Queering Black Atlantic Religions
“[Strongman] challenges Christianity’s dominance over incarnational theology while considering how trance possession is an avenue to think about the porous nature of the human and the divine . . . his book is a necessary read that contributes to the growing body of scholarship on gender and sexuality in African diasporic religions.” - Eziaku Nwokocha
The Fame of C. S. Lewis
“. . . Derrick’s reading of Lewis’ fame against the religious context in which he was read is fresh and invigorating. . . . [she] has given us a striking and important study. It should find a wide readership among historians of Christianity and of 20th-century literature, as well as those interested in the history of the media. Well written, generously produced, and reasonably priced, it deserves an audience outside the academy.” - Peter Webster
Image, Action, and Idea in Contemporary Jewish Art
“By unpacking notions of work, action, and labor in relationship to art, art criticism, and Judaism, Schachter’s bright yellow monograph explores and complicates relationships and relationality that have long been accepted, and yet, unchallenged.” - Madison Tarleton
Morality and Monastic Revival in Post-Mao Tibet
“What is most exciting is the analytical challenge that Caple offers to any binary understanding of People’s Republic of China/monastic relationships. . . . Instead, the purpose of this book is to highlight the complicated dance between individuals, communities, and state representatives—the picture of which is never monolithic or simplistic.” - Caroline Sharkey
Martin Buber
“Mendes-Flohr’s Buber is no two-dimensional icon of tranquil encounter with the other. His was a life of Vergegnung, “mismeeting,” as much as anything else. . . . [He] excels as Buber’s most self-conscious biographer, aiming for points of contention and not ignoring them or wishing them away. This title in Yale’s impressive Jewish Lives series . . . points to a life of faith and dissent, still enigmatic, now more engaging.” - Peter A. Huff
