Welcome to the UNC Press Virtual Exhibit for the American Academy of Religion.
Scroll through our newest releases!
We’re looking forward to getting together at the conference. But in case you won’t be traveling this year, we’re bringing our book exhibit to you.
From virtually anywhere, you can browse our list of new and recent titles, or chat with our acquisitions editor Cate Hodorowicz, learn about new books in our great book series Where Religion Lives and Islamic Civilization and Muslim Networks, and much more.
New Gamebooks from Reacting to the Past
For more information on these books, click here.
UNC Press is proud to publish the journal CrossCurrents for the
Association for Public Religion and Intellectual Life (APRIL)
Volume 75, Number 3, September 2025
CrossCurrents: Trans-Spiritualities
Volume 75, Number 1, March 2025
Volume 74, Number 4, December 2024
Volume 74, Number 1, March 2024
Volume 73, Number 3, September 2023
Volume 73, Number 2, June 2023
All of our books (in fact, our entire site) are available now at our 40 percent conference discount. Plus if your order totals $75, domestic U.S. shipping is FREE! Just use promo code 01DAH40 at checkout.
Click here for our full list of books in Religious Studies. (Be sure to use the promo code 01DAH40 at checkout to get the full AAR discount).
Follow the links below for information on submitting a book proposal, ordering desk or examination copies (even free digital exam copies), classroom permissions, disability resources, and more. We’ve even created a handy FAQ document, with answers to the most-asked questions we get at exhibit booths.
Titles on Display for AAR
Click on any book below to learn more. And, using our View Inside feature, you can leaf through the pages for a preview of each new book, just as if you were standing at our booth. Check it out on each book page.
Mapping Memory and Storytelling in Palestine
Sacred Mountains and the Search for Meaning in Post-Disaster Japan
Alternative Food Movements and Religious Life in the United States
How White Christian Allies Failed the Black Freedom Movement
Sissie Collectivism and Radical Witchery in the Southeast
How Unlikely Coalitions Created a Blueprint for LGBTQ Politics
Evangelical Capitalism and the Fate of an American City
Ordinary Poets and Islamicate Popular Culture in Early Modern Delhi
Building Geographies of Black and Muslim Liberation in the African Diaspora
Being Catholic in English America
The American Muslim Crisis of Faith
Romance, Marriage, and Contemporary Algerian Immigration to France and Québec
Womanist Sermonic Practice in Literature and Music
An Enslaved Muslim of the Black Atlantic
Haunting and Devotion in São Paulo, Brazil
The Life of Eugene England and the Crisis of Modern Mormonism
Jewish War Brides after the Holocaust
White Evangelical Racism, Second Edition
The Politics of Morality in America
Religion, Nationalism, and the Search for Peace and Democracy in Northern Ireland, 1997-1998
Constantine and the Council of Nicaea, Second Edition
Defining Orthodoxy and Heresy in Christianity, 325 CE
Lessons for the Twenty-First-Century Physician
Forging Commonwealth Bonds in Renaissance Virginia
A Tohono O'odham Life across Borders
The Life of Jimmy Carter
The Roots of Reproductive Injustice in Mexico, 1770–1940
Far from the Rooftop of the World
Travels among Tibetan Refugees on Four Continents
A Spiritual History of Black Feminism
Islam, Arabic, and Slavery in Omar ibn Said's America
The Religious Conversions That Changed American Politics
Fashioning Black Divinities in Haiti and the United States
The Mountain Meadows Massacre in American Culture
How Faith-Based Organizers Use Vocation for Public Action
Technologies of Vision and the Making of Mormonism
Meanings of Culture and Civilization in the American South
Race, Religion, and Punishment in the American South
Evangelical Internationalism and U.S. Empire
How Religion Shaped Sports in North America
Liberty, Law, and Intolerance in Puritan New England
Aristotelianism, the "New Cosmology," and the Catholic Church, 1616–1633
Chaplaincy and Spiritual Care in the Twenty-First Century
An Introduction
A Mexican Madhouse in the Age of Enlightenment
Strangers and Friends at the Welcome Table
Contemporary Christianities in the American South
Father Luis Olivares, a Biography
Faith Politics and the Origins of the Sanctuary Movement in Los Angeles
Sufi Journeys across the Indian Ocean
Politics and the Practice of Genealogy in U.S. History
How Migration, Work, and Faith Unite and Divide the Heartland
The Religious Cultures of Enslaved Women in the Lower South
The Life of Eugene England and the Crisis of Modern Mormonism
How the Quest for a Holy Hero Helped Catholics Become American
Rare Kodachrome Photographs of Japanese American Incarceration in World War II
The Politics of Being and the Black Freedom Struggle
Religion and the American Revolution
An Imperial History
Identities of Sexual Restraint in Early America
The Remaking of the Medieval World, 1204
The Fourth Crusade
Moral Majorities across the Americas
Brazil, the United States, and the Creation of the Religious Right
An Intimate History of Fatigue
Earthquakes, Prophecy, and the Remaking of Early America
An Introduction to the Material Study of Religions
Florida's Faith-Based Prisons and the American Carceral State
Christian Science Origins and Experience in American Culture
Reading the Bible in Black and White in the Postemancipation South
China's Muslims and Japan's Empire
Centering Islam in World War II
The Surprising Multicultural Origins of a Black Wedding Ritual
Painted Pomegranates and Needlepoint Rabbis
How Jews Craft Resilience and Create Community
The Tijaniyya in North Africa and the Eighteenth-Century Muslim World
Baraka Networks and the Prophetic Assemblage
How a Thirteenth-Century Friar Became America's Most Popular Saint
The Contested History of an American Ideal
Sexuality and Gender in Modern Mormonism
Joseph Smith and the Making of the Book of Mormon
How White Evangelicals Tour the Nation's Capital and Redeem a Christian America
The Evolution of Black Religious Politics in Postemancipation Virginia
Remaking Catholic Womanhood in the Vatican II Era
Marriage Matters in Contemporary African American Culture
Religious Intolerance in America, Second Edition
A Documentary History
America's Prophet
Architecture and Historical Memory in the Contemporary Middle East
The Nation of Islam, the Black Freedom Movement, and the Carceral State
Mormons, Tourists, and the Corporate Spirit of the West
Art in Egypt between the Islamic and the Contemporary
Religion, Race, and Politics in a Civil War Borderland
Episcopalians and American Culture from the Civil War to the Great Depression
Debating Yoga and Mindfulness in Public Schools
Reforming Secular Education or Reestablishing Religion?
Shi'ism between Pakistan and the Middle East
Paramahansa Yogananda and Modern American Religion in a Global Age
Psychotherapists, Buddhist Traditions, and Defining Religion
Yorùbá Kingship in Colonial Cuba during the Age of Revolutions
Darkness Falls on the Land of Light
Experiencing Religious Awakenings in Eighteenth-Century New England
Troubled Memory, Second Edition
Anne Levy, the Holocaust, and David Duke's Louisiana
Lived Theology and the Freedom Struggle in Americus, Georgia, 1942–1976
How Cyber-Islamic Environments Are Transforming Religious Authority
How Harry Golden Made Us Care about Jews, the South, and Civil Rights
Afro-Creole Spiritualism in Nineteenth-Century New Orleans
The United States and the Islamic World, 1821-1921
Traditions of Reform in Eighteenth-Century Islamic Thought
An African American Appalachian Community
Nineteenth-Century Boston and the Making of American Visual Culture
The Christian-Jewish Interfaith Family in the United States
Mobilizing for LGBT Equality at Christian Colleges and Universities
Histories of Sexuality and Religion in the Twentieth-Century United States
A Cultural History of Clothing in American Catholicism
Islamic Critical Thinking from Mecca to the Marketplace
Jewish Upward Mobility in Postwar America
Religion and Photography in Nineteenth-Century America
Interracial Faith in the Poor South
Women and the Nation of Islam
Rastafarians, Tanzania, and Pan-Africanism in the Age of Decolonization
Populist Healing from the American Heartland
Women in the Church of God in Christ
Making a Sanctified World
