The Definitive Account of the 1927 Tragedy and Its Legacy at Baylor University
by Todd Copeland
Price: $22.99
ISBN: 9781481323390
Publisher: Baylor University Press
Pub Date: December 2025
Format: Paperback
On the morning of January 22, 1927, Baylor University’s basketball team set out by bus for Austin to play the University of Texas that night. The game, however, would never be played. Ten of the twenty-two...
Palestinian Christian Theology from the 1980s to the Present
by Maayan Karen Raveh
Price: $64.99
ISBN: 9781481323703
Publisher: Baylor University Press
Pub Date: October 2025
Format: Hardcover
"If Jesus were to be born today, he would be born under the rubble of Gaza."This powerful statement of Rev. Dr. Munther Isaac captures the physical and spiritual landscape of Palestinian Christians....
The second century of the Common Era was a time of significant transition, innovation, and upheaval for the Greco-Roman world. In the midst of great societal changes the relatively new religious movement...
Exploring medieval spirituality invites us to delve into a remote world. This introduction is a guide to understanding how medieval believers experienced divine presence in manifold ways. God became...
Essays on the Historiography of the Evangelical Movement
Edited by David W. Bebbington
Price: $64.99
ISBN: 9781481322621
Publisher: Baylor University Press
Pub Date: April 2025
Format: Hardcover
From the dawn of their movement in the eighteenth century, evangelicals composed narratives of the revivals that were drawing in large numbers of new converts. As evangelicals continued to write about...
The discovery of the Dead Sea Scrolls in the caves near Qumran in 1947 sparked near endless speculation about the possible connections between the Essenes--purportedly the inhabitants of the settlement--and...
Translated by Brian McNeil and Alexander Johannes Edmonds
Price: $64.99
ISBN: 9781481308601
Publisher: Baylor University Press
Pub Date: February 2025
Format: Paperback
You stars of Anu, I call on you! You stars of Enlil, turn to me!You stars of Ea, all of you together, gather around me!I have offered you a pure sacrifice,I have scattered pure incense to you,I have...
The Letter of Ibn al-Layth to the King of the Romans
Edited by Ayman S. Ibrahim and Clint Hackenburg
Translated by Ayman S. Ibrahim and Clint Hackenburg
Price: $69.99
ISBN: 9781481322003
Publisher: Baylor University Press
Pub Date: February 2025
Format: Hardcover
In the last decade of the eighth century, the longtime caliphal secretary, Ibn al-Layth (d. ca. 819), composed a letter on behalf of the caliph Hārūn al-Rashīd (r. 786-809) to the Byzantine emperor...
God of the Whirlwind is a book about the power of storytelling traditions to carry memories and shape ways of living. It assembles stories from members of the Black Waco community--stories that have...
In the summer of 1945, Eberhard Bethge began the search for traces of his colleague and friend Dietrich Bonhoeffer. From as early as September 1945, Hermann Pünder provided Bethge a first-hand account...
The industrialization of print technologies in early nineteenth-century America transformed print culture in ways that parallel the transformation wrought by the digital revolution. Understanding how...
A Hidden History of Prayer, Proclamation, and Prophetic Witness
by E. Trey Clark
Price: $64.99
ISBN: 9781481321990
Publisher: Baylor University Press
Pub Date: July 2024
Format: Hardcover
Stereotypical images of African American Christian spirituality eclipse the profound diversity of Black preaching. As a result, contemplative preaching has become one of the most overlooked streams...
Hong Kong, Mission, and the Evolution of Global Pentecostalism
by Alex R. Mayfield
Price: $59.99
ISBN: 9781481318976
Publisher: Baylor University Press
Pub Date: November 2023
Format: Hardcover
The Kaleidoscopic City explores the development of Pentecostalism in Hong Kong between 1907 and 1942. Focusing primarily on Pentecostal missionaries and the Chinese leaders who worked alongside them,...
Madness is a sin. Those with emotional disabilities are shunned. Mental illness is not the church’s problem.All three claims are wrong.In Madness, Heather H. Vacek traces the history of Protestant...
Iconoclasm and Religious Reformation in the Byzantine World
by Philip Jenkins
Price: $42.99
ISBN: 9781481318228
Publisher: Baylor University Press
Pub Date: September 2023
Format: Hardcover
In the eighth century, the Byzantine Empire began a campaign to remove or suppress sacred images that depicted Christ, the Virgin, or other holy figures, whether in paintings, mosaics, murals, or other...
Faith Tabernacle Congregation on the Guinea Coast, 1918–1929
by Adam Mohr
Price: $64.99
ISBN: 9781481318655
Publisher: Baylor University Press
Pub Date: August 2023
Format: Hardcover
In eleven short years, from 1918 to 1929, Faith Tabernacle Congregation, a small divine healing church in Philadelphia, spread over the Guinea Coast, garnering over 250 branches and nearly 11,000 members...
