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David Morgan

The Sacred Gaze

$34.95

"Sacred gaze" denotes any way of seeing that invests its object—an image, a person, a time, a place—with spiritual significance. Drawing from many different fields, David Morgan investigates key aspects of vision and imagery in a variety of religious traditions. His lively, innovative book explores how viewers absorb and process religious imagery and how their experience contributes to the social, intellectual, and perceptual construction of reality. Ranging widely from thirteenth-century Japan and eighteenth-century Tibet to contemporary America, Thailand, and Africa, The Sacred Gaze discusses the religious functions of images and the tools viewers use to interpret them. Morgan questions how fear and disgust of images relate to one another and explains how scholars study the long and evolving histories of images as they pass from culture to culture. An intriguing strand of the narrative details how images have helped to shape popular conceptions of gender and masculinity. The opening chapter considers definitions of "visual culture" and how these relate to the traditional practice of art history.

Amply illustrated with more than seventy images from diverse religious traditions, this masterful interdisciplinary study provides a comprehensive and accessible resource for everyone interested in how religious images and visual practice order space and time, communicate with the transcendent, and embody forms of communion with the divine. The Sacred Gaze is a vital introduction to the study of the visual culture of religions.

"Sacred gaze" denotes any way of seeing that invests its object—an image, a person, a time, a place—with spiritual significance. Drawing from many different fields, David Morgan investigates key aspects of vision and imagery in a variety of religious trad

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Naomi Seidman

A Marriage Made in Heaven

$23.95

With remarkably original formulations, Naomi Seidman examines the ways that Hebrew, the Holy Tongue, and Yiddish, the vernacular language of Ashkenazic Jews, came to represent the masculine and feminine faces, respectively, of Ashkenazic Jewish culture. Her sophisticated history is the first book-length exploration of the sexual politics underlying the "marriage" of Hebrew and Yiddish, and it has profound implications for understanding the centrality of language choices and ideologies in the construction of modern Jewish identity. Seidman particularly examines this sexual-linguistic system as it shaped the work of two bilingual authors, S.Y. Abramovitsh, the "grand-father" of modern Hebrew and Yiddish literature; and Dvora Baron, the first modern woman writer in Hebrew (and a writer in Yiddish as well). She also provides an analysis of the roles that Hebrew "masculinity" and Yiddish "femininity" played in the Hebrew-Yiddish language wars, the divorce that ultimately ended the marriage between the languages. Theorists have long debated the role of mother and father in the child's relationship to language. Seidman presents the Ashkenazic case as an illuminating example of a society in which "mother tongue" and "father tongue" are clearly differentiated. Her work speaks to important issues in contemporary scholarship, including the psychoanalysis of language acquisition, the feminist critique of Zionism, and the nexus of women's studies and Yiddish literary history. This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press's mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1997.

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Caroline Walker Bynum

Jesus as Mother

$29.95

From the Introduction, by Caroline Walker Bynum: The opportunity to rethink and republish several of my early articles in combination with a new essay on the thirteenth century has led me to consider the continuity-both of argument and of approach-that underlies them. In one sense, their interrelationship is obvious. The first two address a question that was more in the forefront of scholarship a dozen years ago than it is today: the question of differences among religious orders. These two essays set out a method of reading texts for imagery and borrowings as well as for spiritual teaching in order to determine whether individuals who live in different institutional settings hold differing assumptions about the significance of their lives. The essays apply the method to the broader question of differences between regular canons and monks and the narrower question of differences between one kind of monk--the Cistercians--and other religious groups, monastic and nonmonastic, of the twelfth century. The third essay draws on some of the themes of the first two, particularly the discussion of canonical and Cistercian conceptions of the individual brother as example, to suggest an interpretation of twelfth-century religious life as concerned with the nature of groups as well as with affective expression. The fourth essay, again on Cistercian monks, elaborates themes of the first three. Its subsidiary goals are to provide further evidence on distinctively Cistercian attitudes and to elaborate the Cistercian ambivalence about vocation that I delineate in the essay on conceptions of community. It also raises questions that have now become popular in nonacademic as well as academic circles: what significance should we give to the increase of feminine imagery in twelfth-century religious writing by males? Can we learn anything about distinctively male or female spiritualities from this feminization of language? The fifth essay differs from the others in turning to the thirteenth century rather than the twelfth, to women rather than men, to detailed analysis of many themes in a few thinkers rather than one theme in many writers; it is nonetheless based on the conclusions of the earlier studies. The sense of monastic vocation and of the priesthood, of the authority of God and self, and of the significance of gender that I find in the three great mystics of late thirteenth-century Helfta can be understood only against the background of the growing twelfth- and thirteenth-century concern for evangelism and for an approachable God, which are the basic themes of the first four essays. Such connections between the essays will be clear to anyone who reads them. There are, however, deeper methodological and interpretive continuities among them that I wish to underline here. For these studies constitute a plea for an approach to medieval spirituality that is not now--and perhaps has never been--dominant in medieval scholarship. They also provide an interpretation of the religious life of the high Middle Ages that runs against the grain of recent emphases on the emergence of "lay spirituality." I therefore propose to give, as introduction, both a discussion of recent approaches to medieval piety and a short sketch of the religious history of the twelfth and thirteenth centuries, emphasizing those themes that are the context for my specific investigations. I do not want to be misunderstood. In providing here a discussion of approaches to and trends in medieval religion I am not claiming that the studies that follow constitute a general history nor that my method should replace that of social, institutional, and intellectual historians. A handful of Cistercians does not typify the twelfth century, nor three nuns the thirteenth. Religious imagery, on which I concentrate, does not tell us how people lived. But because these essays approach texts in a way others have not done, focus on imagery others have not found important, and insist, as others have not insisted, on comparing groups to other groups (e.g., comparing what is peculiarly male to what is female as well as vice versa), I want to call attention to my approach to and my interpretation of the high Middle Ages in the hope of encouraging others to ask similar questions.

From the Introduction, by Caroline Walker Bynum: The opportunity to rethink and republish several of my early articles in combination with a new essay on the thirteenth century has led me to consider the continuity-both of argument and of approach-that un

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Soho Machida

Renegade Monk

$63.00

The Pure Land sect of Japanese Buddhism is one of the strongest Buddhist sects in Japan, with three and a half million followers. In this book, Soho Machida provides the first detailed, objective account in English of the life and thought of its founder, Honenbo Genku (1133-1212), known as Honen.

Opening with the destruction and chaos that beleaguered Kyoto during Honen's lifetime, Soho Machida explores Honen's social context to discover the roots of his thought and the source of his popularity. The Old Buddhist regime had a stranglehold on peasants, he shows, by concocting images of vindictive spirits, hell, and an apocalyptic collapse of the law in these chaotic times. Machida asserts that when Honen countered such negative, menacing images by focusing his imagination on the Pure Land and actually affirming death, he became not only a radical thinker but also the leader of a revolutionary social movement—a medieval Japanese "liberation theology." Clearly argued and informed by contemporary Western theory, this book will become the definitive source on Honen's life and thought for decades to come.

The Pure Land sect of Japanese Buddhism is one of the strongest Buddhist sects in Japan, with three and a half million followers. In this book, Soho Machida provides the first detailed, objective account in English of the life and thought of its founder,

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Francio Guadeloupe

Chanting Down the New Jerusalem

$34.95

In this brilliantly evocative ethnography, Francio Guadeloupe probes the ethos and attitude created by radio disc jockeys on the binational Caribbean island of Saint Martin/Sint Maarten. Examining the intersection of Christianity, calypso, and capitalism, Guadeloupe shows how a multiethnic and multireligious island nation, where livelihoods depend on tourism, has managed to encourage all social classes to transcend their ethnic and religious differences. In his pathbreaking analysis, Guadeloupe credits the island DJs, whose formulations of Christian faith, musical creativity, and capitalist survival express ordinary people's hopes and fears and promote tolerance.

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Christopher G. White

Unsettled Minds

$85.00

This book examines how nineteenth- and twentieth-century American believers rejected older, often evangelical, theological traditions and turned to scientific psychologies to formulate new ideas about mind and spirit and new practices for spiritual growth. Christopher G. White looks in particular at how a group of liberal believers—including William James and G. Stanley Hall—turned away from traditional Christian orthodoxies and built a revised religious identity based on new psychological motifs and therapies. Unsettled Minds is the first book to explain the dramatic rise of new spiritualities of the mind, spiritualities that, by the early twenty-first century, were turning eagerly to scientific and clinical psychological studies to reimagine religion and the problems of religious uncertainty.

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Kathryn Lofton

Oprah

$29.95

"Today on Oprah," intoned the TV announcer, and all over America viewers tuned in to learn, empathize, and celebrate. In this book, Kathryn Lofton investigates the Oprah phenomenon and finds in Winfrey’s empire—Harpo Productions, O Magazine, and her new television network—an uncanny reflection of religion in modern society. Lofton shows that when Oprah liked, needed, or believed something, she offered her audience nothing less than spiritual revolution, reinforced by practices that fuse consumer behavior, celebrity ambition, and religious idiom. In short, Oprah Winfrey is a media messiah for a secular age. Lofton’s unique approach also situates the Oprah enterprise culturally, illuminating how Winfrey reflects and continues historical patterns of American religions.

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Daniel Boyarin

Carnal Israel

$17.95

Beginning with a startling endorsement of the patristic view of Judaism—that it was a "carnal" religion, in contrast to the spiritual vision of the Church—Daniel Boyarin argues that rabbinic Judaism was based on a set of assumptions about the human body that were profoundly different from those of Christianity. The body—specifically, the sexualized body—could not be renounced, for the Rabbis believed as a religious principle in the generation of offspring and hence in intercourse sanctioned by marriage.

This belief bound men and women together and made impossible the various modes of gender separation practiced by early Christians. The commitment to coupling did not imply a resolution of the unequal distribution of power that characterized relations between the sexes in all late-antique societies. But Boyarin argues strenuously that the male construction and treatment of women in rabbinic Judaism did not rest on a loathing of the female body. Thus, without ignoring the currents of sexual domination that course through the Talmudic texts, Boyarin insists that the rabbinic account of human sexuality, different from that of the Hellenistic Judaisms and Pauline Christianity, has something important and empowering to teach us today.

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Jamal J. Elias

Alef Is for Allah

$34.95

Alef Is for Allah is the first groundbreaking study of the emotional space occupied by children in modern Islamic societies. Focusing primarily on visual representations of children from modern Turkey, Iran, and Pakistan, the book examines these materials to investigate concepts such as innocence, cuteness, gender, virtue, and devotion, as well as community, nationhood, violence, and sacrifice. In addition to exploring a subject that has never been studied comparatively before, Alef Is for Allah extends the boundaries of scholarship on emotion, religion, and visual culture and provides unique insight into Islam as it is lived and experienced in the modern world.

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Charlotte Eubanks

Miracles of Book and Body

$85.00

Miracles of Book and Body is the first book to explore the intersection of two key genres of sacred literature in medieval Japan: sutras, or sacred Buddhist texts, and setsuwa, or "explanatory tales," used in sermons and collected in written compilations. For most of East Asia, Buddhist sutras were written in classical Chinese and inaccessible to many devotees. How, then, did such devotees access these texts? Charlotte D. Eubanks argues that the medieval genre of "explanatory tales" illuminates the link between human body (devotee) and sacred text (sutra). Her highly original approach to understanding Buddhist textuality focuses on the sensual aspects of religious experience and also looks beyond Japan to explore pre-modern book history, practices of preaching, miracles of reading, and the Mahayana Buddhist "cult of the book."

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Catherine Michael Chin

Life

$29.95

A vivid and intimate glimpse of ancient life under the sway of cosmic and spiritual forces that the modern world has forgotten.

Life immerses the reader in the cosmic sea of existences that made up the late ancient Mediterranean world. Loosely structured around events in the biography of one early Christian writer and traveler, this book weaves together the philosophical, religious, sensory, and scientific worlds of the later Roman Empire to tell the story of how human lives were lived under different natural and spiritual laws than those we now know today.

This book takes a highly literary and sensory approach to its subject, evoking an imagined experience of an ancient natural and supernatural world, rather than merely explaining ancient thought about the natural world. It mixes visual and literary genres to give the reader a sensory and affective experience of a thought-world that is very different from our own. An experimental intellectual history, Life invites readers into the premodern cosmos to experience a world that is at once familiar, strange, and deeply compelling.

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Baruch M. Bokser

The Origins of the Seder

$23.95

The Origins of the Seder: The Passover Rite and Early Rabbinic Judaism delves into the transformation of the Passover celebration from its biblical roots to the structured Seder ritual we recognize today. Focusing on Mishnah Pesahim 10, this study examines how rabbinic Judaism redefined the festival in response to the destruction of the Temple, shifting religious life from centralized worship to home-based practices and synagogue-centered communities. By analyzing the Mishnah’s editorial approach alongside related sources like the Tosefta, the book uncovers how earlier traditions were adapted and reimagined to create a meaningful, symbolic ritual that emphasized continuity while addressing new realities.

Situating the Seder within its historical and cultural contexts, the book explores parallels with Greco-Roman banquet traditions while highlighting the Seder’s uniquely Jewish identity. It provides fresh insights into how rabbinic authorities crafted rituals that preserved core elements of Jewish tradition while responding to the challenges of their time. With a focus on the interplay of tradition, innovation, and cultural influence, this work offers an invaluable perspective for those studying Jewish history, religious transformation, and the enduring significance of the Seder in Jewish life.

This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press’s mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1984.

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Alejandro Nava

In Search of Soul

$29.95

In Search of Soul explores the meaning of “soul” in sacred and profane incarnations, from its biblical origins to its central place in the rich traditions of black and Latin history. Surveying the work of writers, artists, poets, musicians, philosophers and theologians, Alejandro Nava shows how their understandings of the “soul” revolve around narratives of justice, liberation, and spiritual redemption. He contends that biblical traditions and hip-hop emerged out of experiences of dispossession and oppression. Whether born in the ghettos of America or of the Roman Empire, hip-hop and Christianity have endured by giving voice to the persecuted. This book offers a view of soul in living color, as a breathing, suffering, dreaming thing.

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Sandra Sizer Frankiel

California's Spiritual Frontiers

$23.95

California's Spiritual Frontiers: Religious Alternatives in Anglo-Protestantism, 1850–1910 offers a profound exploration of how Anglo-Protestantism evolved and adapted in California during a period of rapid cultural and societal transformation. In a region where evangelical Protestantism initially sought to dominate, the book reveals how traditional religious norms were challenged by liberal ideologies and metaphysical movements, including Christian Science, New Thought, and Theosophy. These alternative spiritual frameworks reshaped the religious landscape, emphasizing individual spirituality, mysticism, and openness to non-traditional beliefs. The book vividly illustrates how California's unique social dynamics and cultural diversity fostered a distinctive blend of spiritual experimentation and adaptation.

Focusing on key regions such as the mining districts, San Francisco Bay Area, and early Los Angeles, California's Spiritual Frontiers examines the interplay between traditional denominations, emerging liberal thought, and new metaphysical religions. It details the challenges faced by Protestant leaders to maintain their influence amidst a largely unchurched population and the growing popularity of alternative spiritual paths. This meticulously researched work not only provides a window into California's unique religious evolution but also contributes significantly to the broader study of American religious history, highlighting the intersection of regional, cultural, and spiritual identities.

This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press’s mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1988.

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David N. Myers

The Eternal Dissident

$12.99

A free ebook version of this title is available through Luminos, University of California Press’s Open Access publishing program. Visit www.luminosoa.org to learn more.

The Eternal Dissident offers rare insight into one of the most inspiring and controversial Reform rabbis of the twentieth century, Leonard Beerman, who was renowned both for his eloquent and challenging sermons and for his unrelenting commitment to social action. Beerman was a man of powerful word and action—a probing intellectual and stirring orator, as well as a nationally known opponent of McCarthyism, racial injustice, and Israeli policy in the occupied territories. The shared source of Beerman’s thought and activism was the moral imperative of the Hebrew prophets, which he believed bestowed upon the Jewish people their role as the “eternal dissident.” This volume brings Beerman to life through a selection of his most powerful writings, followed by commentaries from notable scholars, rabbis, and public personalities that speak to the quality and ongoing relevance of Beerman’s work.

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Eric Reinders

Borrowed Gods and Foreign Bodies

$50.95

To the Victorians, the Chinese were invariably "inscrutable." The meaning and provenance of this impression—and, most importantly, its workings in nineteenth-century Protestant missionary encounters with Chinese religion—are at the center of Eric Reinders's Borrowed Gods and Foreign Bodies, an enlightening look at how missionaries' religious identity, experience, and physical foreignness produced certain representations of China between 1807 and 1937.

Reinders first introduces the imaginative world of Victorian missionaries and outlines their application of mind-body dualism to the dualism of self and other. He then explores Western views of the Chinese language, especially ritual language, and Chinese ritual, particularly the kow-tow. His work offers surprising and valuable insight into the visceral nature of the Victorian response to the Chinese—and, more generally, into the nineteenth-century Western representation of China.

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Rosemary Ruether

Goddesses and the Divine Feminine

$28.95

This landmark work presents the most illuminating portrait we have to date of goddesses and sacred female imagery in Western culture—from prehistory to contemporary goddess movements. Beautifully written, lucidly conceived, and far-ranging in its implications, this work will help readers gain a better appreciation of the complexity of the social forces— mostly androcentric—that have shaped the symbolism of the sacred feminine. At the same time, it charts a new direction for finding a truly egalitarian vision of God and human relations through a feminist-ecological spirituality.

Rosemary Radford Ruether begins her exploration of the divine feminine with an analysis of prehistoric archaeology that challenges the popular idea that, until their overthrow by male-dominated monotheism, many ancient societies were matriarchal in structure, governed by a feminine divinity and existing in harmony with nature. For Ruether, the historical evidence suggests the reality about these societies is much more complex. She goes on to consider key myths and rituals from Sumerian, Babylonian, Egyptian, and Anatolian cultures; to examine the relationships among gender, deity, and nature in the Hebrew religion; and to discuss the development of Mariology and female mysticism in medieval Catholicism, and the continuation of Wisdom mysticism in Protestanism. She also gives a provocative analysis of the meeting of Aztec and Christian female symbols in Mexico and of today's neo-pagan movements in the United States.

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Oz Almog

The Sabra

$34.95

The Sabras were the first Israelis—the first generation, born in the 1930s and 1940s, to grow up in the Zionist settlement in Palestine. Socialized and educated in the ethos of the Zionist labor movement and the communal ideals of the kibbutz and moshav, they turned the dream of their pioneer forebears into the reality of the new State of Israel. While the Sabras made up a small minority of the new society’s population, their cultural influence was enormous. Their ideals, their love of the land, their recreational culture of bonfires and singalongs, their adoption of Arab accessories, their slang and gruff, straightforward manner, together with a reserved, almost puritanical attitude toward individual relationships, came to signify the cultural fulfillment of the utopian ideal of a new Jew. Oz Almog’s lively, methodical, and convincing portrayal of the Sabras addresses their lives, thought, and role in Jewish history. The most comprehensive study of this exceptional generation to date, The Sabra provides a complex and unflinching analysis of accepted norms and an impressive appraisal of the Sabra, one that any examination of new Israeli reality must take into consideration.

The Sabras became Palmach commanders, soldiers in the British Brigade, and, later, officers in the Israel Defense Forces. They served as a source of inspiration and an object of emulation for an entire society. Almog’s source material is rich and varied: he uses poems, letters, youth movement and army newsletters, and much more to portray the Sabras’ attitudes toward the Arabs, war, nature, work, agriculture, cooperation, and education. In any event, the Sabra remained central to the founding myth of the nation, the real Israeli, against whom later generations will be judged. Almog’s pioneering book juxtaposes the myths against the realities and, in the process, limns a collective profile that brilliantly encompasses the complex forces that shaped this remarkable generation.

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Amanda J. Lucia

White Utopias

$14.95

Transformational festivals, from Burning Man to Lightning in a Bottle, Bhakti Fest, and Wanderlust, are massive events that attract thousands of participants to sites around the world. In this groundbreaking book, Amanda J. Lucia shows how these festivals operate as religious institutions for “spiritual, but not religious” (SBNR) communities. Whereas previous research into SBNR practices and New Age religion has not addressed the predominantly white makeup of these communities, White Utopias examines the complicated, often contradictory relationships with race at these events, presenting an engrossing ethnography of SBNR practices. Lucia contends that participants create temporary utopias through their shared commitments to spiritual growth and human connection. But they also participate in religious exoticism by adopting Indigenous and Indic spiritualities, a practice that ultimately renders them exclusive, white utopias. Focusing on yoga’s role in disseminating SBNR values, Lucia offers new ways of comprehending transformational festivals as significant cultural phenomena.

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James Walvin

Amazing Grace

$19.95

“A compelling story of a hymn rescued from the horror of slavery . . . in the author’s hands, 'Amazing Grace' lands firmly on the right side of history.”―TLS

Journey through the history of "Amazing Grace," one of the transatlantic world's most popular hymns and a powerful anthem for humanity.

Sung in moments of personal isolation or on state occasions watched by millions, "Amazing Grace" has become an unparalleled anthem for humankind. How did a simple Christian hymn, written in a remote English vicarage in 1772, come to hold such sway over millions in all corners of the modern world? With this short, engaging cultural history, James Walvin offers an explanation.

The greatest paradox is that the author of "Amazing Grace," John Newton, was a former Liverpool slave captain. Walvin follows the song across the Atlantic to track how it became part of the cause for abolition and galvanized decades of movements and trends in American history and popular culture. By the end of the twentieth century, "Amazing Grace" was performed in Soweto and Vanuatu, by political dissidents in China, and by Kikuyu women in Kenya. No other song has acquired such global resonance as "Amazing Grace," and its fascinating history is well worth knowing.

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David Chidester

Wild Religion

$29.95

Wild Religion is a wild ride through recent South African history from the advent of democracy in 1994 to the euphoria of the football World Cup in 2010. In the context of South Africa’s political journey and religious diversity, David Chidester explores African indigenous religious heritage with a difference. As the spiritual dimension of an African Renaissance, indigenous religion has been recovered in South Africa as a national resource. Wild Religion analyzes indigenous rituals of purification on Robben Island, rituals of healing and reconciliation at the new national shrine, Freedom Park, and rituals of animal sacrifice at the World Cup. Not always in the national interest, indigenous religion also appears in the wild religious creativity of prison gangs, the global spirituality of neo-shamans, the ceremonial display of Zulu virgins, the ancient Egyptian theosophy in South Africa’s Parliament, and the new traditionalism of South Africa’s President Jacob Zuma. Arguing that the sacred is produced through the religious work of intensive interpretation, formal ritualization, and intense contestation, Chidester develops innovative insights for understanding the meaning and power of religion in a changing society. For anyone interested in religion, Wild Religion uncovers surprising dynamics of sacred space, violence, fundamentalism, heritage, media, sex, sovereignty, and the political economy of the sacred.

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Alan Cole

Patriarchs on Paper

$29.95

The truth of Chan Buddhism—better known as “Zen”—is regularly said to be beyond language, and yet Chan authors—medieval and modern—produced an enormous quantity of literature over the centuries. To make sense of this well-known paradox, Patriarchs on Paper explores several genres of Chan literature that appeared during the Tang and Song dynasties (c. 600–1300), including genealogies, biographies, dialogues, poems, monastic handbooks, and koans. Working through this diverse body of literature, Alan Cole details how Chan authors developed several strategies to evoke images of a perfect Buddhism in which wonderfully simple masters transmitted Buddhism’s final truth to one another, suddenly and easily, and, of course, independent of literature and the complexities of the Buddhist monastic system. Chan literature, then, reveled in staging delightful images of a Buddhism free of Buddhism, tempting the reader, over and over, with the possibility of finding behind the thick façade of real Buddhism—with all its rules, texts, doctrines, and institutional solidity—an ethereal world of pure spirit. Patriarchs on Paper charts the emergence of this kind of “fantasy Buddhism” and details how it interacted with more traditional forms of Chinese Buddhism in order to show how Chan’s illustrious ancestors were created in literature in order to further a wide range of real-world agendas.

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Andrew Greeley

The Catholic Imagination

$16.95

Catholics live in an enchanted world: a world of statues and holy water, stained glass and votive candles, saints and religious medals, rosary beads and holy pictures. But these Catholic paraphernalia are merely hints of a deeper and more pervasive religious sensibility that inclines Catholics to see the Holy lurking in creation. The world of the Catholic is haunted by a sense that the objects, events, and persons of daily life are revelations of Grace. In this fascinating discussion of what is unique about the Catholic worldview and culture and what distinguishes it from Protestantism, Andrew Greeley--one of the most popular and prolific authors writing today--examines the religious imagination that shapes Catholics' lives.

In a lively and engaging narrative, Greeley discusses the central themes of Catholic culture: Sacrament, Salvation, Community, Festival, Structure, Erotic Desire, and the Mother Love of God. Ranging widely from Bernini to Scorsese, Greeley distills these themes from the high arts of Catholic culture and asks: Do these values really influence people's lives? Using international survey data, he shows the counterintuitive ways in which Catholics are defined. He goes on to root these behaviors in the Catholic imagination.

As he identifies and explores the fertile terrain of Catholic culture, Greeley illustrates the enduring power of particular stories, images, and orientations in shaping Catholics' lived experience. He challenges a host of assumptions about who Catholics are and makes a strong case for the vitality of the culture today. The Catholic imagination is sustained and passed on in relationships, the home, and the community, Greeley shows. Absorbing, compassionate, and deeply informed, this book provides an entirely new perspective on the nature and role of religion in daily life for Catholics and non-Catholics alike.

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Jeffrey F. Meyer

Myths in Stone

$37.95

Washington, D.C., is a city of powerful symbols—from the dominance of the Capitol dome and Washington Monument to the authority of the Smithsonian. This book takes us on a fascinating and informative tour of the nation's capital as Jeffrey F. Meyer unravels the complex symbolism of the city and explores its meaning for our national consciousness. Meyer finds that mythic and religious themes pervade the capital—in its original planning, in its monumental architecture, and in the ritualized events that have taken place over the 200 years the city has been the repository for the symbolism of the nation.

As Meyer tours the city's famous axial layout, he discusses many historical figures and events, compares Washington to other great cities of the world such as Beijing and Berlin, and discusses the meaning and history of its architecture and many works of art. Treating Washington, D.C., as a complex religious center, Meyer finds that the city functions as a unifying element in American consciousness. This book will change the way we look at Washington, D.C., and provide a provocative new look at the meaning of religion in America today. It will also be a valuable companion for those traveling to this city that was envisioned from its inception as the center of the world.

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Mark Slobin

American Klezmer

$31.95

Klezmer, the Yiddish word for a folk instrumental musician, has come to mean a person, a style, and a scene. This musical subculture came to the United States with the late-nineteenth-century Jewish immigrants from Eastern Europe. Although it had declined in popularity by the middle of the twentieth century, this lively music is now enjoying recognition among music fans of all stripes. Today, klezmer flourishes in the United States and abroad in the world music and accompany Jewish celebrations. The outstanding essays collected in this volume investigate American klezmer: its roots, its evolution, and its spirited revitalization.

The contributors to American Klezmer include every kind of authority on the subject--from academics to leading musicians--and they offer a wide range of perspectives on the musical, social, and cultural history of klezmer in American life. The first half of this volume concentrates on the early history of klezmer, using folkloric sources, records of early musicians unions, and interviews with the last of the immigrant musicians. The second part of the collection examines the klezmer "revival" that began in the 1970s. Several of these essays were written by the leaders of this movement, or draw on interviews with them, and give firsthand accounts of how klezmer is transmitted and how its practitioners maintain a balance between preservation and innovation.

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Mark Juergensmeyer

Global Rebellion

$29.95

Why has the turn of the twenty-first century been rocked by a new religious rebellion? From al Qaeda to Christian militias to insurgents in Iraq, a strident new religious activism has seized the imaginations of political rebels around the world. Building on his groundbreaking book, The New Cold War?: Religious Nationalism Confronts the Secular State, Mark Juergensmeyer here provides an up-to-date road map through this complex new religious terrain. Basing his discussion on interviews with militant activists and case studies of rebellious movements, Juergensmeyer puts a human face on conflicts that have become increasingly abstract. He revises our notions of religious revolution and offers positive proposals for responding to religious activism in ways that will diminish the violence and lead to an accommodation between radical religion and the secular world.

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Robert Wuthnow

After Heaven

$31.95

The evolution of American spirituality over the past fifty years is the subject of Robert Wuthnow's engrossing new book. Wuthnow uses in-depth interviews and a broad range of resource materials to show how Americans, from teenagers to senior citizens, define their spiritual journeys. His findings are a telling reflection of the changes in beliefs and lifestyles that have occurred throughout the United States in recent decades.

Wuthnow reconstructs the social and cultural reasons for an emphasis on a spirituality of dwelling (houses of worship, denominations, neighborhoods) during the 1950s. Then in the 1960s a spirituality of seeking began to emerge, leading individuals to go beyond established religious institutions. In subsequent chapters Wuthnow examines attempts to reassert spiritual discipline, encounters with the sacred (such as angels and near-death experiences), and the development of the "inner self." His final chapter discusses a spirituality of practice, an alternative for people who are uncomfortable within a single religious community and who want more than a spirituality of endless seeking.

The diversity of contemporary American spirituality comes through in the voices of the interviewees. Christians, Jews, Buddhists, Muslims, Hindus, and Native Americans are included, as are followers of occult practices, New Age religions, and other eclectic groups. Wuthnow also notes how politicized spirituality, evangelical movements, and resources such as Twelve-Step programs and mental health therapy influence definitions of religious life today.

Wuthnow's landmark book, The Restructuring of American Religion (1988), documented the changes in institutional religion in the United States; now After Heaven explains the changes in personal spirituality that have come to shape our religious life. Moreover, it is a compelling and insightful guide to understanding American culture at century's end.

The evolution of American spirituality over the past fifty years is the subject of Robert Wuthnow's engrossing new book. Wuthnow uses in-depth interviews and a broad range of resource materials to show how Americans, from teenagers to senior citizens, def

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John Stratton Hawley

Saints and Virtues

$19.95

This book explores a larger family of saints—those celebrated not just by Christianity but by other religious traditions of the world: Muslim, Hindu, Jewish, Buddhist, Confucian, African, and Caribbean. The essays show how saints serve as moral exemplars in the communities that venerate them.

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José R. Barcia

Americo Castro and the Meaning of Spanish Civilization

$29.95

Americo Castro and the Meaning of Spanish Civilization offers a systematic exploration of Castro's ideas, organized to trace the evolution and impact of his theories on Spanish history and culture. More than a typical Festschrift or homage, the book brings together contributions from scholars, friends, and former students who engaged closely with Castro’s work. Their essays are intended to provide English-speaking audiences with insights into Castro’s unique interpretations of Iberian civilization, emphasizing the distinctiveness of Spanish culture’s contributions to Western history. The book includes Castro's seminal lecture, The Meaning of Spanish Civilization, a pivotal work that laid the groundwork for many of his later theories.

The collection begins with Castro's 1940 Princeton lecture, followed by Guillermo Araya Goubet's essay The Evolution of Castro's Theories, which charts the development of Castro’s thoughts and ideas, highlighting their innovative aspects. Stephen Gilman’s Literature and Historical Insight rounds out the volume with an examination of Castro’s critical work on El Libro de Buen Amor, bringing Castro's historical and literary analysis into a broader context. These essays, along with additional pieces from other contributors, aim to offer a cohesive view of Castro's enduring legacy and scholarly influence on both historical and cultural studies.

Gratitude is extended to many individuals and institutions for supporting this publication, including Castro’s family, who provided permissions and materials, and the Del Amo Foundation, which helped make the project possible. The combined efforts of translators, editors, and Castro’s close colleagues ensured that his complex ideas could be conveyed effectively to a new audience. The book serves both as a tribute to Castro and as an accessible introduction to his profound insights into the Spanish-speaking world’s unique cultural identity.

This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press’s mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1976.

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Sylvester A. Johnson

The FBI and Religion

$29.95

The Federal Bureau of Investigation has had a long and tortuous relationship with religion over almost the entirety of its existence. As early as 1917, the Bureau began to target religious communities and groups it believed were hotbeds of anti-American politics. Whether these religious communities were pacifist groups that opposed American wars, or religious groups that advocated for white supremacy or direct conflict with the FBI, the Bureau has infiltrated and surveilled religious communities that run the gamut of American religious life.

The FBI and Religion recounts this fraught and fascinating history, focusing on key moments in the Bureau’s history. Starting from the beginnings of the FBI before World War I, moving through the Civil Rights Movement and the Cold War, up to 9/11 and today, this book tackles questions essential to understanding not only the history of law enforcement and religion, but also the future of religious liberty in America.

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Christian Smith

The Secular Revolution

$21.95

Sociologists, historians, and other social observers have long considered the secularization of American public life over the past hundred and thirty years to be an inevitable and natural outcome of modernization. This groundbreaking work rejects this view and fundamentally rethinks the historical and theoretical causes of the secularization of American public life between 1870 and 1930. Christian Smith and his team of contributors boldly argue that the declining authority of religion was not the by-product of modernization, but rather the intentional achievement of cultural and intellectual elites, including scientists, academics, and literary intellectuals, seeking to gain control of social institutions and increase their own cultural authority.

Writing with vigor and a broad intellectual grasp, the contributors examine power struggles and ideological shifts in various social sectors where the public authority of religion has diminished, in particular education, science, law, and journalism. Together the essays depict a cultural and institutional revolution that is best understood in terms of individual agency, conflicts of interest, resource mobilization, and struggles for authority. Engaging both sociological and historical literature, The Secular Revolution offers a new theoretical framework and original empirical research that will inform our understanding of American society from the nineteenth to the twenty-first centuries. The ramifications of its provocative and cogent thesis will be felt throughout sociology, religious studies, and our general thinking about society for years to come.

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Pierrette Hondagneu-Sotelo

God's Heart Has No Borders

$29.95

In this timely and compelling account of the contribution to immigrant rights made by religious activists in post-1965 and post-9/11 America, Pierrette Hondagneu-Sotelo provides a comprehensive, close-up view of how Muslim, Christian, and Jewish groups are working to counter xenophobia. Against the hysteria prevalent in today's media, in which immigrants are often painted as a drain on the public coffers, inherently unassimilable, or an outright threat to national security, Hondagneu-Sotelo finds the intersection between migration and religion and calls attention to quieter voices, those dedicated to securing the human dignity of newcomers. Based on years of fieldwork conducted in California's major centers as well as in Chicago, this book considers Muslim Americans defending their civil liberties after 9/11, Christian activists responding to death and violence at the U.S-Mexico border, and Christian and Jewish clergy defending the labor rights of Latino immigrants. At a time when much attention has been given to religious fundamentalism and its capacity to incite violent conflict, God's Heart Has No Borders revises our understanding of the role of religion in social movements and demonstrates the nonviolent power of religious groups to address social injustices.

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Howard Eilberg-Schwartz

Off with Her Head!

$18.95

Whereas many books look at how women's bodies are represented in different religions and cultures around the world, this work explores the site of a woman's voice and identity, her head. The female head threatens to disrupt the classic gender distinctions that link men to speech, identity, and mind while relegating women to silence, anonymity, and flesh. The contributors to this collection argue that the objectification of women as sexual and reproductive bodies results in their symbolic beheading. Decapitation occurs symbolically in myths as well as in actual practices such as veiling, head covering, and cosmetic highlighting, which by sexualizing a woman's face turns it into an extension of her body.

The essays explore how similar treatments of the female head find their unique articulation in diverse religious traditions and cultures: in Hindu myths of beheading, in Buddhist and Tantric practices and poetry about the hair of female nuns, in the resistance to veiling by early Christian women at Corinth, in contemporary veiling practices in a Turkish village, in the eroticization of the female mouth in ancient Judaism, and in Greek and Roman cosmetic practices.

Together these essays show how the depiction of the female head is critical for an understanding of gender and its influence on other fundamental religious and cultural issues.

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Georges Dreyfus

The Sound of Two Hands Clapping

$19.95

A unique insider's account of day-to-day life inside a Tibetan monastery, The Sound of Two Hands Clapping reveals to Western audiences the fascinating details of monastic education. Georges B. J. Dreyfus, the first Westerner to complete the famous Ge-luk curriculum and achieve the distinguished title of geshe, weaves together eloquent and moving autobiographical reflections with a historical overview of Tibetan Buddhism and insights into its teachings.

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John B. Gleason

John Colet

$29.95

John Colet by John B. Gleason offers the first comprehensive scholarly biography of the early Tudor theologian, reformer, and founder of St. Paul’s School. Long overshadowed by Erasmus and Thomas More, Colet emerges here as a central figure in the intellectual and religious life of late fifteenth- and early sixteenth-century England. Drawing on Colet’s manuscripts, sermons, and exegetical writings, as well as the shifting historiographical traditions that shaped his posthumous reputation, Gleason reconstructs the career of a thinker whose blend of humanist learning, Pauline theology, and cautious reformism complicates both Protestant and Catholic narratives of the English Reformation.

Moving beyond the Victorian image of Colet as a proto-Protestant hero, Gleason situates him in the contexts of mercantile London, Oxford and Cambridge scholarship, and the politics of Henry VII’s and Henry VIII’s courts. The book explores his exegetical method, his theology of the sacraments, his educational vision for St. Paul’s School, and his role in policing heresy and guiding reform from within the church. At once sympathetic and critical, John Colet reveals a figure at the crossroads of medieval and Renaissance intellectual cultures, whose writings anticipate modern biblical criticism while remaining embedded in the conservative hierarchies of his own day.

This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press’s mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1989.

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Arthur Magida

Opening the Doors of Wonder

$34.95

This bold, pioneering book explores rites of passage in America by sifting through the accounts of influential thinkers who experienced them. Arthur J. Magida explains the underlying theologies, evolution, and actual practice of Jewish bar and bat mitzvahs, Christian confirmations, Hindu sacred thread ceremonies, Muslim shahadas and Zen jukai ceremonies. In rare interviews, renowned artists and intellectuals such as Nobel laureate Elie Wiesel, holistic guru Deepak Chopra, singer Yusuf Islam (Cat Stevens), actress/comedienne Julia Sweeney, cartoonist Roz Chast, interfaith maven Huston Smith, and many more talk intimately about their religious backgrounds, the rites of passage they went through, and how these events shaped who they are today.

Magida compares these coming of age ceremonies' origins and evolution, considers their ultimate meaning and purpose, and gauges how their meaning changes with individuals over time. He also examines innovative rites of passage that are now being "invented" in the United States. Passionate and lyrical, this absorbing book reveals our deep, ultimate need for coming-of-age events, especially in a society as fluid as ours.

Conversations with: Bob Abernethy, Huston Smith, Julia Sweeney, Roz Chast, Harold Kushner, Ram Dass, Elie Wiesel, Deepak Chopra, Robert Thurman, Coleman Barks, Yusuf Islam (Cat Stevens), And others

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Jeanne-Nicole Mellon Saint-Laurent

Missionary Stories and the Formation of the Syriac Churches

$90.00

Missionary Stories and the Formation of the Syriac Churches analyzes the hagiographic traditions of seven missionary saints in the Syriac heritage during late antiquity: Thomas, Addai, Mari, John of Ephesus, Simeon of Beth Arsham, Jacob Baradaeus, and Ahudemmeh. Jeanne-Nicole Mellon Saint-Laurent studies a body of legends about the missionaries’ voyages in the Syrian Orient to illustrate their shared symbols and motifs. Revealing how these texts encapsulated the concerns of the communities that produced them, she draws attention to the role of hagiography as a malleable genre that was well-suited for the idealized presentation of the beginnings of Christian communities. Hagiographers, through their reworking of missionary themes, asserted autonomy, orthodoxy, and apostolicity for their individual civic and monastic communities, positioning themselves in relationship to the rulers of their empires and to competing forms of Christianity. Saint-Laurent argues that missionary hagiography is an important and neglected source for understanding the development of the East and West Syriac ecclesiastical bodies: the Syrian Orthodox Church and the Church of the East. Given that many of these Syriac-speaking churches remain today in the Middle East and India, with diaspora communities in Europe and North America, this work opens the door for further study of the role of saints and stories as symbolic links between ancient and modern traditions.

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Hugh B. Urban

Tantra

$34.95

A complex body of religious practices that spread throughout the Hindu, Buddhist, and Jain traditions; a form of spirituality that seemingly combines sexuality, sensual pleasure, and the full range of physical experience with the religious life—Tantra has held a central yet conflicted role within the Western imagination ever since the first "discovery" of Indian religions by European scholars. Always radical, always extremely Other, Tantra has proven a key factor in the imagining of India. This book offers a critical account of how the phenomenon has come to be.

Tracing the complex genealogy of Tantra as a category within the history of religions, Hugh B. Urban reveals how it has been formed through the interplay of popular and scholarly imaginations. Tantra emerges as a product of mirroring and misrepresentation at work between East and West--a dialectical category born out of the ongoing play between Western and Indian minds. Combining historical detail, textual analysis, popular cultural phenomena, and critical theory, this book shows Tantra as a shifting amalgam of fantasies, fears, and wish-fulfillment, at once native and Other, that strikes at the very heart of our constructions of the exotic Orient and the contemporary West.

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David G. Hackett

That Religion in Which All Men Agree

$26.95

This powerful study weaves the story of Freemasonry into the narrative of American religious history. Freighted with the mythical legacies of stonemasons’ guilds and the Newtonian revolution, English Freemasonry arrived in colonial America with a vast array of cultural baggage, which was drawn on, added to, and transformed during its sojourn through American culture. David G. Hackett argues that from the 1730s through the early twentieth century the religious worlds of an evolving American social order broadly appropriated the beliefs and initiatory practices of this all-male society. For much of American history, Freemasonry was both counter and complement to Protestant churches, as well as a forum for collective action among racial and ethnic groups outside the European American Protestant mainstream. Moreover, the cultural template of Freemasonry gave shape and content to the American "public sphere." By including a group not usually seen as a carrier of religious beliefs and rituals, Hackett expands and complicates the terrain of American religious history by showing how Freemasonry has contributed to a broader understanding of the multiple influences that have shaped religion in American culture.

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Robin Whelan

Being Christian in Vandal Africa

$34.95

Being Christian in Vandal Africa investigates conflicts over Christian orthodoxy in the Vandal kingdom, the successor to Roman rule in North Africa, ca. 439 to 533 c.e. Exploiting neglected texts, author Robin Whelan exposes a sophisticated culture of disputation between Nicene (“Catholic”) and Homoian (“Arian”) Christians and explores their rival claims to political and religious legitimacy. These contests—sometimes violent—are key to understanding the wider and much-debated issues of identity and state formation in the post-imperial West.

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Israel Knohl

The Messiah before Jesus

$24.95

In a work that challenges notions that have dominated New Testament scholarship for more than a hundred years, Israel Knohl gives startling evidence for a messianic precursor to Jesus who is described as the "Suffering Servant" in recently published fragments of the Dead Sea Scrolls. The Messiah before Jesus clarifies many formerly incomprehensible aspects of Jesus' life and confirms the story in the New Testament about his messianic awareness. The book shows that, around the time of Jesus' birth, there came into being a conception of "catastrophic" messianism in which the suffering, humiliation, and death of the messiah were regarded as an integral part of the redemptive process.

Scholars have long argued that Jesus could not have foreseen his suffering, death, and resurrection because the concept of a slain savior who rises from the dead was alien to the Judaism of his time. But, on the basis of hymns found at Qumran among the Dead Sea Scrolls, Knohl argues that, one generation before Jesus, a messianic leader arose in the Qumran sect who was regarded by his followers as ushering in an era of redemption and forgiveness. This messianic leader was killed by Roman soldiers in the course of a revolt that broke out in Jerusalem in 4 B.C.E. The Romans forbade his body to be buried and after the third day his disciples believed that he was resurrected and rose to heaven. This formed the basis for Jesus' messianic consciousness, Knohl argues; it was because of this model that Jesus anticipated he would suffer, die, and be resurrected after three days.

Knohl takes his fascinating inquiry one step further by suggesting that this messiah was a figure known to us from historical sources of the period. This identification may shed new light on the mystery of the "Paraclete" in the Gospel of John. A pathbreaking study, The Messiah before Jesus will reshape our understanding of Christianity and its relationship to Judaism.

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Charles S. Liebman

Civil Religion in Israel

$29.95

This study explores the profound influence of Judaism on the political culture of the Jewish settlement in the Land of Israel, spanning from the prestate yishuv period to the present day. Focusing on the concept of civil religion—defined as the ceremonials, myths, and creeds that legitimize the social order, foster unity, and mobilize society toward its key political goals—the research examines how these elements, often rooted in Jewish tradition, have shaped the political and moral community of Israel. Civil religion, representing what is most sacred in a political culture, has played a distinctive role in unifying the population and guiding political aims within modern Jewish society in Israel.

The book traces the evolution of civil religion in Israel, highlighting its decline in recent years as a key shift in Israeli political culture. Organized into chapters that define terms, detail the development of civil religions over time, and explore the responses of religious Jews, the study culminates in a comprehensive analysis of the topic. Drawing on research supported by grants from the Israel Foundations Trustees and Bar-Ilan University, the authors offer a collaborative and in-depth examination of civil religion’s dynamic presence and transformation within Israeli society, shedding light on one of the most significant elements of its political and cultural identity.

This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press’s mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1983.

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Donald E. Miller

Reinventing American Protestantism

$33.95

During the past thirty years the American religious landscape has undergone a dramatic change. More and more churches meet in converted warehouses, many have ministers who've never attended a seminary, and congregations are singing songs whose melodies might be heard in bars or nightclubs. Donald E. Miller's provocative examination of these "new paradigm churches"—sometimes called megachurches or postdenominational churches shows how they are reinventing the way Christianity is experienced in the United States today.

Drawing on over five years of research and hundreds of interviews, Miller explores three of the movements that have created new paradigm churches: Calvary Chapel, Vineyard Christian Fellowship, and Hope Chapel. Together, these groups have over one thousand congregations and are growing rapidly, attracting large numbers of worshipers who have felt alienated from institutional religion. While attempting to reconnect with first-century Christianity, these churches meet in nonreligious structures and use the medium of contemporary twentieth-century America to spread their message through contemporary forms of worship, Christian rock music, and a variety of support and interest groups.

In the first book to examine postdenominational churches in depth, Miller argues that these churches are involved in a second Reformation, one that challenges the bureaucracy and rigidity of mainstream Christianity. The religion of the new millennium, says Miller, will connect people to the sacred by reinventing traditional worship and redefining the institutional forms associated with denominational Christian churches. Nothing less than a transformation of religion in the United States may be taking place, and Miller convincingly demonstrates how "postmodern traditionalists" are at the forefront of this change.

During the past thirty years the American religious landscape has undergone a dramatic change. More and more churches meet in converted warehouses, many have ministers who've never attended a seminary, and congregations are singing songs whose melodies mi

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James L. Peacock

Muslim Puritans

$23.95

Muslim Puritans: Reformist Psychology in Southeast Asian Islam provides a compelling exploration of how Islamic reform movements in Southeast Asia intertwine cultural transformation with psychological rationalization. Through a Weberian lens, the book delves into the regions of Indonesia, Malaysia, and Singapore, analyzing the ways in which the rationalization of religious beliefs leads to shifts in behavior, identity, and social structures. By employing a combination of statistical, ethnographic, and historical methods, the study bridges the gap between individual psychology and broader cultural reform, offering nuanced insights into the ripple effects of modernization and religious purification.

The author contextualizes reformist Islam in Southeast Asia against the backdrop of Weber’s theories on rationalization and the Protestant Ethic, focusing on the psychological dynamics of these changes. By examining movements like the Kaum Muda and organizations such as Muhammadijah, the book reveals how reformist ideals—centered on purification and individual interpretation (idjtihad)—reshape personal and communal practices, from family life to educational structures. With its detailed case studies, this work not only expands Weberian analysis to the Islamic world but also sheds light on the enduring impact of reformist ideologies in diverse sociopolitical contexts, making it an essential resource for scholars of religion, psychology, and Southeast Asian studies.

This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press’s mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1978.

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Diane L. Wolf

Beyond Anne Frank

$34.95

The image of the Jewish child hiding from the Nazis was shaped by Anne Frank, whose house—the most visited site in the Netherlands— has become a shrine to the Holocaust. Yet while Anne Frank's story continues to be discussed and analyzed, her experience as a hidden child in wartime Holland is anomalous—as this book brilliantly demonstrates. Drawing on interviews with seventy Jewish men and women who, as children, were placed in non-Jewish families during the Nazi occupation of Holland, Diane L. Wolf paints a compelling portrait of Holocaust survivors whose experiences were often diametrically opposed to the experiences of those who suffered in concentration camps.

Although the war years were tolerable for most of these children, it was the end of the war that marked the beginning of a traumatic time, leading many of those interviewed here to remark, "My war began after the war." This first in-depth examination of hidden children vividly brings to life their experiences before, during, and after hiding and analyzes the shifting identities, memories, and family dynamics that marked their lives from childhood through advanced age. Wolf also uncovers anti-Semitism in the policies and practices of the Dutch state and the general population, which historically have been portrayed as relatively benevolent toward Jewish residents. The poignant family histories in Beyond Anne Frank demonstrate that we can understand the Holocaust more deeply by focusing on postwar lives.

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John Donne

The Sermons of John Donne, Volume IV

$29.95

The Sermons of John Donne, edited by George R. Potter and Evelyn M. Simpson, Volume IV, marks Donne’s establishment as Dean of St. Paul’s and his full entry into the central arena of London’s ecclesiastical and civic life. Preaching now in “Old St. Paul’s,” Donne found himself at the heart of England’s capital, addressing not only cathedral congregations but also civic gatherings, court audiences, and public assemblies at Paul’s Cross and the Spittle. The sermons of this volume vividly reflect both the ceremonial rhythm of the Church’s year—Christmas, Easter, Whitsunday, and Candlemas—and the political turbulence of the 1620s, when the Palatinate crisis, the Spanish marriage negotiations, and King James’s censorship of preaching weighed heavily on the national conscience. Donne’s texts range widely: meditations on Christ as Light and Resurrection, urgent admonitions against Roman “idolatry,” defenses of the Crown’s Directions to Preachers, and visionary reflections on England’s colonial project in Virginia. In all, Donne combined theological subtlety with a preacher’s responsiveness to the immediate anxieties of Londoners, who listened to him as both spiritual guide and national voice.

The volume also reveals Donne’s deepening imaginative grasp of London itself as symbol and stage. His sermons abound in images drawn from the city’s commerce, courts, and river: ships weathering storms, coins newly minted in Christ’s image, and the Thames as both highway and metaphor of spiritual passage. Donne’s appointment as Dean required him to preach at the great festivals, and his Christmas sermons on John’s Gospel and Easter discourses on resurrection are among his most exalted works, uniting scholastic argument with lyrical metaphor. Yet the same volume includes “sermons upon emergent occasions,” crafted to defend the Crown or to rally civic support for church repair or colonial enterprise. Such occasional pieces show Donne negotiating the perils of preaching under James I, balancing fidelity to doctrine with political caution. Together, these sermons embody Donne’s genius for transforming the contingencies of London and the crises of Europe into moments of spiritual encounter, and they establish his voice as the conscience of the city and the Church.

This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press’s mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1959.

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Reyhan Durmaz

Stories between Christianity and Islam

$95.00

Stories between Christianity and Islam offers an original and nuanced understanding of Christian–Muslim relations that shifts focus from discussions of superiority, conflict, and appropriation to the living world of connectivity and creativity. Here, the late antique and medieval Near East is viewed as a world of stories shared by Christians and Muslims. Public storytelling was a key feature for these late antique Christian and early Islamic communities, where stories of saints were used to interpret the past, comment on the present, and envision the future.

In this book, Reyhan Durmaz uses these stories to demonstrate and analyze the mutually constitutive relationship between these two religions in the Middle Ages. With an in-depth study of storytelling in Late Antiquity and the mechanisms of hagiographic transmission between Christianity and Islam in the Middle Ages, Durmaz develops a nuanced understanding of saints’ stories as a tool for building identity, memory, and authority across confessional boundaries.

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Michael Rogin

Blackface, White Noise

$19.95

The tangled connections that have bound Jews to African Americans in popular culture and liberal politics are at the heart of Michael Rogin's arresting and unnerving book. Looking at films from Birth of a Nation to Forrest Gump, Rogin explores blackface in Hollywood films as an aperture to broader issues: the nature of "white" identity in America, the role of race in transforming immigrants into "Americans," the common experiences of Jews and African Americans that made Jews key supporters in the fight for racial equality, and the social importance of popular culture. Rogin's forcefully argued study challenges us to confront the harsh truths behind the popularity of racial masquerade.

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Meron Benvenisti

City of Stone

$18.95

Jerusalem is more than a holy city built of stone. Domain of Muslims, Jews, and Christians, Jerusalem is a perpetual contest, and its shrines, housing projects, and bulldozers compete in a scramble for possession. Now one of Jerusalem's most respected authorities presents a history of the city that does not fall prey to any one version of its past.

Meron Benvenisti begins with a reflection on the 1996 celebration of Jerusalem's 3000-year anniversary as the capital of the Kingdom of Israel. He then juxtaposes eras, dynasties, and rulers in ways that provide grand comparative insights. But unlike recent politically motivated histories written to justify the claims of Jews and Arabs now living in Jerusalem, Benvenisti has no such agenda. His history is a polyphonic story that lacks victors as well as vanquished. He describes the triumphs and defeats of all the city's residents, from those who walk its streets today to the meddlesome ghosts who linger in its shadows.

Benvenisti focuses primarily on the twentieth century, but ancient hatreds are constantly discovered just below the surface. These hostilities have created intense social, cultural, and political interactions that Benvenisti weaves into a compelling human story. For him, any claim to the city means recognizing its historical diversity and multiple populations.

A native son of Jerusalem, Benvenisti knows the city well, and his integrated history makes clear that all of Jerusalem's citizens have enriched the Holy City in the past. It is his belief that they can also do so in the future.

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Youssef Belal

The Life of Shari'a

$95.00

Is there a way to think about contemporary life with knowledge that is neither modern nor Western? Rather than confining Islam to a “religion” and shariʿa to its “law,” Youssef Belal provocatively argues that Islamic shariʿa is a mode of knowledge with its own concepts and scholarly categories through which the world and the self are grasped. The Life of Shariʿa considers two intertwined lineages: how Islamic scholars have formulated knowledge from the classical period to today and how Westerners have understood the law and its origins. By melding these two traditions, Belal puts the formation of modern law under a new light and offers, through a compelling conceptualization of shariʿa, a powerful argument for its continued relevance to the life of contemporary Muslims.

Lindsey Harlan

Religion and Rajput Women

$95.00

What is the relationship between caste and gender in the narratives of Rajput woman? During a year and a half of fieldwork in Rajasthan, a parched land dominated by the great Indian Desert, Lindsey Harlan interviewed more than a hundred women from all levels of Rajput society. She wanted to understand why certain religious practices were so important to Rajput women, and how they justified these to themselves. During the course of her interviews, the women described their religious practices—chief among them the worship of the family kuldevi (the goddess who exemplifies the ideal wife by staving off sickness, poverty, and infertility) and the veneration of satimatas (women who have immolated themselves on their husband's funeral pyre). As the women discussed these rituals, many of them also told Harlan religious myths and stories, drawing parallels between their behavior and that of various Indian heroines. These narratives and the role they play in the women's self-perception are the fascinating and enlightening subject of this book.

This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press’s mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1992.

Padmanabh S. Jaini, With a Foreword by Robert P. Goldman

Gender and Salvation

$95.00

Is a total renunciation of clothing a prerequisite to attaining spiritual liberation? In Gender and Salvation, Padmanabh S. Jaini brings to light previously untranslated texts centering on a centuries-old debate between the two principal Jaina sects, the Digambaras and the Svetambaras. At the core of the debate is the question of whether gender-based differences of biology and life experience shape or limit an individual’s ability to accomplish the ultimate religious goal.

For the Digambaras, the example of total nudity set by Mahavira (599–527 B.C.), the central spiritual figure of Jainism, mandates an identical practice for all who aspire to the highest levels of religious attainment. For the Svetambaras, the renunciation occurs purely on an internal level and is neither affected nor confirmed by the absence of clothes. Both sects agree, however, that nudity is not permitted for women under any circumstances. The Digambaras, therefore, believe that women cannot attain salvation, while the Svetambaras believe they can. Through their analysis of this dilemma, the Jaina thinkers whose texts are translated here demonstrate a level of insight into the material and spiritual constraints on women that transcends the particular question of salvation and relates directly to current debates on the effects of gender in our own society.

This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press’s mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1991.

Stephen Gottschalk

The Emergence of Christian Science in American Religious Life

$95.00

Christian Science is one of only two indigenous American religions, the other being Mormonism. Yet it has not always been examined seriously within the context of the history of religious ideas and the development of American religious life. Stephen Gottschalk fills this void with an examination of Christian Science’s root concepts—the informing vision and the distinctive mission as formulated by its founder, Mary Baker Eddy.

Concentrating on the quarter-century preceding Eddy's death, a period of phenomenal growth for Christian Science, Gottschalk challenges the conventional academic view of the movement as a fringe sect. He finds instead a serious and distinctive, though radical, religious teaching that began to flower just as orthodox Protestantism began to fade. He gives a clear and detailed account of the rancorous controversies between Christian Science and the various mind-cure and occult movements with which it is often associated, and contends that Christian Science appealed to disenchanted Protestants because of its pragmatic quality—a quality that relates it to the mainstream of American culture.

This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press’s mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1973.

The Emergence of Christian Science in American Religious Life

Edited by Charles Y. Glock and Robert N. Bellah

New Religious Consciousness

$95.00

Since the mid-1960s, new religious movements—some exotic, some homegrown—have burgeoned all over the United States. A sense of self-awareness and spiritual sensitivity have found expression in the lives of large numbers of people, especially among youth. Why would this happen? What do these movements teach, and what effect do they have on the future? How does religious consciousness relate to other manifestations of social change, such as communal living, group therapy, and radical politics?

Beginning in 1971, an extensive research project was undertaken by a team of sociologists, historians, and theologians seeking answers to these questions. Through a combination of interviews and participant observations, they studied new religious and quasi-religious groups in the San Francisco Bay Area, a spawning ground for upwards of one hundred such movements.

The New Religious Consciousness opens with reports on three Eastern-based movements: the Healthy, Happy, Holy Organization, Hare Krishna, and Divine Light (more popularly known by the name of its leader, Maharaj Ji). Three quasi-religious movements are then considered: the New Left, the Human Potential Movement (Esalen, EST, Scientology, etc.), and Synanon. Next, three movements having their roots in Western religious traditions are examined: the Christian World Liberation Front (an offshoot of the Jesus Movement), Catholic Charismatic Renewal, and the Church of Satan (whose members believe in witchcraft). Succeeding chapters are devoted to estimating the impact of these movements on established religions and the population at large and to the history of earlier periods of religious ferment in the United States. The book concludes with provocative essays by the editors in which they present separate and differing analyses of the sources, nature, and meaning of the new religious consciousness.

A variety of perspectives are represented here: phenomenological, theological, experiential, sociological, and social psychological. The result is a book rich in insight about the nature of new religions. Taken together with a companion volume, Robert Wuthnow's The Consciousness Reformation, also published by University of California Press, The New Religious Consciousness provides the first comprehensive study of American countercultural belief systems.

With contributions by:
Randall H. Alfred
Robert N. Bellah
Charles Y. Glock
Barbara Hargrove
Donald Heinz
Gregory Johnson
Ralph Lane, Jr.
Jeanne Messer
Richard Ofshe
Thomas Piazza
Linda K. Pritchard
Donald Stone
Alan Tobey
James Wolfe
Robert Wuthnow

This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press’s mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1976.

Edited by Rocco Caporale and Antonio Grumelli

The Culture of Unbelief

$95.00

This volume presents to the general public the reflections of a group of social scientists and theologians who gathered in the spring of 1969 in Rome to explore “The Culture of Unbelief,” and who have subsequently continued their interest in the subject. The book departs in places from the actual order of events of the symposium to accommodate papers prepared explicitly for publication after the symposium was over.—from the Editors’ Preface

This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press’s mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1971.

Annabel Patterson

Pastoral and Ideology

$49.95

Patterson follows the fortunes of Virgil’s Eclogues from the Middle Ages to our own century. She argues that Virgilian pastoral spoke to the intellectuals of each place and time of their own condition. The study reinspects our standard system of periodization in literary and art history and challenges some of the current premises of modernism.

This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press’s mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1987.

Edited and annotated by Lia Brozgal and Rebecca Glasberg; Translations by Lia Brozgal, Jane Kuntz, Rebekah Vince, and Robert Watson

A Jewish Childhood in the Muslim Mediterranean

$34.95

A free ebook version of this title is available through Luminos, University of California Press’s Open Access publishing program. Visit www.luminosoa.org to learn more.

A Jewish Childhood in the Muslim Mediterranean brings together the fascinating personal stories of Jewish writers, scholars, and intellectuals who came of age in lands where Islam was the dominant religion and everyday life was infused with the politics of the French imperial project. Prompted by novelist Leïla Sebbar to reflect on their childhoods, these writers offer literary portraits that gesture to a universal condition while also shedding light on the exceptional nature of certain experiences. The childhoods captured here are undeniably Jewish, but they are also Moroccan, Algerian, Tunisian, Egyptian, Lebanese, and Turkish; each essay thus testifies to the multicultural, multilingual, and multi-faith community into which its author was born. The present translation makes this unique collection available to an English-speaking public for the first time. The original version, published in French in 2012, was awarded the Prix Haïm Zafrani, a prize given by the Elie Wiesel Institute of Jewish Studies to a literary project that valorizes Jewish civilization in the Muslim world.

A Jewish Childhood in the Muslim Mediterranean

Jean Sauvaget

Jean Sauvaget's Introduction to the History of the Muslim East

$39.95

Introduction to the History of the Muslim East: A Bibliographical Guide, based on the revised second edition by Claude Cahen, serves as an essential resource for students and scholars delving into the rich and complex history of the Islamic world. This comprehensive guide focuses on the core regions that shaped Islamic civilization—Arabia, Syria-Palestine, Mesopotamia, Egypt, Iran, and Turkey—highlighting their historical and cultural significance. By emphasizing the Muslim East over peripheral regions, the work seeks to provide a more focused and nuanced understanding of Islam’s formative and flourishing periods while also addressing the broader historical impact of regions like Spain and North Africa. The guide underscores the need for critical judgment and interdisciplinary collaboration in Islamic studies, blending history and Orientalism to enhance research and understanding.

This bibliographical guide offers valuable insights into the evolution of Islamic studies and its methodologies. It provides extensive references to foundational texts and modern scholarship, bridging the gap between linguistic expertise and historical analysis. Scholars interested in Islamic historiography, cultural transmission, and the integration of Islamic history into broader historical narratives will find this guide indispensable. With its detailed annotations and thoughtful categorization, Introduction to the History of the Muslim East stands as a vital tool for both introducing newcomers to the field and supporting advanced research endeavors.

This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press’s mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1965.

Jean Sauvaget's Introduction to the History of the Muslim East

Loren Partridge and Randolph Starn

A Renaissance Likeness

$95.00

A Renaissance Likeness: Art and Culture in Raphael’s Julius II, by Loren Partridge and Randolph Starn, is both a focused study of one of Raphael’s most compelling portraits and a wide-ranging exploration of the cultural world it represents. At the center is Raphael’s Portrait of Pope Julius II, today in the National Gallery, London—a likeness created during a period of intense crisis and astonishing artistic achievement in early sixteenth-century Rome. Painted between 1511 and 1512, when Julius was facing military defeat, rebellion, and illness, the portrait captures not only the man but also the turbulent moment in which he ruled. Seen alongside Bramante’s architecture, Michelangelo’s Sistine Ceiling, and Raphael’s own frescoes in the papal apartments, the painting belongs to the great cycle of Julian projects that defined the High Renaissance.

Partridge and Starn use Raphael’s portrait as a point of entry into the wider cultural and historical setting of Julian Rome. They examine how Julius II’s image circulated in medals, chronicles, and satire; how his character as papa terribile inspired admiration, fear, and critique; and how art functioned within a dense web of patronage, politics, and theology. Moving between close visual analysis and cultural history, the authors highlight the interplay of form, content, and style with the circumstances of patronage and power. In doing so, they resist narrow readings that treat the work solely as art object or historical document, instead revealing it as a microcosm of Renaissance culture. Richly interdisciplinary, A Renaissance Likeness restores Raphael’s Julius to its rightful place as both masterpiece and cultural artifact, showing how, in the renewed radiance of this portrait, art and history illuminate each other.

This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press’s mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1980.

Edited by Phillip E. Hammond

The Sacred in a Secular Age

$49.95

Sacred in a Secular Age, edited by Phillip E. Hammond, brings together leading scholars to reassess one of the most enduring assumptions in the sociology of religion: the secularization thesis. Long taken as conventional wisdom, the thesis posits an inexorable decline of the sacred as societies modernize. Yet the persistence—and even resurgence—of religion in new movements, conservative traditions, and political struggles around the world challenges the adequacy of this model. This volume explores these paradoxes, asking how the sacred endures, transforms, and reasserts itself within ostensibly secular contexts.

The essays span theory, method, and case studies, engaging topics from new religious movements to conservative Protestantism, from cultural institutions to private life and global politics. Contributors probe the distinction between “religion” and “the sacred,” a line blurred in much modern scholarship but central to the work of classical theorists like Durkheim and Simmel. By interrogating this distinction, the volume points toward more nuanced frameworks for understanding sacred phenomena in secular societies. Rather than discarding the secularization paradigm, the contributors refine and revise it, suggesting ways forward for a field in transition. A landmark in the sociology of religion, the collection maps both the challenges and the possibilities for the next generation of inquiry.

This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press’s mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1985.

Jerome V. Jacobsen

Educational Foundations of the Jesuits in Sixteenth-Century New Spain

$49.95

Educational Foundations of the Jesuits in Sixteenth-Century New Spain is the first volume in a series exploring the Jesuits' pivotal role in shaping education in Spanish North America. This comprehensive study focuses on the arrival of the Jesuits in Mexico City in 1572, marking the beginning of their educational efforts in New Spain. Despite the extensive influence of the Jesuits in North America, their contributions to education have often been overshadowed by their more widely studied missions in New France. This book shines a light on the profound and largely forgotten educational work of the Jesuits in Mexico and the broader Western Hemisphere, highlighting their establishment of colleges and seminaries that nurtured European culture in the New World.

The volume delves into the broader context of Jesuit education, considering the efforts of earlier missionary orders such as the Franciscans, Dominicans, and Augustinians, whose work laid the groundwork for the Jesuits. Additionally, it explores the life of Ignatius of Loyola and the intellectual and spiritual training that defined the Jesuit order, which was instrumental in the development of their educational system. This foundational work sets the stage for future volumes that will explore the Jesuit missions on the frontiers of Western North America, offering a detailed account of the Jesuit educational legacy in the Americas.

This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press’s mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1938.

Peter Masten Dunne

Early Jesuit Missions in Tarahumara

$95.00

This study of the Jesuit mission system in northern Mexico is the third volume in a series focused on the Jesuit activities in Spanish North America. Building upon the second monograph, Pioneer Jesuits in Northern Mexico (1944), which explored the missions among the Acaxée, Xixime, and Tepehuán tribes in the Sierra Madre Occidental and plains of modern-day Coahuila, this volume takes the story further north into the Tarahumara region of present-day Chihuahua. This extension of the Jesuit mission system marks an important chapter in the northward expansion of Spain's colonial frontier.

The Jesuits’ presence in Mexico was abruptly halted in 1767 when they were expelled by the King of Spain, and the order was officially suppressed by Pope Clement XIV in 1773. However, the Jesuits were restored by the papacy in 1814, and by the latter part of the century, they had returned to Mexico. They resumed their mission work, including efforts among the Tarahumara people, and their influence continues into the 1940s. This historical account offers valuable insight into the Jesuit mission efforts in northern Mexico and their lasting legacy in the region.

This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press’s mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1948.

Robert Wuthnow

Experimentation in American Religion

$95.00

Experimentation in American Religion: The New Mysticism and Their Implications for the Churches explores the emergence of new religious movements in America, particularly those outside the traditional Judeo-Christian framework. Wuthnow examines these movements in the context of the societal shifts during the 20th century, focusing on why they gained popularity, especially among groups that traditional religions had struggled to engage, such as college students, young people, and the educated. These new religions often draw from Eastern spiritual practices, the occult, and humanistic ideals, challenging the dominance of conventional Western religious traditions.

The book uses a sociological approach, relying on random-sample surveys to analyze patterns in religious commitment, focusing on social factors such as education, age, and background. Although the study acknowledges the limitations of sociological data in fully capturing the nuances of religious belief, it aims to provide insight into the social context of these new religious movements and why certain individuals are attracted to them. The author avoids adhering to any single sociological theory, recognizing that different types of new religious movements, such as yoga, astrology, and psychic phenomena, require distinct explanations. This work is part of a larger project to understand the changing religious landscape in America, building on the research conducted by Wuthnow and others at the Survey Research Center.

This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press’s mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1978.

Jean Sauvaget, As Recast By Claude Cahen

Jean Sauvaget's Introduction to the History of the Muslim East

$95.00

Introduction to the History of the Muslim East: A Bibliographical Guide, based on the revised second edition by Claude Cahen, serves as an essential resource for students and scholars delving into the rich and complex history of the Islamic world. This comprehensive guide focuses on the core regions that shaped Islamic civilization—Arabia, Syria-Palestine, Mesopotamia, Egypt, Iran, and Turkey—highlighting their historical and cultural significance. By emphasizing the Muslim East over peripheral regions, the work seeks to provide a more focused and nuanced understanding of Islam’s formative and flourishing periods while also addressing the broader historical impact of regions like Spain and North Africa. The guide underscores the need for critical judgment and interdisciplinary collaboration in Islamic studies, blending history and Orientalism to enhance research and understanding.

This bibliographical guide offers valuable insights into the evolution of Islamic studies and its methodologies. It provides extensive references to foundational texts and modern scholarship, bridging the gap between linguistic expertise and historical analysis. Scholars interested in Islamic historiography, cultural transmission, and the integration of Islamic history into broader historical narratives will find this guide indispensable. With its detailed annotations and thoughtful categorization, Introduction to the History of the Muslim East stands as a vital tool for both introducing newcomers to the field and supporting advanced research endeavors.

This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press’s mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1965.

R. C. Mortimer

Western Canon Law

$39.95

Western Canon Law by R. C. Mortimer offers a clear and authoritative introduction to the history, principles, and continuing legacy of ecclesiastical law in Western Christendom. Based on a series of lectures delivered at the University of California in 1951, Mortimer—then Bishop of Exeter and former lecturer in early canon law at Oxford—traces the development of canon law from its beginnings through the Reformation, with special attention to its shaping influence on the Church of England. Distinguishing Western trajectories from the largely independent Eastern tradition, Mortimer shows how ecclesiastical jurisprudence grew alongside the wider culture of Europe, embedding both theological commitments and pragmatic governance within the life of the church. The result is a succinct yet wide-ranging overview that illuminates how law, theology, and history intersect in Christian practice.

Alongside this historical sketch, Mortimer devotes his final lectures to the fate of canon law in England since the Reformation, outlining what has endured, what has lapsed, and what reforms were being actively considered in the mid-twentieth century. He reflects on the distinctive nature of canon law, contrasting it with secular jurisprudence, and highlights the principles that should guide future ecclesiastical legislation. Written for Anglican ordinands, clergy, and lay readers but relevant to students of church history more broadly, Western Canon Law addresses the long-standing neglect of a field vital to understanding Christian institutional life. By situating legal developments within their historical contexts, Mortimer provides both a practical resource and a compelling argument for why canon law matters to the health and integrity of the church today.

This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press’s mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1953.

Annabel Patterson

Pastoral and Ideology

$95.00

Patterson follows the fortunes of Virgil’s Eclogues from the Middle Ages to our own century. She argues that Virgilian pastoral spoke to the intellectuals of each place and time of their own condition. The study reinspects our standard system of periodization in literary and art history and challenges some of the current premises of modernism.

This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press’s mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1987.

Harold E. Toliver

Pastoral Forms and Attitudes

$49.95

Pastoral Forms and Attitudes delves into the evolution of pastoral literature, showcasing its adaptability across genres and historical periods while retaining its thematic core. From the classical works of Theocritus and Virgil to modern poets like Stevens and Frost, the study examines how pastoral engages with themes such as the tension between nature and artifice, mythological influences, and social and ecological dynamics. Rejecting a rigid focus on conventions, it emphasizes the form’s fluid response to cultural and historical changes, blending formalistic and sociological approaches to highlight its relevance. By exploring canonical figures like Spenser, Shakespeare, and Wordsworth alongside modern voices, this work redefines pastoral as a lens for understanding literature’s relationship with enduring human concerns.

This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press’s mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1971.

R. C. Mortimer

Western Canon Law

$95.00

Western Canon Law by R. C. Mortimer offers a clear and authoritative introduction to the history, principles, and continuing legacy of ecclesiastical law in Western Christendom. Based on a series of lectures delivered at the University of California in 1951, Mortimer—then Bishop of Exeter and former lecturer in early canon law at Oxford—traces the development of canon law from its beginnings through the Reformation, with special attention to its shaping influence on the Church of England. Distinguishing Western trajectories from the largely independent Eastern tradition, Mortimer shows how ecclesiastical jurisprudence grew alongside the wider culture of Europe, embedding both theological commitments and pragmatic governance within the life of the church. The result is a succinct yet wide-ranging overview that illuminates how law, theology, and history intersect in Christian practice.

Alongside this historical sketch, Mortimer devotes his final lectures to the fate of canon law in England since the Reformation, outlining what has endured, what has lapsed, and what reforms were being actively considered in the mid-twentieth century. He reflects on the distinctive nature of canon law, contrasting it with secular jurisprudence, and highlights the principles that should guide future ecclesiastical legislation. Written for Anglican ordinands, clergy, and lay readers but relevant to students of church history more broadly, Western Canon Law addresses the long-standing neglect of a field vital to understanding Christian institutional life. By situating legal developments within their historical contexts, Mortimer provides both a practical resource and a compelling argument for why canon law matters to the health and integrity of the church today.

This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press’s mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1953.

Loren Partridge and Randolph Starn

A Renaissance Likeness

$39.95

A Renaissance Likeness: Art and Culture in Raphael’s Julius II, by Loren Partridge and Randolph Starn, is both a focused study of one of Raphael’s most compelling portraits and a wide-ranging exploration of the cultural world it represents. At the center is Raphael’s Portrait of Pope Julius II, today in the National Gallery, London—a likeness created during a period of intense crisis and astonishing artistic achievement in early sixteenth-century Rome. Painted between 1511 and 1512, when Julius was facing military defeat, rebellion, and illness, the portrait captures not only the man but also the turbulent moment in which he ruled. Seen alongside Bramante’s architecture, Michelangelo’s Sistine Ceiling, and Raphael’s own frescoes in the papal apartments, the painting belongs to the great cycle of Julian projects that defined the High Renaissance.

Partridge and Starn use Raphael’s portrait as a point of entry into the wider cultural and historical setting of Julian Rome. They examine how Julius II’s image circulated in medals, chronicles, and satire; how his character as papa terribile inspired admiration, fear, and critique; and how art functioned within a dense web of patronage, politics, and theology. Moving between close visual analysis and cultural history, the authors highlight the interplay of form, content, and style with the circumstances of patronage and power. In doing so, they resist narrow readings that treat the work solely as art object or historical document, instead revealing it as a microcosm of Renaissance culture. Richly interdisciplinary, A Renaissance Likeness restores Raphael’s Julius to its rightful place as both masterpiece and cultural artifact, showing how, in the renewed radiance of this portrait, art and history illuminate each other.

This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press’s mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1980.

Gerard E. Caspary

Politics and Exegesis

$39.95

Politics and Exegesis: Origen and the Two Swords delves into the interplay between biblical exegesis and political thought, using the allegory of the "two swords" in Luke 22:38 as a focal point. Widely cited in medieval debates over the balance of spiritual and temporal powers, this passage became a cornerstone for articulating the relationship between Church and state. This book argues that the foundations for the medieval interpretation of the two swords were laid by Origen of Alexandria, whose theological and exegetical innovations influenced centuries of political thought. While Origen may not have directly commented on the "two swords" passage, his broader exegetical framework and theological insights provided the intellectual basis for interpreting it as a metaphor for dual authority.

The book situates Origen's contributions within his dual identity as a biblical scholar and a philosopher, exploring how his exegetical methods shaped his theology of politics. By analyzing Origen’s interpretation of warfare and his nuanced understanding of the relationship between literal and spiritual readings of scripture, the work demonstrates how his thought bridged scriptural exegesis and practical theology. The study ultimately positions Origen as a pivotal figure whose ideas informed the medieval Church's use of scripture to address political and institutional questions, particularly in debates over the division of powers between kings and the papacy.

This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press’s mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1979.

Edited by Phillip E. Hammond

The Sacred in a Secular Age

$95.00

Sacred in a Secular Age, edited by Phillip E. Hammond, brings together leading scholars to reassess one of the most enduring assumptions in the sociology of religion: the secularization thesis. Long taken as conventional wisdom, the thesis posits an inexorable decline of the sacred as societies modernize. Yet the persistence—and even resurgence—of religion in new movements, conservative traditions, and political struggles around the world challenges the adequacy of this model. This volume explores these paradoxes, asking how the sacred endures, transforms, and reasserts itself within ostensibly secular contexts.

The essays span theory, method, and case studies, engaging topics from new religious movements to conservative Protestantism, from cultural institutions to private life and global politics. Contributors probe the distinction between “religion” and “the sacred,” a line blurred in much modern scholarship but central to the work of classical theorists like Durkheim and Simmel. By interrogating this distinction, the volume points toward more nuanced frameworks for understanding sacred phenomena in secular societies. Rather than discarding the secularization paradigm, the contributors refine and revise it, suggesting ways forward for a field in transition. A landmark in the sociology of religion, the collection maps both the challenges and the possibilities for the next generation of inquiry.

This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press’s mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1985.

Peter Masten Dunne

Pioneer Jesuits in Northern Mexico

$39.95

Pioneer Jesuits in Northern Mexico is the third volume in a compelling series exploring the Jesuits' transformative efforts in Spanish North America. Following the acclaimed works Educational Foundations of the Jesuits in Sixteenth-Century New Spain by Jacobsen and Pioneer Black Robes on the West Coast by Dunne, this installment delves into the arduous missionary work east of the Sierra Madre Occidental. With meticulous research and personal exploration of the regions discussed, the author offers a polished narrative accessible to both general readers and specialists. This volume enriches the historical tapestry, tracing the Jesuit missions' lesser-known expansion into Durango and Coahuila during the late 16th and early 17th centuries.

The book recounts the efforts of missionaries like Fathers Ramírez and Espinosa, whose ventures paralleled those of Tapia and Pérez along the Pacific coast. The narrative is punctuated by dramatic episodes, including the Indian rebellion of 1616, which posed a severe threat to the mission system but ultimately underscored the resilience of the Jesuits’ work. By the 1630s, stability had been restored, and the missions were advancing into new territories, setting the stage for the broader cultural and spiritual transformation of the region. Pioneer Jesuits in Northern Mexico not only illuminates a pivotal chapter in the march of civilization toward what is now the United States but also tells a gripping tale of adventure, perseverance, and martyrdom that will captivate its readers.

This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press’s mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1944.

Harold E. Toliver

Pastoral Forms and Attitudes

$95.00

Pastoral Forms and Attitudes delves into the evolution of pastoral literature, showcasing its adaptability across genres and historical periods while retaining its thematic core. From the classical works of Theocritus and Virgil to modern poets like Stevens and Frost, the study examines how pastoral engages with themes such as the tension between nature and artifice, mythological influences, and social and ecological dynamics. Rejecting a rigid focus on conventions, it emphasizes the form’s fluid response to cultural and historical changes, blending formalistic and sociological approaches to highlight its relevance. By exploring canonical figures like Spenser, Shakespeare, and Wordsworth alongside modern voices, this work redefines pastoral as a lens for understanding literature’s relationship with enduring human concerns.

This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press’s mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1971.

Peter Masten Dunne

Early Jesuit Missions in Tarahumara

$39.95

This study of the Jesuit mission system in northern Mexico is the third volume in a series focused on the Jesuit activities in Spanish North America. Building upon the second monograph, Pioneer Jesuits in Northern Mexico (1944), which explored the missions among the Acaxée, Xixime, and Tepehuán tribes in the Sierra Madre Occidental and plains of modern-day Coahuila, this volume takes the story further north into the Tarahumara region of present-day Chihuahua. This extension of the Jesuit mission system marks an important chapter in the northward expansion of Spain's colonial frontier.

The Jesuits’ presence in Mexico was abruptly halted in 1767 when they were expelled by the King of Spain, and the order was officially suppressed by Pope Clement XIV in 1773. However, the Jesuits were restored by the papacy in 1814, and by the latter part of the century, they had returned to Mexico. They resumed their mission work, including efforts among the Tarahumara people, and their influence continues into the 1940s. This historical account offers valuable insight into the Jesuit mission efforts in northern Mexico and their lasting legacy in the region.

This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press’s mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1948.

James L. Peacock

Muslim Puritans

$95.00

Muslim Puritans: Reformist Psychology in Southeast Asian Islam provides a compelling exploration of how Islamic reform movements in Southeast Asia intertwine cultural transformation with psychological rationalization. Through a Weberian lens, the book delves into the regions of Indonesia, Malaysia, and Singapore, analyzing the ways in which the rationalization of religious beliefs leads to shifts in behavior, identity, and social structures. By employing a combination of statistical, ethnographic, and historical methods, the study bridges the gap between individual psychology and broader cultural reform, offering nuanced insights into the ripple effects of modernization and religious purification.

The author contextualizes reformist Islam in Southeast Asia against the backdrop of Weber’s theories on rationalization and the Protestant Ethic, focusing on the psychological dynamics of these changes. By examining movements like the Kaum Muda and organizations such as Muhammadijah, the book reveals how reformist ideals—centered on purification and individual interpretation (idjtihad)—reshape personal and communal practices, from family life to educational structures. With its detailed case studies, this work not only expands Weberian analysis to the Islamic world but also sheds light on the enduring impact of reformist ideologies in diverse sociopolitical contexts, making it an essential resource for scholars of religion, psychology, and Southeast Asian studies.

This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press’s mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1978.

Peter Masten Dunne

Pioneer Jesuits in Northern Mexico

$95.00

Pioneer Jesuits in Northern Mexico is the third volume in a compelling series exploring the Jesuits' transformative efforts in Spanish North America. Following the acclaimed works Educational Foundations of the Jesuits in Sixteenth-Century New Spain by Jacobsen and Pioneer Black Robes on the West Coast by Dunne, this installment delves into the arduous missionary work east of the Sierra Madre Occidental. With meticulous research and personal exploration of the regions discussed, the author offers a polished narrative accessible to both general readers and specialists. This volume enriches the historical tapestry, tracing the Jesuit missions' lesser-known expansion into Durango and Coahuila during the late 16th and early 17th centuries.

The book recounts the efforts of missionaries like Fathers Ramírez and Espinosa, whose ventures paralleled those of Tapia and Pérez along the Pacific coast. The narrative is punctuated by dramatic episodes, including the Indian rebellion of 1616, which posed a severe threat to the mission system but ultimately underscored the resilience of the Jesuits’ work. By the 1630s, stability had been restored, and the missions were advancing into new territories, setting the stage for the broader cultural and spiritual transformation of the region. Pioneer Jesuits in Northern Mexico not only illuminates a pivotal chapter in the march of civilization toward what is now the United States but also tells a gripping tale of adventure, perseverance, and martyrdom that will captivate its readers.

This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press’s mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1944.

Jerome V. Jacobsen

Educational Foundations of the Jesuits in Sixteenth-Century New Spain

$95.00

Educational Foundations of the Jesuits in Sixteenth-Century New Spain is the first volume in a series exploring the Jesuits' pivotal role in shaping education in Spanish North America. This comprehensive study focuses on the arrival of the Jesuits in Mexico City in 1572, marking the beginning of their educational efforts in New Spain. Despite the extensive influence of the Jesuits in North America, their contributions to education have often been overshadowed by their more widely studied missions in New France. This book shines a light on the profound and largely forgotten educational work of the Jesuits in Mexico and the broader Western Hemisphere, highlighting their establishment of colleges and seminaries that nurtured European culture in the New World.

The volume delves into the broader context of Jesuit education, considering the efforts of earlier missionary orders such as the Franciscans, Dominicans, and Augustinians, whose work laid the groundwork for the Jesuits. Additionally, it explores the life of Ignatius of Loyola and the intellectual and spiritual training that defined the Jesuit order, which was instrumental in the development of their educational system. This foundational work sets the stage for future volumes that will explore the Jesuit missions on the frontiers of Western North America, offering a detailed account of the Jesuit educational legacy in the Americas.

This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press’s mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1938.

Charles S. Liebman and Eliezer Don-Yehiya

Civil Religion in Israel

$49.95

This study explores the profound influence of Judaism on the political culture of the Jewish settlement in the Land of Israel, spanning from the prestate yishuv period to the present day. Focusing on the concept of civil religion—defined as the ceremonials, myths, and creeds that legitimize the social order, foster unity, and mobilize society toward its key political goals—the research examines how these elements, often rooted in Jewish tradition, have shaped the political and moral community of Israel. Civil religion, representing what is most sacred in a political culture, has played a distinctive role in unifying the population and guiding political aims within modern Jewish society in Israel.

The book traces the evolution of civil religion in Israel, highlighting its decline in recent years as a key shift in Israeli political culture. Organized into chapters that define terms, detail the development of civil religions over time, and explore the responses of religious Jews, the study culminates in a comprehensive analysis of the topic. Drawing on research supported by grants from the Israel Foundations Trustees and Bar-Ilan University, the authors offer a collaborative and in-depth examination of civil religion’s dynamic presence and transformation within Israeli society, shedding light on one of the most significant elements of its political and cultural identity.

This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press’s mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1983.

Gerard E. Caspary

Politics and Exegesis

$95.00

Politics and Exegesis: Origen and the Two Swords delves into the interplay between biblical exegesis and political thought, using the allegory of the "two swords" in Luke 22:38 as a focal point. Widely cited in medieval debates over the balance of spiritual and temporal powers, this passage became a cornerstone for articulating the relationship between Church and state. This book argues that the foundations for the medieval interpretation of the two swords were laid by Origen of Alexandria, whose theological and exegetical innovations influenced centuries of political thought. While Origen may not have directly commented on the "two swords" passage, his broader exegetical framework and theological insights provided the intellectual basis for interpreting it as a metaphor for dual authority.

The book situates Origen's contributions within his dual identity as a biblical scholar and a philosopher, exploring how his exegetical methods shaped his theology of politics. By analyzing Origen’s interpretation of warfare and his nuanced understanding of the relationship between literal and spiritual readings of scripture, the work demonstrates how his thought bridged scriptural exegesis and practical theology. The study ultimately positions Origen as a pivotal figure whose ideas informed the medieval Church's use of scripture to address political and institutional questions, particularly in debates over the division of powers between kings and the papacy.

This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press’s mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1979.

Robert Wuthnow

Experimentation in American Religion

$39.95

Experimentation in American Religion: The New Mysticism and Their Implications for the Churches explores the emergence of new religious movements in America, particularly those outside the traditional Judeo-Christian framework. Wuthnow examines these movements in the context of the societal shifts during the 20th century, focusing on why they gained popularity, especially among groups that traditional religions had struggled to engage, such as college students, young people, and the educated. These new religions often draw from Eastern spiritual practices, the occult, and humanistic ideals, challenging the dominance of conventional Western religious traditions.

The book uses a sociological approach, relying on random-sample surveys to analyze patterns in religious commitment, focusing on social factors such as education, age, and background. Although the study acknowledges the limitations of sociological data in fully capturing the nuances of religious belief, it aims to provide insight into the social context of these new religious movements and why certain individuals are attracted to them. The author avoids adhering to any single sociological theory, recognizing that different types of new religious movements, such as yoga, astrology, and psychic phenomena, require distinct explanations. This work is part of a larger project to understand the changing religious landscape in America, building on the research conducted by Wuthnow and others at the Survey Research Center.

This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press’s mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1978.

John Donne; Edited, with Introductions and Critical Apparatus, by Evelyn M. Simpson and George R. Potter

The Sermons of John Donne, Volume X

$49.95

The Sermons of John Donne, edited by Evelyn M. Simpson and George R. Potter, Volume X, brings to completion the monumental sequence of Donne’s preaching, concluding with his final and most famous sermon, *Deaths Duell*, delivered before King Charles I in February 1631. Spanning the breadth of his ministry, this concluding collection situates Donne’s work in its full arc—from his late and hesitant ordination, through his triumph as Dean of St. Paul’s, to the physical decline and spiritual intensity of his last years. What emerges is not only the record of a preacher of extraordinary rhetorical power but also the unfolding of a life increasingly surrendered to the office he had once resisted.

This final volume emphasizes the unity-in-diversity of Donne’s achievement. While anthologies often favor his morbid or rhetorical extremes, the full sermons reveal a more balanced Donne: a preacher of careful structure, plain counsel, pastoral sympathy, and theological depth. Here we find sermons of controversy, defending the English Church against both Roman Catholics and Separatists; sermons of civic and parochial duty, rooted in his life as Vicar of St. Dunstan’s; and sermons of profound spirituality, where images of light, peace, and resurrection dominate. The early undated sermons retain the imaginative flourish of his middle period, while the later ones—though marked by prolixity and repetition—convey an aged preacher intent on plainness, reconciliation, and consolation. *Deaths Duell* epitomizes this dual movement: Donne, visibly dying, preaches both his own farewell and a meditation on Christ’s Passion, closing with words of hope in the Resurrection.

Read together, these sermons display Donne as an artist in prose whose variety of moods—quiet, argumentative, imaginative, oratory—parallel the mosaics of Christian art, each figure distinct yet part of a greater pattern. In ending with Donne’s meditation on mortality and divine love, the volume secures his reputation as both poet and preacher, one who turned his own afflictions into testimony, and who, in Yeats’s words, convinces us that “one who is but a man like us has seen God.”

This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press’s mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1962.

John Donne

The Sermons of John Donne, Volume VI

$49.95

The Sermons of John Donne, edited by Evelyn M. Simpson and George R. Potter, Volume VI, encompasses Donne’s preaching between 1623 and early 1626, a turbulent period marked by the failure of the Spanish Match, the death of James I, the accession of Charles I, and the devastating plague of 1625. These sermons show Donne navigating a nation in anxiety and transition, while also processing his own near-fatal illness of late 1623. The *Devotions upon Emergent Occasions* arose directly from that sickness, and the sermons that follow often carry the same sharpened awareness of mortality, divine judgment, and resurrection. Beginning with his recovery sermon on Easter Day, 1624, Donne reflects repeatedly on bodily frailty and the promise of eternal life, themes woven with his characteristic mixture of casuistry, Scriptural exegesis, and poetic imagination.

This volume also includes his first sermons at St. Dunstan’s-in-the-West, where his pastoral manner softened into plainer instruction, emphasizing love between pastor and flock and the daily duties of Christian life. By contrast, his great cathedral and court sermons retain a more elaborate and rhetorical style. His funeral sermon for James I, preached at Denmark House, balances biblical typology with restrained commemoration, markedly different from the florid panegyrics of his contemporaries. Throughout, Donne returns to central convictions: that sin itself, though real, is a privation that God may fold into His providence; that affliction and plague are both judgment and mercy; and that the body, often despised in ascetic extremes, remains honored by God as His creation and destined for resurrection. Particularly moving are the sermons preached during and after the plague, in which Donne evokes the horror of mass mortality yet insists on consolation in the communion of saints and the eternity of divine mercy. Together, these sermons present Donne at the height of his powers, shaping his poetic theology of sin, suffering, and salvation in a moment of national and personal crisis.

This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press’s mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1953.

John Donne; Edited, with Introductions and Critical Apparatus, by George R. Potter and Evelyn M. Simpson

The Sermons of John Donne, Volume IV

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The Sermons of John Donne, edited by George R. Potter and Evelyn M. Simpson, Volume IV, marks Donne’s establishment as Dean of St. Paul’s and his full entry into the central arena of London’s ecclesiastical and civic life. Preaching now in “Old St. Paul’s,” Donne found himself at the heart of England’s capital, addressing not only cathedral congregations but also civic gatherings, court audiences, and public assemblies at Paul’s Cross and the Spittle. The sermons of this volume vividly reflect both the ceremonial rhythm of the Church’s year—Christmas, Easter, Whitsunday, and Candlemas—and the political turbulence of the 1620s, when the Palatinate crisis, the Spanish marriage negotiations, and King James’s censorship of preaching weighed heavily on the national conscience. Donne’s texts range widely: meditations on Christ as Light and Resurrection, urgent admonitions against Roman “idolatry,” defenses of the Crown’s Directions to Preachers, and visionary reflections on England’s colonial project in Virginia. In all, Donne combined theological subtlety with a preacher’s responsiveness to the immediate anxieties of Londoners, who listened to him as both spiritual guide and national voice.

The volume also reveals Donne’s deepening imaginative grasp of London itself as symbol and stage. His sermons abound in images drawn from the city’s commerce, courts, and river: ships weathering storms, coins newly minted in Christ’s image, and the Thames as both highway and metaphor of spiritual passage. Donne’s appointment as Dean required him to preach at the great festivals, and his Christmas sermons on John’s Gospel and Easter discourses on resurrection are among his most exalted works, uniting scholastic argument with lyrical metaphor. Yet the same volume includes “sermons upon emergent occasions,” crafted to defend the Crown or to rally civic support for church repair or colonial enterprise. Such occasional pieces show Donne negotiating the perils of preaching under James I, balancing fidelity to doctrine with political caution. Together, these sermons embody Donne’s genius for transforming the contingencies of London and the crises of Europe into moments of spiritual encounter, and they establish his voice as the conscience of the city and the Church.

This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press’s mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1959.

Wm. Theodore de Bary

Neo-Confucian Education

$105.00

Neo-Confucian Education: The Formative Stage offers a deep exploration of the early development of Neo-Confucian education and its enduring influence across East Asia. This book reexamines the role of Neo-Confucianism in shaping educational systems in premodern China, Japan, Korea, and Vietnam, challenging outdated narratives of rote learning and intellectual stagnation. By linking Neo-Confucian thought to broader social and institutional frameworks, the study illuminates how this educational tradition adapted to complex cultural and historical dynamics, fostering intellectual rigor and moral discipline. The book situates Neo-Confucian education within the broader context of East Asia’s modernization, exploring its interplay with contemporary challenges and reforms.

Addressing critiques of traditional education, the authors offer a balanced perspective on the limitations and achievements of Neo-Confucian practices. They argue that far from being static, this educational tradition incorporated elements of change and innovation, which contributed to the region's remarkable capacity for modernization. The book also highlights the legacy of Neo-Confucianism in shaping modern East Asian values, blending historical analysis with a call for further research into its later developments and modern reinterpretations. Neo-Confucian Education: The Formative Stage is a vital resource for understanding the intellectual foundations of East Asia and their relevance in a rapidly changing world.

This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press’s mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1989.

John Donne; Edited, with Introductions and Critical Apparatus, by George R. Potter and Evelyn M. Simpson

The Sermons of John Donne, Volume II

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The Sermons of John Donne, edited with introductions and critical apparatus by George R. Potter and Evelyn M. Simpson, Volume II, focuses on Donne’s preaching during his tenure as Reader in Divinity at Lincoln’s Inn (1616–1621), a period often considered the most satisfying of his clerical career. Returning to the institution where he had studied law in his youth, Donne cultivated a unique relationship with a congregation of legally trained auditors who remembered his earlier, more worldly reputation. The twenty-three extant Lincoln’s Inn sermons reveal both his struggle to establish credibility as a sincere minister and his success in winning deep affection from his hearers. Blending theological exposition with analogies drawn from law, wit, and personal humility, Donne addressed the spiritual life of a professional audience while also participating in the Inn’s campaign to finance and build a new chapel—an enterprise for which he preached both preparatory and dedicatory sermons. His reflections during this period also disclose a growing self-consciousness about the preacher’s calling and the challenges of speaking God’s Word before skeptical or distracted listeners.

The volume also includes significant sermons preached beyond Lincoln’s Inn, including those at Whitehall and before aristocratic patrons such as the Countess of Montgomery. Particularly notable are the *Sermon of Valediction* (1619), delivered before Donne’s departure on Doncaster’s embassy to Germany, and discourses composed during his travels on the Continent. These texts illuminate Donne’s anxieties about mortality, his sense of priestly responsibility, and his ongoing meditation on the tension between human weakness and divine grace. Throughout, the sermons demonstrate Donne’s distinctive style: elaborate but purposeful structures, paradox and wit employed in service of doctrine, and moments of personal disclosure that forge intimacy with his hearers. Potter and Simpson’s edition provides full textual scholarship, distinguishing manuscript versions from revised folio texts and tracing Donne’s rhetorical development. By situating these sermons within their historical, political, and biographical contexts, Volume II of *The Sermons of John Donne* underscores the richness of his pulpit work and its centrality to early modern religious and literary culture.

This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press’s mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1955.

Benjamin Harshav

The Meaning of Yiddish

$95.00

With a rare combination of erudition and insight, the author investigates the major aspects of Yiddish language and culture, showing where Yiddish came from and what it has to offer, even as it ceases to be a "living" language.

This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press's mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1990.
With a rare combination of erudition and insight, the author investigates the major aspects of Yiddish language and culture, showing where Yiddish came from and what it has to offer, even as it ceases to be a "living" language.

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Benjamin Harshav

The Meaning of Yiddish

$39.95

With a rare combination of erudition and insight, the author investigates the major aspects of Yiddish language and culture, showing where Yiddish came from and what it has to offer, even as it ceases to be a "living" language.

This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press's mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1990.
With a rare combination of erudition and insight, the author investigates the major aspects of Yiddish language and culture, showing where Yiddish came from and what it has to offer, even as it ceases to be a "living" language.

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John Donne

The Sermons of John Donne, Volume V

$49.95

The Sermons of John Donne, edited by George R. Potter and Evelyn M. Simpson, Volume V, brings together a substantial body of Donne’s undated sermons, contextualized with meticulous editorial analysis that reconstructs their likely chronology. Out of the 160 extant sermons, nearly half lack precise dating in the Folios, and this volume represents an effort to situate them within Donne’s career by drawing on manuscript evidence, internal references, and historical context. Many of the sermons here fall between Donne’s early years as Divinity Reader at Lincoln’s Inn (1616–1622) and his first years as Dean of St. Paul’s. They display the range of occasions for which he preached—Whitsunday, christenings, churchings, and parish duties—before the greater demands of his later ministry absorbed his energies.

The sermons collected in this volume reveal Donne working out his pastoral and theological voice within a rapidly shifting religious and political landscape. In baptismal and churching sermons, he emphasizes the sacramental incorporation of individuals into the larger communion of saints, while also addressing controversies over the sign of the cross or the role of women in devotion. Whitsunday sermons show his fascination with the Spirit as a moving, animating presence, often rendered through nautical metaphors rooted in his seafaring experiences. A number of sermons draw directly on Donne’s earlier *Essays in Divinity*, reworking meditative material on divine names, the mystery of confession, and the paradoxical way sin is folded into providence. What emerges is Donne’s characteristic balance: a preacher alert to polemical disputes of his day but more deeply concerned with guiding his hearers toward humility, penitence, and joy in forgiveness. Volume V thus fills a crucial place in the edition, capturing Donne’s development in the years before his great cathedral preaching and showing how his casuistry, poetic imagination, and pastoral urgency intertwined from the very outset of his ministry.

This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press’s mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1959.

Charles S. Liebman and Eliezer Don-Yehiya

Civil Religion in Israel

$95.00

This study explores the profound influence of Judaism on the political culture of the Jewish settlement in the Land of Israel, spanning from the prestate yishuv period to the present day. Focusing on the concept of civil religion—defined as the ceremonials, myths, and creeds that legitimize the social order, foster unity, and mobilize society toward its key political goals—the research examines how these elements, often rooted in Jewish tradition, have shaped the political and moral community of Israel. Civil religion, representing what is most sacred in a political culture, has played a distinctive role in unifying the population and guiding political aims within modern Jewish society in Israel.

The book traces the evolution of civil religion in Israel, highlighting its decline in recent years as a key shift in Israeli political culture. Organized into chapters that define terms, detail the development of civil religions over time, and explore the responses of religious Jews, the study culminates in a comprehensive analysis of the topic. Drawing on research supported by grants from the Israel Foundations Trustees and Bar-Ilan University, the authors offer a collaborative and in-depth examination of civil religion’s dynamic presence and transformation within Israeli society, shedding light on one of the most significant elements of its political and cultural identity.

This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press’s mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1983.

John Donne

The Sermons of John Donne, Volume III

$49.95

The Sermons of John Donne, edited with introductions and critical apparatus by George R. Potter and Evelyn M. Simpson, Volume III, traces Donne’s preaching from April 1620 to February 1622, a transitional period culminating in his appointment as Dean of St. Paul’s. The sermons of these years reveal striking fluctuations of tone. In the early months Donne is preoccupied with human frailty, lamenting the “vanity of vanities” and expressing unease at the political and religious upheavals of Europe, particularly the collapse of the Elector Palatine’s cause after the Battle of White Mountain. At Lincoln’s Inn, he exhorts patience amid uncertainty, warning his hearers against rash judgments of monarch or state, while at Whitehall he balances admonitions against wealth and ambition with affirmations of national blessings under King James. The sermons of this period display both Donne’s capacity for sombre reflection and his insistence on trust in God despite affliction—a perspective shared with his poetry, including the Holy Sonnets of the same years.

As the volume progresses, the tone becomes more luminous, focusing on Christ as the true Light who dispels the “long and frozen winter nights of sinne.” Donne’s first sermon as Dean of St. Paul’s, preached on Christmas Day 1621, exemplifies this shift: drawing on the prologue to John’s Gospel, he presents Christ as the eternal Logos whose light informs reason, grace, and glory alike. Other notable sermons include marriage homilies that expand into meditations on the mystical union between Christ and the Church, and a Trinity Term series at Lincoln’s Inn where Donne examines each person of the Trinity in relation to the believer’s life. By the close of the period, with his formal resignation from Lincoln’s Inn, Donne emerges as a preacher of national stature. These sermons, whether marked by melancholy or radiant hope, demonstrate his gift for weaving theology, Scripture, and lived experience into prose that is at once intellectually rigorous and imaginatively compelling, laying the foundation for his great work at St. Paul’s.

This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press’s mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1957.

John Donne; Edited, with Introductions and Critical Apparatus, by Evelyn M. Simpson and George R. Potter

The Sermons of John Donne, Volume VI

$95.00

The Sermons of John Donne, edited by Evelyn M. Simpson and George R. Potter, Volume VI, encompasses Donne’s preaching between 1623 and early 1626, a turbulent period marked by the failure of the Spanish Match, the death of James I, the accession of Charles I, and the devastating plague of 1625. These sermons show Donne navigating a nation in anxiety and transition, while also processing his own near-fatal illness of late 1623. The *Devotions upon Emergent Occasions* arose directly from that sickness, and the sermons that follow often carry the same sharpened awareness of mortality, divine judgment, and resurrection. Beginning with his recovery sermon on Easter Day, 1624, Donne reflects repeatedly on bodily frailty and the promise of eternal life, themes woven with his characteristic mixture of casuistry, Scriptural exegesis, and poetic imagination.

This volume also includes his first sermons at St. Dunstan’s-in-the-West, where his pastoral manner softened into plainer instruction, emphasizing love between pastor and flock and the daily duties of Christian life. By contrast, his great cathedral and court sermons retain a more elaborate and rhetorical style. His funeral sermon for James I, preached at Denmark House, balances biblical typology with restrained commemoration, markedly different from the florid panegyrics of his contemporaries. Throughout, Donne returns to central convictions: that sin itself, though real, is a privation that God may fold into His providence; that affliction and plague are both judgment and mercy; and that the body, often despised in ascetic extremes, remains honored by God as His creation and destined for resurrection. Particularly moving are the sermons preached during and after the plague, in which Donne evokes the horror of mass mortality yet insists on consolation in the communion of saints and the eternity of divine mercy. Together, these sermons present Donne at the height of his powers, shaping his poetic theology of sin, suffering, and salvation in a moment of national and personal crisis.

This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press’s mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1953.

John Donne; Edited with Introductions and Critical Apparatus, by George R. Potter and Evelyn M. Simpson

The Sermons of John Donne, Volume III

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The Sermons of John Donne, edited with introductions and critical apparatus by George R. Potter and Evelyn M. Simpson, Volume III, traces Donne’s preaching from April 1620 to February 1622, a transitional period culminating in his appointment as Dean of St. Paul’s. The sermons of these years reveal striking fluctuations of tone. In the early months Donne is preoccupied with human frailty, lamenting the “vanity of vanities” and expressing unease at the political and religious upheavals of Europe, particularly the collapse of the Elector Palatine’s cause after the Battle of White Mountain. At Lincoln’s Inn, he exhorts patience amid uncertainty, warning his hearers against rash judgments of monarch or state, while at Whitehall he balances admonitions against wealth and ambition with affirmations of national blessings under King James. The sermons of this period display both Donne’s capacity for sombre reflection and his insistence on trust in God despite affliction—a perspective shared with his poetry, including the Holy Sonnets of the same years.

As the volume progresses, the tone becomes more luminous, focusing on Christ as the true Light who dispels the “long and frozen winter nights of sinne.” Donne’s first sermon as Dean of St. Paul’s, preached on Christmas Day 1621, exemplifies this shift: drawing on the prologue to John’s Gospel, he presents Christ as the eternal Logos whose light informs reason, grace, and glory alike. Other notable sermons include marriage homilies that expand into meditations on the mystical union between Christ and the Church, and a Trinity Term series at Lincoln’s Inn where Donne examines each person of the Trinity in relation to the believer’s life. By the close of the period, with his formal resignation from Lincoln’s Inn, Donne emerges as a preacher of national stature. These sermons, whether marked by melancholy or radiant hope, demonstrate his gift for weaving theology, Scripture, and lived experience into prose that is at once intellectually rigorous and imaginatively compelling, laying the foundation for his great work at St. Paul’s.

This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press’s mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1957.

James L. Peacock

Muslim Puritans

$39.95

Muslim Puritans: Reformist Psychology in Southeast Asian Islam provides a compelling exploration of how Islamic reform movements in Southeast Asia intertwine cultural transformation with psychological rationalization. Through a Weberian lens, the book delves into the regions of Indonesia, Malaysia, and Singapore, analyzing the ways in which the rationalization of religious beliefs leads to shifts in behavior, identity, and social structures. By employing a combination of statistical, ethnographic, and historical methods, the study bridges the gap between individual psychology and broader cultural reform, offering nuanced insights into the ripple effects of modernization and religious purification.

The author contextualizes reformist Islam in Southeast Asia against the backdrop of Weber’s theories on rationalization and the Protestant Ethic, focusing on the psychological dynamics of these changes. By examining movements like the Kaum Muda and organizations such as Muhammadijah, the book reveals how reformist ideals—centered on purification and individual interpretation (idjtihad)—reshape personal and communal practices, from family life to educational structures. With its detailed case studies, this work not only expands Weberian analysis to the Islamic world but also sheds light on the enduring impact of reformist ideologies in diverse sociopolitical contexts, making it an essential resource for scholars of religion, psychology, and Southeast Asian studies.

This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press’s mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1978.

John Donne

The Sermons of John Donne, Volume V

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The Sermons of John Donne, edited by George R. Potter and Evelyn M. Simpson, Volume V, brings together a substantial body of Donne’s undated sermons, contextualized with meticulous editorial analysis that reconstructs their likely chronology. Out of the 160 extant sermons, nearly half lack precise dating in the Folios, and this volume represents an effort to situate them within Donne’s career by drawing on manuscript evidence, internal references, and historical context. Many of the sermons here fall between Donne’s early years as Divinity Reader at Lincoln’s Inn (1616–1622) and his first years as Dean of St. Paul’s. They display the range of occasions for which he preached—Whitsunday, christenings, churchings, and parish duties—before the greater demands of his later ministry absorbed his energies.

The sermons collected in this volume reveal Donne working out his pastoral and theological voice within a rapidly shifting religious and political landscape. In baptismal and churching sermons, he emphasizes the sacramental incorporation of individuals into the larger communion of saints, while also addressing controversies over the sign of the cross or the role of women in devotion. Whitsunday sermons show his fascination with the Spirit as a moving, animating presence, often rendered through nautical metaphors rooted in his seafaring experiences. A number of sermons draw directly on Donne’s earlier *Essays in Divinity*, reworking meditative material on divine names, the mystery of confession, and the paradoxical way sin is folded into providence. What emerges is Donne’s characteristic balance: a preacher alert to polemical disputes of his day but more deeply concerned with guiding his hearers toward humility, penitence, and joy in forgiveness. Volume V thus fills a crucial place in the edition, capturing Donne’s development in the years before his great cathedral preaching and showing how his casuistry, poetic imagination, and pastoral urgency intertwined from the very outset of his ministry.

This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press’s mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1959.

Wm. Theodore de Bary

Neo-Confucian Education

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Neo-Confucian Education: The Formative Stage offers a deep exploration of the early development of Neo-Confucian education and its enduring influence across East Asia. This book reexamines the role of Neo-Confucianism in shaping educational systems in premodern China, Japan, Korea, and Vietnam, challenging outdated narratives of rote learning and intellectual stagnation. By linking Neo-Confucian thought to broader social and institutional frameworks, the study illuminates how this educational tradition adapted to complex cultural and historical dynamics, fostering intellectual rigor and moral discipline. The book situates Neo-Confucian education within the broader context of East Asia’s modernization, exploring its interplay with contemporary challenges and reforms.

Addressing critiques of traditional education, the authors offer a balanced perspective on the limitations and achievements of Neo-Confucian practices. They argue that far from being static, this educational tradition incorporated elements of change and innovation, which contributed to the region's remarkable capacity for modernization. The book also highlights the legacy of Neo-Confucianism in shaping modern East Asian values, blending historical analysis with a call for further research into its later developments and modern reinterpretations. Neo-Confucian Education: The Formative Stage is a vital resource for understanding the intellectual foundations of East Asia and their relevance in a rapidly changing world.

This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press’s mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1989.

John Donne; Edited, with Introductions and Critical Apparatus, by Evelyn M. Simpson and George R. Potter

The Sermons of John Donne, Volume IX

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*The Sermons of John Donne, edited by Evelyn M. Simpson and George R. Potter, Volume IX, gathers Donne’s last dated sermons of 1629–1630 along with a group of later undated discourses, many preached during the closing years of his ministry. Here Donne returns insistently to the opening chapters of Genesis, meditating on creation, the image of God in humanity, and the Spirit moving upon the waters. These late sermons combine an elemental simplicity with a poet’s grandeur: the East and West become figures of Christ’s light and man’s mortality, while the primordial waters serve both as emblem of chaos and of baptismal grace. Preaching before King Charles at Whitehall, before citizens at Paul’s Cross, and to his own flock at St. Paul’s, Donne speaks with new directness about human frailty, repentance, and the indwelling Spirit. Though mortality shadows these sermons—Donne was approaching his final illness—the tone is less morbid than in earlier volumes. He stresses instead the joy of forgiveness, the hope of resurrection, and the treasure of grace already present in the faithful heart.

The undated sermons collected here, including a long series on Psalm 32, reveal Donne as pastor and confessor, guiding his hearers through the disciplines of penitence, confession, and amendment of life. They show his characteristic blend of searching self-examination, theological depth, and psychological acuity, always rooted in Scripture and the Fathers yet addressed to the anxieties of his London congregations. Donne does not flinch from exposing sin—whether pride, covetousness, or irreverence in worship—but he insists with equal force on the abundance of divine mercy and the joy that springs from reconciliation with God. Volume IX thus stands at the threshold of Donne’s final preaching, culminating soon after in *Deaths Duell*. It presents a preacher who, even as his strength waned, continued to interpret creation, sin, and redemption with undiminished intensity, speaking as both poet of the eternal and pastor of souls.

This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press’s mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1958.

John Donne

The Sermons of John Donne, Volume IV

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The Sermons of John Donne, edited by George R. Potter and Evelyn M. Simpson, Volume IV, marks Donne’s establishment as Dean of St. Paul’s and his full entry into the central arena of London’s ecclesiastical and civic life. Preaching now in “Old St. Paul’s,” Donne found himself at the heart of England’s capital, addressing not only cathedral congregations but also civic gatherings, court audiences, and public assemblies at Paul’s Cross and the Spittle. The sermons of this volume vividly reflect both the ceremonial rhythm of the Church’s year—Christmas, Easter, Whitsunday, and Candlemas—and the political turbulence of the 1620s, when the Palatinate crisis, the Spanish marriage negotiations, and King James’s censorship of preaching weighed heavily on the national conscience. Donne’s texts range widely: meditations on Christ as Light and Resurrection, urgent admonitions against Roman “idolatry,” defenses of the Crown’s Directions to Preachers, and visionary reflections on England’s colonial project in Virginia. In all, Donne combined theological subtlety with a preacher’s responsiveness to the immediate anxieties of Londoners, who listened to him as both spiritual guide and national voice.

The volume also reveals Donne’s deepening imaginative grasp of London itself as symbol and stage. His sermons abound in images drawn from the city’s commerce, courts, and river: ships weathering storms, coins newly minted in Christ’s image, and the Thames as both highway and metaphor of spiritual passage. Donne’s appointment as Dean required him to preach at the great festivals, and his Christmas sermons on John’s Gospel and Easter discourses on resurrection are among his most exalted works, uniting scholastic argument with lyrical metaphor. Yet the same volume includes “sermons upon emergent occasions,” crafted to defend the Crown or to rally civic support for church repair or colonial enterprise. Such occasional pieces show Donne negotiating the perils of preaching under James I, balancing fidelity to doctrine with political caution. Together, these sermons embody Donne’s genius for transforming the contingencies of London and the crises of Europe into moments of spiritual encounter, and they establish his voice as the conscience of the city and the Church.

This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press’s mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1959.

T. O. Ranger & John Weller

Themes in the Christian History of Central Africa

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Themes in the Christian History of Central Africa, edited by T. O. Ranger and John Weller, examines the complex encounters between Christian churches and other institutions in Central Africa over more than a century, from traditional cults and colonial administrations to settler regimes and, most recently, universities. Borne out of a 1971 workshop in Malawi that brought together both church leaders and academics, the volume underscores the dual role of Christianity as both a transformative influence on African societies and a body profoundly shaped by its historical, political, and cultural contexts. The editors argue that universities in particular are pushing churches to reconsider how they write, teach, and balance their histories—geographically, chronologically, denominationally, and in terms of whose voices are included.

The book is structured in three parts. Part I focuses on historical case studies of Christian engagements with African religious and social systems, highlighting both accommodation and resistance. Part II addresses the churches’ political entanglements, including the charge of complicity with colonial rule, while also exploring their prophetic role in shaping nationalist thought and political change. Part III turns to seemingly internal or devotional matters—inter-church cooperation, lay movements, and religious orders—but shows how these too intersect with social, economic, and political realities. Throughout, the contributors stress the need for interdisciplinary approaches, integrating history, theology, and anthropology. By weaving together perspectives from both church-based and university-based scholars, the collection not only reinterprets the Christian past in Central Africa but also raises critical questions about the churches’ contemporary and future roles in African societies.

This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press’s mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1975.

John Donne; Edited, with Introductions and Critical Apparatus, by George R. Potter and Evelyn M. Simpson

The Sermons of John Donne, Volume I

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The Sermons of John Donne, edited with introductions and critical apparatus by George R. Potter and Evelyn M. Simpson, represents the first comprehensive scholarly edition of the prose works of Donne that established him as one of the foremost preachers of seventeenth-century England. Issued in ten volumes, the series collates Donne’s one hundred and sixty extant sermons, which had previously circulated in seventeenth-century folios (the *LXXX Sermons* of 1640, the *Fifty Sermons* of 1649, and the *XXVI Sermons* of 1661) or as separately printed quartos. Potter and Simpson reconstruct the bibliographical history of these printings, examine extant manuscripts, and document the fraught transmission of Donne’s texts, particularly the interventions of his son, John Donne Jr., whose careless editing shaped the folios. Their editorial introductions situate Donne’s preaching within the political and ecclesiastical contexts of Jacobean and Caroline England, highlighting both the textual corruption and the survival of a rich homiletic corpus that might otherwise have been lost.

The edition underscores Donne’s sermons as literary achievements equal in stature to his poetry and devotional prose. The editors analyze their rhetorical brilliance, their blending of theological rigor with imaginative conceit, and their responsiveness to occasions ranging from court preaching at Whitehall to civic addresses at Paul’s Cross. Donne emerges as a preacher attuned to Scripture, controversy, and the performance of eloquence before audiences of power and piety. The critical apparatus provides variant readings, textual notes, and commentary on sources, while the introductions offer detailed accounts of printing history, manuscript provenance, and Donne’s position among contemporary divines. By assembling the full range of his preaching and clarifying its transmission, Potter and Simpson’s edition established *The Sermons of John Donne* as indispensable for scholars of early modern literature, theology, and intellectual history, illuminating the pulpit as the stage on which Donne articulated his most sustained reflections on mortality, grace, and the condition of humankind.

This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press’s mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1953.

John Donne; Edited, with Introductions and Critical Apparatus, by Evelyn M. Simpson and George R. Potter

The Sermons of John Donne, Volume IX

$95.00

*The Sermons of John Donne, edited by Evelyn M. Simpson and George R. Potter, Volume IX, gathers Donne’s last dated sermons of 1629–1630 along with a group of later undated discourses, many preached during the closing years of his ministry. Here Donne returns insistently to the opening chapters of Genesis, meditating on creation, the image of God in humanity, and the Spirit moving upon the waters. These late sermons combine an elemental simplicity with a poet’s grandeur: the East and West become figures of Christ’s light and man’s mortality, while the primordial waters serve both as emblem of chaos and of baptismal grace. Preaching before King Charles at Whitehall, before citizens at Paul’s Cross, and to his own flock at St. Paul’s, Donne speaks with new directness about human frailty, repentance, and the indwelling Spirit. Though mortality shadows these sermons—Donne was approaching his final illness—the tone is less morbid than in earlier volumes. He stresses instead the joy of forgiveness, the hope of resurrection, and the treasure of grace already present in the faithful heart.

The undated sermons collected here, including a long series on Psalm 32, reveal Donne as pastor and confessor, guiding his hearers through the disciplines of penitence, confession, and amendment of life. They show his characteristic blend of searching self-examination, theological depth, and psychological acuity, always rooted in Scripture and the Fathers yet addressed to the anxieties of his London congregations. Donne does not flinch from exposing sin—whether pride, covetousness, or irreverence in worship—but he insists with equal force on the abundance of divine mercy and the joy that springs from reconciliation with God. Volume IX thus stands at the threshold of Donne’s final preaching, culminating soon after in *Deaths Duell*. It presents a preacher who, even as his strength waned, continued to interpret creation, sin, and redemption with undiminished intensity, speaking as both poet of the eternal and pastor of souls.

This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press’s mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1958.