We are excited to join you in person in Denver for the 2022 American Academy of Religion-Society for Biblical Literature annual conference! Executive Editor Courtney Berger will be on site. Come find us in the exhibit hall to browse new books and journal issues at booth 624.
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We will miss meeting with authors, editors, and friends of the Press in person at the American Academy of Religion/Society for Biblical Literature joint annual conference, but we look forward to connecting with you all virtually. Until December 31, 2021, save 40% on books and journal issues with coupon code AAR21 when you order on our website. Customers in the UK and Europe can order books with this code from our UK partner, Combined Academic Publishers.
Registered attendees can find our listing on the conference website. For highlights of our newest titles in religious studies, see below for our religious studies digital catalog and check out our conference landing page. And browse all books and journals in religious studies here.
Assistant Editor Sandra Y. L. Korn has a brief welcome for AAR/SBL attendees.
Assistant Editor Sandra Korn
I am sorry not to be joining those of you who are gathering in person in San Antonio, but I am looking forward to joining in virtual sessions! I am particularly excited about scholarship in decolonial studies of religion, political theology, and queer and trans studies in religion. If you’d like to meet with me to discuss your book proposal, I’d be glad to set up a zoom or phone conversation in the weeks following the conference – just send me an email at sandra.korn@dukeupress.edu.
You can find DUP authors in multiple panels around the conference!:
The Theology and Religious Reflection Unit will be discussing R.A. Judy’s Sentient Flesh in a virtual panel, Tuesday, November 23 at 9:30am EST.
Todne Thomas will be presenting Kincraftin the in-person plenary session, “What Just Happened? Religion, American Politics and Our Collective Future” on Saturday, November 20, 12:45am EST.
An Yountae and Eleanor Craig will be with the Philosophy of Religion Unit in a virtual presentation of their book Beyond Man on Saturday, November 20, 10:00am EST.
And you can find multiple other authors on many other panels around the conference, including Ali Altaf Mian, Donovan O. Schaefer, Joseph Winters, and Black Outdoors series editor J. Kameron Carter.
If you were hoping to connect with Sandra Korn or one of our other editors about your book project at the American Academy of Religion/Society for Biblical Literature joint annual conference, please reach out by email. See our editors’ specialties and contact information here and our online submissions guidelines and submission portal here.
We are sad to miss out on meeting authors in person at the AAR/SBL Joint Annual Meeting this year.We know that many of you look forward to stocking up on new titles at special discounts at our conferences, so we are pleased to offer a 40% discount on all in-stock books and journal issues with coupon code AAR20 until January 15, 2020. View our Religious Studies catalog below for a complete list of all our newest titles in Religious Studies and across disciplines. You can also explore all of our books and journals in the field on dukeupress.edu.
EditorsMiriam Angress and Sandra Korn both offer welcome messages to AAR/SBL participant, along with their highlights of the latest books and a special invitation!
Come party with the editors of the Religious Cultures of African and African Diaspora People book series on Friday, December 4 at 4:00pm EST. RSVP on the event page.
I also want to highlight a few other Duke books, beyond the series, that I’m excited about (published this year or imminent): The Bruce B. Lawrence Reader: Islam Beyond Borders, edited by Ali Altaf Mian (forthcoming, December 2021). In this Reader, editor Ali Altaf Mian gathers over four decades of scholarship by Bruce Lawrence, an esteemed Islamicist and scholar of religious studies, with selections analyzing aspects of Islam (both pre-modern and modern Islamic discourses) and investigating method and theory in the study of religion.
The Aesthetics of Resistance, volume 2, by Peter Weiss (2020). Regarded by many as one of the leading works of the 20th century, this novel documents the resistance to fascism in Europe (and within Germany) during World War II. The Aesthetics of Resistance is the three-volume magnum opus of Peter Weiss (1916-1982), a German-born novelist, painter, film director, and playwright best known in this country as the author of the play Marat/Sade. The novel has never, until now, been translated into English and this is the second volume of three. Duke University Press published the first volume of The Aesthetics of Resistance in 2005.
Good morning, AAR/SBL community! This will be my fifth year at the AAR/SBL conference and I’m grateful that this fall we’ll be able to connect with each other and attend panels from the safety of our own living rooms. I can’t hand you books from the booth so I hope you’ll read through for some of my recommendations, and please feel free to reach out if you’d like to schedule a virtual coffee or phone call!
This year in particular I’ve been really thankful for books that have helped me to expand what I consider spiritual, to better understand issues of injustice and oppression, and to imagine a future that looks different than the present.
Sandra’s recommendations include beautiful cover art from (clockwise from top left): Kimberly Tobertson and Jenell Navarro (“Postcard from an Otherwise World”), Kree Arvanitas (“Twitter Revolution in Heaven”), Robert Sniderman (“Counter-Ruin”), and Ashon Crawley (“Dancing in one spot number 13”).
We have a collection of beautiful new books that bring forth visions of alternative futures—in a variety of forms. For those who turn to poetry, Alexis Pauline Gumbs’s Dub: Finding Ceremony takes inspiration from Sylvia Wynter and ocean life to offer possibilities for new worlds and a new planet. Ashon Crawley’s The Lonely Lettersis a creative nonfiction work that meditates on the interrelation of blackqueer life, sounds of the Black church, theology, mysticism, and love. R. A. Judy’s theoretically-driven work Sentient Fleshshows that the long tradition of black radical critique gives us the material on which to re-imagine the world. And Otherwise Worlds: Against Settler Colonialism and Anti-Blackness, a collection in our Black Outdoors series, looks at how Black and Indigenous relationships can help imagine worlds beyond the constraints of violence and settler colonialism.
While the results of the US Presidential election are a huge relief, we know that this change in regime will not upend the structures of Islamophobic surveillance and repression in the US and globally. A few new books take up these pressing issues. Hindutva as Political Monotheism by Anustup Basu considers the role of Western political theology in rise of right-wing and anti-Muslim nationalism in India. Sima Shakhsari’s Politics of Rightful Killing: Civil Society, Gender, and Sexuality in Weblogistanlooks at the transnational network of Iranian bloggers as simultaneously a site for queer and feminist politics and US government surveillance. (This book has the most gorgeous cover art, a piece called “Twitter Revolution from Heaven” by Kree Arvanitas!)
The Moral Triangle: Germans, Israelis, Palestinians also has a striking cover—performance artist Robert Sniderman walking through the Berlin Holocaust Memorial with a shirt that reads “Gaza” in English, Arabic, and Hebrew. This book, co-authored by Katherina Galor and Sa’ed Atshan, looks at Berlin, where artists and activists grapple with how to account for multiple forms of historical trauma: antisemitism and Islamophobia, Holocaust and Nakba.
For those in anthropology and Jewish studies, I also wanted to highlight Genetic Afterlivesby Noah Tamarkin, which looks at how the black Jewish Lemba community of South Africa navigates competing claims to Jewish genealogy and African indigeneity.
Anyone who knows me will know that I love both memoir and revolutionary Jewish lesbians so you’d better believe that I’m thrilled about Margaret Randall’s new memoir I Never Left Home!
Finally, there are a few incredible titles coming out in the next couple of months! Please keep an eye out for Queer Political Theologies, a special issue of GLQ that drops in January. The Bruce B. Lawrence Reader, edited by Ali Altaf Mian, also comes out in January, and collects some of Lawrence’s most brilliant writings about Islam and the Divine. And I’m really excited for Beyond Man: Race, Coloniality, and Philosophy of Religion, a collection of work that seeks to decolonize the philosophy of religion, which comes out in the spring. Perhaps next year at this time we’ll get to celebrate these new texts in person.
I hope to see you at 4pm on December 4th at the virtual party to celebrate and toast new books in the Religious Cultures of African and African Diaspora People Series!
You can join DUP authors for several panelsonline, through the AAR/SBL conference portal:
N. Fadeke Castor, panelist, “Experiments with Power: Obeah and the Remaking of Religion,” Wednesday, Dec 2, 1:45 PM–3:15 PM EST
Judith Casselberry, panelist, “From Sun Ra to Grace Jones: A Roundtable on AfricanAmerican Performers and Religious Identity” Wednesday, Dec 2, 4:00 PM–5:30 PM EST
Laura E. Pérez, responder, “Decolonial Practices of Naming, Thinking, and Being,” Thursday, Dec 3, 11:00AM-1:00PM EST
Mayfair Yang, responder, “Renegotiating Unseen Realms: Studies on the Ritual Reinvention Among Late-Imperial and Contemporary Daoists,” Wed, Dec 9, 9:00AM-10:30AM EST
Andrea Smith, panelist, “Black Theology Post-Cone: Interrogating Value, MisReligion, and the Theological Legacies of Settler Colonialism” Wednesday, December 9, 4:00PM-5:30PM EST
If you were hoping to connect with Sandra Korn, Miriam Angress, or another of our editors about your book project at AAR/SBL, please reach out to them by email. See our editors’ specialties and contact information here and our online submissions guidelines here.
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