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Religion Book Deals: Dec. 4, 2024
A new picture book, a pair of novels, and two titles by a mental health expert, and more are among this week’s deals.
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Rebuilding Faith: PW Talks with Erin Hicks Moon
The host of the Faith Adjacent podcast and author of the popular “The Swipe Up” newsletter is now putting it all out there in book form with 'I’ve Got Questions: The Spiritual Practice of Having It Out with God,' publishing in February (Baker Books).
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AAR Honors Pioneering Jewish Feminist Theologian Judith Plaskow
The American Academy of Religion celebrated former AAR president Plaskow's trailblazing scholarship including her 1990 monograph 'Standing Again at Sinai: Judaism From a Feminist Perspective,' and presented awards to authors for excellence in the study of religion, history and the arts.
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Religion Scholars Share Books—and Worries—at Annual Meeting
The annual joint meeting of the Society of Biblical Literature and the American Academy of Religion was a forum for hot-button issues and a weekend of opportunities for academic religion publishers.
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AAR to Honor Jewish Feminist Theologian and Author, Judith Plaskow
Ever since Plaskow' trailblazing monograph 'Standing Again at Sinai: Judaism From a Feminist Perspective' was published in 1990 year—boldly asserting that the Torah was written by men for men and it was time to claim women's place at the mountain—Plaskow has almost always been described as the "pioneering Jewish Feminist theologian."
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Anticipating the Power and Pleasure of Christmas
Advent, beginning December 1, is a spiritual warm-up to the joyful triumph of Christmas. And publishers are offering titles to brighten and enlighten people during the hectic holiday preparations.
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Christy Award Winners for Christian Fiction Honored at Gala
Among the winners, 'Indigo Isle' by T.I. Lowe (Tyndale House) took home the Christy Award for Book of the Year, and The Amplify Award for Christian Fiction, which seeks to elevate stories from ethnically diverse perspectives, went to 'The American Queen' by Vanessa Miller (Thomas Nelson).
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Religion Book Deals: November 20, 2024
Lisa Fields looks at fallen heroes for Multnomah, and WaterBook takes a nine book series from John Mark Comer and the team at Practicing the Way.
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Children's Christmas Books Where Jesus Stars
While many Christmas titles for tots are more jingle bells than Jesus, some publishers are explicit about salvation and the Son of God.
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Religion Book Deals: Nov. 6, 2024
Paraclete Press takes a new book by Jeff Crosby, a Jewish anthropologist looks at how Charismatic prayer changes the evangelical brain, and more
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A Humanist's View on Faith in Technology: PW Talks to Chaplain Greg Eptsein
Is technology a religion, a godlike system promising salvation and threatening of damnation? Yes, says Greg Epstein, the Humanist chaplain at Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Harvard, in his new book 'Tech Agnostic: How Technology Became the World's Most Powerful Religion, and Why It Desperately Needs a Reformation' (MIT, out now).
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Christian Writer's Award Takes Fantasy to New Reality
On November 14, Christian Spec fiction author Sharon Hinck will be inducted into The Christy Award Hall of Fame, a milestone for both the author and the increasingly popular genre.
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New Book Proclaims the End Is Near—Ha! Ha!
It’s the day after Election 2024 and half the population of the United States thinks the end of the world is imminent. And the founders and editors of satire site 'The Babylon Bee,' whose new book 'The Babylon Bee Guide to the Apocalypse' (Regnery) releases next week, are delighted.
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IVP Titles View Christianity Through Multicultural Lenses to Offer a Comprehensive Understanding
A one-volume commentary and a two-volume set on African American Christianity highlight the mission and vision of InterVarsity Press.
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Good Guy with a Gun: PW Talks with Rachel Wagner
Author Rachel Wagner talks about the mashup of Christianity, masculinity, power, and gun culture in her book, 'Cowboy Apocalypse.'
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10,000 Years of Spirituality in America
Thomas Tweed’s sweeping ‘Religion in the Lands That Became America: From the Ice Age to the Information Age’ explores the history of religious beliefs in North America.
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A New Book Explores the History of Racialization in Psychiatry
Scholar Judith Weisenfeld explains how U.S. psychiatrists pathologized Black religious belief after the abolition of slavery in ‘New World A-Coming: Black Religion and Racial Identity During the Great Migration.’
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The Power of Charisma: PW Talks with Molly Worthen
'Spellbound' author and historian Molly Worthen discusses how some leaders amass followings by the power of the stories they tell.
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University Press Leaders Look Ahead
Executives at university presses—all of whom publish titles in the religion category—weigh in about new initiatives, their presses’ unique personalities, and publishing in a time of social, political, and technological upheaval.
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Academic Religion Publishing Faces Changes, Challenges, and Opportunities
Ahead of the SBL and AAR’s annual meeting, PW talked with 14 university press directors, trade publishers, and editors about today’s landscape and what they see on the horizon.
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