The University of North Carolina Press

Religious Studies

World Religious Traditions


Mystical Dimensions of Islam
by Annemarie Schimmel

"Students of Islam and of comparative religion as well as those who respond to mysticism are deeply in the author's debt for giving us what will surely be the standard treatment of Sufism for a long time to come."America

527 pp., 1271-4 $18.95 pa

And Muhammad Is His Messenger
The Veneration of the Prophet in Islamic Piety
by Annemarie Schimmel

Based on four decades of work by the author, this is the first English-language book to deal with all aspects of the veneration of the Prophet Muhammad. Using original sources in the various Islamic languages, Annemarie Schimmel explains the central place of Muhammad in Muslim life, mystical thought, and poetry.

389 pp., 1639-6 $39.95 cl
4128-5 $17.95 pa

Studies in Religion

The Devil and Commodity Fetishism in South America

by Michael Taussig

"Taussig succeeds brilliantly in his central purpose: to help us to see the challenge as being to defetishize, to control our culture and its poetic products, and not be controlled by them."Labour

277 pp., 4106-4 $12.95 pa

The Faces of the Gods
Vodou and Roman Catholicism in Haiti
by Leslie G. Desmangles

A Choice Outstanding Academic Book

"The first comprehensive overview of Vodou. . . . [The book is] vital for students of African-American religions, but also of interest to anthropologists, political scientists, sociologists and historians of religion. Likely to be the authoritative study on this topic for years to come." Stephen D. Glazier,

University of Nebraska at Kearney

240 pp., 2059-8 $34.95 cl

4393-8 $14.95 pa

New Testament Interpretation through Rhetorical Criticism
by George A. Kennedy

"The single best introduction to some of the key rhetorical dimensions in the biblical text." Quarterly Journal of Speech

"We have seen a growing interest in ancient rhetoric as one context for the comparative study of the New Testament, but up until now there has been no general introduction to this kind of anaylsis." Wayne A. Meeks, Yale University

181 pp., 1601-9 $24.95 cl

4120-X $10.95 pa

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