2023 American Academy of Religion Annual Meeting

UNC Press is excited to be exhibiting in-person at the American Academy of Religion annual meeting! We hope you’ll stop by our booth (#622) to say hello to editor Mark Simpson-Vos and to browse our new titles on display. If you can’t join us in-person, you can always visit our virtual booth!


And be sure to check out these great book series:

Where Religion Lives

Series Editor: Kristy Nabhan-Warren
Where Religion Lives publishes ethnographies of religious life. The series features the methods of religious studies along with anthropological approaches to lived religion. The religious studies perspective encompasses attention to historical contingency, theory, religious doctrine and texts, and religious practitioners’ intimate, personal narratives. The series also highlights the critical realities of migration and transnationalism.

Books in the Series:

Vodou en Vogue
Fashioning Black Divinities in Haiti and the United States
By Eziaku Atuama Nwokocha

Making Moral Citizens
How Faith-Based Organizers Use Vocation for Public Action
By Jack Delehanty


Spiritual Entrepreneurs
Florida's Faith-Based Prisons and the American Carceral State
By Brad Stoddard

Painted Pomegranates and Needlepoint Rabbis
How Jews Craft Resilience and Create Community
By Jodi Eichler-Levine


Prosperity Gospel Latinos and Their American Dream
By Tony Tian-Ren Lin

Saving History
How White Evangelicals Tour the Nation's Capital and Redeem a Christian America
By Lauren R. Kerby

Islamic Civilization and Muslim Networks

Series Editors: Carl W. Ernst and Bruce B. Lawrence

Highlighting themes with historical as well as contemporary significance, Islamic Civilization and Muslim Networks features works that explore Islamic societies and Muslim peoples from a fresh perspective, drawing on new interpretive frameworks or theoretical strategies in a variety of disciplines. Emphasizing systems of exchange that have promoted the creation and development of Islamic identities–cultural, religious, or geopolitical–the series spans all periods and regions of Islamic civilization.

  • Books in the Series

Who Is Muhammad?
By Michael Muhammad Knight

I Cannot Write My Life
Islam, Arabic, and Slavery in Omar ibn Said's America
By Mbaye Lo , Carl W. Ernst

Everyday Islamic Law and the Making of Modern South Asia
By Elizabeth Lhost

Hajj to the Heart
Sufi Journeys across the Indian Ocean
Scott Kugle

China's Muslims and Japan's Empire
Centering Islam in World War II
By Kelly A. Hammond

Muhammad's Body
Baraka Networks and the Prophetic Assemblage
By Michael Muhammad Knight

Realizing Islam
The Tijaniyya in North Africa and the Eighteenth-Century Muslim World
By Zachary Valentine Wright
  • Looking for introductory books for the classroom? Check out these titles, perfect for course adoption!

What Is Veiling?
By Sahar Amer

Who Is Muhammad?
By Michael Muhammad Knight

Who Is Allah?
By Bruce B. Lawrence

What Is a Madrasa?
By Ebrahim Moosa

UNC Press is proud to publish CrossCurrents for APRIL (formerly the Association for Religious and Intellectual Life).


Use promo code 01DAH40 to receive our 40% conference discount.

Titles on display include:

Seeing Things
Technologies of Vision and the Making of Mormonism
Mason Kamana Allred

Making Moral Citizens
How Faith-Based Organizers Use Vocation for Public Action
Jack Delehanty

Convicting the Mormons
The Mountain Meadows Massacre in American Culture
Janiece Johnson

Between Two Worlds
Jewish War Brides after the Holocaust
Robin Judd

Who Is Muhammad?
Michael Muhammad Knight

I Cannot Write My Life
Islam, Arabic, and Slavery in Omar ibn Said's America
Mbaye Lo, Carl W. Ernst

We Pursue Our Magic
A Spiritual History of Black Feminism
Marina Magloire

Vodou en Vogue
Fashioning Black Divinities in Haiti and the United States
Eziaku Atuama Nwokocha

Surgery and Salvation
The Roots of Reproductive Injustice in Mexico, 1770–1940
Elizabeth O'Brien

Far from the Rooftop of the World
Travels among Tibetan Refugees on Four Continents
Amy Yee

Stop by either our in-person booth or our virtual booth to browse our titles on display! Be sure to use promo code 01DAH40 at checkout to receive our 40% conference discount. And if your order totals over $75, domestic US shipping is FREE.