New Books in Religion

Sikivu Hutchinson, “Moral Combat: Black Atheists, Gender Politics, and the Values Wars” (Infidel Books, 2011)

2012/12/13

Sikivu Hutchinson‘s book Moral Combat: Black Atheists, Gender Politics, and the Values Wars (Infidel

Aaron Hughes, “Theorizing Islam: Disciplinary Deconstruction and Reconstruction” (Equinox, 2012)

2012/12/5

Many academics, especially in the aftermath of September 11th, have had to become a public authority

Juliane Hammer, “American Muslim Women, Religious Authority, and Activism: More Than a Prayer” (University of Texas Press, 2012)

2012/11/11

In 2005, Amina Wadud led a mixed-gender congregation of Muslims in prayer. This event became the foc

Marek Jan Chodakiewicz, “The Massacre in Jedwabne, July 10, 1941: Before, During, After” (Columbia UP, 2005)

2012/11/8

On July 10, 1941, Poles in the town of Jedwabne together with some number of German functionaries he

S. Brent Plate, “Religion and Film: Cinema and the Re-Creation of the World” (Wallflower Press, 2008)

2012/11/5

As each frame of a film goes by we witness a new world that is situated in space and time. This proc

Mary Johnson, “An Unquenchable Thirst: Following Mother Teresa in Search of Love, Service and an Authentic Life” (Spiegel & Grau, 2011)

2012/11/4

In December of 1975, Agnes Bojaxhiu, also known as Mother Teresa, appeared on the cover of TIME maga

Carl S. Yamamoto, “Vision and Violence: Lama Zhang and the Politics of Charisma in Twelfth-Century Tibet” (Brill, 2012)

2012/10/24

Lama Zhang, the controversial central figure in Carl S. Yamamoto‘s new book may or may not have part

Jenny Trinitapoli and Alexander Weinreb, “Religion and AIDS in Africa” (Oxford UP, 2012)

2012/10/16

The liberal media in the Western World takes a firm line on how two of the big issues facing Africa

Jason Josephson, “The Invention of Religion in Japan” (University of Chicago Press, 2012)

2012/10/13

In 1853, the Japanese were required to consider what the word religion meant when western powers com

Karen Ruffle, “Gender, Sainthood, and Everyday Practice in South Asian Shi’ism” (University of North Carolina Press, 2011)

2012/10/10

What does a wedding in Karbala in the year 680 have to do with South Asian Muslims today? As it turn

Hugh Urban, “The Church of Scientology: A History of a New Religion” (Princeton University Press, 2011)

2012/9/27

What is religion? Who gets to define it? Why is defining something a religion such an important ende

Samuel Morris Brown, “In Heaven as it is on Earth: Joseph Smith and the Early Mormon Conquest of Death” (Oxford UP, 2012)

2012/9/26

Every person must confront death; the only question is how that person will do it. In our culture (I

Whitney Bodman, “The Poetics of Iblis: Narrative Theology in the Qur’an” (Harvard UP, 2011)

2012/9/19

The Qur’an is filled with stories. It chronicles the lives of prophets, the stories of believers and

Anne M. Blackburn, “Locations of Buddhism: Colonialism and Modernity in Sri Lanka,” (The University of Chicago Press, 2010)

2012/8/23

In this important contribution to both the study of South Asian Buddhism as well the burgeoning fiel

Katherine Stewart, “The Good News Club: The Christian Right’s Stealth Assault on America’s Children” (PublicAffairs, 2012)

2012/7/11

In her shocking new book, The Good News Club: The Christian Right’s Stealth Assault on America’s Chi

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