Religious Studies News

Niloofar Haeri, Say What Your Longing Heart Desires: Women, Prayer, and Poetry in Iran. Stanford University Press, 2020. December 12, 2022.

Sam Gill, The Proper Study of Religion: Building on Jonathan Z. Smith. Oxford University Press, 2020. September 13, 2022.

Yuhang Li, Becoming Guanyin: Artistic Devotion of Buddhist Women in Late Imperial China. Columbia University Press, 2020. May 16, 2022.

Maria E. Doerfler, Jephthah’s Daughter, Sarah’s Son: The Death of Children in Late Antiquity. University of California Press, 2020. March 30, 2022.

Isabel Laack, Aztec Religion and Art of Writing: Investigating Embodied Meaning, Indigenous Semiotics, and the Nahua Sense of Reality. Brill, 2019. February 3, 2022.

Kathryn Tanner, Christianity and the New Spirit of Capitalism. Yale University Press, 2019. December 8, 2021.

Jolyon Thomas, Faking Liberties: Religious Freedom in American-Occupied Japan. University of Chicago Press, 2019. October 14, 2021.

Justine Buck Quijada, Buddhists, Shamans, and Soviets: Rituals of History in Post-Soviet Buryatia. Oxford University Press, 2019. June 24, 2021.

Sugata Ray, Climate Change and the Art of Devotion: Geoaesthetics in the Land of Krishna, 1550-1850. University of Washington Press, 2019. May 20, 2021.

Matthew King, Ocean of Milk, Ocean of Blood: A Mongolian Monk in the Ruins of the Qing Empire. Columbia University Press, 2019. April 1, 2021.

Mara Benjamin, The Obligated Self: Maternal Subjectivity and Jewish Thought. Indiana University Press, 2018. February 18, 2021.

Karin Vélez, The Miraculous Flying House of Loreto: Spreading Catholicism in the Early Modern World. Princeton University Press, 2018. December 17, 2020.

Geraldine Heng, The Invention of Race in the European Middle Ages. Cambridge University Press, 2018. September 17, 2020.

J. Lorand Matory, The Fetish Revisited: Marx, Freud, and the Gods Black People Make. Duke University Press, 2018. July 30, 2020.

Jessica Vantine Birkenholtz, Reciting the Goddess: Narratives of Place and the Making of Hinduism in Nepal. Oxford University Press, 2018. June 18, 2020.

Bissera Pentcheva, Hagia Sophia: Sound, Space, and Spirit in Byzantium. Penn State University Press, 2017. November 7, 2019.

Wallace Best, Langston’s Salvation: American Religion and the Bard of Harlem. NYU Press, 2017. October 10, 2019.

Nancy Levene, Powers of Distinction: On Religion and Modernity. University of Chicago Press, 2017. September 16, 2019.

Lincoln Mullen, The Chance of Salvation: A History of Conversion in America. Harvard University Press, 2017. April 17, 2019.

Jenna Reinbold, Seeing the Myth in Human Rights. University of Pennsylvania Press, 2016. February 28, 2019.

Noah Salomon, For Love of the Prophet: An Ethnography of Sudan’s Islamic State. Princeton University Press, 2016. January 18, 2019.

Lena Salaymeh, The Beginnings of Islamic Law: Late Antique Islamicate Legal Traditions. Cambridge University Press, 2016. April 5, 2018.

Noreen Khawaja, The Religion of Existence: Asceticism in Philosophy from Kierkegaard to Sartre. University of Chicago Press, 2016. February 20, 2018.

Bhrigupati Singh, Poverty and the Quest for Life: Spiritual and Material Striving in Rural India. University of Chicago Press, 2016. May 25, 2017.

Richard E. Payne, A State of Mixture: Christians, Zoroastrians, and Iranian Political Culture in Late Antiquity. University of California Press, 2015. March 23, 2017.

Francis J. Beckwith, Taking Rites Seriously: Law, Politics, and the Reasonableness of Faith. Cambridge University Press, 2015. March 9, 2017.

David Lambert, How Repentance Became Biblical: Judaism, Christianity, and the Interpretation of Scripture. Oxford University Press, 2015. December 22, 2016.

Cécile Fromont, The Art of Conversion: Christian Visual Culture in the Kingdom of Kongo. University of North Carolina Press, 2014. September 22, 2016

Michelle Voss Roberts, Tastes of the Divine: Hindu and Christian Theologies of Emotion. Fordham University Press, 2014. July 11, 2016.

Tariq Jaffer, Razi: Master of Qur’anic Interpretation and Theological Reasoning. Oxford University Press, 2014. May 19, 2016.

Winnifred Fallers Sullivan, A Ministry of Presence: Chaplaincy, Spiritual Care, and the Law. University of Chicago Press, 2014. April 1, 2016.

Anya Bernstein, Religious Bodies Politic: Rituals of Sovereignty in Buryat Buddhism. University of Chicago Press, 2013. February 2, 2016.

Mark Rowe, “Female Priests in Japanese Buddhism.” November 5, 2015.

Brian Pennington, “Natural Disaster and Divine Agency: Hindu Responses to Climate Change.” September 30, 2015.

SherAli Tareen, “Islam, Tradition, and Democracy: The Case of the Deoband Madrasa.” August 19, 2015.

Andrew Quintman, The Yogin and the Madman: Reading the Biographical Corpus of Tibet’s Great Saint Milarepa. Columbia University Press, 2013. May 6, 2015.

Kyle Harper, From Shame to Sin: The Christian Transformation of Sexual Morality in Late Antiquity. Harvard University Press, 2013. April 5, 2015.

Anna Sun, Confucianism as a World Religion: Contested Histories and Contemporary Realities. Princeton University Press, 2013. March 9, 2015.

Willis Jenkins, The Future of Ethics: Sustainability, Social Justice, and Religious Creativity. Georgetown University Press, 2013. February 16, 2015.

New Books in Islamic Studies

Stephen C. Finley, In and Out of This World: Material and Extraterrestrial Bodies in the Nation of Islam. Duke University Press, 2022. January 27, 2023.

Sarah Fatima Waheed, Hidden Histories of Pakistan: Censorship, Literature, and Secular Nationalism in Late Colonial India. Cambridge University Press, 2022. October 7, 2022.

Asim Qureshi, I Refuse to Condemn: Resisting Racism in Times of National Security. Manchester University Press, 2020. July 15, 2022.

Matt Sheedy, Owning the Secular: Religious Symbols, Culture Wars, Western Fragility. Routledge, 2021. April 15, 2022.

K. S. Batmanghelichi, Revolutionary Bodies: Technologies of Gender, Sex, and Self in Contemporary Iran. Bloomsbury, 2020. March 25, 2022.

Nebil Husayn, Opposing the Imam: The Legacy of the Nawasib in Islamic Literature. Cambridge University Press, 2021. February 28, 2022.

Nicole Nguyen, Suspect Communities: Anti-Muslim Racism and the Domestic War on Terror. University of Minnesota Press, 2019. December 3, 2021.

Siobhan Lambert-Hurley, Elusive Lives: Gender, Autobiography, and the Self in Muslim South Asia. Stanford University Press, 2018. October 15, 2021.

Richard J. A. McGregor, Islam and the Devotional Object: Seeing Religion in Egypt and Syria. Cambridge University Press, 2020. October 8, 2021.

Charles Tieszen, The Christian Encounter with Muhammad: How Theologians have Interpreted the Prophet. Bloomsbury, 2020. September 10, 2021.

Nivi Manchanda, Imagining Afghanistan: The History and Politics of Imperial Knowledge. Cambridge University Press, 2020. August 13, 2021.

Anna Bigelow, Islam through Objects. Bloomsbury, 2021. July 16, 2021.

Peter Morey, Islamophobia and the Novel. Columbia University Press, 2018. June 11, 2021.

Hannah Hoechner, Quranic Schools in Northern Nigeria: Everyday Experiences of Youth, Faith, and Poverty. Cambridge University Press, 2018. May 28, 2021.

Caleb Iyer Elfenbein, Fear In Our Hearts: What Islamophobia Tells Us about America. NYU Press, 2021. April 23, 2021.

Mohammad Salama, Islam and the Culture of Modern Egypt: From the Monarchy to the Republic. Cambridge University Press, 2018. March 26, 2021.

Anjuli Raza Kolb, Epidemic Empire: Colonialism, Contagion, and Terror, 1817–2020. University of Chicago Press, 2021. February 26, 2021.

Alisa Perkins, Muslim American City: Gender and Religion in Metro Detroit. NYU Press, 2020. January 29, 2021.

Sean Anthony, Muhammad and the Empires of Faith: The Making of the Prophet of Islam. University of California Press, 2020. December 31, 2020.

Danielle Haque, Interrogating Secularism: Race and Religion in Arab Transnational Art and Literature. Syracuse University Press, 2019. October 30, 2020.

Earle H. Waugh, Al Rashid Mosque: Building Canadian Muslim Communities. University of Alberta Press, 2018. October 9, 2020.

Audrey Truschke, Aurangzeb: The Life and Legacy of India’s Most Controversial King. Stanford University Press, 2017. September 4, 2020.

Sohail Daulatzai and Junaid Rana, With Stones in Our Hands: Reflections on Racism, Muslims and US Empire. University of Minnesota Press, 2018. August 14, 2020.

Oludamini Ogunnaike, Poetry in Praise of Prophetic Perfection: A Study of West African Arabic Madih Poetry and its Precedents. Islamic Texts Society, 2020. July 17, 2020.

Johanna Pink, Muslim Qurʾanic Interpretation Today: Media, Genealogies and Interpretive Communities. Equinox Publishing, 2018. June 26, 2020.

Yassir Morsi, Radical Skin, Moderate Masks: De-radicalising the Muslim and Racism in Post-racial Societies. Rowman & Littlefield, 2017. May 22, 2020.

Julia Stephens, Governing Islam: Law, Empire, and Secularism in Modern South Asia. Cambridge University Press, 2018. May 1, 2020.

Courtney M. Dorroll, Teaching Islamic Studies in the Age of ISIS, Islamophobia and the Internet. Indiana University Press, 2018. April 24, 2020.

Christiane Gruber, The Praiseworthy One: The Prophet Muhammad in Islamic Texts and Images. Indiana University Press, 2019. April 17, 2020.

Carl W. Ernst, Hallaj: Poems of a Sufi Martyr. Northwestern University Press, 2018. March 13, 2020.

SpearIt, American Prisons: A Critical Primer on Culture and Conversion to Islam. First Edition Design, 2017. January 31, 2020.

Anna M. Gade, Muslim Environmentalisms: Religious and Social Foundations. Columbia University Press, 2019. January 24, 2020.

Claire Chambers, Making Sense of Contemporary British Muslim Novels. Palgrave, 2019. December 6, 2019.

Alicia Izharuddin, Gender and Islam in Indonesian Cinema. Palgrave, 2017. November 12, 2019.

Laury Silvers, The Lover. Kindle Direct Publishers, 2019. August 5, 2019.

Jeremy F. Walton, Muslim Civil Society and the Politics of Religious Freedom in Turkey. Oxford University Press, 2017. June 28, 2019.

Scott Reese, Imperial Muslims: Islam, Community and Authority in the Indian Ocean, 1839-1937. Edinburgh University Press, 2017. May 15, 2019.

Su’ad Abdul Khabeer, Muslim Cool: Race, Religion, and Hip Hop in the United States. NYU Press, 2016. April 5, 2019.

Justine Howe, Suburban Islam. Oxford University Press, 2018. February 14, 2019.

Omid Safi, Radical Love: Teachings from the Islamic Mystical Tradition. Yale University Press, 2018. January 9, 2019.

Sylvia Chan-Malik, Being Muslim: A Cultural History of Women of Color and American Islam. NYU Press, 2018. October 17, 2018.

Shobhana Xavier, Sacred Spaces and Transnational Networks in American Sufism: Bawa Muhaiyaddeen and Contemporary Shrine Cultures. Bloomsbury, 2018. September 17, 2018.

Walter N. Hakala, Negotiating Languages: Urdu, Hindi, and the Definition of Modern South Asia. Columbia University Press, 2016. May 2, 2018.

Mehammed Amadeus Mack, Sexagon: Muslims, France, and the Sexualization of National Culture. Fordham University Press, 2017. March 29, 2018.

Alexander Thurston, Boko Haram: The History of an African Jihadist Movement. Princeton University Press, 2017. February 5, 2018.

Leslie Kealhofer-Kemp, Muslim Women in French Cinema: Voices of Maghrebi Migrants in France. Liverpool University Press, 2016. January 18, 2018.

Rafia Zakaria, Veil (Object Lessons). Bloomsbury, 2017. December 13, 2017.

Mairaj Syed, Coercion and Responsibility in Islam: A Study in Ethics and Law. Oxford University Press, 2017. September 19, 2017.

Faegheh Shirazi, Brand Islam: The Marketing and Commodification of Piety. University of Texas Press, 2016. September 5, 2017.

Manan Ahmed Asif, A Book of Conquest: The Chachnama and Muslim Origins in South Asia. Harvard University Press, 2017. August 6, 2017.

Blake Atwood, Reform Cinema in Iran: Film and Political Change in the Islamic Republic. Columbia University Press, 2017. June 26, 2017.

Cemil Aydin, The Idea of the Muslim World: A Global Intellectual History. Harvard University Press, 2017. May 1, 2017.

Audrey Truschke, Culture of Encounters: Sanskrit at the Mughal Court. Columbia University Press, 2016. April 3, 2017.

Brian Edwards, After the American Century: The Ends of U.S. Culture in the Middle East. Columbia University Press, 2016. March 6, 2017.

Nathan Hofer, The Popularisation of Sufism in Ayyubid and Mamluk Egypt, 1173–1325. Edinburgh University Press, 2015. January 27, 2017.

Nile Green, Terrains of Exchange: Religious Economies of Global Islam. Oxford University Press, 2015. October 17, 2016.

Matthew Pierce, Twelve Infallible Men: The Imams and the Making of Shi’ism. Harvard University Press, 2013. September 7, 2016.

Paul Cobb, The Race for Paradise: An Islamic History of the Crusades. Oxford University Press, 2014. July 25, 2016.

Eid Mohamed, Arab Occidentalism: Images of America in the Middle East. I.B.Tauris, 2015. June 2, 2016.

Kenneth Garden, The First Islamic Reviver: Abu Hamid al-Ghazali and his Revival of the Religious Sciences. Oxford University Press, 2014. March 21, 2016.

Patrick D. Bowen, A History of Conversion to Islam in the United States, Volume 1: White American Muslims before 1975. Brill, 2015. January 12, 2016.

Kecia Ali, The Lives of Muhammad. Harvard University Press, 2014. August 25, 2015.

Marion Holmes Katz, Women in the Mosque: A History of Legal Thought and Social Practice. Columbia University Press, 2014. June 2, 2015.

M. Brett Wilson, Translating the Qur’an in an Age of Nationalism: Print Culture and Modern Islam in Turkey. Oxford University Press. April 6, 2015.

John Renard, Islamic Theological Themes: A Primary Source Reader. University of California Press, 2014. February 6, 2015.

Michael Hawkins, Making Moros: Imperial Historicism and American Military Rule in the Philippines’ Muslim South. Northern Illinois University Press, 2012. December 12, 2014.

Jonathan A. C. Brown, Misquoting Muhammad: The Challenge and Choices of Interpreting the Prophet’s Legacy. Oneworld Publications, 2014. October 30, 2014.

William Chittick, Divine Love: Islamic Literature and the Path to God. Yale University Press, 2013. September 2, 2014.

Brian Catlos,  Muslims of Medieval Latin Christendom, c.1050-1614. Cambridge University Press, 2014. July 8, 2014.

Rachel Rinaldo, Mobilizing Piety: Islam and Feminism in Indonesia. Oxford University Press, 2013. June 23, 2014.

Sean Anthony, Crucifixion and Death as Spectacle: Umayyad Crucifixion in Its Late Antique Context. American Oriental Society, 2014. May 12, 2014.

Sa’diyya Shaikh, Sufi Narratives of Intimacy: Ibn ʿArabi, Gender and Sexuality. University of North Carolina Press, 2012. April 29, 2014.

Ayesha Chaudhry, Domestic Violence and the Islamic Tradition: Ethics, Law, and the Muslim Discourse on Gender. Oxford University Press, 2013. March 29, 2014.

Afsar Mohammad, The Festival of Pirs: Popular Islam and Shared Devotion in South India. Oxford University Press, 2013. February 18, 2014.

Mohammed Rustom, The Triumph of Mercy: Philosophy and Scripture in Mulla Sadra. SUNY Press, 2012. October 30, 2013.

Paul O’Connor, Islam in Hong Kong: Muslims and Everyday Life in China’s World City. Hong Kong University Press, 2012. September 20, 2013.

Michael Laffan, The Makings of Indonesian Islam: Orientalism and the Narration of a Sufi Past. Princeton University Press, 2011. July 22, 2013.

Martin Nguyen, Sufi Master and Qur’an Scholar: Abu’l-Qasim al-Qushayri and the Lata’if al-isharat. Oxford University Press, 2012. May 13, 2013.

Aaron Hughes, Theorizing Islam: Disciplinary Deconstruction and Reconstruction. Equinox, 2012. December 5, 2012.

Juliane Hammer, American Muslim Women, Religious Authority, and Activism: More Than a Prayer. University of Texas Press, 2012. November 11, 2012.

Karen Ruffle, Gender, Sainthood, & Everyday Practice in South Asian Shi‘ism. University of North Carolina Press, 2011. October 10, 2012.

Whitney Bodman, The Poetics of Iblis: Narrative Theology in the Qur’an. University of Harvard Press, 2011. September 19, 2012.

Ronit Ricci, Islam Translated: Literature, Conversion, and the Arabic Cosmopolis of South and Southeast Asia. University of Chicago Press, 2011. June 28, 2012.

David Powers, Muhammad is Not the Father of Any of Your Men: The Making of the Last Prophet. University of Pennsylvania Press, 2009. May 15, 2012.

Carl Ernst, How to Read the Qur’an: A New Guide with Select Translations. University of North Carolina Press, 2011. February 27, 2012.

James Frankel, Rectifying God’s Name: Liu Zhi’s Confucian Translation of Monotheism and Islamic Law. University of Hawaii Press, 2011. December 9, 2011.

Laury Silvers, A Soaring Minaret: Abu Bakr al-Wasiti and the Rise of Baghdadi Sufism. SUNY Press, 2010. October 25, 2011.

Kambiz Ghaneabassiri, A History of Islam in America: From the New World to the New World Order. Cambridge University Press, 2010. September 23, 2011.

New Books in Religion

Stefania Travagnin, Concepts and Methods for the Study of Chinese Religions. De Gruyter, 2019. March 29, 2021.

Tamura Lomax,  Jezebel Unhinged: Loosing the Black Female Body in Religion and Culture. Duke University Press, 2018. October 19, 2020.

Nyasha Junior, Reimagining Hagar: Blackness and Bible. Oxford University Press, 2019. August 5, 2020.

Christopher M. Driscoll and Monica R. Miller, Method as Identity: Manufacturing Distance in the Academic Study of Religion. Lexington, 2018. May 21, 2020.

Thomas S. Mullaney, The Chinese Deathscape: Grave Reform in Modern China. Stanford University Press, 2016. June 10, 2019.

Megan Bryson, Goddess on the Frontier: Religion, Ethnicity, and Gender in Southwest China. Stanford University Press, 2016. June 5, 2019.

Brad Stoddard, Craig Martin, Stereotyping Religion: Critiquing Clichés. Bloomsbury, 2017. April 3, 2019.

Thomas Borchert, Educating Monks: Minority Buddhism on China’s Southwest Border. University Of Hawaii Press, 2017. December 7, 2018.

Tracy Fessenden, Religion Around Billie Holiday. Penn State University Press, 2018. November 14, 2018.

M. Cooper Harriss, Ralph Ellison’s Invisible Theology. NYU Press, 2017. September 12, 2018.

Holly Gayley, Love Letters from Golok: A Tantric Couple in Modern Tibet. Columbia University Press, 2017. May 10, 2018.

Brandi Denison, Ute Land Religion in the American West, 1879-2009. University of Nebraska Press, 2017. March 5, 2018.

Megan Adamson Sijapati and Jessica Vantine Birkenholtz, Religion and Modernity in the Himalaya. Routledge, 2016. December 18, 2017.

Terry Kleeman, Celestial Masters: History and Ritual in Early Daoist Communities. Harvard University Press, 2016. December 7, 2017.

Finbarr Curtis, The Production of American Religious Freedom. NYU Press, 2016. November 14, 2017.

Matthew S. Rindge, Profane Parables: Film and the American Dream. Baylor University Press, 2016. November 10, 2017.

Theodore Vial, Modern Religion, Modern Race. Oxford University Press, 2016. November 6, 2017.

Marie Alohalani Brown, Facing the Spears of Change: The Life and Legacy of John Papa ʻĪʻī. University Of Hawai’i Press, 2016. October 27, 2017.

Hugh Urban, Zorba the Buddha: Sex, Spirituality, and Capitalism in the Global Osho Movement. University of California Press, 2016. October 9, 2017.

Christopher Cotter and David Robertson, After World Religions: Reconstructing Religious Studies. Routledge, 2016. September 25, 2017.

Michael J. Altman, Heathen, Hindoo, Hindu: American Representations of India, 1721-1893. Oxford University Press, 2017. September 12, 2017.

Rahuldeep Singh Gill, Drinking From Love’s Cup: Surrender and Sacrifice in the Vars of Bhai Gurdas Bhalla. Oxford University Press, 2017. August 27, 2017.

Sarah Bond, Trade and Taboo: Disreputable Professions in the Roman Mediterranean. University of Michigan Press, 2016. August 12, 2017.

William Elison ,Andy Rotman and Christian Lee Novetzke, Amar Akbar Anthony: Bollywood, Brotherhood, and the Nation. Harvard University Press, 2016. June 20, 2017.

S. Brent Plate, Key Terms in Material Religion. Bloomsbury, 2015. April 24, 2017.

Benjamin Schreier, The Impossible Jew: Identity and the Reconstruction of Jewish American Literary History. NYU Press, 2015. February 27, 2017.

Sylvester Johnson, African American Religions, 1500-2000: Colonialism, Democracy, and Freedom. Cambridge University Press, 2015. December 29, 2016.

David M. Krueger, Myths of the Rune Stone: Viking Martyrs and the Birthplace of America. University of Minnesota Press, 2015.  September 13, 2016.

Peter Harrison, The Territories of Science and Religion. University of Chicago Press, 2014.  July 21, 2016.

Jason Bivins, Spirits Rejoice! Jazz and American Religion. Oxford University Press, 2015. May 31, 2016.

Brennan W. Breed, Nomadic Text: A Theory of Biblical Reception History. Indiana University Press, 2014. April 1, 2016.

Peter van der Veer, The Modern Spirit of Asia: The Spiritual and the Secular in China and India. Princeton University Press, 2013. December 7, 2015

Amanda Lucia, Reflections of Amma: Devotees in a Global Embrace. University of California Press, 2014. September 26, 2015.

Darren Middleton, Rastafari and the Arts: An Introduction. Routledge, 2015. August 31, 2015.

Craig Martin, Capitalizing Religion: Ideology and the Opiate of the Bourgeoisie. Bloomsbury, 2014. August 4, 2015.

Kocku von Stuckrad, The Scientification of Religion: An Historical Study of Discursive Change, 1800-2000. De Gruyter, 2014. July 6, 2015.

Simon A. Wood and David Harrington Watt, Fundamentalism: Perspectives on a Contested History. University of South Carolina Press, 2014. June 8, 2015.

Andrea Jain, Selling Yoga: From Counterculture to Pop Culture. Oxford University Press, 2014. May 13, 2015.

Peter Gottschalk, Religion, Science, and Empire: Classifying Hinduism and Islam in British India. Oxford University Press, 2012. April 13, 2015.

Kutter Callaway, Scoring Transcendence: Contemporary Film Music as Religious Experience. Baylor University Press, 2013. February 16, 2015.

Joseph Laycock, The Seer of Bayside: Veronica Lueken and the Struggle to Define Catholicism. Oxford University Press, 2014. January 19, 2015.

Timothy Michael Law, When God Spoke Greek: The Septuagint and the Making of the Christian Bible. Oxford University Press, 2013. December 10, 2014.

Amanullah De Sondy, The Crisis of Islamic Masculinities. Bloomsbury, 2014. October 27, 2014.

Mary-Jane Rubenstein, Worlds Without End: The Many Lives of the Multiverse. Columbia University Press, 2014. September 29, 2014.

Jolyon Thomas, Drawing on Tradition: Manga, Anime, and Religion in Contemporary Japan. University Of Hawai’i Press, 2012. September 6, 2014.

Matthew Hedstrom, The Rise of Liberal Religion: Book Culture and American Spirituality in the Twentieth Century. Oxford University Press, 2012. August 8, 2014.

Kevin Schilbrack, Philosophy and the Study of Religions: A Manifesto. Wiley-Blackwell, 2014. July 18th, 2014.

William Arnal and Russell T. McCutcheon, The Sacred Is the Profane: The Political Nature of “Religion.” Oxford University Press, 2013. June 27th, 2014.

M. Gail Hamner, Imaging Religion in Film: The Politics of Nostalgia. Palgrave Macmillan, 2011. May 19, 2014.

Vincent Goossaert and David A. Palmer, The Religious Question in Modern China. University of Chicago Press, 2011. April 28, 2014.

Michael Stausberg and Steven Engler, The Routledge Handbook of Research Methods in the Study of Religion. Routledge, 2011. March 5, 2014.

John Modern, Secularism in Antebellum America. University Of Chicago Press, 2011. February 6, 2014.

Brent Nongbri, Before Religion: A History of a Modern Concept. Yale University Press, 2013. January 18, 2014.

Rumee Ahmed, Narratives of Islamic Legal Theory. Oxford University Press, 2012. December 20, 2013.

Robert Yelle, The Language of Disenchantment: Protestant Literalism and Colonial Discourse in British India. Oxford University Press, 2013. November 19, 2013.

Heidi Campbell, When Religion Meets New Media. Routledge, 2010. October 8, 2013.

Jane Iwamura, Virtual Orientalism: Religion and Popular Culture in the U.S. Oxford University Press, 2011. August 22, 2013.

Edward J. Blum and Paul Harvey, The Color of Christ: The Son of God and the Saga of Race in America. University of North Carolina Press, 2012. July 25, 2013.

Monica Miller, Religion and Hip Hop. Routledge, 2012. June 3, 2013.

Craig Martin, A Critical Introduction to the Study of Religion. Acumen Publishing, 2012. May 7, 2013.

James Wellman, Rob Bell and A New American Christianity. Abingdon Press, 2012. March 7, 2013.

Thomas David DuBois, Religion and the Making of Modern East Asia. Cambridge University Press, 2011. December 13, 2012.

S. Brent Plate, Religion and Film: Cinema and the Re-Creation of the World. Wallflower Press, 2008. November 5, 2012.

Jason Ānanda Josephson, The Invention of Religion in Japan. University of Chicago Press, 2012. October 13, 2012.

Hugh Urban, The Church of Scientology: A History of a New Religion. Princeton University Press, 2011. September 27, 2012.

Kelly Baker, Gospel According to the Klan: The KKK’s Appeal to Protestant America, 1915-1930. University Press of Kansas, 2011. June 24, 2012.

Kathryn Lofton, Oprah: The Gospel of an Icon. University of California Press, 2011. May 17, 2012.

Robert Shedinger, Was Jesus a Muslim?: Questioning Categories in the Study of Religion. Fortress Press, 2011. May 7, 2012.

Parna Sengupta, Pedagogy for Religion: Missionary Education and the Fashioning of Hindus and Muslims in Bengal. University of California Press, 2011. January 24. 2012.

Justin McDaniel, The Lovelorn Ghost and the Magical Monk: Practicing Buddhism in Modern Thailand. Columbia University Press, 2011. December 7, 2011.

David Gordon White, Sinister Yogis. University of Chicago Press, 2009. November 1, 2011.

Abdulkader Tayob, Religion in Modern Islamic Discourse. Columbia University Press, 2010. October 5, 2011.

Carool Kersten, Cosmopolitans and Heretics: New Muslim Intellectuals and the Study of Islam. Columbia University Press, 2011. September 14, 2011 .

Marginalia Review of Books

Chloë Starr, Chinese Theology: Text and Context. Yale University Press, 2016. April 27, 2017.

Birgit Meyer, Sensational Movies: Video, Vision, and Christianity in Ghana. University of California Press, 2015. March 17, 2017.

Deepa Iyer, We Too Sing America: South Asian, Arab, Muslim and Sikh Immigrants Shape Our Multiracial Future. The New Press, 2015. January 3, 2017.

Aaron Hughes, Jacob Neusner: An American Jewish Iconoclast. NYU Press, 2015. December 19, 2016.

Aisha Beliso-De Jesús, Electric Santería: Racial and Sexual Assemblages of Transnational Religion. Columbia University Press, 2015. November 8, 2016.

Claire Chambers, Britain Through Muslim Eyes: Literary Representations, 1780-1988. Palgrave, 2015. October 18, 2016.

Josef Sorett, Spirit in the Dark: A Religious History of Racial Aesthetics. Oxford University Press, 2016. September 20, 2016.

Erik Hammerstrom, The Science of Chinese Buddhism: Early Twentieth-Century Engagements.Columbia University Press, 2014. September 6. 2016.

Christopher Driscoll, White Lies: Race and Uncertainty in the Twilight of American Religion. Routledge, 2016. July 26, 2016.

Sarah Dees, “The Materialization of Native American Religions.” July 12, 2016.

Moustafa Bayoumi, This Muslim American Life: Dispatches from the War on Terror. New York University Press, 2015. June 21, 2016.

Deonnie Moodie, “Temples, Class, and Hindu Identity.” June 7, 2016.

Amira Jarmakani, An Imperialist Love Story: Desert Romances and the War on Terror. New York University Press, 2015. May 10, 2016.

C. Richard King, Redskins: Insult and Brand. University of Nebraska Press, 2016. April 26, 2016.

Meredith Warren, “Transformational Eating in Ancient Literature.” April 19, 2016.

Prasenjit Duara, The Crisis of Global Modernity: Asian Traditions and a Sustainable Future. Cambridge University Press, 2014. April 5, 2016.

Barbara Ambros, Women in Japanese Religions. New York University Press, 2015. February 23, 2016.

Tracy Fessenden, Laura Levitt, David Harrington Watt, “New Approaches to North American Religions (NYU Press Book Series).” February 16, 2016.

Amy Koehlinger, “Boxing, Masculinity, & American Catholicism.” January 12, 2016.

James Benn, Tea in China: a Religious and Cultural History. University of Hawaii Press, 2015. January 5, 2016.

Steven Ramey, “Culture on the Edge: Studies in Identity Formation Book Series.” December 15, 2015.

Gareth Fisher, From Comrades to Bodhisattvas: Moral Dimensions of Lay Buddhist Practice in Contemporary China. University of Hawaii Press, 2014. December 8, 2015.

Caner Dagli, Maria Dakake, and Joseph Lumbard, The Study Qur’an. HarperOne, 2015.Novemebr 17, 2015.

Zackery Heern, The Emergence of Modern Shi’ism: Islamic Reform in Iraq and Iran.Oneworld Publications, 2015. Novemebr 3, 2015.

Ben Brazil, “Youth Travel and Spiritual Seeking.” November 3, 2015.

Alicia Turner, Saving Buddhism: Moral Community and the Impermanence of Colonial Religion. University of Hawaii Press, 2014. October 13, 2015.

Rose Muravchick, “Textiles, Talismans, and Islam.” October 6, 2015.

Michelle A. Gonzalez, A Critical Introduction to Religion in the Americas: Bridging the Liberation Theology and Religious Studies Divide. NYU Press, 2014. September 15, 2015.

Daniel Sheffield, “Translation & Zoroastrianism in Iran and South Asia.” September 15, 2015.

Russell T. McCutcheon, A Modest Proposal on Method: Essaying the Study of Religion. Brill, 2015. August 25, 2015.

Nathan Abrams, The New Jew in Film: exploring Jewishness and Judaism in Contemporary Cinema. Rutgers University Press, 2012. August 11, 2015.

Hillary Kaell, Walking Where Jesus Walked: American Christians and Holy Land Pilgrimage. NYU Press, 2014. August 4, 2015.

Crispin Paine, Religious Objects in Museums: Private Lives and Public Duties. Bloomsbury, 2013. July 21, 2015.

Laurie Maffly-Kipp and Douglas Winiarski, “Young Scholars in American Religion.” July 7, 2015.

Jason Ānanda Josephson, “Myth of Disenchantment.” June 23, 2015.

Lisa Stampnitzky, Disciplining Terror: How Experts Invented ‘Terrorism’. Cambridge University Press, 2013. May 26, 2015.

Mike Altman, “Invention of Hinduism in America.” May 12, 2015.

Megan Goodwin, “Pedagogical Innovation and Creativity in Religious Studies.” April 28, 2015.

Elias Muhanna, “Digital Islamic Studies.” April 14, 2015.

Graeme Abernethy, The Iconography of Malcolm X. University Press of Kansas, 2013. March 31, 2015.

Ilyse Morgenstein Fuerst, “British Imperialism, Jihad, & South Asian Muslims.” March 17, 2015.

Carole McGranahan, “Self-Immolation as Protest in Tibet.” February 17, 2015.

Titus Hjelm, Social Constructionisms: Approaches to the Study of the Human World. Palsgrave, 2014. January 20, 2015.

Joseph Laycock, “Approaching the Paranormal within Religious Studies.” December 9, 2014.

Sohail Daulatzai, “Return of the Mecca: The Art of Islam and Hip Hop.” November 20, 2014.

Aaron W. Hughes, “Academy Series with Oxford University Press.” November 11, 2014.

David Thomas, “The History of Christian-Muslim Relations Series.” October 28, 2014.

Caroline T. Schroeder, “Coptic SCRIPTORIUM, and the Digital Humanities in Religious Studies.” October 14, 2014.

Peter Iver Kaufman, “Religion Around Book Series.” September 30, 2014.

Elizabeth Shakman Hurd, “The Politics of Religious Freedom” September 16, 2014.

Carool Kersten, “ISIS, the Caliphate, and militant extremism in the Middle East.” September 2, 2014.

Robert M. Geraci, “Artificial Intelligence, Virtual Reality, and the Study of Religion, Science, and Technology.” September 2, 2014.

Kathryn Lofton, “Popular Culture, the Goldman Sachs Group, and the Office Cubicle as a Religious Artifact.” August 19, 2014.