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China’s Green Religion

Taming the Wild Horse

Daoism and the Quest for a Sustainable Future

An Annotated Translation and Study of the Daoist Horse Taming Pictures

James Miller

Louis Komjathy

“There is perhaps no scholar in the West who could have written such a valuable book on the contributions of Daoism to ecological thought and practice in China.... This is a book that will be indispensable for academics and policymakers alike who are concerned about China’s future.” —Mary Evelyn Tucker, Yale University $60.00 / £49.95 cloth 978-0-231-17586-9 2017 224 pages

“Komjathy has uncovered a previously hidden gem of the Daoist contemplative path that was inspired by the famous Ox Herding Pictures.... This is essential reading for those interested in the history of Daoism, the Complete Perfection (Quanzhen) School, comparative mysticism, and the culture of the horse.” —Harold D. Roth, Brown University $65.00 / £54.95 cloth 978-0-231-18126-6 2017 264 pages

Studies of the Weatherhead East Asian Institute, Columbia University

Buddhism and Medicine An Anthology of Premodern Sources Edited by C. Pierce Salguero “An amazingly rich and comprehensive collection of studies of texts and observed practices from all over the Asian lands where Buddhism’s manifestations made extensive contributions to the cultures.... I cannot recommend it highly enough for anyone interested in Buddhism, the history of medicine, and the mutually fruitful interaction of the Asian medicine traditions and Western biomedical tradition that is happening all around us today.”—Robert Thurman, Jey Tsong Khapa Professor of Indo-Tibetan Buddhist Studies, Columbia University

“There are few historians of whom one can say that they have actually shifted some of the landscape of the writing of history in their own generation, but Bynum is one of them.”—New Republic “A masterful work of intellectual history.”— Publishers Weekly This expanded edition includes Caroline Walker Bynum's 1995 article “Why All the Fuss About the Body? A Medievalist’s Perspective,” which takes a broader perspective on the book’s themes. It also includes a new introduction that explores the context in which the book and article were written, as well as why the Middle Ages matter for how we think about the body and life after death today.

American Lectures on the History of Religions

Rachel Fulton Brown

Reshaping the Boundaries The Christian Intersection of China and the West in the Modern Era Edited by Song Gang “This remarkable, richly documented collection fundamentally challenges traditional interpretations of the Sino-Western cultural encounter.”—R. G. Tiedemann, School of History and Culture, Shandong University, China

Treasury of the Buddhist Sciences

Food of Sinful Demons

Part 1 Mandala, Mantra, and the Cult of the Yoginīs

Meat, Vegetarianism, and the Limits of Buddhism in Tibet Geoffrey Barstow

Tsong Khapa Losang Drakpa Study and Translation by David B. Gray

“A creative and nuanced exploration of an aspect of Tibetan religiosity that has heretofore remained largely in the dark. An important and exciting book.”—Andrew Quintman, Yale University

American Institute of Buddhist Studies

Food of Sinful Demons shows the centrality of vegetarianism to the cultural history of Tibet through specific ways in which nonreligious norms and ideals shaped religious beliefs and practices. Barstow offers a detailed analysis of the debates over meat eating and vegetarianism, from the first references to such a diet in the tenth century through the Chinese invasion in the 1950s.

2018

January 2018 248 pages

Mary and the Art of Prayer

“Mary and the Art of Prayer brings medieval Marian devotions before the readers’ eyes and elucidates the profound meanings in and spiritual preparations for serving the Virgin...through observance of her Hours. Rachel Fulton Brown’s historical imagination is informed by brilliant scholarship, and her evocative prose rests easily beside citations of beauteous psalms.” —Georgiana Donavin, author of Scribit Mater: Mary and the Language Arts in the Literature of Medieval England $75.00 / £62.95 cloth 978-0-231-18168-6 2017 656 pages

Armenia Christiana

$55.00 / £45.95 cloth 978-988-83905-5-7

Krzysztof Stopka

HONG KONG UNIVERSITY PRESS

Noteworthy Titles

The Future of Religion in America

Grounded in multiple intellectual disciplines, including religious studies, history, arts, music, and Sinology, Reshaping the Boundaries explores how each of the major Christian traditions—Catholic, Protestant, and Eastern Orthodox—bridged the West and the East in unique ways. 2017 168 pages

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$30.00 / £24.95 paper 978-0-231-18361-1 $90.00 / £74.95 cloth 978-0-231-18360-4

$35.00 / £27.95 paper 978-0-231-18529-5

The original Sublime Continuum Treatise Commentary was written by Aryasaga, as inspired by the bodhisattva, Maitreyanatha, around 400 CE, in North India. It was subsequently elucidated frequently in India and Tibet. Here, it is introduced and presented in an original translation from Sanskrit and Tibetan, with the translation of a detailed Tibetan Super-Commentary by Gyaltsap Darma Rinchen (1364–1432 CE), whose work is considered to be authentically inspired by his teacher, the widely acclaimed Tibetan philosophical genius, Tsong Khapa (1357–1419 CE).

New

“A timely collection, The Future of Mainline Protestantism in America synthesizes a great deal of recent scholarship in a way that will speak to a wide audience of students and scholars alike. It will make a positive contribution to the wider field of American religion, in particular, to the fields of sociology of religion, history of American Christianity, and religion in American culture.”— Christopher Evans, Boston University

American Institute of Buddhist Studies

2017 580 pages

$56.00 / £46.95 cloth 978-1-935011-09-5

Caroline Walker Bynum

Edited by James Hudnut-Beumler and Mark Silk

The Hours of the Virgin in Medieval Christian Life and Thought

2017 728 pages

2017 500 pages

Expanded edition

RELIGION

The Future of Mainline Protestantism in America

$105.00 / £87.95 cloth 978-0-231-18528-8 2017 480 pages

$56.00 / £46.95 cloth 978-1-935011-25-5

This is the first in a two-volume annotated translation of Tsong Khapa’s Illumination of the Hidden Meaning (sbas don kun sel). This first volume, which includes Tsong Khapa’s detailed introduction to chapters 1 to 24 of the 51 chapter root tantra, covers the history of the tradition, its interpretation, and a range of topics including the construction of the mandala, the consecration therein, and the decoding of mantras and their ritual applications, as well as extensive details concerning the clans of the yoginīs and the procedures to win their favor. David B. Gray situates the work in context and explores in depth the sources used in composing this commentary.

The Resurrection of the Body in Western Christianity, 200–1336

The Sublime Continuum Super-Commentary (theg pa chen po rgyud bla ma’i tīkka) with the Sublime Continuum Treatise Commentary

$150.00 / £124.95 cloth 978-0-231-17994-2

Illumination of the Hidden Meaning (sbas don kun sel)

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Armenian Religious Identity and the Churches of Constantinople and Rome (4th – 15th century) This book presents the dramatic and complex story of Armenia’s ecclesiastical relations with Byzantine and subsequently Roman Christendom in the Middle Ages. It is built on a broad foundation of sources – Armenian, Greek, Latin, and Syrian chronicles and documents, especially the abundant correspondence between the Holy See and the Armenian Church. Krzysztof Stopka examines problems straddling the disciplines of history and theology and pertinent to a critical, though not widely known, episode in the story of the struggle for Christian unity.

$65.00 / £54.95 cloth 978-0-231-17996-6

$55.00 / £45.95 paper 978-83-233-4190-1

2017 312 pages

2017 400 pages

Studies of the Weatherhead East Asian Institute, Columbia University

Jagiellonian University Press

E vo lv i n g B r a i n s E m E r g i n g g o ds Early Humans and tHE origins of rEligion

E. FullEr TorrEy

Religion

Eating Ethically

Theory

Religion and Science for a Better Diet

CRITIQUE CLASSIC and

Contemporary Approach es

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METHOD OLOGIES EDITED BY RICHARD KING

Jonathan K. Crane

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