Baylor University Press

Baylor University Press

Parent company	Baylor University
Founded	1897 (Historical) 1955 (Modern)
Country of origin	United States
Headquarters location	Waco, Texas
Distribution	Longleaf Services (USA) University of Toronto Press (Canada) EUROSPAN (International) [1]
Publication types	Books
Official website	baylorpress.com

Baylor University Press is a university press affiliated with Baylor University, which is located in Waco, Texas. ^[2] The press releases books largely about religion and theology; it also publishes works about social criticism, sociology, literary criticism, and popular culture. ^{[3] [4] [5]}

Baylor University Press is currently a member of both the Association of University Presses, ^[6] and the Association of American Publishers. ^[7] In May 2002 ^[update] , it reportedly published around five books annually. ^[8]

History

While an older "Baylor University Press" was established in 1897 (making it one of the first university presses to be established in the United States); ^{[9] [10] [11]} this iteration of the press, operated by Baylor students, published original research by faculty, ^[12] textbooks, ^[13] and monographs, ^[14] as well as periodicals like the Baylor Bulletin (a bimonthly magazine that served as the "official organ" of the university), the Lariat (a weekly university newspaper), and the Round-Up (an annual). ^[15]

The modern version of the press, on the other hand, was founded in 1955 as a faculty committee that released books intermittently. The press instituted a more "intentional program" of publishing in the 1980s before beginning to expand in 1997. ^[8] The following year, it joined the Texas A&M University Press's Texas Book Consortium program (although it is not presently a member). ^{[8] [16]} Domestic distribution is currently provided by the University of North Carolina Press's Longleaf Services. ^{[1] [17]}

Controversy

In 2006, Baylor University Press drew attention for cancelling the publication of a book (initially titled Baylor Beyond the Crossroads: An Interpretive History, 1985-2005) that focused on former president of Baylor, Robert B. Sloan, and his controversial "Baylor 2012" project. ^[18] According to Baylor University Press, the book was dropped because it "did not survive external peer review", but other sources (such as the ABC news program Good Morning Texas ) contended that the press dropped the book after former Baylor president Herbert H. Reynolds sent a "threatening email to editors ... denouncing" it. ^{[18] [19]} After a rewrite, the book was published by St. Augustine's Press as The Baylor Project: Taking Christian Higher Education to the Next Level (2007). ^[20]

Publications

Book series

Notable book and monograph series published by Baylor University Press include the following: ^[21]

• "Baylor Handbook on the Greek New Testament" (BHGNT), edited by Martin Culy ^[22]
• "Baylor Handbook on the Hebrew Bible" (BHHB), edited by W. Dennis Tucker, Jr. ^[23]
• "Charles Edmondson Historical Lectures", sponsored by the Department of History, Baylor University ^[24]
• "Documents of Anglophone Christianity", edited by Roger Lundin and Debora Shuger ^[25]
• "The Making of the Christian Imagination", edited by Stephen Prickett ^[26]
• "New Perspectives on Latina/o Religion", edited by Miguel A. De La Torre ^[27]
• "Studies in Christianity and Literature", sponsored by the Conference on Christianity and Literature ^[28]
• "Studies in Religion and Higher Education", edited by Michael Beaty et al. ^[29]
• "Studies in Rhetoric and Religion" (SRR), edited by Martin J. Medhurst ^[30]

See also

• Literature portal
• Texas portal

• List of English-language book publishing companies
• List of university presses

References

1. "Ordering & Distribution". Baylor University Press. Retrieved February 25, 2023.
2. "Baylor University Press". Baylor University . Retrieved January 31, 2023.
3. "Baylor University Press". Publishers Archive. Retrieved February 22, 2023.
4. Jones, Karen (June 18, 2013). "Carey Newman: How to Rescue a University Press". Publishers Weekly . Retrieved February 22, 2023.
5. Garrett, Lynn (2010). "What Do Academic Religion Publishers See?" . Publishers Weekly . Retrieved February 24, 2023.
6. "Our Members". Association of University Presses . Retrieved January 30, 2023.
7. "Our Members | B". Association of American Publishers. 26 September 2019. Retrieved February 22, 2023.
8. Gaart, Brian (May 7, 2002). "Slow Book Sales Taking Toll on Baylor University Press – School Cutting Back on Number Of Copies Printed" . Waco Tribune-Herald . Retrieved February 24, 2023.
9. Clement, Richard W. (2011). "Library and University Press Integration: A New Vision for University Publishing" . Journal of Library Administration. 51 (5–6): 507–528. doi:10.1080/01930826.2011.589330. ISSN   0193-0826. S2CID   143726027.
10. Tebbel, John (1975). "The Rise of the University Press". A History of Book Publishing in the United States. Vol. 2. New York City, NY: R. R. Bowker Co. pp. 535–539. ISBN   9780835204897.
11. Lane, Robert Frederick (1939). The Place of American University Presses in Publishing (PhD dissertation). University of Chicago. p. 21.
12. E.g., Strecker, John K. (1915). "Reptiles and Amphibians of Texas". Baylor Bulletin. 18 (4). Retrieved February 25, 2023– via The Internet Archive.
13. E.g., Dow, Grove Samuel (1920). Introduction to the Principles of Sociology: A Text Book for Colleges and Universities. Waco, Texas: Baylor University Press. Retrieved February 25, 2023– via The Internet Archive.
14. E.g., Tidwell, J. B. (1924). Genesis: A Study of the Plan of Redemption. Waco, Texas: Baylor University Press. Retrieved February 25, 2023– via The Internet Archive.
15. Baylor University (1922). "Annual Catalogue of Baylor University at Waco, Texas". Baylor Bulletin. 25 (3): 33–34. Retrieved February 25, 2023– via Google Books.
16. "Texas Book Consortium". Texas A&M University Press . Retrieved February 14, 2023.
17. "Client Publishers". Longleaf Services . Retrieved February 25, 2023.
18. Woods, Tim (2006). "Book about Baylor University, if Published, Could Cause Old Wounds to Surface" . Waco Tribune-Herald . Retrieved February 25, 2023.
19. "Early Edition" . Good Morning Texas. 5:38-5:44: American Broadcasting Company. 2006. KXXV . Retrieved February 25, 2023.
20. Woods, Tim (2007). "Controversial Book about Baylor to be Published After All" . Waco Tribune-Herald . Retrieved February 25, 2023.
21. "Baylor University Press". Directory 2016: Information on Scholarly Presses in the U.S., Canada, and Overseas. Washington, DC: Association of American University Presses. 2016. pp. 37–38.
22. Evans, J. F. (2016). A Guide to Biblical Commentaries and Reference Works: 10th Edition. Grand Rapids, Michigan: Zondervan Academic. p. 45. ISBN   9780310520979.
23. Price, J. D. (2008). "Jonah: A Handbook on the Hebrew Text" . Journal of the Evangelical Theological Society . 51 (1): 123. ProQuest   211234190 . Retrieved February 25, 2023.
24. "Smith College's Helen Horowitz Will Give the 2014 Charles Edmondson Historical Lectures" . Targeted News Service. 2014. ProQuest   1498216353 . Retrieved February 25, 2023.
25. Eggert, Katherine (2017). "Recent Studies in the English Renaissance". SEL: Studies in English Literature 1500–1900 . 57 (1): 181–225. doi:10.1353/sel.2017.0008. S2CID   51689220.
26. Klassen, N. (2016). The Fellowship of the Beatific Vision: Chaucer on Overcoming Tyranny and Becoming Ourselves. Eugene, Oregon: Wipf and Stock. p. 6. ISBN   97814982-83687.
27. "Series: New Perspectives on Latina/o Religion". Project MUSE . Retrieved February 25, 2023.
28. McGehee, Michael (2010). "Review of 'Invisible Conversations: Religion and the Literature of America' ed. by Roger Lundin". Christianity & Literature . 59 (4): 742. doi:10.1177/014833311005900420.
29. Higton, M. (2012). A Theology of Higher Education. Oxford, UK: Oxford University Press. p. 257. ISBN   9780199643929.
30. Cahill, Thomas; Houck, Davis W.; Dixon, David E. (2007). "History and Biography". Religion and the Arts . 11: 122–126.

External links

• Baylor University Press main page