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African Religions, Social Realities

Series Editors

Joel Cabrita
Stanford University

Damaris Parsitau
Egerton University

Zakia Salime
Rutgers University

Shobana Shankar
Stony Brook University


Series Board

Cheikh Babou
University of Pennsylvania

Aomar Boum
University of California, Los Angeles

Serawit B. Debele
Bayreuth University

Natasha Erlank
University of Johannesburg

Mara Leichtman
Michigan State University

Devaka Premawardhana
Emory University

Abdulkader Tayob
University of Cape Town

African Religions, Social Realities is a new series dedicated to rigorous research attuned to how religious sensibilities shape, inform, and transform African lived experiences. The series focuses on the embeddedness of religious beliefs in material conditions and transformations—in ethical practices, gender negotiations, economic activities, political expressions, justice work, and other spheres. These books will reject narrow framings of religion in all senses—confessional, disciplinary, secularist, and geographical. This series also seeks to expand our understanding of African diasporas and religious connectivities in regions that have received less focus than the well-studied Atlantic world: namely, the Mediterranean, Middle East, Northern Africa, Indian Ocean, Persian Gulf, Asia, and the Pacific.

We welcome proposals from any discipline and across disciplines, including those that bridge language divides. This series has also been conceived to confront inequalities stemming from knowledge production centered in the West that tends to preclude scholars in the Global South, women, and early-career authors.

The series editors are especially eager to receive book proposals that reflect global crises and urgent humanitarian priorities as they intersect with religions: inequality, justice mobilizations, death, care, food and water, race, and labor. Other themes may include but are not limited to traditional and neotraditional belief systems, transoceanic and diasporic religious movements, interreligious relations, gender, sexuality, and reformism. Theological studies narrowly defined, textual exegesis, and translations may be considered but must clearly demonstrate fit with the series aims.

Inquiries about both completed manuscripts and projects in progress are welcome. Please contact Rick Huard at [email protected].

Andy Hayes Mysteries

In 2024, the series marks ten years and eight books featuring hardboiled Columbus, Ohio, quarterback–turned–private eye Andy Hayes.

White Coat Pocket Guide Series

Series Editor

Dr. John A. Brose

Derived from the particular programs and courses that serve interns, residents, students and practitioners, the White Coat Pocket Guide Series is an extension of the training and resources provided by the Ohio University Heritage College of Osteopathic Medicine and the former Centers for Osteopathic Regional Education. Each book is designed for easy access and use by both students and practitioners alike.

Western African Studies

This series, produced by publishers on three continents, brings together significant international scholarly work on Western Africa. Building on the successful model of the James Currey/Ohio University Press Eastern African Studies series, this series covers the western half of the continent from the Maghreb to the Congo. Multidisciplinary in character, the series is intended to circulate new work on the region throughout the world. In collaboration with a growing network of West African publishers and book distributors, the series includes work in anthropology, oral literature, politics, development, and in social and political history.

War and Society in North America

Series Editors

Ingo Trauschweizer
Ohio University

Jason W. Smith
Southern Connecticut State University

Editorial Advisory Board
Janet Bednarek
Lisa Brady
Nicole Etcheson
Joseph Fitzharris
John Hall
Amy Rutenberg
David Ulbrich
Kyle Zelner

This series provides a venue for scholars of war and society in the region now comprising the United States and Canada from the precolonial period to the present. The scope is broadly conceived to include:

  • military histories of conventional and unconventional conflicts on the North American continent
  • studies of peace movements and pacifist attitudes in North America
  • biographies of individuals and groups from North America who fought around the world and returned from those wars
  • examinations of institutional, political, diplomatic, religious, cultural, economic, or environmental factors that affected warfare on the North American continent
  • comparative analyses of military conflicts in North America

Outstanding monographs, surveys, anthologies, or edited primary source collections will be considered. Because this series originally focused on the Midwest, the coeditors will also continue to seek proposals on war and society in the upper Mississippi River valley, the Ohio River valley, and the Great Lakes region.

War and Militarism in African History

Series Editors

Alicia C. Decker
Pennsylvania State University

Giacomo Macola
Sapienza Università di Roma

War and Militarism in African History is the first book series dedicated to examining the politico-economic, sociocultural, and military dimensions of Africa’s past and continuing conflicts. While armed combat and other forms of violence are part of the social experience of large segments of the continent’s population, little of the scholarship published today recognizes the deep roots of these contemporary conflicts or describes them in the larger context in which they occur. In contrast, WMAH seeks works by scholars employing war-and-society approaches, in which the study of developments on the battlefield is interwoven with broader social trends and dynamics. The series also welcomes works that historicize militarism, or antimilitarist movements, as a corrective to the presentism that now prevails in the field.

The series will include monographs, broad syntheses with teaching potential at the graduate or undergraduate levels, and edited collections by both emerging and established scholars. WMAH also aspires to bridge the gap between scholarly readers and nonspecialists in the field.

The series editors particularly encourage submissions from Africa-based scholars, whose voices too often go unheard for lack of publishing opportunities. One of the driving objectives of WMAH is to address this imbalance.

Please send inquiries or proposals to editor in chief Ricky S. Huard at [email protected]

Editorial Advisory Board
Saheed Aderinto, Western Carolina University
David M. Gordon, Bowdoin College
Michelle R. Moyd, Michigan State University
Richard J. Reid, University of Oxford
Elizabeth Schmidt, Loyola University Maryland
Pamela Scully, Emory University
William K. Storey, Millsaps College
Luise White, University of Florida
Sarah J. Zimmerman, Western Washington University

Studies in Conflict, Justice, and Social Change

Series Editors

Susan F. Hirsch
George Mason University

Agnieszka Paczyńska
George Mason University

The books in this series explore conflict and the quest for justice as catalysts for social change. Intended for use in graduate and undergraduate courses, the books will highlight a key concept or theory and use it to illuminate conflict in a domestic or international setting. The series will include single-case studies and comparative analyses as well as edited volumes dedicated to conflict pedagogy. Role plays and other experiential learning exercises designed for classroom use with the books will be available electronically. The books will be appropriate for courses in interdisciplinary fields, such as conflict resolution, peace studies, sociolegal and justice studies, and related social sciences. Individual texts will appeal to instructors teaching specialized subjects, including, among others, environment, development, community organizing, human security, leadership, legal integration, sustainability, diplomacy, and immigration.

The series editors are based at the Jimmy and Rosalynn Carter School for Peace and Conflict Resolution at George Mason University, which provides material support for the publication of books in this series.

The Carter School awards academic degrees focused on the study of the nature, origins, and types of social conflicts and their resolution. Faculty and students are committed to the development of theory, research, and practice that interrupt cycles of violence. To learn more about the Carter School, please visit carterschool.gmu.edu.

Prospective authors should direct inquiries or submit proposals to editor in chief Ricky S. Huard at [email protected].

Series on Law, Society, and Politics in the Midwest

Series Editors

Paul Finkelman
Albany Law School

L. Diane Barnes
Youngstown State University

The Series in Law, Society, and Politics in the Midwest publishes works that emphasize major historical and contemporary issues in the greater Midwestern region. Books in the series engage a wide range of sources and topics that consider how the law shapes and influences politics and society in the United States.

Series in Victorian Studies

Series Editors

Joseph McLaughlin
Ohio University

Elizabeth Carolyn Miller
University of California, Davis

Ohio University Press publishes current research in Victorian studies. We are interested in work that extends the boundaries of literary criticism and creates conversations across disciplines, including literature, theater, history, art history, religion, political economy, law, and urban studies.

Our books in Victorian studies foster research that considers how Victorians came to understand and represent their domestic lives, their local communities, and their place in an increasingly integrated, yet still strange world.

Series in Race, Ethnicity, and Gender in Appalachia

Series concluded. See New Approaches to Appalachian Studies.

Both negative and overly positive stereotyped images of Appalachians betray reality. This series addresses the need to give greater voice and study to those who have been ignored or caricatured. In the past, Appalachians who are not of Celtic origin have been dismissed as not being genuine; likewise the role of men has been emphasized without exploring the full dimensions of gender. The series seeks scholarship related to these areas and encourages scholars to research areas previously overlooked.