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American Academy of Religion-Society of Biblical Literature 2026

November 21, 2026 / Denver, CO

Come find us in the Ingram Academic booth at the 2026 AAR-SBL conference!

Browse our books and journals in religious studies at the Ingram Academic booth in Denver! You can also browse titles below or check out our complete list in the field. Books below are arranged alphabetically by first author/editor last name.

Through January 2, 2027, use code AAR26 to save 40% on all books and journal issues when you order on our website. Customers in the UK and Europe can order books with this code from our UK partner, Mare Nostrum Group.

To connect with any of our editors, view their specialties and contact information. To submit a book proposal, consult our online submissions guidelines and submission portal.

The Noise Silence Makes cover image
The Noise Silence Makes

Secularity and Ghana's Drum Wars

Mariam Goshadze

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Winner of the 2026 Best First Book in Religious Studies Award, AAR

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The Coloniality of the Secular

Race, Religion, and Poetics of World-Making

An Yountae

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The Anarchy of Black Religion

A Mystic Song

J. Kameron Carter

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Cover of The Witch Studies Reader features a grainy, gray illustration of a forest against a black background on the top half of the cover, with its vertical mirror image on the bottom half.
The Witch Studies Reader

Soma Chaudhuri and Jane Ward, editors

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Cover of Faculties has bold white, orange, and pink typography against a deep purple background, with the title centered. The author's names are on the top left and the subtitle is on the bottom left.
Faculties

A Dialogue on Inciting Constructive Change in Destructive Times

Cathy N. Davidson and Jody Greene

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Cover of Betes Noires features a photograph of a crouching individual holding rope and wearing a covering with horns that hides their face in an empty room. Below the photograph the cover is black with a grey texture.
Bêtes Noires

Sorcery as History in the Haitian-Dominican Borderlands

Lauren Derby

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Winner of the 2026 Gordon K and Sybil Lewis Book Award, CSA

Cover of Rescuing the Enlightenment from the Europeans is brown featuring a print of a person huddled at a desk with their arms covering their face. Owls, bats, and other creatures surround them.
Rescuing the Enlightenment from the Europeans

Critical Theories of Decolonization

Nikita Dhawan

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Political Theology Reimagined

Alex Dubilet and Vincent W. Lloyd, editors

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Cover of Archival Irruptions features an image of an old handwritten ledger or registry page with rows and columns filled with cursive names and annotations and what appears to be an ink smudge at the bottom.
Archival Irruptions

Constructing Religion and Criminalizing Obeah in Eighteenth-Century Jamaica

Katharine Gerbner

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Cover of Feminist Making, Doing, and Sensing is white with a light pink spray-painted area at the top. Below are five hands in different art styles all reaching towards a central heart sculpture that is made from cut out hands.
Feminist Making, Doing, and Sensing

Experiments in Philosophy

Lauren Guilmette and Ada S. Jaarsma, editors

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Cover of Art as Sanctuary is white with a light blue gradient featuring a piece of art showing Africana aesthetics. The art features the face of a woman in blue with a cowrie shell drawn on her forehead.
Art as Sanctuary

Conjuring an Africana Aesthetic

Michael D. Harris

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Cover of The Problem of Passing features a shadowed humans silhouette against a beige background with abstract line drawings composed of human hands.
The Problem of Passing

Sandra Harvey

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Cover of My Father, the Messiah features a warm, reddish-orange overlay on a blurred photograph of a child reaching down to touch a man lying on the ground. The title is in a large white serif font across the center.
My Father, the Messiah

A Memoir

Gil Z. Hochberg

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Enter the Lion

The 1966 State Visit of Emperor Haile Selassie I to the Caribbean

John P. Homiak, Giulia Bonacci, and Jahlani A. Niaah

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Inhabitants of the Deep

The Blueness of Blackness

Jonathan Howard

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No God but Man

On Race, Knowledge, and Terrorism

Atiya Husain

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Captive Ecologies

The Environmental Afterlives of Slavery

Jennifer C. James

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Cover ofThe Cultural Logic of Late Capitalism. The cover features a multicolored gradient overlaid on a photograph of modern glass-and-steel skyscrapers.
The Cultural Logic of Late Capitalism

The Postmodernism Essay

Fredric Jameson

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Afroindigenization

A Theory of Grassroots Cultural Practice

Catherine A. John

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Flight Lines

A Poetics of Black Space

Elleza Kelley

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Asylum

The Concept and the Practice

Khanna, Ranjana

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We See with the Skin

On Zora Neale Hurston's Methodology

Kheshti, Roshanak

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After Transformation

A Lyrical History of Christian Late Antiquity

Maia Kotrosits

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Cover of Marx for Cats is pale yellow and at its center is the title information. Surrounding the title information are patterns of drawn cartoon cats, including a tiger, a housecat, a cheetah, and a panther.
Marx for Cats

A Radical Bestiary

Leigh Claire La Berge

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Cover of Personal Demons features a painting of a beige cat-like creature caught in branches against a painted black background.
Personal Demons

Possession Narratives of Late Liberalism

Grace Lavery

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Cover of Loving Black Boys features a purple and orange color overlay depicting two young boys walking together on a street, one with an arm around the other's shoulder.
Loving Black Boys

A Black Feminist Bible on Racism and Revolutionary Mothering

Tamura Lomax

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Performances of Spiral Time

Leda Maria Martins

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The background of the cover of The Personality of Power is black and has images of dozens of tiny individual people in different poses.
The Personality of Power

A Theory of Fascism for Anti-fascist Life

Brian Massumi

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Brutalism

Achille Mbembe

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Necropolitics

Achille Mbembe

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Cover of Ninety-Nine features a flower like kaleidoscopic design made by the repetition of stylized Arabic scripts in a radial pattern in colors that range from yellow to orange to a berry red. The background is a deep purple brown.
Ninety-Nine

A Kaleidoscopic Portrait of Allah

Mittermaier, Amira

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Cover of Insurgent Visions features a bold, abstract illustration in red, pink, black, and teal tones. Stylized human faces and a human hand overlap with patterned abstract shapes in a collage-like composition.
Insurgent Visions

Feminism, Justice, Solidarity

Chandra Talpade Mohanty

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Cover of Forms of Worship is purple with two photographs at the bottom. The left photograph is of a parade of people wearing colorful clothing and playing music. The smaller photo is of people in white looking up at a window.
Forms of Worship

How Orisa Worship Became Religion in Nigeria and Brazil

Ayodeji Ogunnaike

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Cover of The Goddess in the Mirror depicts a woman applying makeup to another woman in front of a large round mirror. The scene captures both the women directly and their reflections.
The Goddess in the Mirror

An Anthropology of Beauty

Tulasi Srinivas

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Cover of From Hate to Hallows features an orange and red sky scattered with dark flecks above a black silhouetted church with a cross. The title appears in large white letters across the upper half.
From Hate to Hallows

Reframing Black Church Arson

Todne Thomas

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Cover of The Disturbing Profane features an abstract pattern of black circles against a white background. Roughly half of the circles have a solid fill, leaving little of the white background visible. The other circles have a brushstroke-like texture
The Disturbing Profane

Hip Hop, Blackness, and the Sacred

Joseph R. Winters

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The cover art is a detail from the installation "Biography of a thought" by Tenzing Rigdol, a vibrant, colorful piece with stylized waves in various shades of blue and swirling, multicolored clouds.
Ocean, as Much as Rain

Stories, Lyrical Prose, and Poems from Tibet

Tsering Woeser

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Cover of Sonorous Passages features a sculpture of three black ceramic torsos expanding vertically, linked by bead-like orbs of glossy black and gold leaf. 
Sonorous Passages

Black Maternal Soundings and the Liberation Imaginary

Meina Yates-Richard

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