American Academy of Religion

American Academy of Religion/Society of Biblical Literature Virtual Booth

Welcome to the virtual book exhibit for the Annual Meeting of the AAR/SBL. Use the coupon code SBL20 for 30% off.

Have a project you'd like to discuss? Several of our editors acquire books related to religion, biblical studies, and the ancient Near East.

Browse the Eisenbrauns AAR/SBL offerings here.

 

Visual Aggression

Images of Martyrdom in Late Medieval Germany

Assaf Pinkus

$109.95 | Hardcover Edition
ISBN: 978-0-271-08379-7
Coming in January

216 pages
8" × 10"
50 color/87 b&w illustrations
2021

Responding to the Sacred

An Inquiry into the Limits of Rhetoric

Edited by Michael Bernard-Donals and Kyle Jensen

$109.95 | Hardcover Edition
ISBN: 978-0-271-08957-7
Coming in April

256 pages
6" × 9"
8 b&w illustrations
2021

Rhetoric and the Dead Sea Scrolls

Purity, Covenant, and Strategy at Qumran

Bruce McComiskey

$99.95 | Hardcover Edition
ISBN: 978-0-271-09015-3
Coming in May

224 pages
6" × 9"
2 b&w illustrations
2021

Notre Dame Cathedral

Nine Centuries of History

Dany Sandron and Andrew Tallon, Translated by Andrew Tallon and Lindsay Cook

$34.95 | Paperback Edition
ISBN: 978-0-271-08622-4

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192 pages
7.5" × 7.5"
170 color illustrations
2020

Titian’s Icons

Tradition, Charisma, and Devotion in Renaissance Italy

Christopher J. Nygren

$99.95 | Hardcover Edition
ISBN: 978-0-271-08503-6

272 pages
9" × 10"
36 color/57 b&w illustrations
2020

Hebrew Psalms and the Utrecht Psalter

Veiled Origins

Pamela Berger

$135.00 | Hardcover Edition
ISBN: 978-0-271-08477-0

240 pages
8" × 10"
38 color/52 b&w illustrations
2020

Judaism, Race, and Ethics

Conversations and Questions

Edited by Jonathan K. Crane

$49.95 | Hardcover Edition
ISBN: 978-0-271-08580-7

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304 pages
6" × 9"
2020

Dimyonot: Jews and the Cultural Imagination

The Word in the Wilderness

Popular Piety and the Manuscript Arts in Early Pennsylvania

Alexander Lawrence Ames

$99.95 | Hardcover Edition
ISBN: 978-0-271-08590-6

$29.95 | Paperback Edition
ISBN: 978-0-271-08591-3
Coming in June

264 pages
6" × 9"
35 b&w illustrations
2020

Pietist, Moravian, and Anabaptist Studies

Songs of the Lisu Hills

Practicing Christianity in Southwest China

Aminta Arrington, and Foreword by Brian Stanley

$89.95 | Hardcover Edition
ISBN: 978-0-271-08507-4

$29.95 | Paperback Edition
ISBN: 978-0-271-08508-1
Coming in April

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256 pages
6" × 9"
14 b&w illustrations/4 maps
2020

World Christianity

Baptism Through Incision

The Postmortem Cesarean Operation in the Spanish Empire

Martha Few, Zeb Tortorici, Adam Warren, and Translated by Nina M. Scott

$19.95 | Paperback Edition
ISBN: 978-0-271-08607-1

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152 pages
5.5" × 8.5"
3 b&w illustrations/1 map
2020

Latin American Originals

Metanoia

Rhetoric, Authenticity, and the Transformation of the Self

Adam Ellwanger, Foreword by Pat J. Gehrke

$89.95 | Hardcover Edition
ISBN: 978-0-271-08592-0

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216 pages
6" × 9"
2020

Civil Religion in Modern Political Philosophy

Machiavelli to Tocqueville

Edited by Steven Frankel and Martin D. Yaffe

$99.95 | Hardcover Edition
ISBN: 978-0-271-08615-6

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256 pages
6" × 9"
2020

Truth in Many Tongues

Religious Conversion and the Languages of the Early Spanish Empire

Daniel I. Wasserman-Soler

$84.95 | Hardcover Edition
ISBN: 978-0-271-08599-9

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240 pages
6" × 9"
7 b&w illustrations
2020

Deep Knowledge

Ways of Knowing in Sufism and Ifa, Two West African Intellectual Traditions

Oludamini Ogunnaike

$149.95 | Hardcover Edition
ISBN: 978-0-271-08690-3

480 pages
7" × 10"
4 b&w illustrations
2020

Africana Religions

The Light in Their Consciences

Early Quakers in Britain, 1646–1666

Rosemary Moore

$29.95 | Paperback Edition
ISBN: 978-0-271-08589-0

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350 pages
6" × 9"
13 b&w illustrations
2020
Twentieth Anniversary Edition

The New History of Quakerism

Christian Intellectuals and the Roman Empire

From Justin Martyr to Origen

Jared Secord

$99.95 | Hardcover Edition
ISBN: 978-0-271-08707-8

214 pages
6" × 9"
2020

Inventing Christianity

The Nun in the Synagogue

Judeocentric Catholicism in Israel

Emma O’Donnell Polyakov

$74.95 | Hardcover Edition
ISBN: 978-0-271-08725-2

242 pages
6" × 9"
2020

Metaphysical Africa

Truth and Blackness in the Ansaru Allah Community

Michael Muhammad Knight

$124.95 | Hardcover Edition
ISBN: 978-0-271-08709-2

314 pages
6" × 9"
37 b&w illustrations
2020

Africana Religions

Pietism and the Sacraments

The Life and Theology of August Hermann Francke

Peter James Yoder

$89.95 | Hardcover Edition
ISBN: 978-0-271-08800-6
Coming in December

220 pages
6" × 9"
2020

Pietist, Moravian, and Anabaptist Studies

Drawing on Religion

Reading and the Moral Imagination in Comics and Graphic Novels

Ken Koltun-Fromm

$34.95 | Paperback Edition
ISBN: 978-0-271-08775-7
Coming in December

264 pages
7" × 10"
38 color/39 b&w illustrations
2020

The Retrospective Imagination of A. B. Yehoshua

Yael Halevi-Wise

$99.95 | Hardcover Edition
ISBN: 978-0-271-08785-6
Coming in December

226 pages
6" × 9"
10 maps
2020

Dimyonot: Jews and the Cultural Imagination

The Objects That Remain

Laura Levitt

$24.95 | Hardcover Edition
ISBN: 978-0-271-08782-5

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184 pages
6" × 8"
10 b&w illustrations
2020

Dimyonot: Jews and the Cultural Imagination

Picatrix

A Medieval Treatise on Astral Magic

Translated with an introduction by Dan Attrell and David Porreca

$39.95 | Hardcover Edition
ISBN: 978-0-271-08212-7

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384 pages
6.125" × 9.25"
31 b&w illustrations
2019

Magic in History

Hebrew Melodies

Heinrich Heine, Translated by Stephen Mitchell and by Jack Prelutsky, Illustrated by Mark Podwal, and Foreword by Elisheva Carlebach

$20.00 | Hardcover Edition
ISBN: 978-0-271-08480-0

120 pages
9.25" × 10.75"
40 color illustrations
2019

Dimyonot: Jews and the Cultural Imagination

Religion Around Virginia Woolf

Stephanie Paulsell

$79.95 | Hardcover Edition
ISBN: 978-0-271-08487-9

$24.95 | Paperback Edition
ISBN: 978-0-271-08488-6

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248 pages
5.5" × 8.5"
2019

Religion Around

Kenyan, Christian, Queer

Religion, LGBT Activism, and Arts of Resistance in Africa

Adriaan van Klinken

$89.95 | Hardcover Edition
ISBN: 978-0-271-08380-3

$29.95 | Paperback Edition
ISBN: 978-0-271-08381-0

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248 pages
6" × 9"
2019

Africana Religions

The Return of Carvajal

A Mystery

Ilan Stavans, Etchings by Eko

$19.95 | Hardcover Edition
ISBN: 978-0-271-08470-1

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112 pages
4" × 6"
14 b&w illustrations
2019

Us Two Together

Ephameron, Translated by Michele Hutchison

$29.95 | Hardcover Edition
ISBN: 978-0-271-08491-6

232 pages
7" × 9.5"
224 color illustrations
2019

Graphic Medicine

Religion Around Mary Shelley

Jennifer L. Airey

$79.95 | Hardcover Edition
ISBN: 978-0-271-08207-3

$24.95 | Paperback Edition
ISBN: 978-0-271-08382-7

240 pages
5.5" × 8.5"
2019

Religion Around

Disharmony of the Spheres

The Europe of Holbein’s Ambassadors

Jennifer Nelson

$99.95 | Hardcover Edition
ISBN: 978-0-271-08340-7

$34.95 | Paperback Edition
ISBN: 978-0-271-08341-4
Coming in December

216 pages
7" × 10"
19 color/24 b&w illustrations
2019

The Sacred and the Sinister

Studies in Medieval Religion and Magic

Edited by David J. Collins, S. J.

$74.95 | Hardcover Edition
ISBN: 978-0-271-08240-0

$39.95 | Paperback Edition
ISBN: 978-0-271-08241-7
Coming in December

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304 pages
6.125" × 9.25"
6 b&w illustrations
2019

Religion Around John Donne

Joshua Eckhardt

$49.95 | Hardcover Edition
ISBN: 978-0-271-08337-7

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208 pages
5.5" × 8.5"
2019

Religion Around

Pygmalion’s Power

Romanesque Sculpture, the Senses, and Religious Experience

Thomas E. A. Dale

$99.95 | Hardcover Edition
ISBN: 978-0-271-08345-2

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304 pages
9" × 10"
21 color/113 b&w illustrations
2019

The Long Life of Magical Objects

A Study in the Solomonic Tradition

Allegra Iafrate

$94.95 | Hardcover Edition
ISBN: 978-0-271-08366-7

$39.95 | Paperback Edition
ISBN: 978-0-271-08367-4
Coming in November

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248 pages
6.125" × 9.25"
19 b&w illustrations
2019

Magic in History

Religion Around Bono

Evangelical Enchantment and Neoliberal Capitalism

Chad E. Seales

$32.95 | Hardcover Edition
ISBN: 978-0-271-08489-3

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200 pages
5.5" × 8.5"
2019

Religion Around

Christians in Caesar’s Household

The Emperors’ Slaves in the Makings of Christianity

Michael Flexsenhar III

$89.95 | Hardcover Edition
ISBN: 978-0-271-08233-2

$29.95 | Paperback Edition
ISBN: 978-0-271-08234-9

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208 pages
6" × 9"
17 b&w illustrations/2 maps
2019

Inventing Christianity

The Book of Sarah

Sarah Lightman

$25.95 | Hardcover Edition
ISBN: 978-0-271-08473-2

240 pages
6.7" × 9.4"
240 color illustrations
2019
Co-published with Myriad Editions

Graphic Medicine

Joan of Arc in the English Imagination, 1429–1829

Gail Orgelfinger

$89.95 | Hardcover Edition
ISBN: 978-0-271-08218-9

$34.95 | Paperback Edition
ISBN: 978-0-271-08219-6

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248 pages
6" × 9"
17 b&w illustrations/1 map
2019

War and Memory at the Time of the Fifth Crusade

Megan Cassidy-Welch

$84.95 | Hardcover Edition
ISBN: 978-0-271-08352-0

$39.95 | Paperback Edition
ISBN: 978-0-271-08353-7
Coming in April

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216 pages
6" × 9"
4 b&w illustrations/3 maps
2019

Idolizing Mary

Maya-Catholic Icons in Yucatán, Mexico

Amara Solari

$99.95 | Hardcover Edition
ISBN: 978-0-271-08332-2

200 pages
7" × 10"
22 color/23 b&w illustrations/3 maps
2019

Life Support

Invitation to Prayer

Judith Cohen Margolis

$21.95 | Hardcover Edition
ISBN: 978-0-271-08373-5

96 pages
4" × 6"
9 color/21 b&w illustrations
2019

Graphic Medicine

Afro-Catholic Festivals in the Americas

Performance, Representation, and the Making of Black Atlantic Tradition

Edited by Cécile Fromont

$89.95 | Hardcover Edition
ISBN: 978-0-271-08329-2

$29.95 | Paperback Edition
ISBN: 978-0-271-08330-8
Coming in May

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224 pages
6" × 9"
10 color/6 b&w illustrations
2019

Africana Religions

Polemical Encounters

Christians, Jews, and Muslims in Iberia and Beyond

Edited by Mercedes García-Arenal and Gerard Wiegers

$149.95 | Hardcover Edition
ISBN: 978-0-271-08121-2

$44.95 | Paperback Edition
ISBN: 978-0-271-08122-9

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440 pages
6" × 9"
6 b&w illustrations
2019

Iberian Encounter and Exchange, 475–1755

Making Magic in Elizabethan England

Two Early Modern Vernacular Books of Magic

Edited by Frank Klaassen

$89.95 | Hardcover Edition
ISBN: 978-0-271-08368-1

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160 pages
6.125" × 9.25"
66 b&w illustrations
2019

Magic in History

The Writings of Elizabeth Webb

A Quaker Missionary in America, 1697–1726

Edited by Rachel Cope and Zachary McLeod Hutchins

$99.95 | Hardcover Edition
ISBN: 978-0-271-08222-6

$24.95 | Paperback Edition
ISBN: 978-0-271-08223-3

240 pages
6" × 9"
2019

Queering Mennonite Literature

Archives, Activism, and the Search for Community

Daniel Shank Cruz

$84.95 | Hardcover Edition
ISBN: 978-0-271-08245-5

$24.95 | Paperback Edition
ISBN: 978-0-271-08244-8

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184 pages
6" × 9"
2019

The Francis Daniel Pastorius Reader

Writings by an Early American Polymath

Patrick Erben, Alfred Brophy, and Margo Lambert

$99.95 | Hardcover Edition
ISBN: 978-0-271-08328-5

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480 pages
7" × 10"
10 b&w illustrations
2019

Max Kade Research Institute: Germans Beyond Europe

Jews in China

Cultural Conversations, Changing Perceptions

Irene Eber, and Edited with an introduction by Kathryn Hellerstein

$89.95 | Hardcover Edition
ISBN: 978-0-271-08496-1

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276 pages
6" × 9"
2019

Dimyonot: Jews and the Cultural Imagination

Jewish Literary Cultures

Volume 2, The Medieval and Early Modern Periods

David Stern

$99.95 | Hardcover Edition
ISBN: 978-0-271-08483-1

308 pages
6" × 9"
4 color/62 b&w illustrations
2019

Ecological Solidarities

Mobilizing Faith and Justice for an Entangled World

Edited by Krista E. Hughes, Dhawn B. Martin, and Elaine Padilla

$89.95 | Hardcover Edition
ISBN: 978-0-271-08462-6

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248 pages
6" × 9"
4 color/2 b&w illustrations
2019

World Christianity

Don Quixote of La Mancha

Miguel de Cervantes, Adapted by Ilan Stavans, and Illustrated by Roberto Weil

$16.95 | Paperback Edition
ISBN: 978-0-271-08231-8

128 pages
8.5" × 10.5"
120 color illustrations
2018

Apocalypse Illuminated

The Visual Exegesis of Revelation in Medieval Illustrated Manuscripts

Richard K. Emmerson

$59.95 | Hardcover Edition
ISBN: 978-0-271-07865-6

288 pages
9" × 10"
37 color/63 b&w illustrations
2018

Don Quixote of La Mancha

(in Spanglish)

Miguel de Cervantes, Adapted by Ilan Stavans, and Illustrated by Roberto Weil

$16.95 | Paperback Edition
ISBN: 978-0-271-08230-1

136 pages
8.5" × 10.5"
120 color illustrations
2018

To Heaven or to Hell

Bartolomé de Las Casas’s Confesionario

David Thomas Orique, O.P.

$24.95 | Paperback Edition
ISBN: 978-0-271-08098-7

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152 pages
5.5" × 8.5"
4 b&w illustrations/1 map
2018

Latin American Originals

Religion Around Billie Holiday

Tracy Fessenden

$34.95 | Hardcover Edition
ISBN: 978-0-271-08095-6

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280 pages
5.5" × 8.5"
2018

Religion Around

The Letters of Mary Penry

A Single Moravian Woman in Early America

Edited by Scott Paul Gordon

$84.95 | Hardcover Edition
ISBN: 978-0-271-08108-3

$24.95 | Paperback Edition
ISBN: 978-0-271-08109-0

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320 pages
6" × 9"
7 b&w illustrations
2018

Pietist, Moravian, and Anabaptist Studies

The Powerless Church and Other Selected Writings, 1955–1985

Ivan Illich, Foreword by Giorgio Agamben, and Assembled by Valentina Borremans and Sajay Samuel

$79.95 | Hardcover Edition
ISBN: 978-0-271-08228-8

$29.95 | Paperback Edition
ISBN: 978-0-271-08229-5

192 pages
5.5" × 8.5"
2018

Ivan Illich: 21st-Century Perspectives

The Quakers, 1656–1723

The Evolution of an Alternative Community

By Richard C. Allen and Rosemary Moore

$39.95 | Hardcover Edition
ISBN: 978-0-271-08120-5

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360 pages
6" × 9"
2018

The New History of Quakerism

The Anglican Communion at a Crossroads

The Crises of a Global Church

Christopher Craig Brittain and Andrew McKinnon

$99.95 | Hardcover Edition
ISBN: 978-0-271-08089-5

$29.95 | Paperback Edition
ISBN: 978-0-271-08090-1

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264 pages
6" × 9"
2018

German Pietism and the Problem of Conversion

Jonathan Strom

$89.95 | Hardcover Edition
ISBN: 978-0-271-07934-9

$34.95 | Paperback Edition
ISBN: 978-0-271-07935-6

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240 pages
6" × 9"
1 b&w illustration
2018

Pietist, Moravian, and Anabaptist Studies

Milton and the Parables of Jesus

Self-Representation and the Bible in John Milton’s Writings

David V. Urban

$89.95 | Hardcover Edition
ISBN: 978-0-271-08099-4

$34.95 | Paperback Edition
ISBN: 978-0-271-08505-0

328 pages
6" × 9"
2018

Medieval & Renaissance Literary Studies

Medicine, Religion, and Magic in Early Stuart England

Richard Napier's Medical Practice

Ofer Hadass

$89.95 | Hardcover Edition
ISBN: 978-0-271-08018-5

$34.95 | Paperback Edition
ISBN: 978-0-271-08019-2

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232 pages
6.125" × 9.25"
10 b&w illustrations
2018

Magic in History

The Icon and the Square

Russian Modernism and the Russo-Byzantine Revival

Maria Taroutina

$89.95 | Hardcover Edition
ISBN: 978-0-271-08104-5

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288 pages
9" × 10"
51 color/65 b&w illustrations
2018

The Human Spirit

Beginnings from Genesis to Science

Marjorie O’Rourke Boyle

$104.95 | Hardcover Edition
ISBN: 978-0-271-08204-2

$44.95 | Paperback Edition
ISBN: 978-0-271-08205-9

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344 pages
6" × 9"
1 b&w illustration
2018

Temperance and Cosmopolitanism

African American Reformers in the Atlantic World

Carole Lynn Stewart

$124.00 | Hardcover Edition
ISBN: 978-0-271-08203-5

$32.95 | Paperback Edition
ISBN: 978-0-271-09023-8
Coming in March

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232 pages
6" × 9"
2018

Africana Religions

Defending the Faith

John Jewel and the Elizabethan Church

Edited by Angela Ranson, André A. Gazal, and Sarah Bastow

$129.95 | Hardcover Edition
ISBN: 978-0-271-08208-0

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352 pages
6" × 9"
2018

Early Modern Studies

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Assistant Director, Editor-in-Chief acquires in the areas of animal studies and graphic studies. Her book series include Animalibus: Of Animals and Culture, AnthropoScene: The SLSA Book Series and Graphic Medicine.

Executive Editor acquires in the areas of art and architectural history, visual culture, history of photography, medieval and early modern studies, occultism and esoterism, Iberian and Latin American history and culture. Her book series include Buildings, Landscapes, and Societies; Iberian Encounter and Exchange, 475–1755; Latin American Originals; Magic in History; Magic in History Sourcebooks; and Refiguring Modernism

Acquisitions Editor acquires in the areas of Pennsylvania and mid-Atlantic history, regional studies and regional trade, religious studies, interdisciplinary literary studies, and sensory studies. Her series include Inventing Christianity; Religion Around; The Max Kade Research Institute Series: Germans beyond Europe; Keystone Books; Pietist, Moravian, and Anabaptist Studies; Cultural Inquiries in English Literature, 1400–1700; World Christianity; and Perspectives on Sensory History.

Acquisitions Editor acquires for the Eisenbrauns imprint in the areas of ancient Near East, biblical studies, ancient Near Eastern languages and linguistics, and archaeology. See the full list of series published by Eisenbrauns here

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