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Publishers Weekly’s Religion Bookline has a great feature about our new book series The Lives of Great Religious Books.
Calling the series ambitious, G. Jeffrey MacDonald writes “If it’s true that a book takes on a life of its own, then each has a life story waiting to be told. So let the telling begin–starting with books that have sought the divine and rocked history, one soul at a time.”
He continues to praise Princeton University Press for aiming “to fill a void on the publishing landscape.”
MacDonald is not the only person praising the ambitiousness of this project. In the Chronicle of Higher Education’s PageView blog last week, Carlin Romano noted:
With three marquee scholar-experts like [Wills, Marty, and Lopez], it’s clear that Princeton isn’t fooling around, isn’t simply launching a series of low-profile secondary works. Forthcoming volumes are also impressive in conception, including Annping Chin and Jonathan Spence on The Analects of Confucius, and John J. Collins on The Dead Sea Scrolls. Someone up in New Jersey plainly wants to launch a distinctive, powerful genre.
And with that, Romano’s hit the nail on the head. This new series is the brain-child of religion editor Fred Appel who tells me that this series is designed around the idea of exploring why religious books exert such power on culture and history.
“What we need to know—and what a book of reasonable length could realistically impart to us—is how and why countless numbers of our fellows have been inspired, moved, galvanized, driven to despair or ecstasy by religious books,” concludes Appel.
Learn more about the Lives of Great Religious Books series here and become a fan of the series on Facebook to receive updates about current and forthcoming titles and authors in the series.
