16691-1

$105.00 / £72.50 cloth 978-0-231-16690-4

2014 264 pages

Insurrections: Critical Studies in Religion, Politics, and Culture


Christ Without AdamSubjectivity and Sexual Difference in the Philosophers’ Paul

Benjamin H. Dunning

"An outstanding contribution not only to Pauline studies and critical theory but also to contemporary Christian theological anthropology."

— David Brakke, Ohio State University

Christ Without Adam is the first book to examine the role of gender and sexuality in the turn to the apostle Paul in recent Continental philosophy. It builds a con-structive proposal for embodied Christian theological anthropology in conversation with—and in contrast to—the “Paulinisms” of Stanislas Breton, Alain Badiou, and Slavoj Žižek.

$25.00 / £17.50 paper 978-0-231-16765-9

$75.00 / £52.00 cloth 978-0-231-16764-2

2014 176 pages

Gender, Theory, and Religion

CHRISTIANITY

Promised BodiesTime, Language, and Corporeality in

Medieval Women's Mystical Texts

Patricia Dailey

“Promised Bodies is a contribution at once to the study of medieval Christian mystical theology and to that of medieval women’s religious writing. These two fields are adja-cent and have been in dialogue for more than a century, yet they have never engaged with the intellectual energy that Patricia Dailey brings to bear on them here."

— Nicholas Watson, Harvard University

"Both learned and delightful, both sweeping and precise, Promised Bodies sets a new standard for the study of the mystical tradi-tion in the Western Middle Ages. Reading across linguistic, temporal, and institutional boundaries, Patricia Dailey provides a com-pelling new perspective on the eternally per-plexing nature of embodiment and its formal incarnation in writing."

— Bruce Holsinger, University of Virginia

$55.00 / £38.00 cloth 978-0-231-16120-6

2013 272 pages

Gender, Theory, and Religion


The Virgin Mary and Catholic Identities in Chinese HistoryJeremy Clarke

"In this path-breaking work the author asks, ‘How are Chinese Catholic identities expressed through images?’ In answering this, he skilfully interweaves the different ways in which the Virgin Mary has been depicted in Chinese iconography with the changing circumstances of the local church, China’s tumultuous history, and how this relates to broader ecclesiastical, cultural and international developments. Anyone inter-ested in religion, modern China, or cultural exchange, should read this book."

— Richard Rigby, Executive Director of The China Institute, Australian National University

$55.00 / £38.00 cloth 978-988-8139-99-6

2013 312 pages / 26 illus.

Hong Kong University Press

CHRISTIANITY

Robert Morrison and the Protestant Plan for ChinaChristopher A. Daily

"Through a brilliant analysis of hitherto unex-plored archival material, Christopher Daily offers important new insights into Robert Morrison’s missionary career at the gates of the Chinese Empire. This eminently readable book demonstrates with great clarity how the implementation of the Gosport ‘mission tem-plate’ was religiously observed by Morrison in an exceedingly hostile environment."

— R. G. Tiedemann, Shandong University

60.00 / £41.50 cloth 978-988-8208-03-6

2013 272 pages

Hong Kong University Press


ISLAMIC STUDIES

Women in the MosqueA History of Legal Thought

and Social Practice

Marion Holmes Katz

"A scholarly milestone. Women in the Mosque is a comprehensive, categorical treatment of the question of women’s mosque access in Islamic law and history. Marion Holmes Katz is one of the most widely respected scholars of Islamic law and ritual in the West, and, in its scope and detail, this work is peerless to my knowledge.”

— Jonathan Brown, Georgetown University

“Women in the Mosque will become an essential part of the library of every scholar concerned with Islamic ritual law, women in religion, women in Islam, and even religious architecture. There is something here for students of Islamic law, Ottoman history, Arab social history, and modern Muslim intel-lectual history.”

— Kevin Reinhart, Dartmouth College

$55.00 / £38.00 cloth 978-0-231-16266-1

2014 432 pages / 2 illus.

Henry Stubbe and the Beginnings of IslamThe Originall & Progress of

Mahometanism

Edited by Nabil Matar

“Stubbe’s manuscript treatise, which drew for the first time on Arabic and non-Christian sources in Latin translation, was revolution-ary in its methodology and understanding of Islam. He presented the first historical biography of the Prophet and told the story of the spread of Islam, dispelling many untruths, such as conversion by the sword, while recognizing Muslim toleration for other religions. Nabil Matar’s work illuminates an important moment in the late seventeenth century.”

— Donald R. Dickson, Texas A&M University

$50.00 / £34.50 cloth 978-0-231-15664-6

2013 288 pages


ISLAMIC STUDIES

Muslim IdentitiesAn Introduction to Islam

Aaron W. Hughes

“[A] truly extraordinary book .... the very best introduction currently available in English for non-Muslims seeking a sound approach to Islam.”

— Journal of Islamic Studies

“[Huges] book is neither an apology for nor a critique of Islam. It is an ideal introduction for those who prefer not to be told what Islam should be yet seek to understand the complex and differing ways Islam has been and is understood by Muslims.”

— Herbert Berg, University of North Carolina Wilmington

$29.50 / £20.50 paper 978-0-231-16147-3

$89.50 / £62.00 cloth 978-0-231-16146-6


Ibn Sina’s Remarks and AdmonitionsPhysics and Metaphysics: An Analysis

and Annotated Translation

Shams C. Inati

"An important text by one of the leading writers on Islamic philosophy and the first English translation of high quality. It will be heavily used by those in the discipline."

— Oliver Leaman, University of Kentucky

"In providing a clear and accessible translation of difficult text with very useful annotations, Inati has made a major contribution to Avicenna’s studies and has put students of Islamic as well as Western medieval philosophy in her debt."

— Seyyed Hossein Nasr, George Washington University

$50.00 / £34.50 cloth 978-0-231-16616-4

2014 248 pages


JEWISH STUDIES

A SemiteA Memoir of Algeria

Denis Guénoun

Foreword by Judith Butler

"Drawing on his own recollections as well as documents that offer an official chronicle and letters and journals that pour out personal desires, Guénoun explores the complications of family and identity." — Booklist

René Guénoun called himself a Semite, a word that he felt united Jewish and Arab worlds and best reflected a shared ori-gin. He also believed that Algerians had the same political rights as Frenchmen. Although his Jewish family was rooted in Algeria, he inherited French citizenship and revered the principles of the French Revolution. His steadfast belief in liberty, equality, and fraternity led him into trouble, including prison and exile, yet his failures as an activist never shook his faith in a rational, generous future.

$35.00 / £24.00 cloth 978-0-231-16402-3


Jerusalem UnboundGeography, History, and the Future of the Holy City

Michael Dumper

“A clearly organized, meticulously researched, highly readable guide to Jerusalem’s complex social and political landscape.”

— Washington Report on Middle East Affairs

“An original look at a city in flux amidst impasse. Jerusalem Unbound presents a new argument about how to think about this con-tentious city, asserting that its fluid, ‘many-bordered’ nature constrains the unilateral imposition of political power and opens up new alternatives for political compromise.”

— Scott A. Bollens, author of City and Soul in Divided Societies

$35.00 / £24.00 cloth 978-0-231-16196-1

2014 360 pages / 37 illus.


Parting Ways Jewishness and the Critique of Zionism

Judith Butler

"An incredibly important and timely book. As always, Judith Butler generates a bril-liant and rich argument through a series of readings, in this case complex and nuanced engagements with the work of Edward Said, Emmanuel Levinas, Walter Benjamin, Hannah Arendt, Primo Levi, and Mahmoud Darwish. Her book is intent on showing that one can develop from Jewish sources a perspective on Israel-Palestine that is non-Zionist, and that it might even be possible to assert resistance to Zionism as itself a ‘Jewish’ value. These scare quotes are Butler’s, who constantly questions what it means to be Jewish."

—Amy Hollywood, Harvard University

$19.95 / £13.95 paper 978-0-231-14611-1

$27.95/ £19.50 cloth 978-0-231-14610-4

2012 256 pages

JEWISH STUDIES

The Generation of PostmemoryWriting and Visual Culture After the Holocaust

Marianne Hirsch

“Significant contributions to Holocaust litera-ture, women’s and gender history, and mem-ory studies.” — Women’s Review of Books

"With her crucial distinction between ‘famil-ial’ and ‘affiliative’ postmemory, Marianne Hirsch shows how the transmission of trau-matic experiences occurs not only within families but also across a much wider social field. Her emphasis on the role of gender in this mediating process is illuminating. The Generation of Postmemory will be a major reference in Holocaust and genocide studies for years to come."

— Susan Rubin Suleiman, author of Crises of Memory and the Second World War

$27.50/£19.00 paper 978-0-231-15653-0

$89.50 /£62.00 cloth 978-0-231-15652-3

2012 320 pages / 57 illus.

Gender and Culture Series


Paving the Great WayVasubandhu's Unifying Buddhist Philosophy

Jonathan C. Gold

"Jonathan Gold has given us the definitive book on Vasubandhu's philosophy. Paving the Great Way is a masterpiece of philo-sophical exposition, synthesis and creative commentary. Gold addresses every facet of Vasubandhu's considerable and varied corpus, and integrates them in his articula-tion of Vasubandhu's original synthesis of Buddhist ideas. Gold brings to this project great philological erudition, deep philosophi-cal insight, scrupulous commentarial skills and a marvelous lucidity in exposition. This book is a major contribution not only to Vasubandhu scholarship, but to Yogācāra studies; not only to Yogācāra studies but to the history of Indian philosophy; not only to the history of Indian philosophy but to the history of world philosophy and to the engagement between Western and Buddhist philosophical scholarship."

— Jay L. Garfield, Yale-NUS College

$55.00 / £38.00 cloth 978-0-231-16826-7

2014 336 pages

SOUTH ASIAN RELIGION

Love and LiberationAutobiographical Writings of the Tibetan

Buddhist Visionary Sera Khandro

Sarah H. Jacoby

"Sarah H. Jacoby’s study of gender and sexu-ality is pathbreaking in the field of Tibetan studies. Because the main research materials were authored by a noncelibate woman, this book gives rich insight into one woman’s conception of the complex social, political, and even medical aspects of tantric consort practices. Jacoby grounds Buddhist theory in the lived experience of an actual practitio-ner and illuminates this topic based on her fieldwork in Tibet. Her work reveals modern Tibetan history like never before—not by tracking political or institutional history, but through attention to the life of a runaway girl who transforms herself from lowly servant to famous teacher through her extraordinary vision of her life."

— Gray Tuttle, Columbia University

$50.00 / £34.50 cloth 978-0-231-14768-2

2014 456 pages / 19 illus.


When a Woman Becomes a Religious DynastyThe Samding Dorje Phagmo of Tibet

Hildegard Diemberger

"A significant contribution to Tibetan cultural history and gender studies."

— Journal of the American Academy of Religion

"A fascinating account of the women who constituted the most famous of all female incarnation lineages in Tibet, perhaps the most intriguing series of women in recent Tibetan history."

— Robert Barnett, Columbia University, and author of Lhasa: Streets with Memories

$30.00 / £20.50 paper 978-0-231-14321-9

$60.00 / £41.50 cloth 978-0-231-14320-2

2007 416 pages / 64 illus.


Sources of Indian TraditionsModern India, Pakistan, and Bangladesh

Third edition; volume two

Edited by Rachel Fell McDermott, Leonard

A. Gordon, Ainslie T. Embree, Frances W.

Pritchett, and Dennis Dalton

"The third edition of Sources of Indian Traditions is fascinating, easy to read, pro-vocative, and relevant to the present. Two narrative lines flow, like an underground river, through the book: colonialism and the search for independence and the struggle with the ever-changing questions of nation-alism. An excellent expansion of the second edition, this anthology is masterly organized, making it a unique teaching text on South Asia."

— Owen M. Lynch, New York University

$75.00 / £52.00 cloth 978-0-231-13830-7

2014 1024 pages / 11 illus.

Introduction to Asian Civilizations


The Pariah ProblemCaste, Religion, and the Social in

Modern India

Rupa Viswanath

“Viswanath powerfully argues that there was a government–missionary nexus that sought to turn the pariah from traditional forms of slavery to modern forms of dispossessed labor. Most remarkably, she shows that the initiative for conversion to Christianity came not from mis-sionaries but from Dalits who were motivated not by abstract ideas of emancipation but by strategic considerations of material advantage in their daily struggles.”

— Partha Chatterjee, Columbia University and the Centre for Studies in Social Sciences, Calcutta

$60.00 / £41.50 cloth 978-0-231-16306-4


Cultures of History

The Bhāgavata PurānaSacred Text and Living Tradition

Edited by Ravi M. Gupta

and Kenneth R. Valpey

“Highly recommended.” — Choice

“The Bhāgavata Purāna gathers a superb group of contemporary scholars who bring a new dimension of appreciation for this religious masterpiece of Vaisnava Hinduism. Their essays plumb the breadth and depth of the influence of one of the world’s religious masterpieces with its unique devotional intensity and metaphysical subtlety.”

— Daniel P. Sheridan, Saint Joseph’s College of Maine

$34.50 / £24.00 paper 978-0-231-14999-0

$105.00 / £72.50 cloth 978-0-231-14998-3




NEW IN PAPER

Brains, Buddhas, and BelievingThe Problem of Intentionality in Classical Buddhist and Cognitive-Scientific Philosophy of Mind

Winner of the Toshihide Numata Book Prize

Dan Arnold

$27.00 / £18.50 paper 978-0-231-14547-3 2014 328 pages

Unifying HinduismPhilosophy and Identity in Indian Intellectual History

Andrew J. Nicholson

Best First Book in the History of Religions

from the American Academy of Religion

$28.00 / £19.50 paper 978-0-231-14987-7

2013 280 pages

South Asia Across the Disciplines

The Millennial SovereignSacred Kingship and Sainthood in Islam

A. Azfar Moin

Best First Book in the History of Religions

from the American Academy of Religion

$28.00 / £19.50 paper 978-0-231-16037-7 2014 368 pages


Conflict, Conquest, and ConversionTwo Thousand Years of Christian Missions in the Middle EastEleanor H. Tejirian and Reeva Spector Simon

$25.00 / £17.50 paper 978-0-231-13865-9 2014 296 pages

Making Sense of Tantric BuddhismHistory, Semiology, and Transgression in the Indian Traditions

Christian K. Wedemeyer

Award for Excellence in the Study of Religion: Historical Studies from the American Academy of Religion

$26.00 / £18.00 paper 978-0-231-16241-82014 336 pages


The Yogin and the MadmanReading the Biographical Corpus of Tibet’s Great Saint Milarepa

American Academy of Religion’s Award for Excellence in the Study of Religion–Textual Studies

Andrew Quintman

$35.00 / £24.00 paper 978-0-231-16415-3

2013 336 pages


Meditations of a Buddhist SkepticA Manifesto for the Mind Sciences and Contemplative Practice

B. Alan Wallace

$18.95 / £12.95 paper 978-0-231-15835-0 2013 304 pages

Mind in the Balance Meditation in Science, Buddhism, and Christianity

B. Alan Wallace

$18.95 / £12.95 paper 978-0-231-14731-62014 264 pages

Columbia Series in Science and Religion


AMERICAN INSTITURE OF BUDDHIST STUDIES (AIBS)

A Catalogue of the Comparative Kangyur (bka' 'gyur dpe bsdur ma)Paul G. Hackett

This is the first volume of a two volume set providing detailed cataloging information for the recently published Comparative (dpe bsdur ma) recension of the Tibetan Tripitaka.

The catalogue includes cross-references to seven other Kangyur recensions used in the compilation of the Comparative Kangyur, including the previously uncataloged

“Litang” (li thang) Kangyur. In addition, errors found in the “tables of contents” (dkar chag) and “cross-reference tables” (re’u mig) to the published edition have been corrected and verified against the published volumes and original blockprints. Indices to Tibetan and Sanskrit titles, translators, and revisers have been added, along with concordance tables aligning catalog numbers between the various recensions. $56.00 / £38.50 cloth 978-1-935011-14-9

2013 414 pages

Treasury of the Buddhist Sciences (AIBS)

Great Treatise on the Stages of Mantra: Chapters XI–XII (The Creation Stage)Tsong Khapa Losang Drakpa

Translated and Introduced by Thomas F. Yarnall

Tsong Khapa’s Great Treatise on the Stages of Mantra (Sngags rim chen mo)—considered by the present Dalai Lama to be one of Tsong Khapa’s two most im portant books (along with his Lam rim chen mo)—is his masterful synthesis of the prin ciples and practices of all four classes of Tantra, which formed the basis of his innovation in creat-ing the esoteric “Tantric College” institution and cur ricu lum in the early fifteenth cen-tury. With detailed reference to hundreds of works from the Tibetan Kangyur and Tengyur, the chapters presented and studied in this volume concern his treatment of the creation stage (bskyed rim) meditations of Unexcelled Yoga Tantra. This includes a detailed analysis emphasizing how and why such creation stage practices—uti lizing deity yoga to transform death, the between, and life into the three bodies of buddhahood—are indispensible to creat ing a foundation for successfully enter ing the culminal yogic practices of the perfection stage.

$56.00 / £38.50 cloth 978-1-935011-01-9

2013 408 pages



EAST ASIAN RELIGION

Tsong Khapa's Illumination of the Hidden Meaning Mandala, Mantra, and the Cult of the Yognis: A Study and Annotated Translation of Chapters 1-24 of the sbas don kun sel

David B. Gray

This is the first in a two-volume annotated translation of Tsong Khapa's Illumination of the Hidden Meaning (sbas don kun sel). A magnificent and massive commentary on the Cakrasamvara Tantra, this is first English translation of a work that marks a milestone in the Tibetan assimilation of the Indian Buddhist tantras.

This first volume, which includes Tsong Khapa's detailed introduction to chapters 1 to 24 of the 51 chapter root tantra, covers the history of the tradition, its interpretation, and a range of topics including the con-struction of the mandala, the consecration therein, and the decoding of mantras and their ritual applications, as well as extensive details concerning the clans of the yoginis and the procedures to win their favor. David B. Gray situates the work in context and explores in depth the sources used in com-posing this commentary.

$56.00 / £38.50 cloth 978-1-935011-09-5

2014 500 pages


The KojikiAn Account of Ancient Matters

Ō no Yasumaro

Translated by Gustav Heldt

"Heldt’s new, complete, and contemporary translation brings vibrancy and clarity to this often politicized work of ancient Japan. The poetry is rendered exquisitely, the narratives unfold with clarity; the translation itself is at once impeccable and imaginative. A master work that will generate discussions far into the future."

— James E. Ketelaar, University of Chicago

Japan’s oldest surviving narrative, the eighth-century Kojiki, chronicles the mythi-cal origins of its islands and their ruling dynasty through a diverse array of gene-alogies, tales, and songs that have helped to shape the modern nation’s views of its ancient past.

$27.00 / £18.50 paper 978-0-231-16389-7

$80.00 / £55.00 cloth 978-0-231-16388-0


Translations from the Asian Classics

AIBS


Spells, Images, and MandalasTracing the Evolution of Esoteric

Buddhist Rituals

Koichi Shinohara

"Spells, Images, and Mandalas is the first study of early Buddhist Tantra to make full use of a vast trove of Chinese sources that predate, often by many centuries, extant Sanskrit and Tibetan materials. Through exacting detective work, Koichi Shinohara reconstructs the evolution of Buddhist Tantra from its origins in simple incantation rituals to more elaborate forms of image worship and finally to full-blown mandala and visual-ization rites. The result is a groundbreaking account of the development of Buddhist ritual traditions."

— Robert Sharf, University of California, Berkeley

$50.00 / £34.50 cloth 978-0-231-16614-0

2014 352 pages / 10 illus.

Sheng Yen Series in Chinese Buddhism

Living KarmaThe Religious Practices of Ouyi Zhixu

Beverley Foulks McGuire

"An ingeniously conceived and deeply researched study of one of the four great Buddhist masters of the late Ming dynasty. The book reveals Ouyi Zhixu to be a far more interesting and intellectually complex person than we knew. By giving primacy to the theme of karma, McGuire finds a unity to Ouyi’s conduct and textual practice that has gone unremarked until now."

— Timothy Brook, University of British Columbia

Ouyi Zhixu (1599–1655) was an eminent Chinese Buddhist monk who, contrary to his contemporaries, believed karma could be changed. Through vows, divination, repen-tance rituals, and ascetic acts such as burning and blood writing, he sought to alter what others understood as inevitable and inescap-able. Drawing attention to Ouyi’s unique reshaping of religious practice, Living Karma reasserts the significance of an overlooked individual in the modern development of Chinese Buddhism.

$55.00 / £38.00 cloth 978-0-231-16802-1



EAST ASIAN RELIGION


The Body IncantatorySpells and the Ritual Imagination in

Medieval Chinese Buddhism

Paul Copp

"This book engages a wide range of new materials, primarily unstudied texts and new archaeological evidence. It advances some key discussions that have recently been occupying the field of the study of Chinese religions and is filled with some real gems of scholarship that will excite the reader and inspire reflection."

— James Robson, Harvard University

Paul Copp examines inscribed stones, urns, and other objects unearthed from anony-mous tombs; spells carved into pillars near mountain temples; and manuscripts and prints from both tombs and the Dunhuang cache. Focusing on two major Buddhist spells, or dhāranī, and their embodiment of the incantatory logics of adornment and unction, he makes breakthrough claims about the significance of Buddhist incanta-tion practice not only in medieval China but also in Central Asia and India.

$55.00 / £38.00 cloth 978-0-231-16270-8

2014 400 pages / 32 illus.


The Resurrected SkeletonFrom Zhuangzi to Lu Xun

Wilt L. Idema

"Wilt Idema’s translations trace the legend of an ancient Chinese philosopher’s encounter with a skeleton over two millennia of devel-opment, from its treatment in a great ancient philosophical text to the religious retellings that incorporated Daoism’s views on life, death, and social values.... Superior scholarly work."

— Shuen-fu Lin, University of Michigan

"Idema is the master translator of Chinese popular and religious culture. Here he offers the first English-language translations of enchanting texts, both famous and rare, around one classic story: Zhuangzi’s encoun-ter with a skeleton. The anthology speaks both to universal concerns and to Chinese literature’s unique way of blending religion, philosophy, poetry, and farce."

— Vincent Goossaert, coauthor of The Religious Question in Modern China

$50.00 / £34.50 cloth 978-0-231-16504-4

2014 344 pages / 7 illus


EAST ASIAN RELIGION


Unearthing the ChangesRecently Discovered Manuscripts of the

Yi Jing (I Ching) and Related Texts

Edward L. Shaughnessy

"In his skillful presentation of three groups of bamboo-strip manuscripts discovered in China since the 1970s, Shaughnessy gives new meaning and pleasure to reading one of the two oldest works of Chinese literature, the Classic of Changes. These manuscripts bring to life the significance of divination in early Chinese culture, while remaking our understanding of the ‘Changes.’"

— Donald Harper, University of Chicago

"[Shaughnessy's] deeply researched text breaks new ground for the study of Chinese manuscripts and China’s methods of divina-tion, with penetrating contributions to the scholarly handling of fragments, the recovery of lost literature, and the problems of textual criticism."

— Michael Loewe, University of Cambridge

$40.00 / £27.50 cloth 978-0-231-16184-8

2014 400 pages


An Introduction to Daoist PhilosophiesSteve Coutinho

"A rich, stimulating introduction to Daoist thought that is also an engaging entrée to Chinese philosophy more generally.... Countinho treats Daoism as a philosophical tradition to be taken seriously, subjecting Daoist ideas to friendly but searching criti-cism and constructively exploring possible Daoist responses. This book will inform and challenge students, the general reader, and even specialists in Chinese philosophy."

— Chris Fraser, University of Hong Kong

$25.00 / £17.50 paper 978-0-231-14339-4

$75.00 / £52.00 cloth 978-0-231-14338-7

2013 248 pages

EAST ASIAN RELIGION


The Complete Works of Zhuangzi

Translated by Burton Watson

Zhuangzi elucidates this mystical philoso-phy through humor, parable, and anecdote, deploying non sequitur and even nonsense to illuminate a truth beyond the boundaries of ordinary logic. Boldly imaginative and inventively worded, the Zhuangzi floats free of its historical period and society, addressing the spiritual nourishment of all people across time. One of the most justly celebrated texts of the Chinese tradition, the Zhuangzi is read by thousands of English-language scholars each year, yet only in the Wade-Giles romanization. Burton Watson’s pinyin romanization brings the text in line with how Chinese scholars, and an increas-ing number of other scholars, read it.

$50.00 / £34.50 cloth 978-0-231-16474-0



Cloud of the ImpossibleNegative Theology and Planetary Entanglement

Catherine Keller

"Long intent on crafting ways of thinking theologically that resist common and over-simplified oppositions between divine and fleshy things, Catherine Keller leads us via ancient, medieval, and recent traditions of unsaying certainties into a rich understand-ing of divine entanglement as a basis for communal thriving and just democracy. This is a monumental contribution to Christian theology, especially regarding its founda-tional claims of divine embodiment and love."

— Laurel C. Schneider, Vanderbilt University

$35.00 / £24.00 paper 978-0-231-17115-1

$105.00 / £72.50 cloth 978-0-231-17114-4

December 2014 408 pages


EAST ASIAN RELIGION RELIGION & PHILOSOPHY


RELIGION & PHILOSOPHY

Teresa, My LoveAn Imagined Life of the Saint of Avila

Julia Kristeva

"Julia Kristeva’s psychoanalytic investigation of love leads her to the extraordinary case of Teresa of Avila, and to the “inoperable” rapport of desire and the need to believe. Kristeva remains faithful to psychoanalysis and to non-belief while offering this thor-oughly engaging “imagined life” of Saint Teresa. It is of the greatest pertinence in a world that seems to have revived the need to believe in aggressive forms."

— Peter Brooks, Princeton University

Mixing fiction, history, psychoanalysis, and

personal fantasy, Teresa, My Love follows Sylvia

Leclercq, a French psychoanalyst, academic,

and incurable insomniac, as she falls for the

sixteenth-century Saint Teresa of Avila and

becomes consumed with charting her life.

Traveling to Spain, Leclercq, Kristeva’s prob-

ing alterego, visits the sites and embodiments

of the famous mystic and awakens to her own

desire for faith, connection, and rebellion.

$35.00 / £24.00 cloth 978-0-231-14960-0

2014 648 pages / 18 illus.

The Severed HeadCapital Visions

Julia Kristeva

"Through her wonder and her doubt Kristeva sets forth a compelling account of the sacred and of the intimate visionary capacity of the human soul." — The Ecclesial University Blog

Informed by a provocative exhibition at the Louvre curated by the author, The Severed Head unpacks artistic representa-tions of severed heads from the Paleolithic period to the present. Surveying paintings, sculptures, and drawings, Julia Kristeva turns her famed critical eye to a study of the head as symbol and metaphor, as religious object and physical fact, further developing a critical theme in her work--the power of horror--and the potential for the face to provide an experience of the sacred.

$22.00 / £15.00 paper 978-0-231-15721-6

$36.00 / £25.00 cloth 978-0-231-15720-98

2011 176 pages / 18 illus.

European Perspectives: A Series in Social Thought

and Cultural Criticism


Kant and the Meaning of ReligionTerry F. Godlove

Terry F. Godlove discovers in Immanuel Kant's theoretical philosophy resources that have much wider implications beyond Christianity and the philosophical issues that concern monotheism and its beliefs. For Godlove, Kant’s insights, when properly applied, can help rejuvenate our understanding of the general study of religion and its challenges. He therefore bypasses what is usually consid-ered to be the “Kantian philosophy of religion” and instead focuses on more fundamental issues, such as Kant's account of concepts, experience, and reason and their significance in controversial matters.

$30.00 paper 978-0-231-17033-8

$90.00 cloth 978-0-231-17032-1

2014 192 pages


Rawls and ReligionEdited by Tom Bailey and Valentina Gentile

"John Rawls’s liberal theory of justice is one of the most exciting and influential devel-opments in political philosophy for over a century. Yet, the place of religion for his phi-losophy remains underexplored. Rawls and Religion is the best collection available and essential reading on this topic with ground-breaking essays by leading philosophers in this field."

— Thom Brooks, Professor of Law and Government, Durham University

$30.00 / £20.50 paper 978-0-231-16799-4

$90.00 / £62.00 cloth 978-0-231-16798-7

January 2015 328 pages


Asian and Feminist Philosophies in DialogueLiberating Traditions

Edited by Jennifer McWeeny and Ashby Butnor

"A serious yet creative examination of current feminist theories as they may be applied to or refined through Asian philosophical and religious perspectives. I know of no edited volume that considers such a wide range of Asian philosophies in a feminist light."

— Erica Fox Brindley, Pennsylvania State University

Hailing from the discipline of philosophy in addition to Asian, gender, and religious studies, the contributors offer a fresh take on the classic concerns of free will, consciousness, knowledge, objectivity, sexual difference, embodiment, selfhood, the state, morality, and hermeneutics.

$35.00 / £24.00 paper 978-0-231-16625-6

$105.00 / £72.50 cloth 978-0-231-16624-9

2014 336 pages


Recovering PlaceReflections on Stone Hill

Mark C. Taylor

"[Taylor's] musings, when paired with the author's own color photos, read as poetic and verbal artifacts... The book will inspire readers to pause, look, and consider."

— Publishers Weekly

"Beautiful images of the natural world paired with introspective musings on life's greatest mysteries fill this wondrous compendium... Recovering Place makes an excellent and unforgettable giftbook; nature lovers espe-cially will enjoy browsing its insights."

— Midwest Book Review

$35.00 / £24.00 cloth 978-0-231-16498-6

2014 176 pages / 156 color photographs



The Problem with GodWhy Atheists, True Believers, and Even Agnostics Must All Be Wrong

Peter J. Steinberger

"A timely, spirited, and analytically rigorous meditation on a pressing contemporary con-cern: whether or not it is conceptually mean-ingful to predicate God’s existence. Lucidly written and brimming with helpful illustra-tions, it offers an indispensable perspective on the intellectual history of the present."

— Richard Wolin, City University of New York

Peter J. Steinberger’s commonsense account is by no means disheartening or upsetting, leaving readers without anything meaning-ful to hold on to. To the contrary, he demon-strates how impossible it is for the common world of ordinary experience to be all there is. With patience, clarity, and good humor, Steinberger helps readers think critically and constructively about various presuppositions and modes of being in the world.

$29.50 / £20.50 cloth 978-0-231-16354-5

2013 240 pages

Encountering ReligionResponsibility and CriticismAfter Secularism

Tyler Roberts

"Tyler Roberts’s work is the single most con-sequential programmatic work on the study of religion in the past several decades. It takes seriously, and treats charitably, a range of thinkers from J. Z. Smith and Rowan Williams to Saba Mahmood and Stanley Cavell, learning from them while (and sometimes through) critiquing them. It also lucidly lays out an alternative vision of a truly humanistic form of the study of religion—one open to a response to religious themes, figures, and texts, not just permitting an explanation or critique of those objects....A tremendous accomplishment."

— Charles Mathewes, University of Virginia

$55.00 / £38.00 cloth 978-0-231-14752-1

2013 320 pages




Waking, Dreaming, Being Self and Consciousness in Neuroscience, Meditation, and Philosophy

Evan Thompson

Foreword by Stephen Batchelor

"[Thompson] pushes us to think beyond our entrenched conceptual boundaries, not with vague arguments or wishful thinking but with equal doses of logical rigor and phenomenological empathy."

— William S. Waldron, Middlebury College

A renowned philosopher of the mind, also known for his groundbreaking work on Buddhism and cognitive science, Evan Thompson combines the latest neuroscience research on sleep, dreaming, and meditation with Indian and Western philosophy of the mind, casting new light on the self and its relation to the brain.

$32.50 / £22.95 cloth 978-0-231-13709-6

2014 496 pages

RELIGION & SCIENCE

Being Human in a Buddhist WorldAn Intellectual History of Medicine in Early Modern Tibet

Janet Gyatso

"An amazing book and a stellar contribution to Columbia University Press's growing cata-log of Tibetan and Tibetan Buddhist studies, for it will be the key book on medicine and religion in Tibet for this generation. Like Gyatso's book on autobiography, her new book on medicine will simply be field defin-ing. Little of this literature has received atten-tion to date, and in fact much of it has only been available to a contemporary interna-tional scholarly audience for a decade or so."

— Kurtis R. Schaeffer, The University of Virginia

"A landmark in the study of South Asian medical traditions."

— Daud Ali, University of Pennsylvania

$45.00 / £30.95 cloth 978-0-231-16496-2

february 2015 544 pages / 51 illus.


RELIGION & SCIENCE

Foundations of the EarthGlobal Ecological Change and the Book

of Job

H. H. Shugart

"In this engaging and illuminating primer on environmental science, world ecosystems scholar Shugart ... demonstrates that sci-ence knows a lot about the questions God asked Job, questions pertaining to the birth of the universe, the taming of wild beasts, the course of the stars and heavenly bodies... and more."

— Library Journal (starred review)

"H. H. Shugart provides valuable insights into the foundational ecological issues we are grappling with today, using the ‘whirlwind’ questions to illustrate his points and includ-ing Job’s message of ‘man in nature’ instead of ‘master of nature,’ a distinction that is par-ticularly relevant in today’s world of climate change and species extinctions."

— Brian Walker, author of Resilience Thinking: Sustaining Ecosystems and People in a Changing World

$35.00 / £24.00 cloth 978-0-231-16908-0

2014 384 pages / 11 illus.

Worlds Without End The Many Lives of the Multiverse

Mary-Jane Rubenstein

"Rubenstein's witty, thought-provoking his-tory of philosophy and physics leaves one in awe of just how close Thomas Aquinas and American physicist Steven Weinberg are in spirit as they seek ultimate answers."

— Publishers Weekly

"Wonderful... A fun, mind-stretching read, clear and enlightening."

— San Francisco Book Review

$28.95 / £19.95 cloth 978-0-231-15662-2

2014 360 pages / 12 illus.


RELIGION & POLITICS

Choreographies of Shared Sacred SitesReligion, Politics, and Conflict

Resolution

Edited by Elazar Barkan and Karen Barkey

“Understanding the complexity of shared sites is essential to grasping the ways in which multiple religions jointly inhabit this plural world. Choreographies of Shared Sacred Sites is a valuable and timely volume in a field critical to the present moment in history.”

— Anna Bigelow, North Carolina State University

“Sacred sites are ideally intimate possessions, inviolable and holy. Sharing them with other communities is like splitting an atom. This timely collection allows readers to examine the choreographies of theological politics and political theologies scripted in order to contain potential eruptions of violence. These highly readable case studies will fuel discussions of the post-Ottoman area for many years to come.”

— Charles Stewart, University College London

$50.00 / £34.50 cloth 978-0-231-16994-3

2014 440 pages / 14 illus.


Boundaries of TolerationEdited by Alfred Stepan and Charles Taylor

“Alfred Stepan and Charles Taylor have played a leading role in getting us to rethink the meaning of political secularism, above all to undermine the simplistic notions that secularism means an absolute separation of ‘church and state,’ that this is essential to democracy, and that there is only one institu-tional template for achieving a secular polity. In this collection of essays, they have assem-bled a set of contributors who look at the varied ways in which quite different societies, past and present, Western and non-Western, have tried to achieve multireligious coexis-tence and the role of the state in that process. This is just the kind of historical and theoreti-cal inquiry we need as we work through the challenge of crafting a suitably multicultural-ized set of secularisms."

— Tariq Modood, University of Bristol

$30.00 / £20.50 paper 978-0-231-16567-9

$90.00 / £62.00 cloth 978-0-231-16566-2

2014 328 pages



Religion, the Secular, and the Politics of Sexual DifferenceEdited by Linell E. Cady and Tracy Fessenden

"Many feminists have hoped–and many fun-damentalists have feared–that the decline of religion would lead inevitably to women’s liberation. This bold, thought-provoking book shows how, around the world, the gender politics of secularism are confounding the easy assumptions of progressives and con-servatives alike."

— Joseph Kip Kosek, George Washington University

"Rather than taking what is often viewed as the high road of secularism, the contribu-tors challenge the ability of both religion and secularism to provide master narratives for the equality of women. This book is a vital contribution to the new feminism that is cur-rently emerging at local, national, and global levels. It opens space for new collaborations and theoretical innovations and encourages us to 'imagine differently.’"

— Lori G. Beaman, University of Ottawa

$30.00 / £20.50 paper 978-0-231-16249-4

$90.00 / £62.00 cloth 978-0-231-16248-7

2013 344 pages


The Power of ToleranceA Debate

Wendy Brown and Rainer Forst; Edited by

Luca Di Blasi and Christoph F. E. Holzhey

"As a practice and a concept, tolerance counts as a major historical discovery in struggles against domination. Yet by casting the toler-ant as the figure of virtue, and the tolerated or intolerant as its other, political discourses of toleration often mask and sustain relations of domination. In this brilliant exchange between the two leading theorists of tolera-tion in contemporary political theory, Wendy Brown and Rainer Forst trace the tangled embrace of power and toleration in all its intricacy. The clarity, grace and humor of the dialogue make for highly enjoyable reading, as accessible to students as it is illuminating for experts."

— Melissa Williams, University of Toronto

$15.00 / £10.50 paper 978-0-231-17019-2

$45.00 / £30.95 cloth 978-0-231-17018-5

2014 112 pages

New Directions in Critical Theory

RELIGION & POLITICS


RELIGION, ETHICS & ANIMAL STUDIES

The Question of the Animal and Religion

Theoretical Stakes, Practical Implications

Aaron S. Gross

"With this highly original and exciting book, Aaron Gross stands at the cutting edge of a radical reconsideration of the nature of religi-osity and theological reflection."

— Susannah Heschel, Dartmouth College

"Starting from the scandal evoked by the revelation of grossly cruel practices in kosher slaughterhouses in the United States, and the subsequent defense of these practices by leading figures in Orthodox Jewry, Aaron Gross proceeds to a wide-ranging explora-tion into the justification of slaughter in Abrahamic religion and into our willed blind-ness to the animal as a religious subject. His philosophical and theological inquiries are driven by well-justified ethical concern at what factory farming, buttressed by so-called animal science, tells about the age we live in."

— J.M. Coetzee

$30.00 / £20.50 paper 978-0-231-16751-2

$90.00 / £62.00 cloth 978-0-231-16750-5


Interspecies EthicsCynthia Willett

"Distancing herself from the traditional anthropocentrism regarding other animals and the ethics that we apply, Cynthia Willett integrates recent scientific discoveries with a careful reading of philosophy and literary analysis. The result is a rich, enlightening book about the relation between us and our evolutionary fellow travelers."

— Frans de Waal, author of The Bonobo and the Atheist

$30.00 / £20.50 paper 978-0-231-16777-2

$90.00 / £62.00 cloth 978-0-231-16776-5

2014 232 pages 7 illus.

Critical Perspectives on Animals: Theory, Culture, Science and Law

Ethics UnboundSome Chinese and Western Perspectives on Morality

Katrin Froese

"Froese ... offers a realistic, profoundly thoughtful (one might say 'humane') analy-sis that examines select groups of prominent Western and Chinese philosophers and their different approaches to the achievement of moral competence." — Choice

$45.00 cloth 978-962-996-496-2

2013 250 pages

The Chinese University Press


RELIGION, ETHICS & ANIMAL STUDIES

Religion and EcologyDeveloping a Planetary Ethic

Whitney A. Bauman

"A very impressive book; a visionary synthesis of the most important issues concerning the intersection of science, religion, politics, and philosophy. Bauman weaves a complex and powerful narrative in his constitution of a planetary community. Religion and Ecology is a unique contribution to a growing body of work that critically rethinks our ideas of nature to vitalize the possibilities of material and ecological thinking."

— Clayton Crockett, University of Central Arkansas

$30.00 / £20.50 paper 978-0-231-16343-9

$90.00 / £62.00 cloth 978-0-231-16342-2

2014 256 pages

Critical Perspectives on Animals: Theory, Culture, Science and Law

Animals and the Human ImaginationA Companion to Animal Studies

Edited by Aaron Gross and Anne Vallely

“Intellectually exciting, smart, and accessible, this volume will intrigue and revolt, surprise and inspire. The opening overview by Gross is a tour de force and each essay fascinates. Collectively they offer an invitation to think in new ways about what we, perhaps wrongly, call our humanity. I can’t imagine a better introduction to the essential new field of critical animal studies.”

— Jonathan Safran Foer

$30.00 / £20.50 paper 978-0-231-15297-6

$89.50 / £62.00 cloth 978-0-231-15296-9

2012 392 pages / 25 illus.


OTHER BOOKS OF INTEREST

The Elements of Academic Style Writing for the Humanities

Eric Hayot

"The Elements of Academic Style is an utter tour de force, a guide to scholarly writing in the humanities that manages to be at once lively, funny, absorbing, rigorous, and immensely insightful. It offers a wealth of advice from the minute and grammatical to the disciplinary and career-changing, even as it probes deeply into the humanities as they are actually practiced, in the nitty gritty of our writing. Intended for graduate students, who will benefit in untold ways from its wisdom, it is a boon for faculty as well, so acute are its observations and so intelligent its maxims."

— Sarah Cole, Columbia University

$20.00 / £14.00 paper 978-0-231-16801-4

$60.00 / £41.50 cloth 978-0-231-16800-7


Polishing Your ProseHow to Turn First Drafts Into Finished Work

Steven M. Cahn and Victor L. Cahn Foreword by Mary Ann Caws

"The authors, both exceptionally talented writers and teachers, present the material at the right level of detail, organize it well, and engage their readers. The book is an invaluable resource for anyone serious about writing well."

— Peter Markie, University of Missouri

"If you would like to improve your writing, read this wondrous book, then read it again."

— Christine Vitrano, Brooklyn College

$14.95 / £9.95 paper 978-0-231-16089-6

$49.50 / £34.00 cloth 978-0-231-16088-9

2013 104 pages


A Short Course in Reading FrenchCelia Brickman

“The perfect companion for the student or scholar wishing to develop reading skills in French. Not only does this book provide clear, concise explanations but it also offers a wide range of carefully designed and relevant tasks based on short phrases, more complex sentences, and authentic reading passages. These carefully selected texts also cover a breadth of subjects, eras, and styles of inter-est. For teachers, this book represents a considerable time saver, since it presents a collection of activities and texts that can be fully exploited in class or assigned as home-work.”

— David Tual, Durham University

$35.00 / £24.00 paper 978-0-231-15677-6

$105.00 / £72.50 cloth 978-0-231-15676-9

2012 264 pages

OTHER BOOKS OF INTEREST

Religion, Tradition, and the PopularTranscultural Views from Asia and Europe

Edited by Judith Schlehe and Evamaria

Sandkühler

A rapid development of religious popular cultures and lifestyles can be observed across the globe. This book provides unique case studies from Asia and Europe illus-trating new religious practices, forms of articulation and mass mediatization, all of which render religious traditions significant for contemporary issues and concerns. The essays examine experiences of spirituality in combination with commercialization and expressive performative practices as well as everyday politics of identity. Based on innovative theoretical reflections, the essays take into consideration what the transcul-tural negotiation of religion, tradition and the popular signifies in different places and social contexts. With contributions by Anthony Reid, Hubert Knoblauch, Ariel Heryanto, Stefanie von Schnurbein and others.

$50.00 paper 978-3-8376-2613-1


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