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The latest University of Chicago Press catalog in Religious Studies is available on this page in PDF form and as a hyperlinked list. The list below includes new titles published or announced since the printed catalog appeared. Please note that some of these titles are scheduled for release more than six months in the future. Unpublished titles can be ordered now; your credit card will not be charged for those titles until the books actually ship.

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Religion and Philosophy

Ritualization and Human Interiority

Cavallin, Clemens
June 2013 New Book

New Gods

Cioran, E. M.
March 2013 New Book E-book

Why Niebuhr Now?

Diggins, John Patrick
June 2011 E-book

Theological Origins of Modernity

Gillespie, Michael Allen
May 2008 E-book

Politics and the Order of Love

Gregory, Eric
An Augustinian Ethic of Democratic Citizenship
August 2008

Political Theology and Early Modernity

Hammill, Graham
October 2012 New Book E-book

Forgiveness

Jankelevitch, Vladimir
April 2005

Future of Illusion

Kahn, Victoria
Political Theology and Early Modern Texts
November 2013 New Book

Mad and Divine

Kakar, Sudhir
Spirit and Psyche in the Modern World
August 2009

Authors of the Impossible

Kripal, Jeffrey J.
The Paranormal and the Sacred
May 2010 E-book

Mutants and Mystics

Kripal, Jeffrey J.
Science Fiction, Superhero Comics, and the Paranormal
November 2011 E-book

Socrates and the Jews

Leonard, Miriam
Hellenism and Hebraism from Moses Mendelssohn to Sigmund Freud
June 2012 New Book E-book

God Without Being

Marion, Jean-Luc
Hors-Texte, Second Edition
July 2012 New Book E-book

Saints

Meltzer, Françoise
Faith without Borders
December 2011 E-book

Children of Light and the Children of Darkness

Niebuhr, Reinhold
A Vindication of Democracy and a Critique of Its Traditional Defense
September 2011 E-book

Irony of American History

Niebuhr, Reinhold
May 2008 E-book

Once Out of Nature

Nightingale, Andrea
Augustine on Time and the Body
May 2011 E-book

Oedipus and the Sphinx

Renger, Almut-Barbara
The Threshold Myth from Sophocles through Freud to Cocteau
October 2013 New Book

Promise of Salvation

Riesebrodt, Martin
A Theory of Religion
March 2010 E-book

Giordano Bruno

Rowland, Ingrid D.
Philosopher / Heretic
September 2009

Royal Remains

Santner, Eric L.
The People's Two Bodies and the Endgames of Sovereignty
May 2011 E-book

Gandhi and the Stoics

Sorabji, Richard
Modern Experiments on Ancient Values
November 2012 New Book

After God

Taylor, Mark C.
October 2007 E-book

Judaism

Loving Yusuf

Bal, Mieke
Conceptual Travels from Present to Past
July 2008 E-book

Jewish Art

Baskind, Samantha
A Modern History
June 2011

Anti-Semitic Moment

Birnbaum, Pierre
A Tour of France in 1898
April 2011

Socrates and the Fat Rabbis

Boyarin, Daniel
November 2009 E-book

Sundays at Sinai

Brinkmann, Tobias
A Jewish Congregation in Chicago
June 2012 New Book E-book

Sacred Attunement

Fishbane, Michael
A Jewish Theology
October 2008 E-book

Shamanic Trance in Modern Kabbalah

Garb, Jonathan
May 2011 E-book

Mosaic Constitution

Hammill, Graham
Political Theology and Imagination from Machiavelli to Milton
May 2012 New Book E-book

River Jordan

Havrelock, Rachel
The Mythology of a Dividing Line
December 2011 E-book

Isaac Israeli

Israeli, Isaac
A Neoplatonic Philosopher of the Early Tenth Century
October 2009 E-book

Beginning of Wisdom

Kass, Leon R.
Reading Genesis
March 2006

Looking for Strangers

Katz, Dori
The True Story of My Hidden Wartime Childhood
September 2013 New Book

German Idealism and the Jew

Mack, Michael
The Inner Anti-Semitism of Philosophy and German Jewish Responses
June 2003

Medical Aphorisms

Maimonides, Moses
Treatises 10-15
February 2011

Conflagration of Community

Miller, J. Hillis
Fiction before and after Auschwitz
August 2011 E-book

Maimonides and Spinoza

Parens, Joshua
Their Conflicting Views of Human Nature
August 2012 New Book E-book

Judaism Despite Christianity

Rosenstock-Huessy, Eugen
The 1916 Wartime Correspondence Between Eugen Rosenstock-Huessy and Franz Rosenzweig
September 2011 E-book

Confronting Vulnerability

Schofer, Jonathan Wyn
The Body and the Divine in Rabbinic Ethics
December 2010 E-book

Beth Sholom Synagogue

Siry, Joseph M.
Frank Lloyd Wright and Modern Religious Architecture
December 2011

Leo Strauss on Maimonides

Strauss, Leo
The Complete Writings
April 2013 New Book E-book

Leo Strauss on Moses Mendelssohn

Strauss, Leo
December 2012 New Book E-book

End of Sacrifice

Stroumsa, Guy G.
Religious Transformations in Late Antiquity
April 2009

Islam

Critique of Christian Origins

Abd al-Jabbar,
A Parallel English-Arabic Text
May 2010

Questioning Secularism

Agrama, Hussein Ali
Islam, Sovereignty, and the Rule of Law in Modern Egypt
November 2012 New Book E-book

Al-Ghazali's

Al-Ghazali,
October 2013 New Book

Shadow of God and the Hidden Imam

Arjomand, Said Amir
Religion, Political Order, and Societal Change in Shi'ite Iran from the Beginning to 1890
November 2010

Finding Mecca in America

Bilici, Mucahit
How Islam Is Becoming an American Religion
December 2012 New Book E-book

Eternal Performance

Chelkowski, Peter J.
Taziyeh and Other Shiite Rituals
December 2010

Classical Foundations of Islamic Educational Thought

Cook, Bradley J.
A Compendium of Parallel English-Arabic Texts
February 2011

Reading Darwin in Arabic, 1860-1950

Elshakry, Marwa
August 2013 New Book

Abu Hatim al-Razi: The Proofs of Prophecy

Hatim al-Razi, Abu
A Parallel Arabic-English Text
April 2012

Secularizing Islamists?

Iqtidar, Humeira
Jama'at-e-Islami and Jama'at-ud-Da'wa in Urban Pakistan
April 2011 E-book

Jews, Christians, and the Abode of Islam

Lassner, Jacob
Modern Scholarship, Medieval Realities
March 2012 E-book

Islam on the Move

Noor, Farish A.
The Tablighi Jama'at in Southeast Asia
June 2013 New Book

Major Themes of the Qur'an

Rahman, Fazlur
Second Edition
June 2009

Prophecy in Islam

Rahman, Fazlur
Philosophy and Orthodoxy
October 2011

Islam Translated

Ricci, Ronit
Literature, Conversion, and the Arabic Cosmopolis of South and Southeast Asia
May 2011 E-book

Varieties of Muslim Experience

Rosen, Lawrence
Encounters with Arab Political and Cultural Life
June 2008 E-book

Ibn Tufayl's Hayy Ibn Yaqzan

Tufayl, Ibn
A Philosophical Tale
November 2009

Asian Religions

Illuminating the Life of the Buddha

Appleton, Naomi
An Illustrated Chanting Book from Eighteenth-Century Siam
June 2013 New Book

Logic in a Popular Form

Banerjee, Sumanta
Essays on Popular Religion in Bengal
June 2010

Religious Bodies Politic

Bernstein, Anya
Rituals of Sovereignty in Buryat Buddhism
October 2013 New Book

Locations of Buddhism

Blackburn, Anne M.
Colonialism and Modernity in Sri Lanka
April 2010 E-book

Birth of Insight

Braun, Erik
Meditation, Modern Buddhism, and the Burmese Monk Ledi Sayadaw
November 2013 New Book

Tragic Spirits

Buyandelger, Manduhai
Shamanism, Memory, and Gender in Contemporary Mongolia
November 2013 New Book E-book

Grains of Gold

Chopel, Gendun
Tales of a Cosmopolitan Traveler
January 2014 New Book

Guilty Males and Proud Females

Ferrari, Fabrizio
Negotiating Genders in a Bengali Festival
February 2011

Religious Question in Modern China

Goossaert, Vincent
April 2011 E-book

Museum on the Roof of the World

Harris, Clare E.
Art, Politics, and the Representation of Tibet
October 2012 New Book E-book

Monastery in Time

Humphrey, Caroline
The Making of Mongolian Buddhism
June 2013 New Book E-book

Invention of Religion in Japan

Josephson, Jason Ananda
October 2012 New Book E-book

Buddhism and Science

Lopez Jr., Donald
A Guide for the Perplexed
November 2008 E-book

From Stone to Flesh

Lopez Jr., Donald
A Short History of the Buddha
April 2013 New Book E-book

Religion of Falun Gong

Penny, Benjamin
April 2012 E-book

Bonds of the Dead

Rowe, Mark Michael
Temples, Burial, and the Transformation of Contemporary Japanese Buddhism
November 2011 E-book

Unfinished Gestures

Soneji, Davesh
Devadasis, Memory, and Modernity in South India
January 2012 E-book

Kiss of the Yogini

White, David Gordon
"Tantric Sex" in its South Asian Contexts
April 2003 E-book

Sinister Yogis

White, David Gordon
November 2009 E-book

Shots in the Dark

Yamada, Shoji
Japan, Zen, and the West
May 2009

Christianity

Church and the Kingdom

Agamben, Giorgio
June 2012 New Book

Legend of the Middle Ages

Brague, Rémi
Philosophical Explorations of Medieval Christianity, Judaism, and Islam
April 2009

Ecce Homo

Brintnall, Kent L.
The Male-Body-in-Pain as Redemptive Figure
January 2012 E-book

Fire under the Ashes

Donoghue, John
An Atlantic History of the English Revolution
November 2013 New Book

Chronicle of Pseudo-Zachariah Rhetor

Greatrex, Geoffrey
Church and War in Late Antiquity
March 2011

Anchoritism in the Middle Ages

Innes-Parker, Catherine
Texts and Traditions
June 2013 New Book

Bede: 'On the Nature of Things' and 'On Times'

Kendall, Calvin B.
February 2011

Pilgrimage and Pogrom

Merback, Mitchell B.
Violence, Memory, and Visual Culture at the Host-Miracle Shrines of Germany and Austria
March 2013 New Book

Atheist's Bible

Minois, Georges
The Most Dangerous Book That Never Existed
October 2012 New Book E-book

Divas in the Convent

Monson, Craig A.
Nuns, Music, and Defiance in Seventeenth-Century Italy
June 2012 New Book E-book

Nuns Behaving Badly

Monson, Craig A.
Tales of Music, Magic, Art, and Arson in the Convents of Italy
November 2010 E-book

Manifold Greatness

Moore, Helen
The Making of the King James Bible
May 2011

Chalcedon in Context

Price, Richard
Church Councils 400-700
April 2011

Magic and Religion in Medieval England

Rider, Catherine
December 2012 New Book

Egyptian Oedipus

Stolzenberg, Daniel
Athanasius Kircher and the Secrets of Antiquity
April 2013 New Book E-book

Bede: Commentary on Revelation

Wallis, Faith
June 2013 New Book

Religion and Society

Social Life of Spirits

Blanes, Ruy
November 2013 New Book

Paging God

Cadge, Wendy
Religion in the Halls of Medicine
January 2013 New Book E-book

I Belong to This Band, Hallelujah!

Clawson, Laura
Community, Spirituality, and Tradition among Sacred Harp Singers
September 2011 E-book

Sex and Religion

Endsjø, Dag Ølstein
Teachings and Taboos in the History of World Faiths
October 2011

Body of Faith

Fuller, Robert C.
A Biological History of Religion in America
June 2013 New Book E-book

Seeking the Straight and Narrow

Gerber, Lynne
Weight Loss and Sexual Reorientation in Evangelical America
January 2012 E-book

Witchcraft, Intimacy, and Trust

Geschiere, Peter
Africa in Comparison
September 2013 New Book

Blessing Same-Sex Unions

Jordan, Mark D.
The Perils of Queer Romance and the Confusions of Christian Marriage
May 2005

Recruiting Young Love

Jordan, Mark D.
How Christians Talk about Homosexuality
April 2011

Image of God

Leon, Sharon M.
The Catholic Struggle with Eugenics
June 2013 New Book E-book

Secularism in Antebellum America

Modern, John Lardas
December 2011 E-book

When Peace Is Not Enough

Omer, Atalia
How the Israeli Peace Camp Thinks about Religion, Nationalism, and Justice
June 2013 New Book E-book

Cooking of History

Palmié, Stephan
How Not to Study Afro-Cuban Religion
June 2013 New Book E-book

Post-Ethical Society

Porpora, Douglas V.
The Iraq War, Abu Ghraib, and the Moral Failure of the Secular
August 2013 New Book

Gaia Hypothesis

Ruse, Michael
Science on a Pagan Planet
September 2013 New Book

Trying Biology

Shapiro, Adam R.
The Scopes Trial, Textbooks, and the Antievolution Movement in American Schools
May 2013 New Book E-book

Living Faith

Sullivan, Susan Crawford
Everyday Religion and Mothers in Poverty
February 2012 E-book

Erotic Attunement

Traina, Cristina L. H.
Parenthood and the Ethics of Sensuality between Unequals
June 2011 E-book

Reference and Key Works

Concise Greek-English Lexicon of the New Testament

Danker, Frederick William
November 2009 E-book

Christianity Reader

Gerhart, Mary
September 2007

Arts of Wonder

Kosky, Jeffrey L.
Enchanting Secularity - Walter De Maria, Diller + Scofidio, James Turrell, Andy Goldsworthy
December 2012 New Book E-book

Critical Terms for the Study of Buddhism

Lopez Jr., Donald
May 2005 E-book

Taoist Canon

Schipper, Kristofer
A Historical Companion to the Daozang
August 2005

Critical Terms for Religious Studies

Taylor, Mark C.
August 1998 E-book