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Abraham Kuyper, “On Education” (Lexham Press, 2019)
Abraham Kuyper
On Education
Edited by Wendy Naylor and Harry Van Dyke
Lexham Press, 2019

New Books in Christian StudiesNew Books in EducationNew Books in European StudiesNew Books in Intellectual HistoryNew Books in Peoples & PlacesNew Books in Politics & SocietyNew Books in ReligionNew Books in Religion & Faith January 28, 2020 Crawford Gribben

Abraham Kuyper was one of the most important theologians in the Dutch Reformed tradition – and a newspaper editor, university founder and Prime Minister to boot. Lexham Press are publishing his “Collected Works in Public Theology,” in editions that bring together his writings on business, economics, the arts and other... Read More
Scott C. Esplin, “Return to the City of Joseph: Modern Mormonism’s Contest for the Soul of Nauvoo” (U Illinois Press, 2019)
Scott C. Esplin
Return to the City of Joseph
Modern Mormonism’s Contest for the Soul of Nauvoo
University of Illinois Press, 2019

New Books in American StudiesNew Books in Christian StudiesNew Books in HistoryNew Books in Peoples & PlacesNew Books in Politics & SocietyNew Books in ReligionNew Books in Religion & FaithNew Books Network January 27, 2020 Daniel P. Stone

In the mid-twentieth century, the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS) returned to Nauvoo, Illinois, home to the thriving religious community led by Joseph Smith before his murder in 1844. The quiet farm town became a major Mormon heritage site visited annually by tens of thousands of people.... Read More
Anna M. Gade, “Muslim Environmentalisms: Religious and Social Foundations” (Columbia UP, 2019)
Anna M. Gade
Muslim Environmentalisms
Religious and Social Foundations
Columbia University Press, 2019

New Books in AnthropologyNew Books in Environmental StudiesNew Books in Islamic StudiesNew Books in Peoples & PlacesNew Books in Politics & SocietyNew Books in ReligionNew Books in Religion & FaithNew Books in Science & TechnologyNew Books in Southeast Asian StudiesNew Books Network January 24, 2020 Kristian Petersen

The relationship between Islam and the environment has a long and rich history across various Muslim societies. Anna M. Gade, Professor at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, outlines several strains where these domains intersect in her book Muslim Environmentalisms: Religious and Social Foundations (Columbia University Press, 2019). Gade takes the reader through a number... Read More
Emily Colbert Cairns, “Esther in Early Modern Iberia and the Sephardic Diaspora: Queen of the Conversas” (Palgrave Macmillan, 2017)
Emily Colbert Cairns
Esther in Early Modern Iberia and the Sephardic Diaspora
Queen of the Conversas
Palgrave Macmillan, 2017

New Books in Arts & LettersNew Books in European StudiesNew Books in HistoryNew Books in Jewish StudiesNew Books in Literary StudiesNew Books in Peoples & PlacesNew Books in Politics & SocietyNew Books in ReligionNew Books in Religion & Faith January 23, 2020 Elizabeth Spragins

Emily Colbert Cairns’ book, Esther in Early Modern Iberia and the Sephardic Diaspora: Queen of the Conversas (Palgrave Macmillan, 2017), traces the biblical figure of Esther, the secret Jewish Queen, as she is reinvented as the patron saint for the early modern Sephardic community. This hybrid globetrotter emerges repeatedly in... Read More
James D. Bratt, “A Christian and a Democrat: A Religious Biography of Franklin D. Roosevelt” (Eerdmans, 2019)
James D. Bratt
A Christian and a Democrat
A Religious Biography of Franklin D. Roosevelt
Eerdmans, 2019

New Books in American StudiesNew Books in BiographyNew Books in Christian StudiesNew Books in HistoryNew Books in Peoples & PlacesNew Books in Politics & SocietyNew Books in ReligionNew Books in Religion & FaithNew Books Network January 23, 2020 Daniel P. Stone

Franklin Delano Roosevelt, when asked at a press conference about the roots of his political philosophy, responded simply, “I am a Christian and a Democrat.” This new book is the story of how the first informed the second—how his upbringing in the Episcopal Church and matriculation at the Groton School... Read More
Tad DeLay, ​”Against: What Does the White Evangelical Want?”​ (Cascade Books, 2019)
Tad DeLay
Against
What Does the White Evangelical Want?
Cascade Books, 2019

New Books in American StudiesNew Books in Christian StudiesNew Books in Critical TheoryNew Books in Peoples & PlacesNew Books in PoliticsNew Books in Politics & SocietyNew Books in ReligionNew Books in Religion & Faith January 22, 2020 Stephen Dozeman

What does the white evangelical want? In our moment of crisis and rage, this question is everywhere. Scholars ask from where its desires emerged, pundits divine its political future, and the public asks how we lapsed into social chaos. For their part, white evangelicals feel misunderstood while failing to see... Read More
Filippo Marsili, “Heaven Is Empty: A Cross-Cultural Approach to ‘Religion’ and Empire in Ancient China” (SUNY Press, 2018)
Filippo Marsili
Heaven Is Empty
A Cross-Cultural Approach to 'Religion' and Empire in Ancient China
SUNY Press, 2018

New Books in AnthropologyNew Books in East Asian StudiesNew Books in HistoryNew Books in Peoples & PlacesNew Books in Politics & SocietyNew Books in ReligionNew Books in Religion & FaithNew Books in SociologyNew Books Network January 17, 2020 Victoria Lupascu

Heaven Is Empty: A Cross-Cultural Approach to ‘Religion’ and Empire in Ancient China (SUNY Press, 2018) offers a new comparative perspective on the role of the sacred in the formation of China’s early empires (221 BCE–9 CE) and shows how the unification of the Central States was possible without a... Read More
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