Combating Hate

A Framework for Direct Action

Billie Murray

“Combating Hate takes up the vital task of showing how our current methods of responding to hate are hurting our democracy. By using a thoughtful and effective form of scholar-activism, Murray weaves together a rich, firsthand account of the central political confrontations of our moment and teaches us how to develop practical, theoretically sophisticated ways to effectively respond to hate. This is the kind of scholarship that can help save democracy.”—Robert Danisch, coauthor of Beyond Civility: The Competing Obligations of Citizenship

On Expertise

Cultivating Character, Goodwill, and Practical Wisdom

Ashley Rose Mehlenbacher

“On Expertise is an important and well-executed project, combining theoretical discussions with qualitative data collections such as surveys and interviews to answer the question of whether we can change the public’s attitude toward expertise and its ability to participate in discourses of expertise for the better. With cautious optimism, it enters into a crisis with a long and sordid history of a public’s deep distrust and skepticism.”—E. Johanna Hartelius, author of The Gifting Logos: Expertise in the Digital Commons

Herrnhut

The Formation of a Moravian Community, 1722–1732

Paul Peucker

“How Zinzendorf and his community should be assessed was not only a matter of contention among his contemporaries but has remained controversial in research until today. Paul Peucker’s book represents a significant advance in scholarship on this array of questions, thanks to his unparalleled familiarity with the handwritten documents and the print sources.”—Hans Schneider, author of German Radical Pietism

Reading Mennonite Writing

A Study in Minor Transnationalism

Robert Zacharias

“Robert Zacharias demonstrates a truly impressive knowledge of the history of Mennonite publishing and reception. Extremely well read in a wide variety of Mennonite literary genres—what he terms a minor literature—he does valuable work in positioning this literature as fully engaged with transnational concerns and in attending to forgotten or neglected works within the field, while simultaneously positioning them alongside better- or well-known texts.”—Grace Kehler, McMaster University

American Affairs calls David Cayley’s Ivan Illich “a crucial contribution to Illich’s rediscovery.”

Nonsite.org says of Molly Warnock’s Simon Hantaï and the Reserves of Painting: “Hantaï’s work, as Warnock’s book demonstrates, is indispensable for grasping the later emergence of the theoretical object in art writing.”

The article “Disrupting the Present and Opening the Future: Extinction Rebellion, Fridays For Future, and the Disruptive Utopian Method” is open access! Click here to view the article.

Journal for the History of Rhetoric published its first issue with us! The article “Excessively Harsh Critique and Democratic Rhetoric: The Enigma of Bhimrao Ambedkar’s Riddles in Hinduism” is open access until August 9.

Elephantine Revisited

New Insights into the Judean Community and Its Neighbors

Edited by Margaretha Folmer

The Judean community at Elephantine has long fascinated historians of the Persian period. This book, with its stellar assemblage of important scholarly voices, provides substantive new insights and approaches that will advance the study of this well-known but not entirely understood community from fifth-century BCE Egypt.

Classical Samaritan Poetry

Laura Suzanne Lieber

This book introduces the evocative but largely unknown tradition of Samaritan religious poetry from late antiquity to a new audience. These verses provide a unique window into the Samaritan religious world during a formative period.

6,000 Miles to Freedom

Two Boys and Their Flight from the Taliban

Stéphane Marchetti, Illustrated by Cyrille Pomès

Two boys. One war-torn country. A world away, freedom.

Hakim’s Odyssey Book 2

From Turkey to Greece

Fabien Toulmé

“An incredible story about maintaining hope despite facing overwhelming odds.”—starred review, Foreword Reviews