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