Bloomsbury Studies in Black Religion and Cultures

Bloomsbury

Anthony B. Pinn, Monica R. Miller

Bloomsbury Studies in Black Religion and Cultures advances innovative scholarship that reimagines and animates the global study of black religions, culture, and identity across space and time. The series publishes scholarship that addresses the mutually constitutive nature of race and religion and the social, cultural, intellectual, and material effects of religio-racial formations and identities. The series welcomes projects that address and foreground the intersectional and constitutive nature of black religions and cultures and privileges work that is inter/transdisciplinary and methodologically intersectional in nature.

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Volumes include:

             Philip Butler, Black Transhumanism Liberation Theology (2019)

Routledge Studies in Hip Hop and Religion

Routledge

Anthony B. Pinn and Monica Miller

Routledge Studies in Hip Hop and Religion advances critical issues in hip hop and religion studies with particular focus on and attention to the category of religion, highlighting and bringing together a diverse set of voices, perspectives, and approaches. Books in this series contribute to dynamic conversations across a wide field of inquiry, including: theory and method for the study of hip hop and religion; the role of technology and new media in the development of hip hop culture and the mediation of meaning; aesthetics/performance of hip hop and the cosmology and performance of social belief; hip hop, religion and embodiment; identity formation as cultural/religious process and strategic/tactical operational acts; the role of hip hop in faith institutions; and hip hop, religion, and gender/class/sexuality/politics.

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Volumes include:

            Erika D. Gault and Travis Harris, Beyond Christian Hip Hop (2020)

Religion and Race

Lexington Books

Anthony B. Pinn and Monica Miller

The local/global connections between religion and race are complex, interrelated, ever changing, and undeniable. Religion and Race bridges these multifaceted dimensions within a context of cultural complexity and increasing socio-political realities of identity and difference in a multi-disciplinary manner that offers a strong platform for scholars to examine the relationship between religion and race. This series is committed to a range of social science and humanities approaches, including media studies, cultural studies, and feminist and queer methods, and welcomes books from a variety of global and cultural contexts from the modern period to projects considering the dynamics of the “postmodern” context. While the series will privilege monographs, it will also consider exceptional edited volumes. Religion and Race seeks to impact historical and contemporary cultural and socio-political conversations through comparative scholarly examinations that tap the similarities and distinctions of race across geographies within the context of a variety of religious traditions and practices.

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Volumes include:

         Mika Edmondson, The Power of Unearned Suffering (2016)

Pitchstone Humanism and Its Challenges Series

Pitchstone Publishing 

Anthony B. Pinn 

 

Volumes include:

            Sikivu Hutchinson, Humanists in the Hood (2019)

Religion and Social Transformation

NYU Press

Stacey M. Floyd-Thomas and Anthony B. Pinn

Religious communities have engaged in significant ways with the myriad contemporary issues that impact social transformation. Matters of public debate such as globalization, violence, terrorism, environmental racism, biomedical health issues, immigration, sexism, political process, poverty, the prison industrial complex, sexual orientation, and xenophobia all carry religious and theological connotations that call for critical engagement by scholars within the study of religion. Yet, the religious aspects of contemporary issues are seldom given explicit consideration.

 

The principal focus of this series will be the various dimensions of the relationship between religion and notions of social transformation in the United States. Religion impacts social developments and social developments also give some shape to religious formations. The relationship is dynamic and mutual, as the books in the series will express in various ways.

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Volumes include:

            Melissa Snarr, All You Who Labor (2011).

Studies in Humanism and Atheism

Palgrave MacMillan

Anthony B. Pinn and Juergen Manemann

Although numerous scholars and activists have written academic and popular texts meant to unpack and advocate for humanism and atheism as life orientations, what is needed at this point is clear and consistent attention to various dimensions of humanist and atheist thought and practice. This is the type of focused agenda that Studies in Humanism and Atheism makes possible. Books in this series offer new approaches to and innovative discussion of humanism and atheism that take into consideration the socio-cultural, political, economic, and religious dynamics informing life in the twenty-first century.

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Volumes include:

            Ana Honnacker, Pragmatic Humanism Revisited (2018)

Imagining the Americas

Oxford University Press

Caroline Levander and Anthony B. Pinn

Imagining the Americas brings readers innovative books that address the intersections between literary, religious and cultural studies that materialize once the American hemisphere is conceptualized not as a conglomeration of separate nations, but rather as a porous, ever-shifting, transnational space.​

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Series began Spring 2008-Spring 2014. Eight volumes including: 

        Susan Harris, God’s Arbiters: Americans and the Philippines, 1898-1902 (2011)

Studies in Humanist Thought and Praxis

Cambridge University Press

Anthony B. Pinn

The series presents volumes on all aspects of humanistic theory and practice, from analyses of key concepts to examinations of everyday life.

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Includes:

      Anthony Pinn, editor. What Is Humanism, and Why Does It Matter? (2013).

Innovations in Black/Womanist Theologies and Ethics

Anthony Pinn and Katie G. Cannon

Fortress Press. (2008-2012)

 

Five volumes including:​

      M. Shawn Copeland, Enfleshing Freedom:  Body, Race and Being (2009).

Studies in The History of African-American Religions

Anthony B. Pinn and Stephen Angell

University Press of Florida. (2001-2008)

This series furthers historical investigations into African American religions, encourages the development of new paradigms and methodologies, and explores cultural influences upon African American religious institutions. The roles of gender, race, leadership, regionalism, and folkways are explored in series volumes.

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Twelve volumes published including:

      Yolanda Pierce, Hell Without Fires:  Slavery, Christianity, and the Antebellum Spiritual Narrative (2005).

Studies in African-American Religious Thought and Life

Anthony Pinn and Victor Anderson

Trinity Press International. (1998-2005)

 

Six volumes published including:

      Barbara Holmes, A Private Woman in Public Spaces: Barbara Jordan’s Speeches on Ethics, Public Religion, and Law (2000).