July’s free ebook is here! Check out Chicago Católico: Making Catholic Parishes Mexican by Deborah E. Kanter before the month is over! Today, over one hundred Chicago-area Catholic churches offer […]
Free E-book Giveaway: CHICAGO CATÓLICO
Category: religion
Q&A With Robert M. Marovich, Author of Peace Be Still
Robert M. Marovich, author of Peace Be Still: How James Cleveland and the Angelic Choir Created a Gospel Classic, answers questions on his religious influences, discoveries, and reader takeaways in […]
Free Ebook Giveaway: Ritual Soundings
November’s free ebook is here! We’re giving away Ritual Soundings: Women Performers and World Religions by Sarah Weiss. The women of communities in Hindu India and Christian Orthodox Finland alike […]
Q&A with Kevin Mungons and Douglas Yeo, co-authors of Homer Rodeheaver and the Rise of the Gospel Music Industry
We recently talked to co-authors Kevin Mungons and Douglas Yeo about their new book, Homer Rodeheaver and the Rise of the Gospel Music Industry. Q: Why did you decide to […]
AAR/SBL Virtual Exhibit
Welcome to the University of Illinois Press virtual exhibit for the 2020 American Academy of Religion and Society of Biblical Literature conference! While we wish this could be an in-person […]
Q&A with Deborah E. Kanter, Author of Chicago Católico
Author of Chicago Católico: Making Catholic Parishes Mexican, Deborah E. Kanter answers questions about her influences, discoveries, and motivations for writing her book. Q: Why did you decide to write […]
Q&A with Honey Meconi, author of Hildegard of Bingen
Honey Meconi is Chair and Professor of Music in the College Music Department and a professor of musicology at the Eastman School of Music at the University of Rochester. Her many […]
3rd & FINAL IPad Giveaway
The University of Illinois Press is celebrating its 100th Anniversary this year. In order to celebrate, we decided to do something special for our readers. In honor of 100 years, we have […]
Backlist Bop: The French Connection
Today marks the birthday of Daniel Chester French, in his day one of America’s most popular sculptors. The famed often seem to have known the famed, and French was no […]
Backlist Bop: Betrayal of the Spirit, by Nori J. Muster
Book Riot recently released a list of 100 must-read books on life in cults and oppressive religious sects. Author Elizabeth Allen moved across the tragic, weird, and terrible landscape of […]
Release Party: The Making of Working Class Religion
Religion has played a protean role in the lives of America’s workers. Matthew Pehl focuses on Detroit to examine the religious consciousness constructed by the city’s working-class Catholics, African American […]
Q&A with The Street is My Pulpit author Mwenda Ntarangwi
Mwenda Ntarangwi is an associate professor of anthropology at Calvin College. He recently answered some questions about his book The Street Is My Pulpit: Hip Hop and Christianity in Kenya. […]