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June 17, 2019
Church in the Wild
We often credit the Transcendentalists with introducing a revolutionary new appreciation for nature into American spirituality when they claimed that …
January 24, 2019
Beyond Debt
Recent economic crises have made the centrality of debt, and the instability it creates, increasingly apparent. In Beyond Debt: Islamic Experiments in…
December 24, 2018
The Story of Radio Mind
At the dawn of the radio age in the 1920s, Frederick Du Vernet—Anglican archbishop and self-declared scientist—announced a psychic channel by which mi…
August 17, 2018
New World A-Coming
A wave of religious leaders in black communities in the early twentieth-century insisted that so-called Negroes were, in reality, Ethiopian Hebrews, A…
May 16, 2018
Christian Slavery
Could slaves become Christian? If so, did their conversion lead to freedom? If not, how could perpetual enslavement be justified? In her recent book, …
March 7, 2018
Catholic Modern
In 1900 the Catholic Church stood staunchly against religious freedom and the secular state. By the 1960s, that position was reversed and Catholics be…
October 24, 2017
Religion and the Morality of the Market
Since the collapse of the Berlin Wall, there has been a widespread affirmation of economic ideologies that conceive the market as an autonomous sphere…
August 19, 2017
The Matter of Voice
Philosophers have long tried to silence the physical musicality of voice in favor of the purity of ideas without matter, souls without bodies. But voi…
May 19, 2017
Blackpentecostal Breath
Blackpentecostal Breath: The Aesthetics of Possibility (Fordham University Press, 2016) is innovative and lyrical, challenging and beautiful. Ashon Cr…
February 1, 2017
Vatican II Behind the Iron Curtain
Many historians have documented the Second Vatican Council yet virtually no attention has been devoted to the Catholics who found themselves living be…
December 10, 2016
The Suburban Church
After World War II, America's religious denominations spent billions on church architecture as they spread into the suburbs. Gretchen Buggeln's latest…
October 14, 2016
History and Presence
Beginning with the Catholic doctrine of the literal, embodied presence of Christ, scholar of religion Robert Orsi imagines an alternative to the futur…
April 30, 2016
Sensational Movies
Anthropologist Birgit Meyer's most recent book, Sensational Movies: Video, Vision, and Christianity in Ghana (University of California Press, 2015), e…
March 2, 2016
Mother Figured
There is no female religious figure so widely known and revered as the Virgin Mary. Filipino Catholics are especially drawn to Mama Mary and have a st…
January 5, 2016
American Possessions
Exorcisms and demons. In his new book American Possessions: Fighting Demons in the Contemporary United States (Oxford University Press, 2015), Sean Mc…
November 12, 2015
Hittin' the Prayer Bones
Anderson Blanton's Hittin' the Prayer Bones: Materiality of Spirit in the Pentecostal South (University of North Carolina Press, 2015), illuminates ho…
October 28, 2015
Emotions and Christian Missions
Published by Palgrave in 2015, Emotions and Christian Missions: Historical Perspectives brings together scholars from Australia, New Zealand, Canada, …
September 17, 2015
Border Medicine
Mexican American religious healing - often called curanderismo - is a vital component of life in the US-Mexican borderlands. In his book Border Medici…
July 12, 2015
A Ministry of Presence
As patterns of religiosity have changed in the United States, chaplains have come to occupy an increasingly important place in the nation's public ins…
June 28, 2015
Blood
Blood. It is more than a thing and more than a metaphor. It is an effective concept, an element, with which, and through which, Christianity becomes w…
May 29, 2015
The Anthropology of Protestantism
In The Anthropology of Protestantism:Faith and Crisis among Scottish Fishermen (Palgrave Macmillan, 2013), anthropologist Joseph Webster takes readers…
March 31, 2015
Sister Thorn and Catholic Mysticism in Modern America
Sister Thorn and Catholic Mysticism in Modern America (UNC Press, 2013) is a detailed journey into the life of Margaret Reilly, an American Irish-Cath…
March 10, 2015
Religion and the Sciences of Origins
Kelly James Clark acknowledges that for many people in the contemporary West it can seem as though scientists, from Darwin and Dawkins, have succeeded…
February 2, 2015
The Death and Afterlife of the North American Martyrs
Martyrdom, writes Emma Anderson, is anything but random. In beautiful prose and spectacular historical detail, The Death and Afterlife of the North Am…