Publishers Weekly - 27.01.2020

40 PUBLISHERS WEEKLY ■ JANUARY 27, 2020

Spring Religion & Spirituality

UNIV. OF NORTH CAROLINA

Saving History: How White

Evangelicals Tour the Nation’s

Capital and Redeem a Christian

America by Lauren R. Kerby (Apr. 13,

$22 trade paper, ISBN 978-1-4696-

5877-3). Kerby, education specialist

at Harvard Divinity School, tells of

her trips on tour buses through

Washington, D.C., alongside white

evangelicals searching for evidence

that America was founded as a Christian

nation.

UNIV. OF PENNSYLVANIA

Missionaries, Converts, and Rabbis:

The Evangelical Alexander McCaul

and Jewish-Christian Debate in the

Nineteenth Century by David B.

Ruderman (Apr. 10, $55, ISBN 978-0-

8122-5214-9). Ruderman, professor of

modern Jewish History at the University

of Pennsylvania, details the life and work

of evangelical missionary

Alexander McCaul (1799–

1863), who was sent to

Warsaw by the London

Society for the Promotion

of Christianity Amongst

the Jews.

UNIV. OF TEXAS

Ancient Roman

Afterlife: Di Manes, Belief,

and the Cult of the Dead by Charles

King (Mar. 10, $55, ISBN 978-1-4773-

2020-4). King, professor of history at

the University of Nebraska–Omaha,

details Roman beliefs about the power

of the Manes (deified deceased members

of one’s family) to sustain life and bring

death, and explains the rituals the

Romans performed.

VERSO

Woman Named Moses: A Prophet

for Our Time by Jean-Christophe Attias

(Apr. 7, $26.95, ISBN 978-1-78873-

639-8). Attias, a professor at the

Sorbonne in Paris, follows the metamor-

phoses of Moses through ages and cul-

tures and draws on rabbinical sources,

as well as the Bible itself, to examine

what he calls “a fragile prophet.”

W

All Things Reconsidered: How

Rethinking What We Know Helps Us

Know What We Believe by Knox

McCoy (May 6, $17.99 trade paper,

ISBN 978-0-7852-2092-3). Podcaster

McCoy offers a blend of humor,

Bible stories, pop culture refer-

ences, and personal anecdotes

to demonstrate how asking

tough questions and reconsid-

ering ideas can allow faith to

grow.

WATERBROOK

Enter Wild: Exchange

a Mild and Mundane

Faith for Life with an

Unpredictable God by Carlos

Whittaker (June 16, $17 trade paper,

ISBN 978-0-525-65400-1). Speaker

Whittaker shares his personal

struggle with anxiety, and

how the key to his freedom

was rediscovering a more

energetic faith.

WEISER

21 Divisions: Mysteries

and Magic of Dominican

Voodoo by Hector Salva

(May 1, $18.95 trade paper,

ISBN 978-1-57863-681-5). Dominican

voodoo practitioner Salva explores the

21 Divisions tradition of Dominican

shamanism, which purports to help

one achieve success, resolve love issues,

and heal illness.

WESTMINSTER JOHN KNOX

Part-Time Is Plenty: Thriving

Without Full-Time Clergy by G. Jeffrey

MacDonald (Apr. 7, $22 trade paper,

ISBN 978-0-664-26599-1). Journalist

and part-time pastor MacDonald con-

siders how to run effective ministries

with just half- or quarter-time profes-

sional ministers.

WISDOM

The Grand Delusion: What We

Know But Don’t Believe by Steve

Hagen (Jul. 28, $16.95 trade paper,

ISBN 978-1-61429-678-2). Using a

mix of examples from physics, philos-

ophy, religion, myth, neuroscience, and

mathematics, Zen teacher Hagen uses a

question-and-response style to analyze

core human questions such as “What is

consciousness?”

ZONDERVAN

Dangerous Prayers:

Because Following Jesus

Was Never Meant to Be

Safe by Craig Groeschel

(Feb. 2, $22.99, ISBN 978-

0-310-34312-7).

Groeschel, senior pastor

of Life.Church, helps

readers to unlock their

potential and tackle fears through

prayer. ■

THE BOOK OF

HOUSEHOLDER

KOANS

WAKING UP IN THE LAND

OF ATTACHMENTS

Eve Myonen Marko

Wendy Egyoku Nakao

“Radical, useful, and wild, this rich

collection of householder koans

opens a treasure house of wisdom

for all.” —JOAN HALIFAX

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