Politicizing Islam in Austria is a comprehensive examination of the influence of the far right on the Austrian political landscape and the impact its anti-Muslim agenda has had in a country whose longstanding state recognition of the Muslim community dates to as early as 1912.

In Glory, Judas Iscariot finally tells his side of the story. From his perspective, Jesus is the betrayer, while Judas himself brought humanity a chance at redemption. Through Judas’s searing tortured monologues, this late masterpiece from one of Italy’s greatest writers investigates deep questions about the nature of faith, rebellion, fate, and free will.
 

In this groundbreaking ethnographic study of the transnational Third Temple and Children of Noah movements, Messianic Zionism in the Digital Age highlights the intimate effects of political theologies in motion, new forms of digital missionizing, and the birth of a new Judaic faith. 
 

Making History Move builds upon decades of scholarship investigating history in visual culture, proposing a methodology of five principles to analyze history in moving images in the digital age, charting a path to understand the form of history with the most significant impact on public perceptions of the past.

This biography tells the story of Muppet performer Richard Hunt, who created a colorful range of characters on The Muppet Show, Sesame Street and Fraggle Rock, and crammed an extraordinary career into only 40 years of life. Funny Boy is about a man who used humor, joy and resilience to adapt to life’s surprises while entertaining millions. 

This book presents an 80-year history of how the comics industry has drawn inspiration from biblical imagery, stories, and themes. Charting how comics have both reflected and influenced Americans’ changing attitudes towards religion, it includes underground comix, books from Christian publishers, and a vast array of DC, Marvel, and Dark Horse titles, from Hellboy to Preacher.   

Queer Newark charts an alternate history of LGBTQ life in America where working-class people of color are the central actors. Uncovering the sites and people of Newark’s queer past in bars, discos, ballrooms, and churches, these essays reveal how violence, poverty, and homophobia could never suppress joy, resistance, love, and desire.

Queer Newark charts an alternate history of LGBTQ life in America where working-class people of color are the central actors. Uncovering the sites and people of Newark’s queer past in bars, discos, ballrooms, and churches, these essays reveal how violence, poverty, and homophobia could never suppress joy, resistance, love, and desire.

Destroy Them Gradually reframes forced displacement as an annihilatory process, rather than as an event that precedes an atrocity. Displacement crimes are defined as the unique fusion of forced displacement with systemic deprivations of vital daily needs to destroy populations.
 

Culinary Colonialism is the first book-length analysis of Caribbean cookbooks, tracing the multitude of ways they represent national identity, creolization, and working-class women’s food culture. Including full recipes from Cuban, Puerto Rican, Jamaican, Barbadian, Haitian, Dominican, and Antillean cookbooks, this groundbreaking work of scholarship doubles as a delicious cookbook.

Strictly Observant presents a compelling ethnographic study of the complex dynamic between women in both the Pennsylvanian Old Order Amish and Israeli Ultra-Orthodox Jewish communities and contemporary media technologies. These women exhibit a deep awareness of how to manage their usage of media as tools to increase their social and religious capital.