Nyu Press: 1737 books
Paranoid Science
The Christian Right's War on Reality
Language: English
Release Date: May 23, 2017
Explores the Christian Right’s fierce opposition to science, explaining how and why its leaders came to see scientific truths as their enemy
For decades, the Christian Right’s high-profile clashes with science have made national headlines. From attempts to insert intelligent design creationism...
Righteous Content
Black Women's Perspectives of Church and Faith
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2006
Enter most African American congregations and you are likely to see the century-old pattern of a predominantly female audience led by a male pastor. How do we explain the dedication of African American women to the church, particularly when the church's regard for women has been questioned?
Following...
Fire in the Canyon
Religion, Migration, and the Mexican Dream
Language: English
Release Date: November 11, 2013
The canyon in central Mexico was ablaze with torches as hundreds of people filed in. So palpable was their shared shock and grief, they later said, that neither pastor nor priest was needed. The event was a memorial service for one of their own who had died during an attempted border passage. Months...
by Barbara A. Spellman, Michael J. Saks
Language: English
Release Date: January 22, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: January 22, 2016
Evidence law is meant to facilitate trials that are fair, accurate, and efficient, and that encourage and protect important societal values and relationships. In pursuit of these often-conflicting goals, common law judges and modern drafting committees have had to perform as amateur applied psychologists....
by Andrew E. Taslitz
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 1999
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 1999
Rape law reform has been a stunning failure. Defense lawyers persist in emphasizing victims' characters over defendants' behavior. Reform's goals of increasing rape report and conviction rates have generally not been achieved. In Rape and the Culture of the Courtroom, Andrew Taslitz locates the cause...
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Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 1987
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 1987
"An excellent overview of the history of Jewish mysticism from its early beginnings to contemporary Hasidism...scholarly and complex."
-Library Journal
"An excellent work, clear and solidly documented by Joseph Dan on Gershom Scholem and on his work."
-Notes Bibliographiques
"An excellent guide to Scholem's work."
-Christian Century
Marks of the Beast
The Left Behind Novels and the Struggle for Evangelical Identity
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2004
The Left Behind series by Tim LaHaye and Jerry B. Jenkins has become a popular culture phenomenon, selling an astonishing 40 million copies to date. These novels, written by two well-known evangelical Christians, depict the experiences of those "left behind" in the aftermath of the Rapture,...
Evangelical Christian Women
War Stories in the Gender Battles
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2003
Evangelical Christian Women draws on two years of ethnographic research nationwide to shed new light on the gender conflict faced by women in evangelical Christianity. Julie Ingersoll goes beyond previous attempts to find avenues of empowerment for fundamentalist women to offer a more nuanced look...
Growing God’s Family
The Global Orphan Care Movement and the Limits of Evangelical Activism
Language: English
Release Date: June 13, 2017
Illustrates the hidden challenges embedded within the evangelical adoption movement.
For over a decade, prominent leaders and organizations among American Evangelicals have spent a substantial amount of time and money in an effort to address what they believe to be the “Orphan Crisis” of...
by E. Burke Rochford
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2007
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2007
Most widely known for its adherents chanting “Hare Krishna” and distributing religious literature on the streets of American cities, the Hare Krishna movement was founded in New York City in 1965 by A. C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada. Formally known as the International Society for Krishna Consciousness,...
Racism and God-Talk
A Latino/a Perspective
Language: English
Release Date: July 19, 2008
The apostle Paul wrote that "All of you are one in Christ Jesus." Given Paul’s vision of God’s kingdom defined by the breakdown of all distinctions and relationships of domination-no longer Jew or Greek, slave or free, male or female-how do we make sense of ethnic particularity within...
Domestic Workers of the World Unite!
A Global Movement for Dignity and Human Rights
Language: English
Release Date: July 25, 2017
From grassroots to global activism, the untold story of the world's first domestic workers' movement.
Domestic workers exist on the margins of the world labor market. Maids, nannies, housekeepers, au pairs, and other care workers are most often ‘off the books,’ working for long hours and...
Paranormal America (second edition)
Ghost Encounters, UFO Sightings, Bigfoot Hunts, and Other Curiosities in Religion and Culture
Language: English
Release Date: April 18, 2017
The untold account of the countless Americans who believe in, or personally experience, paranormal phenomena such as ghosts, Bigfoot, UFOs and psychics
Given the popularity of television shows such as Finding Bigfoot, Ghost Hunters, Supernatural, and American Horror Story, there seems to be...
Asian American Religions
The Making and Remaking of Borders and Boundaries
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2004
Asian American Religions brings together some of the most current research on Asian American religions from a social science perspective. The volume focuses on religion in Asian American communities in New York, Houston, Los Angeles, and the Silicon Valley/Bay Area, and it includes a current demographic...