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2011

RELIGIONYale UNIVERSITY PRESS

Sex and Religion in the BibleCalum Carmichael

If we look to the Bible for historical accounts of ancient life, we make a profound error. So contends Calum Carmichael in this original and incisive reading of some of the Hebrew Bible and New Testament’s most famous nar-ratives. Sifting through the imaginative layers of these texts with an uncanny sensitivity and a panoptic critical eye, he unearths patterns connecting disparate passages, providing fascinating insights into how ideas were expressed, received, and transformed in the ancient Near East, and demonstrating the remarkable subtlety and sophistication of the bibli-cal views on marriage, sexuality, fertility, impurity, creation, and love.

Cloth 2010 224 pp. ISBN 13: 978-0-300-15377-4 $50.00 Available as eBook 978-0-300-15378-1

The Bible

Tyndale’s New TestamentTranslated by William TyndaleIn a modern-spelling edition and with an introduction by David Daniell

Printed in Germany in 1534, Tyndale’s masterly translation of the New Testa-ment gave the laity direct access to the word of God for the first time. Now for the first time Tyndale’s translation is published in modern spelling so that this remarkable work of English prose by one of the great geniuses of his age is available to today’s reader.

Paper 1996 466 pp. ISBN 13: 978-0-300-06580-0 $22.50

Tyndale’s Old TestamentTranslated by William TyndaleEdited by David Daniell

This book makes available William Tyndale’s sixteenth-century English translation of the Pentateuch (the first five books of the Old Testament) and the historical books of the Old Testament, translations that laid the foundation for all subsequent English bibles.

Cloth 1992 688 pp. ISBN 13: 978-0-300-05211-4 $70.00

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The Book of Numbers: A Critique of GenesisCalum Carmichael

The Composition of the PentateuchRenewing the Documentary Hypothesis

Joel BadenThe Anchor Yale Bible Reference Library

Ancient Christian MartyrdomDiverse Practices, Theologies, and Traditions

Candida R. MossThe Anchor Yale Bible Reference Library

Introduction to New Testament History and LiteratureDale B. MartinThe Open Yale Courses Series

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The Shadow of a Great RockA Literary Appreciation of the King James Bible

Harold Bloom

“Bloom . . . has many arresting things to say and says them, often, with exquisite precision. He is, by any reckoning, one of the most stimulating literary presences of the last half-century—and one of the most protean, a singular breed of scholar-teacher-critic-prose-poet-pamphleteer.”—Sam Tanenhaus, The New York Times Book Review

The King James Bible stands at “the sublime summit of literature in English,” sharing the honor only with Shakespeare, Harold Bloom contends in the opening pages of this illuminating literary tour. Distilling the insights acquired from a significant portion of his career as a brilliant critic and teacher, he offers readers at last the book he has been writing “all my long life,” a magisterial and intimately perceptive reading of the King James Bible as a literary masterpiece.

Reading the King James Bible alongside Tyndale’s Bible, the Geneva Bible, and the original Hebrew and Greek texts, Bloom highlights how the translators and editors improved upon—or, in some cases, diminished—the earlier versions. Throughout, Bloom makes an impassioned and convincing case for reading the King James Bible as literature, free from dogma and with an appreciation of its enduring aesthetic value.

Cloth 2011 320 pp. ISBN 13: 978-0-300-16683-5 $28.00/$21.00

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The Good and Evil SerpentHow a Universal Symbol Became Christianized

James H. Charlesworth

This pathbreaking book explores in plentiful detail the symbolic meanings of the serpent from 40,000 BCE to the present, and from diverse regions in the world. In doing so it emphasizes the utter creativity of the biblical authors’ use of symbols and argues that we must, today, reexamine our own archetypal conceptions with comparable creativity.

Tied winner of the 2011 Christianity Today Book Award in the Biblical Studies category sponsored by Christianity Today International

The Anchor Yale Bible Reference Library Cloth 2010 744 pp. 102 b/w illus. ISBN 13: 978-0-300-14082-8 $45.00 Available as eBook 978-0-300-14273-0

Among the GentilesGreco-Roman Religion and Christianity

Luke Timothy Johnson

An acclaimed scholar presents a fundamentally new conception of the relationship between Christianity and the Paganism of Greece and Rome.

Winner of the 2011 Grawemeyer Award in Religion, given jointly by Louisville Presbyterian Theological Seminary and the University of Louisville

The Anchor Yale Bible Reference Library Paper 2010 480 pp. ISBN 13: 978-0-300-16810-5 $22.00 Cloth 2009 480 pp. ISBN 13: 978-0-300-14208-2 $32.50 Available as eBook 978-0-300-15649-2

A Marginal Jew: Rethinking the Historical Jesus, Volume 4Law and Love

John P. Meier

In this eagerly anticipated fourth volume in the Marginal Jew Series, John P. Meier corrects misconceptions about Mosaic Law in Jesus’ time and addresses the teachings of Jesus on major legal topics like divorce, oaths, the Sabbath, purity rules, and the various love com-mandments in the Gospels.

The Anchor Yale Bible Reference Library Cloth 2009 752 pp. 2 maps ISBN 13: 978-0-300-14096-5 $55.00 Available as eBook 978-0-300-15602-7

Also available in the A Marginal Jew Series:Volume I: The Roots of the Problem and the Person The Anchor Yale Bible Reference Library Cloth 2001 720 pp. ISBN 13: 978-0-300-14018-7 $60.00 Available as eBook 978-0-300-17298-0

Volume II: Mentor, Message, and Miracles The Anchor Yale Bible Reference Library Cloth 1994 1,134 pp. ISBN 13: 978-0-300-14033-0 $60.00 Available as eBook 978-0-300-17299-7

Volume III: Companions and Competitors The Anchor Yale Bible Reference Library Cloth 1991 496 pp. ISBN 13: 978-0-300-14032-3 $55.00 Available as eBook 978-0-300-17300-0

Cosmos, Chaos and the World to ComeThe Ancient Roots of Apocalyptic Faith; Second Edition

Norman Cohn

In this engrossing book, the author of the classic work The Pursuit of the Millennium investigates the origins of apocalyptic faith—the belief in a perfect future, when the forces of good are vic-torious over the forces of evil. Norman Cohn takes us back two thousand years to the world views of ancient Egypt, Mesopotamia, and India, the innova-tions of Iranian and Jewish prophets and sages, and the earliest Christian imaginings of heaven on earth, and he illuminates a major turning point in the history of human consciousness. For this second edition, the final chapter on Zoroastrians, Jews, and Christians has been wholly rewritten and extended.

Paper 2001 256 pp. ISBN 13: 978-0-300-09088-8 $22.00 Available as eBook 978-0-300-17719-0

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A New History of Early ChristianityCharles Freeman

This stimulating history of early Christi-anity, the first full account for over forty years, revisits the extraordinary birth of a world religion, and gives a new slant on a familiar story.

Paper 2011 400 pp. 16 pp. b/w illus. ISBN 13: 978-0-300-17083-2 $23.00 Cloth 2009 400 pp. 16 pp. b/w illus. ISBN 13: 978-0-300-12581-8 $35.00 Available as eBook 978-0-300-16658-3Visit www. yalebooks.

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Blood and MistletoeThe History of the Druids in Britain

Ronald Hutton

Crushed by the Romans in the first century A.D., the ancient Druids of Britain left almost no reliable evidence behind. This captivating book by a world expert examines what is known of the Druids, then explores how and why they have been repeatedly reinvented to play varying roles in English, Scottish, and Welsh history.

Shortlisted for the 2009 Katherine Briggs Folklore Award

Paper 2011 492 pp. 32 b/w illus. ISBN 13: 978-0-300-17085-6 $30.00 Cloth 2009 492 pp. 32 b/w illus. ISBN 13: 978-0-300-14485-7 $45.00 Available as eBook 978-0-300-15979-0

Augustine and the JewsA Christian Defense of Jews and Judaism

Paula Fredriksen

How did Jesus of Nazareth become the Christ of the Christian tradition? And why did the early Christian communi-ties develop different theological images of Jesus? In this exciting book, Paula Fredriksen answers this question by placing the various canonical images of Jesus within their historical context—the Hellenistic and Judaic cultures from which the Christian communities grew.


From Jesus to ChristThe Origins of the New Testament Images of Christ, Second Edition

Paula FredriksenPaper 2000 294 pp. ISBN 13: 978-0-300-08457-3 $15.95

Voting About God in Early Church CouncilsIn this original book, an eminent historian explores how early Christian doctrine was determined by majority vote in church councils during the third to sixth centuries. Ramsey MacMullen brings the reader directly into council chambers, where rank and file bishops engage in debate, then vote to establish a single Christian orthodoxy.

Cloth 2006 192 pp. 6 b/w illus. ISBN 13: 978-0-300-11596-3 $32.00

Christianity and Paganism in the Fourth to Eighth CenturiesIn this book, MacMullen investigates the transition from paganism to Christi-anity between the fourth and eighth centuries. He reassesses the triumph of Christianity, contending that it was neither tidy nor quick, and he shows that the two religious systems were both vital during an interactive period that lasted far longer than historians have previously believed.

Paper 1999 288 pp. ISBN 13: 978-0-300-08077-3 $22.00 Cloth 1997 288 pp. ISBN 13: 978-0-300-07148-1 $52.00 Available as eBook 978-0-300-14754-4

Christianizing the Roman Empire(A. D. 100-400)

How did the early Christian church manage to win its dominant place in the Roman world? In this book, an eminent historian of ancient Rome examines this question from a secular—rather than an ecclesiastical—viewpoint.


Romanization in the Time of AugustusWhy during the lifetime of Augustus (63 b.c. to a.d. 14) did Roman civilization spread so quickly, influencing art and architecture, religion, law, local speech, and city design throughout the ancient world? Ramsay MacMullen argues that this acculturation was due to eager imitation by conquered peoples ably served by Romans’ effective techniques of mass production and standardization.

Paper 2008 240 pp. 20 b/w illus. ISBN 13: 978-0-300-13753-8 $18.00 Cloth 2000 240 pp. 20 b/w illus. ISBN 13: 978-0-300-08254-8 $37.00

Corruption and the Decline of RomeProminent historian MacMullen here offers a new perspective on the decline and fall of Rome. Written in an informal and lively style, his book—the culmina-tion of years of research and thoughtful analysis—provides a fascinating, fresh line of investigation and shows convinc-ingly that the decline of Rome was a gradual, insidious process rather than a climactic event.

Paper 1990 331 pp. 17 b/w illus. ISBN 13: 978-0-300-04799-8 $22.50

Paganism in the Roman EmpireThis is the first book to focus on the beliefs and practices common to all non-Christian religions of the Empire. After examining the successes of the more dynamic cults and the effects on paganism of the conversion of the Con-stantine, MacMullen concludes that the conversion of the Empire to Christianity was not as inevitable and complete as it has seemed up until now.

Paper 1983 246 pp. ISBN 13: 978-0-300-02984-0 $22.00

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Ancient Religion & Early Christianity

Christians and PagansThe Conversion of Britain from Alban to Bede

Malcolm Lambert

Christians and Pagans offers a compre-hensive and highly readable account of the coming of Christianity to Britain, its coexistence or conflict with pagan-ism, and its impact on the lives of both indigenous islanders and invading Anglo-Saxons.

Cloth 2010 336 pp. 40 b/w illus. ISBN 13: 978-0-300-11908-4 $50.00 Available as eBook 978-0-300-16826-6

The First Urban ChristiansThe Social World of the Apostle Paul, Second Edition

Wayne A. MeeksWith a new introduction by the author

In this classic work, Wayne A. Meeks analyzes the earliest extant documents of Christianity—the letters of Paul—to describe the tensions and the texture of life of the first urban Christians.

Co-winner of the 1986 Annual Award for Excellence given by the American Academy of Religion


Christianity and Classical CultureThe Metamorphosis of Natural Theology in the Christian Encounter with Hellenism

Jaroslav Pelikan

In this erudite and informative book, a distinguished scholar provides the first coherent account of the lives and writ-ings of the Cappadocians, showing how they managed to be Greek and Christian at the same time.

Gifford Lectures Series Paper 1995 384 pp. ISBN 13: 978-0-300-06255-7 $22.50

Paul the ConvertThe Apostolate and Apostasy of Saul the Pharisee

Alan F. Segal

Although Paul’s writings have been intensively studied by Christian theologians, they have been dismissed by Jewish scholars as the meditations of an antagonistic apostate who broke completely with his Jewish past. In this revisionist account of Paul’s work, Alan Segal argues that Paul’s life can be better understood by taking his Jewishness seriously, and that Jewish history can be illuminated greatly by examining Paul’s writings. By reading Paul from the viewpoint of the religion he left behind, Segal sheds new light on the man who played a critical role in both Judaism and Christianity.

Paper 1992 384 pp. ISBN 13: 978-0-300-05227-5 $23.00

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The Ancient OraclesMaking the Gods Speak

Richard Stoneman

This colorful book traces the entire thousand-year history of Greek oracles and examines why they continued to be consulted by Greek men and women at every level of society until the Christian abolition of paganism in A.D. 395.


The Christians as the Romans Saw ThemSecond Edition

Robert Louis Wilken

This book, which includes a new preface by the author, offers an engrossing por-trayal of the early years of the Christian movement from the perspective of the Romans.


The Spirit of Early Christian ThoughtSeeking the Face of God

Robert Louis Wilken

In this eloquent introduction to early Christian thought, eminent religious historian Robert Louis Wilken examines the tradition that such figures as St. Augustine, Gregory of Nyssa, and others set in place. These early thinkers con-structed a new intellectual and spiritual world, Wilken shows, and they can still be heard as living voices in the modern world.

Paper 2005 398 pp. ISBN 13: 978-0-300-10598-8 $19.00 Cloth 2003 398 pp. ISBN 13: 978-0-300-09708-5 $38.00


The Life of the VirginMaximus the Confessor

Translated by Stephen Shoemaker

This first English translation of the earliest complete Life of the Virgin provides a rich and crucial source for understanding the history of Marian piety.

















History of Christianity

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An Untidy ProfusionVitality and Vulnerability in the Late Medieval Church

G.W. Bernard

Historian George Bernard presents a bold, provocative challenge to our understanding of the late medieval church and the Protestant Reformation.


Medieval Foundations of the Western Intellectual TraditionMarcia L. Colish

This magisterial book provides an analysis of the course of Western intel-lectual history between a.d. 400 and 1400. The book is arranged in two parts: the first surveys the comparative modes of thought and varying success of Byzantine, Latin-Christian, and Muslim cultures, and the second takes the reader from the twelfth-century revival of learning to the high Middle Ages and beyond, the period in which the vibrancy of Western intellectual culture enabled it to stamp its imprint well beyond the frontiers of Christendom.

Yale Intellectual History of the West Series Paper 1999 448 pp. 24 b/w illus. ISBN 13: 978-0-300-07852-7 $22.50 Cloth 1997 448 pp. 24 b/w illus. ISBN 13: 978-0-300-07142-9 $60.00 Available as eBook 978-0-300-16443-5

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Marking the HoursEnglish People and Their Prayers, 1240–1570

“[An] enchanting and engaging inquiry into the private devotions of English men and women in the late Middle Ages. . . . Almost certainly the most informa-tive and readable account of the actual use of Books of Hours ever written.” —Christopher de Hamel, New York Review of Books

Surviving copies of the Book of Hours, the most personal and widely used book of the later Middle Ages, offer precious clues to the lives of their owners and the times in which they lived. Religious historian Eamon Duffy examines these prayer books and the messages and jottings in their margins for insights into an era of great religious and social change.

Paper 2011 208 pp. 120 color illus. ISBN 13: 978-0-300-17058-0 $25.00

Fires of FaithCatholic England under Mary Tudor

“Fires of Faith is a dazzling exercise in historical reappraisal, after which the reign of Mary Tudor will never look quite the same again.”—Peter Marshall, Times Literary Supplement

A controversial reassessment of Mary Tudor’s efforts to eradicate Protes-tantism and restore Catholicism in mid-sixteenth-century England, written by a leading authority on the history of Christianity.

Chosen as an Outstanding Academic Title for 2009 by Choice Magazine

Paper 2010 280 pp. 30 color illus. ISBN 13: 978-0-300-16889-1 $18.00 Cloth 2009 280 pp. 30 color illus. ISBN 13: 978-0-300-15216-6 $28.50 Available as eBook 978-0-300-16045-1

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Ten Popes Who Shook the WorldWhich Catholic popes have had the greatest impact on history? Eamon Duffy selects ten profoundly influential popes, from St. Peter to John Paul II, and explores their amazing lives and accomplishments.


Saints and SinnersA History of the Popes; Third Edition

This engrossing book encompasses the extraordinary history of the papacy, from its beginnings nearly two thousand years ago to the present day. In this new edition, the final chapter has been expanded to cover the last years of John Paul II and the election of Benedict XVI.

Paper 2006 496 pp. 16 pp. color illus. ISBN 13: 978-0-300-11597-0 $22.00

The Stripping of the AltarsTraditional Religion in England, 1400–1580, Second Edition

This prize-winning account of the pre-Reformation church recreates lay people’s experience of religion in fifteenth-century England.

Winner of the Longman-History Today Book of the Year Award


By Eamon Duffy














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Mary IEngland’s Catholic Queen

John Edwards

The life story of Mary I is often distilled to a few dramatic episodes: her victory over the attempted coup by Lady Jane Grey, the imprisonment of her half-sister Elizabeth, the bloody burning of Protestants, her short marriage to Philip of Spain. This authoritative biography of the first Tudor queen reveals in new detail Mary’s connections with Spain, her fraught relationships with her father King Henry VIII and half-sister Eliza-beth, her religious fervor and how it led to horrible violence, and much more.

The English Monarchs Series Cloth 2011 336 pp. 16 pp. b/w illus. ISBN 13: 978-0-300-11810-0 $35.00

The Virgin of ChartresMaking History through Liturgy and the Arts

Margot E. Fassler

This richly illustrated book explores the layers of history found in the cult of the Virgin of Chartres as it developed in the eleventh and twelfth centuries. Focusing on the major relic of Chartres Cathedral, the Virgin’s gown, and the Feast of Mary’s Nativity, Margot Fassler employs a wide range of historical evidence in-cluding local histories, letters, obituaries, chants, liturgical sources, and reports of miracles, leading to a detailed reading of the cathedral’s west façade.

Cloth 2010 632 pp. 123 b/w + 16 color illus. ISBN 13: 978-0-300-11088-3 $55.00 Available as eBook 978-0-300-16287-5

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ConversionsTwo Family Stories from the Reformation and Modern America

This powerful work explores the parallel disruption of two families—one in seventeenth-century Holland, the other in America today—when a beloved fam-ily member converts to another religion.

New Directions in Narrative History Cloth 2011 320 pp. 3 b/w illus. ISBN 13: 978-0-300-16701-6 $27.50

A Bishop’s TaleMathias Hovius Among His Flock in Seventeenth-Century Flanders

Craig Harline and Eddy Put

This absorbing book takes us back to the busy, colorful world of a Nether-landish Catholic bishop and his flock from 1589–1620. Episodes in the lives of monks, nuns, pilgrims, peasants, saints, and others bring to life the experience of religion during the Counterreformation.


The Burdens of Sister MargaretInside a Seventeenth-Century Convent; Abridged Edition

Based on a treasure trove of letters, this fascinating book tells the history of a seventeenth-century nun in a convent in Leuven and how her complaints—of sexual harassment, fears of demonic possession, alliances among the other sisters against her—led to her banishment from the convent on two occasions.


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Miracles at the Jesus OakHistories of the Supernatural in Reformation Europe

In the musty archive of a Belgian abbey, historian Craig Harline happened upon a vast collection of documents written in the seventeenth century by people who claimed to have experienced miracles and wonders. Craig Harline recasts these testimonies into engaging vignettes that open a window onto the believers, unbelievers, and religious movements of the Age of Reformation.

Paper 2011 336 pp. ISBN 13: 978-0-300-16702-3 $22.00

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SundayA History of the First Day from Babylonia to the Super Bowl

Through a fascinating blend of stories and analysis, historian Craig Harline examines Sunday from its ancient beginnings to contemporary America in a fascinating blend of stories and analy-sis. For the earliest Christians, the first day of the week was a time to celebrate the liturgy, observe the Resurrection, and work. But over time, Sunday in the Western world took on still other meanings and rituals, especially in the addition of both rest and recreation to the day’s activities. Harline illuminates these changes in enlightening profiles of Sunday in medieval Catholic England, Sunday in the Reformation, and Sunday in nineteenth-century France—home of the most envied and sometimes despised Sunday of the modern world.

Paper 2011 480 pp. ISBN 13: 978-0-300-16703-0 $22.00

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Holy Bones, Holy DustHow Relics Shaped the History of Medieval Europe

Charles Freeman

Relics were everywhere in medieval society. Saintly morsels such as bones, hair, teeth, blood, milk, and clothes, and items like the Crown of Thorns, coveted by Louis IX of France, were thought to bring the believer closer to the saint, who might intercede with God on his or her behalf. In the first comprehensive history in English of the rise of relic cults, Charles Freeman takes readers on a vivid, fast-paced journey from Constantinople to the northern Isles of Scotland over the course of a millennium.

Cloth 2011 306 pp. 16 pp. b/w illus. ISBN 13: 978-0-300-12571-9 $35.00

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CalvinBruce Gordon

This brilliant new portrait of Protestant reformer John Calvin reveals his human complexity, the sources of his convictions, and how he inspired and transformed the sixteenth-century world. The book captures a man at once arrogant, charismatic, unforgiving, generous, and shrewd.

Paper 2011 416 pp. 12 b/w illus ISBN 13: 978-0-300-17084-9 $23.00 Cloth 2009 416 pp. 12 b/w illus ISBN 13: 978-0-300-12076-9 $35.00 Available as eBook 978-0-300-15981-3

Trent 1475Stories of a Ritual Murder Trial

R. Po-chia Hsia

On Easter Sunday, 1475, the dead body of a two-year-old boy named Simon was found in the cellar of a Jewish family’s house in Trent, Italy. Town magistrates arrested eighteen Jewish men and one Jewish woman on the charge of ritual murder—the killing of a Christian child in order to use his blood in Jewish religious rites. In this engrossing book, R. Po-chia Hsia reconstructs the events of this tragic persecution and sets the trial and its documents in the historical context of medieval blood libel.

Published in cooperation with Yeshiva University Library Paper 1996 204 pp. 12 b/w illus. ISBN 13: 978-0-300-06872-6 $21.00 Cloth 1992 192 pp. 12 b/w illus. ISBN 13: 978-0-300-05106-3 $30.00 Available as eBook 978-0-300-16189-2

BoyleBetween God and Science

Michael Hunter

This extraordinary work is the first biography in a generation of one of the world’s most important scientists, Robert Boyle—a pioneer of the modern experimental method, the champion of a novel mechanical view of nature, and a penetrating thinker regarding philosophical and theological issues related to science.

Shortlisted for the 2009 History of Science’s Pfizer Prize for Outstanding Book; Selected as a Choice Outstanding Academic Title for 2010 in the the History of Science & Technology category


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The End of ByzantiumJonathan Harris

“A remarkable book, which offers numerous fresh insights and weaves a gripping and deeply moving story that constantly startles us with its newness, its originality, and its balance. . . . This is history as it should be written—an epic tale that rouses our imaginations and captures our sympathies as effectively as it explains and informs.”—Colin Wells, author of Sailing from Byzantium

Shedding new light on the final turbu-lent years of Byzantium, this evocative book explains how the Ottoman Turks conquered the thousand-year empire and reveals the consequences for ordi-nary Byzantines and their remarkable legacy.


Fighting for the CrossCrusading to the Holy Land

Norman Housley

In a series of massive military undertak-ings that stretched from 1095 to 1291, Christendom’s armies won, defended, and lost the sacred sites of the Holy Land. Many books have been written about the Crusades, but until now none has described in detail what is was like to take part in medieval Europe’s most ambitious wars. This vividly written book draws on extensive research and on a wealth of surviving contemporary accounts to recreate the full experience of crusading, from the elation of taking up the cross to the difficult adjustments at home when the war was over.

Cloth 2008 356 pp. 40 b/w + 20 color illus. ISBN 13: 978-0-300-11888-9 $38.00 Available as eBook 978-0-300-15039-1













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The Second CrusadeExtending the Frontiers of Christendom

Jonathan Phillips

The Second Crusade (1145–1149) was an extraordinarily bold, but largely un-successful, attempt to defeat “unbeliev-ers” in the Holy Land, Iberia, and north-eastern Europe. This definitive book casts new light on the origins, planning, and execution of the Second Crusade, uncovering its profound impact on both Europe and the Middle East.

Selected by Choice magazine as an Outstanding Academic Title from 2008


Mother of GodA History of the Virgin Mary

Miri Rubin

This sweeping, global history explores how the Virgin Mary, scarcely men-tioned in the Gospels, rose to become our most prominent female figure. The book is groundbreaking in scope, encompassing sixteen centuries and a wealth of historical sources and visual materials from Christian cultures around the world.


By Jaroslav Pelikan:

Jesus Through the CenturiesHis Place in the History of CultureWith a new Preface by the author

Noted historian and theologian Jaroslav Pelikan reveals how the image of Jesus created by each successive epoch—from rabbi in the first century to liberator in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries—is a key to understanding the temper and values of that age.


The Illustrated Jesus Through the CenturiesThis beautiful volume is adapted from Pelikan’s classic work Jesus Through the Centuries. In this wise, informative, and sumptuously illustrated book, Pelikan discusses how each age created Jesus in its own image, discovering in his life and teachings the answers to fundamental questions of human existence and destiny.

Cloth 1997 264 pp. 50 b/w + 150 color illus. ISBN 13: 978-0-300-07268-6 $35.00

Mary Through the CenturiesHer Place in the History of Culture

Pelikan examines all of Christian history and culture to create the most complete portrait of the Virgin Mary ever written.

Paper 1998 288 pp. 19 b/w + 18 color illus. ISBN 13: 978-0-300-07661-5 $18.00/$13.50 Cloth 1996 288 pp. 19 b/w + 18 color illus. ISBN 13: 978-0-300-06951-8 $52.00

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The Age of DoubtTracing the Roots of Our Religious Uncertainty

Christopher Lane

The Victorian era was the first great “Age of Doubt” and a critical moment in the history of Western ideas. Leading nineteenth-century intellectuals battled the Church and struggled to absorb radical scientific discoveries that upend-ed everything the Bible had taught them about the world. In The Age of Doubt, distinguished scholar Christopher Lane tells the fascinating story of a society under strain as virtually all aspects of life changed abruptly. By analyzing the parallel battles over faith and reason in the nineteenth century and ours, he makes a case for the benefits of religious uncertainty.


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The Serpent and the LambCranach, Luther, and the Making of the Reformation

Steven Ozment

“An absorbing portrait of a cultural giant at the heart of tumultuous events. Martin Luther could not have found a truer friend, or a more brilliant crafts-man, to bring his image to the public gaze.”—Andrew Pettegree, University of St Andrews

This spirited retelling of the lives and works of Cranach, the artist, and Luther, the reformer, recognizes for the first time how their combined successes gave birth to modern German art and the Protestant Reformation.


















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John Henry NewmanThe Challenge to Evangelical Religion

Frank M. Turner

One of the most controversial religious figures of his time, John Henry Newman (1801–1890) split rancorously from the Church of England and converted to Roman Catholicism. In this provoca-tive reappraisal of Newman and the Tractarian movement that he led, Frank Turner challenges previous understand-ings not only of the man but also of the religious and intellectual life in Victorian England.


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SavonarolaThe Rise and Fall of a Renaissance Prophet

Donald Weinstein

“Eminently readable, neither hagio-graphical nor overcritical, the biography, which will surely become the definitive account of this Renaissance prophet, leads us through the drama of Savon-arola’s life, allowing the man himself to emerge from generously-quoted sermons, letters and chronicles, as well as from the author’s own deeply- researched and judicious narrative.” —Alison Brown, author of The Return of Lucretius to Renaissance Florence

This deeply considered new biography of the visionary Dominican provides the first truly satisfying account of Savonarola, his charismatic vision, and his fate as a failed prophet.

Cloth 2011 400 pp. ISBN 13: 978-0-300-11193-4 $38.00

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The Conversion of ScandinaviaVikings, Merchants, and Missionaries in the Remaking of Northern Europe

Anders Winroth

“Historical writing does not get any better than this vivid, masterly and profoundly original account of a trans-formation not only fascinating in itself but of real and enduring importance in the shaping of Europe.”—R.I. Moore, University of Newcastle upon Tyne

Drawing on painstaking analysis and paleographic reconstruction of archeological and literary sources, Anders Winroth presents a radically new interpretation of the conversion of Scandinavia from paganism to Christianity in the early Middle Ages.



Francis of AssisiThe Life and Afterlife of a Medieval Saint

Andre Vauchez

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Octavia, Daughter of GodThe Story of a Female Messiah and Her Followers

Jane Shaw

“The Panaceans have been extraordi-narily fortunate in their biographer. Jane Shaw is an insightful, shrewd and humorous writer. She is never sarcastic or judgmental, and I ended the book admiring the indomitable Octavia who, for all her dottiness, was no charlatan but a genuinely religious figure.”—Jane Ridley, Literary Review

This book uncovers the little-known story of the Panacea Society, a post-World War I utopian community of remarkable English women led by Octavia, whom they believed was the daughter of God. Vividly told, by turns funny and tragic, Octavia, Daughter of God is about a moment at the advent of modernity, when a generation of newly empowered women tried to re-make Christianity in their own image, offering a fascinating window into the anxieties and hopes of the interwar years.


The Other GodDualist Religions from Antiquity to the Cathar Heresy

Yuri Stoyanov

This important book offers the first comprehensive history of religious dualism, the doctrine that cosmos and man are constant battlegrounds for the forces of good and evil and their supernatural protagonists. Yuri Stoyanov traces crucial stages in the evolution of dualism from its early expression in late Egyptian religion and the revelations of Zoroaster to the revival of the “Great Heresy” in medieval Europe.

Paper 2000 490 pp. ISBN 13: 978-0-300-08253-1 $21.00















Religion in America

A Religious History of the American PeopleSecond Edition

Sydney E. AhlstromWith a new foreword and concluding chapter by David D. Hall

This classic work, winner of the 1973 National Book Award in Philosophy and Religion and Christian Century’s choice as the Religious Book of the Decade (1979), is now issued with a new chapter by noted religious historian David Hall, who carries the story of American religious history forward to the present day.

Winner of the 1973 National Book Award in Philosophy and Religion; Winner of the National Mass Media Brotherhood Award of the National Conference of Christians and Jews, Inc.

Paper 2004 1,216 pp. ISBN 13: 978-0-300-10012-9 $42.00

A Republic of Mind and SpiritA Cultural History of American Metaphysical Religion

Catherine L. Albanese

This pathbreaking book tells the story of American metaphysical religion more fully than it has ever been told before, along the way revising the entire panorama of American religious history. Catherine L. Albanese argues that metaphysical religion has been more influential than previously recog-nized and that it offers key insights into mainstream American religion.

Co-winner of the 2007 American Academy of Religion Award for Excellence in the Historical Studies category; Selected as an Outstanding Academic Title for 2007 by Choice Magazine


The Madonna of 115th StreetFaith and Community in Italian Harlem, 1880–1950, Third Edition

Robert A. Orsi

In the twenty-fifth anniversary edition of this classic study, Orsi discusses significant shifts in the field of religious history and calls for new ways of empirically studying divine presences in human life.

Winner of the 1986 John Gilmary Shea Prize given by the American Catholic Historical Association

Paper 2010 360 pp. 19 b/w illus. ISBN 13: 978-0-300-15752-9 $19.00 Available as eBook 978-0-300-16867-9

Thank You, St. JudeWomen’s Devotion to the Patron Saint of Hopeless Causes

Robert A. Orsi

This prize-winning book tells the story of American women’s devotion to St. Jude, the patron saint of hopeless causes, one of the most popular saint in the American Catholic pantheon.

Winner of the 1998 Merle Curti Award in American Social History given by the Organization of American Historians


The Great AwakeningThe Roots of Evangelical Christianity in Colonial America

Thomas S. Kidd

In the mid-1700s, an outbreak of religious revivals shook American colonial society. This book provides a definitive history of these revivals, called the First Great Awakening.


New in paper

The Puritan Origins of the American SelfWith a New Preface

Sacvan BercovitchWith a New Preface by the Author

“An utterly intriguing and finely nuanced study that deserves the careful attention of anyone who ponders the meaning of ‘the American character.’”—Richard John Neuhaus, Review of Books and Religion

Mr. Bercovitch’s subject is the develop-ment of the concept of American identity; his method is comparatism to specify the uniqueness of that develop-ment; and his discussion, centering upon the interaction of language, myth, and society, explores the Puritan achievement in its broadest cultural context.

Paper 2011 304 pp. ISBN 13: 978-0-300-17241-6 $22.00

Jonathan Edwards’s“Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God”A Casebook

Edited by Wilson H. Kimnach, Caleb J. D. Maskell, and Kenneth P. Minkema

Designed specifically for the classroom, this volume presents the accurate and definitive version of Sinners, accompa-nied by the tools necessary to study and teach this famous American sermon.

Paper 2010 224 pp. 29 b/w illus. ISBN 13: 978-0-300-14038-5 $14.00 Available as eBook 978-0-300-15500-6














Religion in America Theology

SinA History

Gary A. Anderson

In this sensitive, imaginative, and original work, Gary Anderson shows how changing conceptions of sin and forgiveness lay at the very heart of the biblical tradition.

Winner of the 2010 Christianity Today Book Award in the Biblical Studies category sponsored by Christianity Today International; Selected as a Choice Outstanding Academic Title for 2010 in the Religion category


New in paper

On EvilTerry Eagleton

In this witty, accessible study, the prominent Marxist thinker Terry Eagleton launches a surprising defense of the reality of evil, drawing on liter-ary, theological, and psychoanalytic sources to suggest that evil is a real phenomenon with palpable force in our contemporary world.


New

Mrs. Mattingly’s MiracleThe Prince, the Widow, and the Cure That Shocked Washington City

Nancy Lusignan Schultz

The miraculous cure of a Washington D.C. widow’s ravaging cancer in 1824, purportedly through the intervention of a charismatic German prince, ignited political, social, and religious controversy. This gripping book captures the drama of the miracle and its repercussions.


The Book of MormonThe Earliest Text

Edited by Royal SkousenTranslated by Joseph Smith

As the most accurate and readable version of the Book of Mormon ever published, Royal Skousen’s corrected text represents a work of remarkable dedication and a landmark in American religious scholarship.

Listed as one of the “Christmas gifts for your demanding scholar” in 2009, Mormon Times; Selected as a Choice Outstanding Academic Title for 2010 in the Religion category

Cloth 2009 848 pp. ISBN 13: 978-0-300-14218-1 $35.00


New WorldsA Religious History of Latin America

John Lynch

Historian John Lynch presents a bril-liant capstone work encompassing the Latin American people’s reception of Christianity from the Spanish Conquest and the arrival of evangelists to the dictators and repressive regimes of the twentieth century.

Endowed by Our CreatorMichael I. Meyerson

A Cheerful and Comfortable FaithAnglican Religious Practice in the Elite Households of Eighteenth-Century Virginia

Lauren F. Winner

“Winner’s astute analysis takes us to the heart of eighteenth-century Anglican religion—in Virginia’s houses where the needlework, walnut tables, prayer books, and silver bowls she examines once resided. The result is a landmark work in material culture and religious studies scholarship.”—Richard Lyman Bushman, author of The Refinement of America: Persons, Houses, Cities

This enlightening book examines an array of physical objects found in elite Virginia households of the eighteenth century to discover what they can tell us about their owners’ lives and religious practices.

Cloth 2010 288 pp. 39 scattered b/w illus. ISBN 13: 978-0-300-12469-9 $45.00 Available as eBook 978-0-300-16866-2
















Theology

Atheist DelusionsThe Christian Revolution and Its Fashionable Enemies

David Bentley Hart

In this provocative book, David Bentley Hart dismantles distorted religious “histories” offered up by Christopher Hitchens, Richard Dawkins, and other contemporary critics of religion. He counters their polemics with a brilliant account of Christianity and its message of human charity as the most revolu-tionary movement in all of Western history.


New in paper

The Christian ImaginationTheology and the Origins of Race

Willie James Jennings

Why has Christianity, a religion premised upon neighborly love, failed in its attempts to heal social divisions? In this ambitious and wide-ranging work, Willie James Jennings delves deep into the late medieval soil in which the modern Christian imagination grew, to reveal how Christianity’s highly refined process of socialization has inadvertent-ly created and maintained segregated societies.

Shortlisted for the 2011 American Academy of Religion Awards for Excellence in the Study of Religion, in the Constructive-Reflective Study of Religion Category


New

Dissertation on Predestination and GraceG. W. LeibnizTranslated, Edited, and with an Introduction by Michael J. Murray; Additional Contributions by George Wright

In this book G. W. Leibniz presents not only his reflections on predestination and election but also a more detailed account of the problem of evil than is found in any of his other works apart from the Theodicy. Surprisingly, his Dissertation on Predestination and Grace has never before been published in any form. Michael J. Murray’s project of translating, editing, and providing com-mentary for the volume will therefore attract great interest among scholars and students of Leibniz’s philosophy and theology. Leibniz addresses such topics as free will, moral responsibility, divine causation, justice, punishment, divine foreknowledge, and human freedom.

The Yale Leibniz Series Cloth 2011 226 pp. ISBN 13: 978-0-300-15155-8 $100.00

New

Why Niebuhr MattersCharles Lemert

“From beginning to end this book is a wonderful read—brisk, intelligent, and relevant, filled with delicious asides, personal reflections, and unexpected turns.”—Alan Wolfe, Boston College

Although Niebuhr died in 1971, political leaders including Barack Obama, Madeleine Albright, and John McCain acknowledge his influence on their thinking today. This concise book explains why Niebuhr remains important in our own uncertain times.

Why X Matters Series Cloth 2011 272 pp. ISBN 13: 978-0-300-17542-4 $26.00

The Death and Resurrection of the Beloved SonThe Transformation of Child Sacrifice in Judaism and Christianity

Jon D. Levenson

In this highly original book, Jon D. Levenson explores how this notion of child sacrifice constitutes an overlooked bond between Judaism and Christianity.


UtopiaThomas MoreA New translation with an introduction by Clarence H. Miller

Nearly five centuries after Thomas More wrote Utopia, his book continues to address issues of powerful contemporary concern —religious pluralism, women’s rights, state-sponsored education, colonialism, and justified warfare. Clarence Miller’s new translation of this foundational text reflects with unprecedented accuracy the sense and tone of More’s original Latin.


The Problem of GodYesterday and Today

John Murray

In an urbane and persuasive tract for our time, the distinguished Catholic theologian combines a comprehensive metaphysics with a sensitivity to contemporary existen-tialist thought. Father Murray traces the “problem of God” from its origins in the Old Testament, through its development in the Christian Fathers and the definitive statement by Aquinas, to its denial by modern materialism.

The St. Thomas More Lectures Series Paper 1965 128 pp. ISBN 13: 978-0-300-00171-6 $17.00 Available as eBook 978-0-300-16199-1














Theology

CredoHistorical and Theological Guide to Creeds and Confessions of Faith in the Christian Tradition

Jaroslav Pelikan

In this remarkable book, one of the world’s leading theologians offers insights into the history and significance of Christian creeds. Jaroslav Pelikan addresses essential questions about the Christian tradition: the origins of creeds; their function; their political role; how they relate to Christian insti-tutions, worship, and service; and how they help to explain the major divisions of the Christian church and of Christian history.

Co-Winner of the 2004 John W. Kluge Prize for Lifetime Achievement in the Humanities and Social Sciences, given by the Kluge Foundation


New

Science and Religion in Quest of TruthJohn Polkinghorne

In this new book, John Polkinghorne, an international figure known both for his contributions to the field of theoretical elementary particle physics and for his work as a theologian, undertakes for the first time a survey of all the major issues at the intersection of science and religion, concentrating on what he considers the essential insights for each. Clearly and without assuming prior knowledge, he addresses causality, cosmology, evolution, consciousness, natural theology, divine providence, revelation, and scripture. Each chapter also provides references to his other books in which more detailed treat-ments of specific issues can be found.

Cloth 2011 160 pp. ISBN 13: 978-0-300-17478-6 $26.00

New in paper

“Apologia Pro Vita Sua” and Six SermonsJohn Henry Cardinal NewmanEdited, Annotated, and with an Introduction by Frank M. Turner

This new edition of John Henry Newman’s celebrated Apologia includes a powerfully revisionist introduction in which historian Frank M. Turner challenges previous interpretations of Newman’s conversion to Roman Catholicism and of the Apologia itself. The book also features six of Newman’s important and illuminating Anglican sermons.


The Essential Reinhold NiebuhrSelected Essays and Addresses

Reinhold NiebuhrEdited by Robert McAfee Brown

Theologian, ethicist, and political ana-lyst, Reinhold Niebuhr was a towering figure of twentieth-century religious thought. In this important book, the best of Niebuhr’s essays have been brought together for the first time. Selected, edited and introduced by Robert McAfee Brown—a student and friend of Niebuhr’s and himself a distinguished theologian—the works included here testify to the brilliant polemics, incisive analysis, and deep faith that characterized the whole of Niebuhr’s life.


New

Julian of Norwich, TheologianDenys Turner

This provocative book casts Julian of Norwich in a new light, revealing for the first time the subtlety, consistency, and originality of her theological thought. Julian stands among the medieval era’s foremost thinkers, the author contends.

Listed as one of the Best Books (of the first half) of 2011 by the Englewood Review of Books

Cloth 2011 288 pp. ISBN 13: 978-0-300-16391-9 $40.00

Available in Spring 2012:

The Unity of ChristContinuity and Conflict in Patristic Tradition

Christopher A. Beeley

Combining historical and theological analysis, Christopher Beeley offers a new contextualized reading of early church fathers—among then Origen of Alexan-dria, Gregory of Nazianzus, Augustine of Hippo, and Cyril of Alexandria—and reexamines their ultimate contribution to the development of Christianity.















The Terry Lectures

New

The New Universe and the Human FutureHow a Shared Cosmology Could Transform the World

Nancy Ellen Abrams and Joel R. Primack

A cultural philosopher and an astro-physicist theorize that a shared picture of the universe based on modern cos-mology and biology will offer solutions to global problems and redefine our relationship with the earth.

Cloth 2011 256 pp. 72 color illus. ISBN 13: 978-0-300-16508-1 $28.00

The Religion and Science DebateWhy Does It Continue?

Edited by Harold W. Attridge

With wit and wisdom seven acclaimed scholars in sociology, history, science, and theology examine the debate between creationists and evolution-ists and the teaching of evolution in America’s schools.


New in paper

Islam, Science, and the Challenge of HistoryAhmad Dallal

In this wide-ranging and masterful work, Dallal examines the significance of scientific knowledge and situates the culture of science in relation to other cultural forces in Muslim societies.

Paper 2012 256 pp. 2 line illus. ISBN 13: 978-0-300-17771-8 $19.00 Cloth 2010 256 pp. 2 line illus. ISBN 13: 978-0-300-15911-0 $27.50 Available as eBook 978-0-300-15914-1

Thinking in CirclesAn Essay on Ring Composition

Mary Douglas

In this controversial book, social anthro-pologist Mary Douglas argues that many famous antique texts are misunderstood and others have been dismissed because they employ ring composition, a literary style unfamiliar today. She explores ring composition across cultures and examines its function in the Iliad, the Bible’sBook of Numbers, and Tristram Shandy.

Selected by as an Outstanding Academic Title for 2007 by Choice Magazine


Reason, Faith, and RevolutionReflections on the God Debate

Terry Eagleton

Seasoning his serious book with humor, Terry Eagleton reexamines God, Jesus, free will, scientific thought, and liberalism to arrive at the conclusion that reason and faith are by no means mutually exclusive.


Natural ReflectionsHuman Cognition at the Nexus of Science and Religion

Barbara Herrnstein Smith

An eminent scholar offers new ways to understand the relation between science and religion by examining current efforts by scientists to explain religious belief naturalistically and current efforts by theologians to reconcile scientific and religious accounts of nature.


New in paper

Absence of MindThe Dispelling of Inwardness from the Modern Myth of the Self

Marilynne Robinson

One of our best contemporary writers explores the tension between science and religion and reveals how our concept of mind determines how we understand and value human nature and human civilization.

Named a Best Book of 2010–Globe & Mail, “2010 Globe 100”


The Courage to BeSecond Edition

Paul TillichWith an introduction by Peter J. Gomes

In this classic and deeply insightful book, one of the world’s most eminent philosophers describes the dilemma of modern man and points a way to the conquest of the problem of anxiety. This edition includes a new introduction by Peter J. Gomes that reflects on the impact of this book in the years since it was written.

Named one of the Books of the Century by the New York Public Library


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Islam

New

Wonder, Image, and Cosmos in Medieval IslamPersis Berlekamp

Closely examining premodern illus-trated manuscripts of Islamic cosmogra-phies, this original book sheds new light not only on the historical relationships among Islam, representational images, and philosophy but also on the history of book illustration.


The Great CaliphsThe Golden Age of the ‘Abbasid Empire

Amira K. Bennison

This accessible and informative history brings the classical Islamic world alive, illuminating its importance to the cul-tural history of Europe and America as the inheritor and interpreter of Graeco-Roman traditions.


IslamA Thousand Years of Faith and Power

Jonathan Bloom and Sheila Blair

This engrossing book explores the first millennium of Islamic culture, shattering stereotypes and enlightening readers about the events and achieve-ments that have shaped contemporary Islamic civilization. It is a wonderful introduction to the rich history of the Muslim people.

Paper 2002 304 pp. 4 b/w + 50 color illus. ISBN 13: 978-0-300-09422-0 $16.95

New in paper

Turkey, Islam, Nationalism, and ModernityA History

Carter Vaughn Findley

Against the panorama of political, economic, social, and cultural change, religious and secular forces emerge and compete to shape two centuries of late Ottoman and republican Turkish history.

Winner of the 2010 Ohio Academy of History Publications Award; Winner of the 2010 Joseph Rothschild Prize in Nationalism and Ethnic Studies, given by the Association for the Study of Nationalities

Paper 2011 544 pp. 40 b/w + 16 color illus. ISBN 13: 978-0-300-15261-6 $30.00 Cloth 2010 544 pp. 40 b/w + 16 color illus. ISBN 13: 978-0-300-15260-9 $40.00 Available as eBook 978-0-300-15262-3

New in paper

Islamization from BelowThe Making of Muslim Communities in Rural French Sudan, 1880–1960

Brian J. Peterson

“A well researched and written narrative and analysis, Islamization from Below lives up to its promise of bringing new insight to the process by which Islam has become the majority religious practice of significant areas of West Africa. I do not know of any comparable works.”—David Robinson, Michigan State University

This groundbreaking investigation explores how and why so many rural West Africans “became Muslim” under French colonialism. The author argues that conversions were rarely coerced, but happened peacefully and gradually over several generations.

Paper 2011 336 pp. 3 maps ISBN 13: 978-0-300-15270-8 $45.00

New

A Quiet RevolutionThe Veil’s Resurgence, from the Middle East to America

Leila Ahmed

This probing study of the veil’s recent return—from one of the world’s fore-most authorities on Muslim women—reaches surprising conclusions about contemporary Islam’s place in the West today.

Cloth 2011 360 pp. ISBN 13: 978-0-300-17095-5 $30.00

The Crisis of Islamic CivilizationAli A. Allawi

Ali A. Allawi—a respected Iraqi states-man and thinker who has served the postwar government in several posts—offers a bold analysis of today’s crisis in the Islamic world. He offers proposals that will surprise some and anger others, but they cannot be ignored by anyone concerned about the future of Islamic civilization.

Winner of the Silver Prize in the 2009 Book Prize competition, presented by the Washington Institute for Near East Policy; One of the Globalist’s Top Books of 2009















Judaism

The Death of the ShtetlYehuda Bauer

In this important book an international-ly acclaimed Holocaust historian weaves historical narrative with individual tes-timonies to recount the destruction of the shtetls, small Jewish towns in Poland and Russia, at the hands of the Nazis in 1941–1942.


The Jews of San NicandroJohn A. Davis

The remarkable and intimate story of an Italian peasant community’s unique conversion to the Jewish faith, shedding fresh light on wider transformations in Europe before and after the Second World War.

Cloth 2010 252 pp. 8 pp. b/w illus. ISBN 13: 978-0-300-11425-6 $30.00 Available as eBook 978-0-300-16036-9

New in paper

JudaismA Way of Being

David Gelernter

The distinguished scholar David Gelernter presents a highly original guide to Judaism as a way of life and the fundamentals of Jewish belief.

Finalist for the 2009 Book of the Year Award, presented by ForeWord magazine; Selected for the Guide for the Discerning Gift-Giver, William Kristol, The Weekly Standard


New in paper

In Ishmael’s HouseA History of Jews in Muslim Lands

Martin Gilbert

In this absorbing and eloquent book Martin Gilbert challenges the standard media portrayal and presents a fascinat-ing account of hope, opportunity, fear, and terror that have characterized Jews and Muslims through the 1,400 years of their intertwined history.


Radical JudaismRethinking God and Tradition

Arthur Green

How do we articulate a religious vision that embraces evolution and human authorship of Scripture? Drawing on the Jewish mystical traditions of Kabbalah and Hasidism, path-breaking Jewish scholar Arthur Green argues that a neomystical perspective can help us to reframe these realities.

The Franz Rosenzweig Lecture Series Paper 2010 208 pp. ISBN 13: 978-0-300-15232-6 $26.00 Available as eBook 978-0-300-15233-3

New

The Music Libel Against the JewsRuth HaCohen

In this deeply imaginative and wide-ranging book, Ruth HaCohen focuses her study on a “musical libel”—a varia-tion on the Passion story that recurs in various forms and cultures in which an innocent Christian boy is killed by a Jew in order to silence his “harmonious musicality.”


New

Kabbalah in Italy, 1280–1510A Survey

Moshe Idel

This sweeping survey of the history of Kabbalah in Italy represents a major contribution from one of the world’s foremost Kabbalah scholars. The first to focus attention on a specific center of Kabbalah, Moshe Idel charts the ways that Kabbalistic thought and literature developed in Italy and how its unique geographical situation facilitated the arrival of both Spanish and Byzantine Kabbalah.


Belonging and GenocideHitler’s Community, 1918–1945

Thomas Kühne

How could the German people have condoned and participated in the Holocaust? Thomas Kühne offers a provocative answer to this troubling question. He shows how the Nazis used the human desire for community to build a genocidal society.


New in paper

IsraelAn Introduction

Barry Rubin

In this uniquely wide-ranging portrait of Israel, students and general readers will find accurate information on such important topics as its history, land and people, politics, society, economics, and culture.

















Jewish Lives

SarahThe Life of Sarah Bernhardt

Robert Gottlieb

Though the Bernhardt literature is vast, Gottlieb’s Sarah is the first English-lan-guage biography to appear in decades. Brilliantly, it tracks the trajectory through which an illegitimate—and scandalous—daughter of a courtesan transformed herself into the most famous actress who ever lived, and into a national icon, a symbol of France.

Honorable Mention in the Biography/Autobiography category of the 2010 Los Angeles Book Festival; Received Honorable Mention in the Biography/Autobiography category of the 2010 New England Book Festival


New

Hank GreenbergThe Hero Who Didn’t Want to Be One

Mark Kurlansky

New York Times best-selling author Mark Kurlansky delivers the compelling life story of Hank Greenberg, the first Jewish player elected into the Baseball Hall of Fame.


New

Leon TrotskyA Revolutionary’s Life

Joshua Rubenstein

Born Lev Davidovich Bronstein in southern Ukraine, Trotsky was both a world-class intellectual and a man capable of the most narrow-minded ideological dogmatism. Here, Trotsky emerges as a brilliant and brilliantly flawed man. Rubenstein offers us a Trotsky who is mentally acute and impatient with others, one of the finest students of contemporary politics who refused to engage in the nitty-gritty of party organization in the 1920s, when Stalin was maneuvering, inexorably, toward Trotsky’s own political oblivion.


New

Walther RathenauThe Life of Weimar’s Fallen Statesman

Shulamit Volkov

The first full biography of Walther Rathenau to be published in English in many years, this sensitive portrait explores Rathenau’s life, assassination, and the complex dynamic between Jews and Germans in the Weimar Republic.


New

SolomonThe Lure of Wisdom

Steven Weitzman

This unconventional biography explores the surprising role the story of King Solomon has played in shaping Western culture and what it has come to mean for Jews, Christians, and Muslims over the past two thousand years.


Moses MendelssohnSage of Modernity

Shmuel FeinerTranslated by Anthony Berris

The “German Socrates,” Moses Mendelssohn (1729–1786) was the most influential Jewish thinker of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. Feiner’s book is the first that offers a full, human portrait of this fascinating man—uncommonly modest, acutely aware of his task as an intellectual pioneer, shrewd, traditionally Jewish, yet thoroughly conversant with the world around him—providing a vivid sense of Mendelssohn’s daily life as well as of his philosophical endeavors.


New

Emma GoldmanRevolution as a Way of Life

Vivian Gornick

Emma Goldman is the story of a modern radical who took seriously the idea that inner liberation is the first business of social revolution. Her politics, from beginning to end, was based on resis-tance to that which thwarted the free development of the inner self. The right to stay alive in one’s senses, to enjoy freedom of thought and speech, to reject the arbitrary use of power—these were key demands in the many public protest movements she helped mount. Vivian Gornick draws a surpassingly intimate and insightful portrait of a woman of heroic proportions whose performance on the stage of history did what Tolstoy said a work of art should do: it made people love life more.

















Comparative Religion Religion in Asia

The Spirit of the BuddhaMartine Batchelor

Internationally recognized Buddhist teacher Martine Batchelor presents the basic tenets and teachings of the Buddha through a selection of essential texts from the Pali canon, the earliest Buddhist scriptures.

The Spirit of ... International Sacred Literature Trust Paper 2010 192 pp. ISBN 13: 978-0-300-16407-7 $15.00 Available as eBook 978-0-300-17500-4

New in paper

The Spirit of MarySarah Jane Boss

An intriguing and insightful anthol-ogy of Marian writing taken from both Eastern and Western traditions over two millennia of Christian history, alongside illuminating introductions to the texts.

The Spirit of ... Paper 2011 224 pp. ISBN 13: 978-0-300-16926-3 $15.00

The Spirit of the QuakersSelected and Introduced by Geoffrey Durham

An inspiring and enlightening introduc-tion to Quakerism, the second title in the Yale University Press “The Spirit of . . .” series.

The Spirit of ... Paper 2010 256 pp. ISBN 13: 978-0-300-16736-8 $15.00 Available as eBook 978-0-300-17501-1

New in paper

The Spirit of ZoroastrianismTranslated and edited by Prods Oktor Skjærvø

An introduction to the ideas and writings of Zoroastrianism, expertly translated, introduced, and edited by one of the world’s foremost authorities on this religion.

The Spirit of ... Paper 2011 280 pp. ISBN 13: 978-0-300-17035-1 $15.00

ConfuciusA Life of Thought and Politics

Ann-Ping Chin

In this absorbing book Annping Chin presents an original account of the life and legacy of China’s greatest moral thinker. Accurate information on Con-fucius is elusive, but Chin’s extensive research yields not only a new portrait of the sage but also a masterful survey of his influential teachings.


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The Taming of the DemonsViolence and Liberation in Tibetan Buddhism

Jacob P. Dalton

Taking two early Tibetan texts as his starting point, Jacob P. Dalton explores the ways in which violence has been integral to the development of Tibetan Buddhism.


Redeemed by FireThe Rise of Popular Christianity in Modern China

Lian Xi

In the first book to address the history and future of homegrown, mass Chinese Christianity, Lian Xi examines its trans-formation from a small, beleaguered “missionary” church buffeted by anti-foreignism to an indigenous grassroots religion energized by nationalism and millenarianism.

Winner of the 2010 Award for Academic Excellence given by the Chinese Historians in the United States, an affiliate of the American Historical Association



The Message and the BookSacred Texts of the World’s Religions

John Bowker

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Abraham’s ChildrenJews, Christians, and Muslims on Religious Liberty

Kelly James Clark

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Religion & the Arts

New

The Medieval HaggadahArt, Narrative, and Religious Imagination

Marc Michael Epstein

In this beautifully illustrated book, historian Marc Michael Epstein explores four magnificent and enigmatic illumi-nated haggadot—manuscripts created for use at home services on Passover. They include the earliest known surviv-ing illuminated haggadah: the Birds’ Head Haggadah, made in Mainz around 1300, in which many of the faces on the human figures depicted throughout are replaced with those of birds. Also presented is the Golden Haggadah from Barcelona, c. 1320–30, along with two Spanish “siblings,” the Rylands Hag-gadah and its purported Brother, made between 1330 and 1340, which share similar iconography and style.


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Earthly VisionsTheology and the Challenges of Art

T. J. Gorringe

This stimulating book argues that great art can function as a “secular parable”—that is, like the parables of Jesus, art can lead viewers to reflect on the reality and presence of God in the world. T. J. Gorringe examines representative secular paintings of the most significant types (mythological themes, genre painting, portraiture, landscape, still life, abstract art), showing how each type can point toward God, whether by envisaging an alternative future, creating aesthetic delight, or teaching us to see things differently. His provocative study challenges the notion that art since the 15th century has become increasingly secularized.

Cloth 2011 264 pp. 44 color + 27 b/w illus. ISBN 13: 978-0-300-16280-6 $45.00

New

Constructing the IneffableContemporary Sacred Architecture

Edited by Karla Britton

This book illustrates how sacred spaces like churches, mosques, and synagogues are viewed in the context of contempo-rary architecture and religious practice.

Distributed for the Yale School of Architecture Cloth 2011 248 pp. 100 color + 200 b/w illus. ISBN 13: 978-0-300-17037-5 $50.00

New

The Shahnama of Shah TahmaspThe Persian Book of Kings

Introduction by Sheila R. Canby

This sumptuous publication reproduces all 258 illuminated pages from the most renowned version of the Persian master-piece, the Shahnama of Shah Tahmasp.

Published by The Metropolitan Museum of Art/Distributed by Yale University Press Hardcover with Slipcase 2011 300 pp. 300 color illus. ISBN 13: 978-0-300-17586-8 $200.00

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Masterpieces from the Department of Islamic Art in The Metropolitan Museum of ArtMaryam Ekhtiar, Priscilla Soucek, Sheila R. Canby, and Navina Najat HaidarIntroduction by Sheila R. Canby

This comprehensive study reflects the diversity and range of Islamic culture, and is based on the Metropolitan Museum’s world-renowned collection.

Published by The Metropolitan Museum of Art/Distributed by Yale University Press Cloth 2011 400 pp. 450 color illus. ISBN 13: 978-0-300-17585-1 $65.00

New

Rembrandt and the Face of JesusEdited by Lloyd DeWittPreface by Seymour Slive and contributions by Lloyd DeWitt, Blaise Ducos, Franziska Gottwald, George S. Keyes, Shelley Perlove, Larry Silver, Ken Sutherland, and Mark Tucker

This fascinating book explores the significance of Rembrandt’s depictions of Christ and how his innovative use of a Jewish model revolutionized aspects of art history dating to antiquity.

Published in association with the Philadelphia Museum of Art Cloth 2011 256 pp. 130 color + 20 b/w illus. ISBN 13: 978-0-300-16957-7 $65.00

New in paper

The Image of ChristGabriele FinaldiWith an introduction by Neil MacGregor and contributions by Susanna Avery-Quash, Xavier Bray, Erika Langmuir, Neil MacGregor, and Alexander Sturgis

A beautiful book that traces how the image of Christ that we recognize today evolved over two millennia.

Published by National Gallery Company/Distributed by Yale University Press Paper 2011 224 pp. 182 color illus. ISBN 13: 978-1-85709-292-9 $25.00














Religion & the Arts

New in paper

Sultans of the SouthArts of India’s Deccan Courts, 1323–1687

Edited by Navina Najat Haidar and Marika Sardar

A scholarly investigation of the unique arts of India’s Deccan plateau in the fields of painting, literature, architecture, arms, textiles, and carpets.

Published by The Metropolitan Museum of Art/Distributed by Yale University Press Paper 2011 392 pp. 233 color + 228 b/w illus. ISBN 13: 978-0-300-17587-5 $50.00

New

The Sacred Image in the Age of ArtTitian, Tintoretto, Barocci, El Greco, Caravaggio

Marcia B. Hall

This superbly illustrated book takes a fresh look at some of the greatest painters of the Italian Renaissance and showcases their lesser-known religious artworks.


New

Decorating the ‘Godly’ HouseholdReligious Art in Post-Reformation Britain

Tara Hamling

This compelling new study presents a wealth of visual evidence to argue that religious subject matter was common in the arts of Protestant Britain.

Published for the Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art Cloth 2011 256 pp. 80 b/w + 40 color illus. ISBN 13: 978-0-300-16282-0 $75.00

New in paper

The Art of WorshipPaintings, Prayers, and Readings for Meditation

Nicholas HoltamWith a foreword by Richard Chartres

In this beautifully illustrated book, a selection of paintings from the National Gallery, London, are accompanied by religious commentary, Bible quotes, prayers and poetry to inspire private prayer, and contemplation.

Published by National Gallery Company/Distributed by Yale University Press Paper over Board 2011 120 pp. 49 color illus. ISBN 13: 978-1-85709-531-9 $25.00

Blessed and BeautifulPicturing the Saints

Robert Kiely

A powerful and searching meditation on the lives of the saints and the images of them painted by Renaissance artists in Italy. Robert Kiely’s beautifully written and thoughtful book treats saints seri-ously as human religious figures (not icons of perfection), brought to life by great Italian paintings in dialogue with scripture, legend, and poetry.


New

Translating TruthAmbitious Images and Religious Knowledge in Late Medieval France and England

Aden Kumler

This important book explores how illuminated manuscripts translated sacred truth and religious knowledge to the painted page in the later Middle Ages, offering lay elites a greater role in the pursuit of salvation.


The Christian West and Its SingersThe First Thousand Years

Christopher Page

A renowned scholar and musician presents a new and innovative explora-tion of the beginnings of Western musical art. Christopher Page places the history of the singers who performed this music against the social, political and economic life of a Western Europe slowly being remade after the collapse of Roman power.

Selected as a Choice Outstanding Academic Title for 2010 in the Music category


New

Building After AuschwitzJewish Architecture and the Memory of the Holocaust

Gavriel D. Rosenfeld

The first major study to examine the rise to prominence of Jewish architects since 1945 and the ways in which their work has been shaped by shifts in Jewish memory and identity since the Holocaust.


















Also of Interest Author Index

New in paper

Why Marx Was RightTerry Eagleton

In this combative, controversial book, Terry Eagleton takes issue with the prejudice that Marxism is dead and done with.


New in paper

Iphigenia in Forest HillsJanet Malcolm

The prizewinning journalist turns her attention to a sensational murder trial in an unusual neighborhood in Queens, and discovers the elements of Greek tragedy.

Recieved the 2011 Lifetime Achievement Award given by The English-Speaking Union of the United States


New in paper

LevantPhilip Mansel

Not so long ago, in certain great cosmopolitan cities on the shores of the eastern Mediterranean, Muslims, Christians, and Jews lived and flourished side by side. What can the histories of these cities tell us?


New

Journey of the UniverseBrian Thomas Swimme and Mary Evelyn Tucker

This exhilarating book explores the history of the universe from diverse perspectives—the sciences and the humanities—and offers a profoundly hopeful view of humankind’s opportu-nity to create a vibrant future for Earth and all its inhabitants.

Cloth 2011 175 pp. ISBN 13: 978-0-300-17190-7 $25.00

Our e-Book editions are available from most major eBook stores, including the Amazon Kindle Store, B&N’s nook store,

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Ahlstrom, 11

Ahmed, 16

Albanese, 11

Allawi, 16

Anderson, 12

Attridge, 15

Baden, 2

Batchelor, 19

Bauer, 17

Beeley, 14

Bennison, 16

Bercovitch, 11

Berlekamp, 16

Bernard, 6

Bloom J., & Blair, 16

Bloom, H., 2

Boss, 19

Bowker, 19

Britton, 20

Canby, 20

Carmichael, 2

Charlesworth, 3

Chin, 19

Clark, 19

Cohn, 3

Colish, 6

Dallal, 15

Dalton, 19

Davis, 17

DeWitt, 20

Douglas, 15

Duffy, 6

Durham, 19

Eagleton, 12, 15, 22

Edwards, John, 7

Edwards, Jonathan, 11

Ekhtiar et al., 20

Epstein, 20

Fassler, 7

Feiner, 18

Finaldi, 20

Findley, 16

Fredriksen, 4

Freeman, 3, 8

Gelernter, 17

Gilbert, 17

Gordon, 8

Gornick, 18

Gorringe, 20

Gottlieb, 18

Green, 17

HaCohen, 17

Haidar & Sardar, 21

Hall, 21

Hamling, 21

Harline & Put, 7

Harline, 7

Harris, 8

Hart, 13

Holtam, 21

Housley, 8

Hsia, 8

Hunter, 8

Hutton, 4

Idel,l 17

Jennings, 13

Johnson, 3

Kidd, 11

Kiely, 21

Kühne, 17

Kumler, 21

Kurlansky, 18

Lambert, 5

Lane, 9

Leibniz, 13

Lemert, 13

Levenson, 13

Lian, 19

Lynch, 12

MacMullen, 4

Malcolm, 22

Mansel, 22

Martin, 2

Meeks, 5

Meier, 3

Meyerson, 12

More, 13

Moss, 2

Murray, 13

Newman, 14

Niebuhr, 14

Orsi, 11

Ozment, 9

Page, 21

Pelikan, 5, 9, 14

Peterson, 16

Phillips, 9

Polkinghorne, 14

Robinson, 15

Rosenfeld, 21

Rubenstein, 18

Rubin, M., 9

Rubin, B., 17

Schultz, 12

Segal, 5

Shaw, 10

Shoemaker, 5

Skjærvø, 19

Skousen, 12

Smith, 15

Stoneman, 5

Stoyanov, 10

Swimme & Tucker, 22

Tillich, 15

Turner, F., 10

Turner, D, 14

Tyndale, 2

Vauchez, 10

Volkov, 18

Weinstein, 10

Weitzman, 18

Wilken, 5

Winner, 12

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