Nyu Press: 1737 books
New York Glory
Religions in the City
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2001
Is New York a post-secular city? Massive immigration and cultural changes have created an increasingly complex social landscape in which religious life plays a dynamic role. Yet the magnitude of religion's impact on New York's social life has gone unacknowledged.
New York Glory gathers together for...
Contraceptive Risk
The FDA, Depo-Provera, and the Politics of Experimental Medicine
Language: English
Release Date: May 2, 2017
The story of Depo-Provera joins the national struggle over the drug's FDA approval to the state legal issues raised by its contraceptive and criminal justice uses.
Depo-Provera is known as an injectable hormonal birth control method, but few are familiar with its dark and complicated history....
by Laura Vance
Language: English
Release Date: March 13, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: March 13, 2015
Women in New Religions offers an engaging look at women’s evolving place in the birth and development of new religious movements. It focuses on four disparate new religions—Mormonism, Seventh-day Adventism, The Family International, and Wicca—to illuminate their implications for gender socialization,...
The Practice of Islam in America
An Introduction
Language: English
Release Date: December 5, 2017
An introduction to the ways in which ordinary Muslim Americans practice their faith.
Muslims have always been part of the United States, but very little is known about how Muslim Americans practice their religion. How do they pray? What’s it like to go on pilgrimage to Mecca? What rituals...
America's Dark Theologian
The Religious Imagination of Stephen King
Language: English
Release Date: June 12, 2018
Illuminating the religious and existential themes in Stephen King’s horror stories
Who are we? Why are we here? Where do we go when we die? For answers to these questions, people often look to religion. But religion is not the only place seekers turn. Myths, legends, and other stories have...
Free Speech Beyond Words
The Surprising Reach of the First Amendment
Language: English
Release Date: February 14, 2017
A look at First Amendment coverage of music, non-representational art, and nonsense
The Supreme Court has unanimously held that Jackson Pollock’s paintings, Arnold Schöenberg’s music, and Lewis Carroll’s poem “Jabberwocky” are “unquestionably shielded” by the First Amendment....
Zero Tolerance
Quality of Life and the New Police Brutality in New York City
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2001
Amadou Diallo, Abner Louima, Anthony Baez, Patrick Dorismond. New York City has been rocked in recent years by the fate of these four men at the hands of the police. But police brutality in New York City is a multi-dimensional phenomenon that refers not only to the hyperviolent response of white male...
by Liam Downey
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2015
Winner, American Sociological Association Section on Environment and Technology Allan Schnaiberg Outstanding Publication Award
The world currently faces several severe social and environmental crises, including economic under-development, widespread poverty and hunger, lack of safe drinking...
Muscular Nationalism
Gender, Violence, and Empire in India and Ireland, 1914-2004
Language: English
Release Date: April 23, 2012
A particular dark triumph of modern nationalism has been its ability to persuade citizens to sacrifice their lives for a political vision forged by emotional ties to a common identity. Both men and women can respond to nationalistic calls to fight that portray muscular warriors defending their nation...
Money Talks
Speech, Economic Power, and the Values of Democracy
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2001
Many have argued that soft money and special interests are destroying the American electoral system. And yet the clarion call for campaign finance reform only touches on the more general belief that money and economic power have a disastrous impact on both free expression and American democracy. The...
The Politics of Latino Faith
Religion, Identity, and Urban Community
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2008
Pundits and commentators are constantly striving to understand the political behavior of Latinos—the largest minority in the United States and a key voting block. As Catherine E. Wilson makes clear in The Politics of Latino Faith, not only are Latinos a religious community, but their religious institutions,...
The Expeditions
An Early Biography of Muhammad
Language: English
Release Date: May 16, 2014
The Expeditions is one of the
oldest biographies of the Prophet Muhammad to survive into the modern era. Its
primary author, Ma'mar ibn Rashid (714-770 AD/96-153 AH), was a prominent
scholar from Basra in southern Iraq who was revered for his learning in
prophetic traditions, Islamic law, and the...
Scents and Flavors
A Syrian Cookbook
Language: English
Release Date: May 2, 2017
This popular 13th-century Syrian cookbook is an ode to what its anonymous author calls the “greater part of the pleasure of this life,” namely the consumption of food and drink, as well as the fragrances that garnish the meals and the diners who enjoy them. Collecting 635 meticulous recipes, Scents...
Was Blind, But Now I See
White Race Concsiousness and the Law
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 1997
"Race" does not speak to most white people. Rather, whites tend to associate race with people of color and to equate whiteness with racelessness. As Barbara J. Flagg demonstrates in this important book, this "transparency" phenomenon--the invisibility of whiteness to white people--...