Nyu Press imprint: 1731 books
Liberation Theologies in the United States
An Introduction
Language: English
Release Date: March 8, 2010
In the nascent United States, religion often functioned as a justifier of oppression. Yet while religious discourse buttressed such oppressive activities as slavery and the destruction of native populations, oppressed communities have also made use of religion to critique and challenge this abuse....
by Joel Robbins
Language: English
Release Date: October 9, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: October 9, 2015
The phenomenal growth of Pentecostalism and evangelicalism around the world in recent decades has forced us to rethink what it means to be religious and what it means to be global. The success of these religious movements has revealed tensions and resonances between the public and the private, the...
A Comparative Sociology of World Religions
Virtuosi, Priests, and Popular Religion
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2001
A Sociology of World Religions presents a comparative analysis of the world's religions, focusing on the differences and interrelationships between religious elites and lay masses. In each case the volume contextualizes how the relationships between these two religious forms fit within, and are influenced...
New World A-Coming
Black Religion and Racial Identity during the Great Migration
Language: English
Release Date: February 7, 2017
Winner of the 2017 Albert J. Raboteau Book Prize for the Best Book in Africana Religions
Demonstrates that the efforts to contest conventional racial categorization contributed to broader discussions in black America that still resonate today.
When Joseph Nathaniel Beckles registered...
by Nicholas Campion
Language: English
Release Date: June 11, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: June 11, 2012
When you think of astrology, you may think of the horoscope section in your local paper, or of Nancy Reagan's consultations with an astrologer in the White House in the 1980s. Yet almost every religion uses some form of astrology: some way of thinking about the sun, moon, stars, and planets and how...
by Liyakat Nathani Takim
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2009
Shi’ism in America provides the first general overview of the Shi’i community in America, tracing its history, its current composition, and how Shi’a have negotiated their identity in the American context.
There are over two million Shi’is, who differ from Sunni Muslims in their understandings...
Charitable Choices
Religion, Race, and Poverty in the Post-Welfare Era
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2003
Congregations and faith-based organizations have become key participants in America’s welfare revolution. Recent legislation has expanded the social welfare role of religious communities, thus revealing a pervasive lack of faith in purely economic responses to poverty.
Charitable Choices is an ethnographic...
Unspeakable Acts
Why Men Sexually Abuse Children
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 1996
The sexual abuse of children is one of the most morally unsettling and emotionally inflammatory issues in American society today. It has been estimated that roughly one out of every four girls and one in ten boys experience some form of unwanted sexual attention either inside or outside the family...
Law, Culture, and Ritual
Disputing Systems in Cross-Cultural Context
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2005
Disputing systems are products of the societies in which they operate—they originate and mutate in response to disputes that are particular to specific social, cultural, and political contexts. Disputing procedures, therefore, are an important medium through which fundamental beliefs, values, and...
Evangelical Feminism
A History
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2005
For most people, the terms “evangelical” and “feminism” are contradictory. “Evangelical” invokes images of conservative Christians known for their strict interpretation of the Bible, as well as their support of social conservatism and traditional gender roles. So how could an evangelical...
An Islam of Her Own
Reconsidering Religion and Secularism in Women’s Islamic Movements
Language: English
Release Date: April 11, 2011
As the world grapples with issues of religious fanaticism, extremist politics, and rampant violence that seek justification in either “religious” or “secular” discourses, women who claim Islam as a vehicle for individual and social change are often either regarded as pious subjects who subscribe...
The Assemblies of God
Godly Love and the Revitalization of American Pentecostalism
Language: English
Release Date: November 23, 2010
The Assemblies of God (AG) is the ninth largest American and the world’s largest Pentecostal denomination, with over 50 million followers worldwide. The AG embraces a worldview of miracles and mystery that makes“supernatural” experiences, such as speaking in tongues, healing, and prophecy, normal...
Meeting the Enemy
American Exceptionalism and International Law
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2010
Since its founding, the United States has defined itself as the supreme protector of freedom throughout the world, pointing to its Constitution as the model of law to ensure democracy at home and to protect human rights internationally. Although the United States has consistently emphasized the importance...
Pagan Family Values
Childhood and the Religious Imagination in Contemporary American Paganism
Language: English
Release Date: July 29, 2013
For most of its history, contemporary Paganism has been a religion of converts. Yet as it enters its fifth decade, it is incorporating growing numbers of second‑generation Pagans for whom Paganism is a family tradition, not a religious worldview arrived at via a spiritual quest. In Pagan Family...