Class 200 is a home for the most innovative works in the contemporary study of religion. 

The series is open to authors from any background or training.

The series is not bound to any particular tradition, geography, time period, or theoretical position. 

The series emerges from two fundamentals. First, scholarship about religion always theorizes religion. Second, form comprises content. The editors invite proposals for works that reflect explicitly on theory and method, and that show an understanding of how style and structure influence humanistic findings.

We are interested in works that address conceptual knots, works that make descriptive claims as well as normative ones, and works that contend, carefully, with a variety of sources, partners, and opponents. Our primary interest is to identify books that chart new possibilities for humanistic inquiry while practicing the best interpretive methods.

Inquiry e-mails should be sent to the three editors for the series. The initial inquiry should include a brief abstract that explicitly identifies the subject, the author’s major research finding, and the theoretical intervention. If interested, the editors will request a full proposal and, possibly, sample chapters for review. For every new inquiry we commit to reply within six weeks of receipt.

Class 200 takes its name from the Dewey Decimal System call number for religion.