Books published by State University of New York Press

Ethnography situating the contemporary financial services industry in the US Virgin Islands within broader histories of racial capitalism and gender inequality.

Examines the place of Paris in French Jewish literary memory, a memory that, of necessity, grapples with the aftermath of the Holocaust.

Evocative, innovative ethnography of spiritual practices and forms of queer, black, and indigenous life in the Dominican Republic.

This book explores the earliest Confucian texts to find coherent structural principles linking the various facets of Confucian doctrine. Its central theme is that the coherence of early Confucianism emerges only when doctrine is viewed as a function of the unique ritual practice of the early Confucian community.

Traces the US Supreme Court's effect on federal government growth from the founding era forward.

Explores the contradictory nature of public opinion.

An original critical introduction to women characters in the novels of Jane Austen.

Offers a new phenomenological method for biblical interpretation that opens up the possibility of an absolute science of scripture.

A rich intellectual encounter, revolving around the hands of the experimenter and those of the artist, highlighting the relation between the sciences and the arts.

¿tofaník provides a unique, personal reading of weak theology and tries to inhabit the gap between it and its "founder," John D. Caputo.

The first comprehensive treatment of Inoue Enry¿, a pioneer of modern Buddhism and a key figure in the reception of Western philosophy in East Asia.

Discusses the complexities and paradoxes of love as represented in the history of Western philosophy and Christianity.

Demonstrates how four books by dissident German intellectuals served as a rebuke to the Nazi regime.

Demonstrates the unique, pervasive, and overwhelmingly important role of other people within our lived experience.

A multidimensional approach captures the complexities of African American racial identity.

Explores the current and future trajectories of the paradigm of postsocialism.

Argues that a pluralistic understanding of truth can foster productive conversations about common concerns involving religion, science, ethics, politics, economics, and ecology without falling into relativism.

Essays that examine globalization's effects with an emphasis on the interplay of race and rurality as it occurs across diverse geographies and peoples.

A meditation on how religious language tries to limn the liminal, conceive the inconceivable, speak the unspeakable, and say the unsayable.