AAR/SBL 2014 annual meeting wrap-up

Thanks to everyone who visited our booth at the American Academy of Religion/Society of Biblical Literature annual meeting this year! We had a great time in San Diego.

One of our favorite parts of the meeting was seeing many of our authors (and for many of us, meeting them for the first time!). Check out our slideshow below of some authors that stopped by our booth.

David Tittensor

David Tittensor displaying a copy of his book, The House of Service: The Gulen Movement and Islam’s Third Way

Robert Brawley, Kathy Ehrensperger, and Jan G. van der Watt

Robert Brawley, Editor-in-Chief of The Oxford Encyclopedia of the Bible and Ethics, with editorial board members Kathy Ehrensperger and Jan G. van der Watt

Andrea Jain

Andrea Jain, author of Selling Yoga: From Counterculture to Pop Culture, with her research assistant

David Michelson

David Michelson, author of The Practical Christology of Philoxenos of Mabbug

Joydeep Bagchee

Joydeep Bagchee, co-author of The Nay Science: A History of German Indology

Amy DeRogatis

Amy DeRogatis with her newly published book,


Saving Sex: Sexuality and Salvation in American Evangelicalism

Shannon Craigo-Snell

Shannon Craigo-Snell with a copy of her book, The Empty Church: Theater, Theology, and Bodily Hope

Diana Walsh Pasulka

Diana Walsh Pasulka holding a copy of her book, Heaven Can Wait: Purgatory in Catholic Devotional and Popular Culture

Marc Zvi Brettler

Marc Zvi Bretter holding the new edition of the Jewish Study Bible, which he co-edited

Joseph Laycock

Joseph Laycock with a copy of his just-published book, The Seer of Bayside: Veronica Lueken and the Struggle to Define Catholicism

Jeff Wilson

Jeff Wilson holding a copy of his book, Mindful America: The Mutual Transformation of Buddhist Meditation and American Culture

Kathryn Gin Lum

Kathryn Gin Lum displays a copy of her book,


Damned Nation: Hell in America from the Revolution to Reconstruction

T.J. Tomlin

T.J. Tomlin holding a copy of his book, A Divinity for All Persuasions: Almanacs and Early American Religious Life

Jiang Wu

Jiang Wu with his book, Leaving for the Rising Sun: Chinese Zen Master Yinyuan and the Authenticity Crisis in Early Modern East Asia

Timothy Michael Law

Timothy Michael Law with a copy of his book, When God Spoke Greek: The Septuagint and the Making of the Christian Bible

Eve Levavi Feinstein

Eve Levavi Feinstein with a copy of her book, Sexual Pollution in the Hebrew Bible

Robert Geraci

Robert Geraci holding a copy of his book, Virtually Sacred: Myth and Meaning in World of Warcraft and Second Life

Jacob Dorman

Jacob Dorman with a copy of his book, Chosen People: The Rise of American Black Israelite Religions

John Stackhouse

John Stackhouse with his new book, Need to Know: Vocation as the Heart of Christian Epistemology

Our conference discount is still good until 25 January 2015! Visit our webstore to browse our newest religion and theology books, and apply promotion code 32205 at checkout to received 20% off.

The post AAR/SBL 2014 annual meeting wrap-up appeared first on OUPblog.

                Related StoriesSan Diego, here we comeChristmas for a nonbelieverWilderness and redemption in Cheryl Strayed’s Wild