2013 Religion Catalog

7/30/2019 2013 Religion Catalog

1/8

StanfordUniversity Press

New and

Forthcoming from

Stanford University Press

20% discount

on all titles

Religion


2/8

2 Cultural Memory in the Present

Outlaw JusticeTe Messianic Politicsof Paul

Teodore W. Jennings, Jr.

While theologians generally acceptthat Pauls letter to the Romans isconcerned with law and justice, theyusually ocus on the individual be-lievers relation to God rather than onpolitical issues. In contrast, this bookoers a close reading o Romans thattreats Paul as a radical political thinkerby showing the relationship betweenPauls perspective and that o secularpolitical theorists. urning to bothancient political philosophers (Plato,Aristotle, and Cicero) and contempo-rary post-Marxists (Agamben, Badiou,Derrida, and iek), Jennings presentsRomans as a sustained argumentor a new sort o political thinkingconcerned with the possibility and

constitution o just socialities.Jennings presents a bold and importantcommentary on Pauls letter to theRomans. It emerges at a time whenphilosophical discussions o biblicaltexts have become both remarkablycommon and remarkably signicantbearers o pressing contemporary intel-lectual problems. This book is timely,provocative, and original.

Ward Blanton, University of Kent

264 pp., 20139780804785174 Paper $23.95 $19.16 sale9780804785167 Cloth $85.00 $68.00 sale

In the Selfs PlaceTe Approach ofSaint Augustine

Jean-Luc Marionranslated by Jerey L. KoskyAn original phenomenological read-ing o Augustine that considers hisengagement with notions o identityin Confessions. Using the Augustinianexperience oconfessio, Jean-LucMarion develops a model o selood

that examines this experience inlight o the whole o the Augustiniancorpus. owards this end, Marionengages with noteworthy modern andpostmodern analyses o Augustinesmost experiential work, includingthe critical commentaries o JacquesDerrida, Martin Heidegger, and Lud-wig Wittgenstein. Marion ultimatelyconcludes that Augustine has precededpostmodernity in exploring an excesso the sel over and beyond itsel, and

in using this alterity o the sel to itsel,as a driving orce or creative relationswith God, the world, and others.

In the Selfs Place engages with Augus-tines Confessions, one o the incompa-rable texts that open the intellectualand religious space we call the West.Here Marion continues his critiques othe sel and metaphysics, his analysis opraise, and his bold case or the univoc-ity o love. A major achievement!

Kevin Hart, University of Virginia448 pp., 20129780804762915 Paper $25.95 $20.76 sale9780804762908 Cloth $90.00 $72.00 sale

ANNOUNCING ITS RE-RELEASE

WITH A NEW PREFACE BY THEAUTHOR

Being Givenoward a Phenomenologyof Givenness

Jean-Luc Marionranslated by Jerey L. KoskyAlong with Husserls Ideas andHeideggers Being and ime, BeingGiven is one o the classic works o

phenomenology in the twentiethcentury. Trough readings o Kant,Husserl, Heidegger, Derrida, andtwentieth-century French phe-nomenology (e.g., Merleau-Ponty,Levinas, and Henry), it venturesa bold and decisive reappraisal ophenomenology and its possibilities.

Simply dazzling: it is a work o tre-mendous depth and highly originalthought. . . . Its amazing how much

Marion . . . has changed the landscapeo phenomenologyor what we onthis side o the Atlantic call continen-tal philosophy o religion.

The Christian Century

A major event in contemporary phe-nomenology, which will be a majorsource o debate and inspirationor contemporary philosophy andtheology.

The Years Work in Critical and

Cultural Theory



3/8

3Cultural Memory in the Present

A Systems Teoryof ReligionNiklas LuhmannEdited by Andr Kieserlingranslated by David A. Brennerwith Adrian HermannSynthesizing approaches as disparateas the philosophy o language,historical linguistics, deconstruction,and ormal systems theory/cybernet-

ics,A Systems Teory of Religion takeson important topics that range romreligions meaning and evolution tosecularization, turning decades o so-ciological assumptions on their head.It provides us with a resh vocabularyand a resh philosophical and socio-logical approach to one o societysmost undamental phenomena.

This posthumously published book byNiklas Luhmann is arguably one o the

most important works in the sociol-ogy and philosophy o religion o thelast hundred years. It can only be com-pared in signicance and scope to theworks o Rudol Otto, Mary Douglas,Ren Girard, mile Durkheim, Max We-ber, and Claude Lvi-Strauss. It is not

just original, but also generative andindispensable: uture discussions willhave to reer to it, and it will becomede rigueurand uncircumventable.

Eduardo Mendieta, Stony Brook University


Teory of Society,Volume 1Niklas Luhmannranslated by Rhodes BarrettTis rst volume o Luhmannstwo-part nal work was initiallypublished in German in 1997. Teculmination o his thirty-yeartheoretical project to reconceptualizesociology, it oers a comprehensivedescription o modern society on

a scale not attempted since alcottParsons. Beginning with an accounto the uidity o meaning and theaccordingly high improbability osuccessul communication, Luhmannanalyzes a range o communicativemedia, including language, writing,the printing press, and electronicmedia as well as success media,such as money, power, truth, and love,all o which structure this uidityand make communication possible.

Niklas Luhmanns membership inthe canon o genuinely original andcomprehensive social theorists isradiantly evident. Together with thato Simmel, Durkheim, Weber, Mead,and Parsons, his work stands as oneo the monumental achievements otwentieth-century sociology. With theEnglish publication oTheory of Society,Luhmanns magnum opus is nallyavailable to a global readership.

David Wellbery, University of Chicago488 pp., 20129780804739504 Paper $27.95 $22.36 sale9780804739498 Cloth $85.00 $68.00 sale

Walter BenjaminImages, the Creaturely,and the Holy

Sigrid Weigelranslated by Chadwickruscott SmithArguing that the importance opainting and other visual art orBenjamins epistemology has yet tobe appreciated, Weigel undertakesthe rst systematic analysis o their

signicance to his thought. She doesso by exploring Benjamins dialecticso secularization, an approach thatallows Benjamin to explore thesimultaneous distance rom andorientation towards revelation and todeal with the dierence and tensionsbetween religious and proane ideas.

Weigels readings, which are steepedin philological detail and hermeneuticinsight, brilliantly exhibit the stakes

involved in approaching Benjaminswork anew. Her impeccable sense orintertextual trajectories coupled withbroad erudition not only results insophisticated exegeses, but also amplydemonstrate the continued i not ur-gent relevance o Benjamins interven-tions or our current intellectual andcultural concerns.

John T. Hamilton, Harvard University

320 pp., 17 illustrations, 2013

9780804780605 Paper $26.95 $21.56 sale9780804780599 Cloth $85.00 $68.00 sale


4/8

Religion4 Cultural Memoryin the Present

Te Sparks ofRandomness,Volume 2Te Atheism of Scripture

Henri Atlanranslated by Lenn J.SchrammIn this second volume Henri Atlanpursues his investigation o humanlie, which he grounds in a distinctiveintermingling o the biological and

cognitive sciences and traditions oJewish thought. Te Atheism of Scrip-ture oers up a paradox: its audaciousthesis is that the Word or revealedscripture can be better understoodwithout God. It must be decrypted oranalyzed atheistically, that is, not asdivine revelation, but in and o itsel.

Henri Atlan has undoubtedly be-come a great scholar and importantinternational gure in the academic

community. His approach to texts isoriginal and stimulating, his ideas bothlucid and insightul. He has writtenmany volumes on a variety o subjects,but this one has special meaning dueto the convulsions society has beenundergoing in recent years. The bookis steeped in psychology and religion,biology and sociology, mysticism andethos. Drawing rom Talmudic sourcesbut also rom secular ones, it is sure tond appeal in many circles.

Elie Wiesel408 pp., 3 tables, 7 fgures, 20139780804761352 Paper $29.95 $23.96 sale9780804761345 Cloth $90.00 $72.00 sale

Contemplative NationA Philosophical Accountof Jewish TeologicalLanguage

Cass Fisher

This book is a must or all serious schol-ars o hermeneutics, the philosophy oreligion, rabbinics, and modern Jewishphilosophy.Norbert Samuelson, Arizona State University

This work is a highly original and mostsignicant deense o Jewish theology asintegral to Jewish religious lie. It shouldchange the way we think about Jewishtheology and about theology in general.

Jerome Gellman,

Ben-Gurion University of the Negev

320 pp., 20129780804776646 Cloth $60.00 $48.00 sale

Nathan Birnbaum

and Jewish ModernityArchitect of Zionism,Yiddishism, and Orthodoxy

Jess Olson

A detailed account o this mercurial andcelebrated gure. A persuasive case ora reconsideration o Birnbaums placein the pantheon o European Jewishideologues, publicists, and activists.

David Rechter, University of Oxford

Stanford Studies in Jewish History and Culture408 pp., 8 illustrations, 20139780804778732 Cloth $65.00 $52.00 sale

Pledges of JewishAllegianceConversion, Law, andPolicymaking in Nineteenth-and wentieth-CenturyOrthodox Responsa

David Ellenson and Daniel Gordis

A concise, timely, and well-researchedsurvey o modern Jewish conversionlaw, and the politics that underlie it. By

tracing a wide range o Jewish legaldecisions in dierent countries overtwo centuries, Ellenson and Gordisunderscore the importance o contextand biography in the shaping o Jewishlaw. A miracle o compression and clarity,this book provides the background orpolicies aecting the lives o hundreds othousands o Jews and would-be Jewsthroughout the world.

Jonathan D. Sarna, Brandeis University

Stanford Studies in Jewish History and Culture216 pp., 20129780804778053 Cloth $30.00 $24.00 sale

Te ZoharPritzker Edition,Volume Sevenranslation and Commentaryby Daniel C. Matt

A monumental contribution to the his-tory o Jewish thought.

Koret Jewish Book AwardThe Zohar: Pritzker Edition608 pp., 20129780804783057 Cloth $55.00 $44.00 sale


5/8

5Encountering Traditions | RaceReligion

AVAILABLE IN MAY 2013

Te Reconstruction of ReligiousTought in IslamMuhammad Iqbal

Te Reconstruction of Religious Tought in Islam (1930) is Muhammad Iqbals majorphilosophic work: a series o proound reections on the perennial conict amongscience, religion, and philosophy, culminating in new visions o the unity o humanknowledge, o the human spirit, and o God. Iqbals thought contributed signicant-ly to the establishment o Pakistan, to the religious and political ideals o the IranianRevolution, and to the survival o Muslim identity in parts o the ormer USSR. Itnow serves as new bridge between East and West and between Islam and the otherReligions o the Book. With a new Introduction by Javed Majeed, this edition o TeReconstruction opens the teachings o Iqbal to the modern, Western reader. It will beessential reading or all those interested in Islamic intellectual history, the renewal oIslam in the modern world, and political theory o Islams relationship to the West.


Encountering Traditions is a venue or authors to

critically and unapologetically examine any one o

the Abrahamic scriptural traditions or to compare

encounters between them. The series charts the

dynamic ways traditions encounter one another in

an ever-changing, post-secular world. Attention to

tradition and context will allow authors to tap the

energies o aith and reason, texts and history, theol-

ogy and anthropology in the service o scholarship.

EncounteringTraditionsEdited by Stanley Hauerwas,

Peter Ochs, Maria Dakake, and

Randi Rashkover

Forthcoming from the series

include titles by:

Francis X. Clooney, David Novak,

and James Richard Wetzel.

Introducing Two New Series

RaceReligionpublishes historical/genealogical,

ethnographic, and theoretical work that ocuses on

the complex relationship between race and religion.

The series examines the paradoxical conditions

under which the postcolony and empire have come

to co-exist with new master narratives generated

by global capitalism and new orms o democratic

and secularist discourses by highlighting modern

conuences o racial and religious ormation.

RaceReligionEdited by David Kyuman Kim,

John L. Jackson, Jr.,

and Rudy V. Busto

Look out for forthcoming titles!

"Given Iqbal's indisputable

signifcance as a modern

Muslim thinker, the

Stanord edition o

his Reconstruction will

introduce his thought to

a wide audience both in

academe and among the

general public in the West.

It bids air to become a

milestone in the history o

Iqbal studies."

Mustansir Mir,Youngstown State University


6/8

6 Religion

Race and PoliticalTeologyEdited by Vincent W. LloydIn this volume, senior scholars cometogether to explore how Jewish andArican American experiences canmake us think dierently about thenexus o religion and politics, orpolitical theology. Some wrestle withhistorical gures, such as WilliamShakespeare, W. E. B. Du Bois, Nazi

journalist Wilhelm Stapel, and Austrianhistorian Otto Brunner. Others ponderwhat political theology can contributeto contemporary politics, particularlyrelating to Israels complicated reli-gious/racial/national identity and to thereligious currents in Arican Americanpolitics. Race and Political Teologyopens novel avenues or research inintellectual history, religious studies,political theory, and cultural studies,showing how timely questions about

religion and politics must be reramedwhen race is taken into account.

This impressive and timely volume aimsto correct the omission o race as anorienting actor in political-theologicaldiscussion, thus reinvigorating bothrace theory and political theology.It does an excellent job staking outsome o the key claims about theorigins, uses, and destinies o religionin liberal and post-liberal politics.

Julia Reinhard Lupton,

University of California, Irvine264 pp., 20129780804773157 Paper $22.95 $18.36 sale9780804773140 Cloth $65.00 $52.00 sale

REISSUEd WITH A NEW INTROdUCTION

Te Emergence ofModern AfghanistanPolitics of Reform andModernization

Vartan Gregorian

In this reissue, Vartan Gregorian oersa new introduction that places the keythemes o the book in the context ocontemporary events, addressing ques-

tions o tribalism, nationalism, Islam,and modernization, as well as thelegacies o the Cold War and the vari-ous exit strategies o occupying powers.Te book remains as distinctive todayas when it was rst published. It is theonly broad work on Aghan historythat considers ethnicity as the den-ing inuence over the course o thecountrys history, rather than religion.In light o todays ongoing struggle to

develop a coherent national identity,the question o Aghan nationalismremains a particularly signicant issue.

Gregorian has produced a major worko scholarship, which in one volumeprovides us with what may well be thedenitive survey o the rise o modernAghanistan . . . . No ner scholarshipcombining a ar-reaching and balancedperspective with detailed and careulscrutinycould have been asked or.

The American Historical Review680 pp., 3 tables, 16 illustrations, 2 maps, 20139780804783002 Paper $34.95 $27.96 sale9780804782999 Cloth $100.00 $80.00 sale

ell Tis in MyMemoryStories of Enslavementfrom Egypt, Sudan, and theOttoman Empire

Eve M. routt Powell

ell Tis in My Memoryopens up anew window in the study o slaveryin the modern Middle East, taking uppersonal narratives o slaves and slave

owners to shed light on the anxietiesand intimacies o personal experi-ence. Te ramework o racial identityconstructed through these storiesproves instrumental in explaininghow countries later conrontedornotthe legacy o the slave trade.oday, these vocabularies o slaverylive on or contemporary reugeeswhose orced migrations ofenreplicate the journeys and stigmas

aced by slaves in the 19th century.Troutt Powell weaves a moving andevocative tapestry, employing mul-tiple perspectives o the enslaved aswell as slaveholders. Her analysis othe conditions o enslavement as wellas the challenging processes throughwhich those conditions becomeknown is nothing short o brilliant.

Michael Gomez, New York University

264 pp., 2012

9780804782333 Cloth $40.00 $32.00 sale


7/8

ExaminationCopy Policy

NOW AVAILABLE: e-COPY

To order a digital examinationcopy, go to the book's page on

www.sup.org and clickRequest Examination Copy.

This service is free andno invoice will accompanyyour order.

I you wish to receive a hard

copy o a book, please mailor ax your request on yourdepartments letterhead,speciying the title o your

course, your expected enroll-ment, the semester or quar-ter in which the course willbe oered, the course level(undergraduate or graduate),

and the titles o any text-books that you currently use.

We allow instructors 90days to consider any title or

potential course adoption.Your examination copy will be

ollowed by an invoice, oer-ing a 20% academic discount

(plus shipping charges) thatis payable within 90 days. Ian adoption notifcation isreceived within that 90 dayperiod, your invoice will be

cancelled. Otherwise, youmay return the copy to ourwarehouse, or purchase it oryour own use.

Mail to:Examination CopyStanord University Press1450 Page Mill Road

Palo Alto, CA 94304

Fax to:(650) 736-1784

Receive a 20% discount onall titles listed in this catalog.Use the ollowing code toredeem this ofer on hard-cover and paperback editions:

S13REL.Please order by phone oronline. Call 800-621-2736,or visit www.sup.org.

Phone orders are acceptedMondayFriday,8:00 am to 5:00 pm CT.

Promotional Discount Code: S13REL.

Orders must be prepaid or charged on

VISA, MasterCard, Discover Card, orAmerican Express (libraries excepted).

Books not yet published or temporarily

out o stock will be charged to your credit

card when the book becomes available

and is in the process o being shipped.

Stanord University Press books are

distributed by the University o Chicago

Press Distribution Center. Shipping &

Handling $5.00; outside the United

States $8.50; add $1.00/$8.50 or each

additional book.

Ordering

7Religion

20% discount on all

titles. Use the code

s13REL to redeem this

ofer on print books.

Most SUP titles are

available as e-books via our

website or your avorite

e-reading platorm. Visit

www.sup.org/ebooks

or a complete list o

oerings, as well as e-bookrental and bundle options.

Silencing the SeaSecular Rhythms inPalestinian Poetry

Khaled Furani

Silencing the Sea ollows Palestinianpoets debates about their craf asthey traverse multiple and competingrealities o secularism and religion,expulsion and occupation, art, poli-tics, immortality, death, ame, andobscurity. Tis excursion oers new-ound understandings o how todayssecular age goes ar beyond doctrine,to inhabit our very senses, imbuingall that we see, hear, eel, and say.

A wonderul ethnography o contem-porary Arabic poetry. Khaled Furanihas made a signicant contributionto a relatively neglected territory inthe study o the secular. Silencing theSea enlarges our understanding o theway modern pressures and seductionshave led to the undermining o oldersensibilities and the ormation o new,and o how this process is refected inArabic poetry. This not simply a bookor literary specialists, but or anyoneinterested in thinking about the dier-ent dimensions o secular experience.

Talal Asad, The City University of New York

312 pp., 20129780804776462 Cloth $55.00 $44.00 sale


8/8

StanfordUniversityPress

145

0PageMillRoad

PaloAlto,

CA94304-1

124

FollowusonTwitter:

@

stanfordpress

LikeusonFacebook:

www.sup.org/facebook

Rea

dourPressBlog:

htt

p://stanfordpress.t

ypepad.com

20

%Discountonalltitles

Visitoure-bookstor

eat

www.sup.org/ebooks

Documents

2013 Religion Catalog