06/14/2012
Woolman’s ideals were informed by a literal reading of the Bible and the experience of growing up on a farm in New Jersey. He associated well-ordered, peaceful, pastoral landscapes with Eden and the Peaceable Kingdom that Isaiah foresaw as part of humanity’s future. The tensions and violence of slavery had no place in the world that Woolman hoped to see established.
06/12/2012
Congratulations to Pawel Maciejko, winner of the Salo W. Baron Prize for the outstanding first book in Jewish studies published in 2011. The American Academy of Jewish Research selected Maciejko… READ MORE
06/06/2012
Citizens of a Christian Nation: Evangelical Missions and the Problem of Race in the Nineteenth Century Derek Chang 248 pages | 6 x 9 Cloth 2010 | ISBN 978-0-8122-4218-8 |… READ MORE
06/05/2012
Friends and Strangers: The Making of a Creole Culture in Colonial Pennsylvania John Smolenski 416 pages | 6 x 9 | 15 illus. Cloth 2010 | ISBN 978-0-8122-4239-3 | $45.00… READ MORE
06/04/2012
New Netherland and the Dutch Origins of American Religious Liberty Evan Haefeli 384 pages | 6 x 9 | 8 illus. Cloth 2012 | ISBN 978-0-8122-4408-3 | $45.00 | £29.50… READ MORE
Old Worlds, New Mirrors: On Jewish Mysticism and Twentieth-Century Thought Moshe Idel 336 pages | 6 x 9 Cloth 2009 | ISBN 978-0-8122-4130-3 | $59.95 | £39.00 Paper 2012 |… READ MORE
Muslims in Global Politics: Identities, Interests, and Human Rights Mahmood Monshipouri 344 pages | 6 x 9 Cloth 2009 | ISBN 978-0-8122-4181-5 | $65.00 | £42.50 Paper 2012 | ISBN… READ MORE
05/21/2012
John Woolman's Path to the Peaceable Kingdom: A Quaker in the British Empire Geoffrey Plank 320 pages | 6 x 9 | 15 illus. Cloth 2012 | ISBN 978-0-8122-4405-2 |… READ MORE
05/09/2012
Religion in Republican Rome: Rationalization and Ritual Change Jörg Rüpke 336 pages | 6 x 9 Cloth 2012 | ISBN 978-0-8122-4394-9 | $69.95 | £45.50 A volume in the Empire… READ MORE
05/01/2012
Christ Circumcised: A Study in Early Christian History and Difference Andrew S. Jacobs 320 pages | 6 x 9 Cloth 2012 | ISBN 978-0-8122-4397-0 | $75.00 | £49.00 A volume… READ MORE
