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Radical Dependence

Anthropology, Ethics, and Disability

by Mary Jo Iozzio

Price: $59.99

ISBN: 9781481319539

Publisher: Baylor University Press

Pub Date: 2025-08-01

Format: Hardcover

Sales Date: 2025-07-30

Imprint: Baylor University Press

334 Pages

Human beings are relationally dependent, regardless of race, gender, or functionality, and while persons with disability may seem to epitomize dependency, they are neither more nor less dependent than...

Aristotle and Black Drama

A Theater of Civil Disobedience

by Patrice D. Rankine

Price: $44.99

ISBN: 9781602584532

Publisher: Baylor University Press

Pub Date: 2025-03-01

Format: Paperback

Sales Date: 2025-03-30

Imprint: Baylor University Press

270 Pages

Civil disobedience has a tattered history in the American story. Described by Martin Luther King Jr. as both moral reflection and political act, the performance of civil disobedience in the face of...

God of the Whirlwind

Horror, Memory, and Story in Black Waco

Edited by Tyler B. Davis

Foreword by Stevie Walker-Webb

Photographs by Mark Menjívar

Price: $22.99

ISBN: 9781481322560

Publisher: Baylor University Press

Pub Date: 2025-02-15

Format: Paperback

Sales Date: 2025-02-01

Imprint: 1845 Books

168 Pages

God of the Whirlwind is a book about the power of storytelling traditions to carry memories and shape ways of living. It assembles stories from members of the Black Waco community--stories that have...

Revelations of Divine Care

Disability, Spirituality, and Mutual Flourishing

by Melody V. Escobar

Price: $59.99

ISBN: 9781481320559

Publisher: Baylor University Press

Pub Date: 2024-11-01

Format: Hardcover

Sales Date: 2024-10-15

Imprint: Baylor University Press

239 Pages

At a Texas Hill Country ranch, Melody V. Escobar and her young son meet Bo, the retired racehorse that becomes his "go-to" sage in a remarkable equine program for children with disabilities. The weekly...

Held in the Love of God

Discipleship and Disability

by Phil Letizia

Price: $59.99

ISBN: 9781481321167

Publisher: Baylor University Press

Pub Date: 2024-11-01

Format: Hardcover

Sales Date: 2024-10-15

Imprint: Baylor University Press

196 Pages

Throughout its history, evangelicalism has neglected to consider the spiritual lives of people with profound intellectual disabilities and how their experiences might contribute to a fuller understanding...

Learning to Live

Prisons, Pedagogy, and Theological Education

by Rachelle R. Green

Price: $34.99

ISBN: 9781481320719

Publisher: Baylor University Press

Pub Date: 2024-10-15

Format: Paperback

Sales Date: 2024-10-01

Imprint: Baylor University Press

259 Pages

What good is theological education for those in prison? For more than fifteen years, students in a Georgia prison for women have participated in a theological education program; most of these women...

Adaptive Church

Collaboration and Community in a Changing World

by Dustin D. Benac

Price: $49.99

ISBN: 9781481317092

Publisher: Baylor University Press

Pub Date: 2024-10-01

Format: Paperback

Sales Date: 2024-10-01

Imprint: Baylor University Press

348 Pages

Christian organization, education, and leadership are changing. Headlines note rising religious disaffiliation ("the Nones"), moral failures by religious leaders, and the mounting crisis for religious...

Where the Aunts Are

Family, Feminism, and Kinship in Popular Culture

by Patricia J. Sotirin and Laura L. Ellingson

Price: $34.99

ISBN: 9781602586635

Publisher: Baylor University Press

Pub Date: 2024-08-15

Format: Paperback

Sales Date: 2024-08-16

Imprint: Baylor University Press

252 Pages

While the aunt is one of the most iconic and beloved figures in popular culture, the societal role and import of real-life contemporary aunts are difficult to pin down. In some settings, she is the...

Kingdoms of This World

How Empires Have Made and Remade Religions

by Philip Jenkins

Price: $42.99

ISBN: 9781481319935

Publisher: Baylor University Press

Pub Date: 2024-07-15

Format: Hardcover

Sales Date: 2024-07-01

Imprint: Baylor University Press

350 Pages

Throughout history, the world's great religions have been profoundly shaped by their encounters with successive empires. Secular empires have provided the means by which religions achieve their global...

Black Contemplative Preaching

A Hidden History of Prayer, Proclamation, and Prophetic Witness

by E. Trey Clark

Price: $64.99

ISBN: 9781481321990

Publisher: Baylor University Press

Pub Date: 2024-07-01

Format: Hardcover

Sales Date: 2024-06-15

Imprint: Baylor University Press

202 Pages

Stereotypical images of African American Christian spirituality eclipse the profound diversity of Black preaching. As a result, contemplative preaching has become one of the most overlooked streams...

Openings

Acknowledging Essential Moments in Human Communication

by Michael J. Hyde

Price: $44.99

ISBN: 9781602585843

Publisher: Baylor University Press

Pub Date: 2024-03-01

Format: Paperback

Sales Date: 2024-02-15

Imprint: Baylor University Press

253 Pages

In Openings, award-winning author Michael Hyde provides a fascinating meditation on the ethical dimensions of human communication. With the breadth and depth of learning for which Hyde has become renowned,...

Objective Religion

Freedom, Politics, Secularization

Edited by Byron R. Johnson

Price: $59.99

ISBN: 9781481319614

Publisher: Baylor University Press

Pub Date: 2024-01-15

Format: Hardcover

Sales Date: 2024-01-15

Imprint: Baylor University Press

532 Pages

Though many scholars and commentators have predicted the death of religion, the world is more religious today than ever before. And yet, despite the persistence of religion, it remains a woefully understudied...

The Kaleidoscopic City

Hong Kong, Mission, and the Evolution of Global Pentecostalism

by Alex R. Mayfield

Price: $59.99

ISBN: 9781481318976

Publisher: Baylor University Press

Pub Date: 2023-11-01

Format: Hardcover

Sales Date: 2023-10-15

Imprint: Baylor University Press

279 Pages

The Kaleidoscopic City explores the development of Pentecostalism in Hong Kong between 1907 and 1942. Focusing primarily on Pentecostal missionaries and the Chinese leaders who worked alongside them,...

Bioenhancement Technologies and the Vulnerable Body

A Theological Engagement

Edited by Devan Stahl

Price: $54.99

ISBN: 9781481318273

Publisher: Baylor University Press

Pub Date: 2023-11-01

Format: Paperback

Sales Date: 2023-10-15

Imprint: Baylor University Press

252 Pages

The field of biomedical technology has experienced rapid growth in recent years. New technologies promise to diagnose, treat, and prevent human diseases. Increasingly, however, the ability of these...

Autism and Worship

A Liturgical Theology

by Armand Léon van Ommen

Price: $44.99

ISBN: 9781481319898

Publisher: Baylor University Press

Pub Date: 2023-10-01

Format: Hardcover

Sales Date: 2023-09-15

Imprint: Baylor University Press

263 Pages

In churches today, those on the autism spectrum are often at best overlooked by neurotypical church members or at worst infantilized. Viewed as "other," autistic people who feel excluded from the church...

Madness

American Protestant Responses to Mental Illness

by Heather Campain Hartung

Price: $44.99

ISBN: 9781481300582

Publisher: Baylor University Press

Pub Date: 2023-09-15

Format: Paperback

Sales Date: 2023-08-20

Imprint: Baylor University Press

283 Pages

Madness is a sin. Those with emotional disabilities are shunned. Mental illness is not the church’s problem.All three claims are wrong.In Madness, Heather H. Vacek traces the history of Protestant...

Disability, Providence, and Ethics

Bridging Gaps, Transforming Lives

by Hans S. Reinders

Price: $54.99

ISBN: 9781481300667

Publisher: Baylor University Press

Pub Date: 2023-09-01

Format: Paperback

Sales Date: 2023-08-20

Imprint: Baylor University Press

248 Pages

Human disability raises the hardest questions of human existence and leads directly to the problem of causality--the underlying intuition that someone, divine or human, must have been at fault.Christian...

Phenomenal Phenomena

Biblical and Multicultural Accounts of Spirits and Exorcism

by Joy L. Vaughan

Price: $69.99

ISBN: 9781481318365

Publisher: Baylor University Press

Pub Date: 2023-09-01

Format: Hardcover

Sales Date: 2023-08-15

Imprint: Baylor University Press

275 Pages

Today, the conception of spirits and demons has been mostly consigned to pop culture in films and novels. Any notion of supernatural possession is often derided as outdated belief or legend. The Western...

Perfect in Weakness

Disability and Human Flourishing in the New Creation

by Maja I. Whitaker

Price: $54.99

ISBN: 9781481319157

Publisher: Baylor University Press

Pub Date: 2023-09-01

Format: Hardcover

Sales Date: 2023-08-15

Imprint: Baylor University Press

224 Pages

One of the central and novel convictions of the early Christian movement compared to the existing Greco-Roman beliefs was the dogma of bodily resurrection. The Stoics esteemed temperance, disciplining...

Senghor's Eucharist

Negritude and African Political Theology

by David Tonghou Ngong

Price: $59.99

ISBN: 9781481317795

Publisher: Baylor University Press

Pub Date: 2023-08-15

Format: Paperback

Sales Date: 2023-08-01

Imprint: Baylor University Press

176 Pages

In his collection of poems Black Hosts, Léopold Senghor, a leading figure in the Negritude movement and the first president of Senegal, offers the suffering and death of Africans, rather than that...

Clearly Invisible

Racial Passing and the Color of Cultural Identity

by Marcia Alesan Dawkins

Price: $34.99

ISBN: 9781481320375

Publisher: Baylor University Press

Pub Date: 2023-02-15

Format: Paperback

Sales Date: 2023-02-01

Imprint: Baylor University Press

285 Pages

Everybody passes. Not just racial minorities. As Marcia Dawkins explains, passing has been occurring for millennia, since intercultural and interracial contact began. And with this profound new study,...

In the Image of Her

Recovering Motherhood in the Christian Tradition

by Amy E. Marga

Price: $42.99

ISBN: 9781481317382

Publisher: Baylor University Press

Pub Date: 2022-10-01

Format: Hardcover

Sales Date: 2022-09-15

Imprint: Baylor University Press

207 Pages

The body of the mother is both everywhere and nowhere in the Christian imagination. Western Christianity has long viewed the mother's body as a vessel. Through her, nothing less than the sin and...

Prophetic Disability

Divine Sovereignty and Human Bodies in the Hebrew Bible

by Sarah J. Melcher

Price: $39.99

ISBN: 9781481310246

Publisher: Baylor University Press

Pub Date: 2022-10-01

Format: Hardcover

Sales Date: 2022-09-15

Imprint: Baylor University Press

145 Pages

At first glance it may seem that the Hebrew prophets offer little resolution on contemporary concerns of inclusivity and defense for persons deemed "other." Bound by their time and culture, the prophets'...

Better Religion

A Primer for Interreligious Peacebuilding

by John D. Barton

Price: $39.99

ISBN: 9781481317832

Publisher: Baylor University Press

Pub Date: 2022-10-01

Format: Paperback

Sales Date: 2022-09-15

Imprint: Baylor University Press

242 Pages

In the twenty-first century, humanity faces both unprecedented existential threats and remarkable possibilities for development. While no one knows how things will unfold by century's end, it is...

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