Today we are spotlighting two book reviews in our Fall 2025 issue!
Tracy Fessenden on _Thoreau’s Axe_ by Caleb Smith
Elaine Lai on _American Koan_ by Ben Van Overmeire
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Katie Heatherly on _Empire of Purity_ by Eva Payne
Rachel B. Gross on _Religion in Plain View_ by Sally M. Promey
Eli Rosenblatt on _The Jewish South_ by Shari Rabin
Shari Rabin on _Sovereignty and Religious Freedom_ by Simon Rabinovitch
Today we are spotlighting four book reviews in our Fall 2025 issue!
Read all reviews here: muse.jhu.edu/pub/3/issue/...
Ryan Tobler on _The Delight Makers_ by Catherine Albanese
Claire Rostov on _Waste Wars_ by Alexander Clapp
Nanea Renteria on _Land is Kin_ by Dana Lloyd
Evan Berry on _Golden States_ by Eileen Luhr
Today we are spotlighting four book reviews in our Fall 2025 issue!
Read them all here muse.jhu.edu/pub/3/issue/...
Today we are spotlighting Morgan Barbre's and Kathryn Lofton's review essay of "The Hoosier Cabinet in Kitchen History" by IU alum Nancy Hiller.
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Today we are spotlighting James B. Nicola's poem, "States of Matter," in our Fall 2025 issue!
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Today we are spotlighting Frank Jamison's poem, "Three Orders of Prayer," in our Fall 2025 issue!
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Today we are spotlighting Dustin P. Brown's poem, "Sé Catedral," in our Fall 2025 issue!
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"This article addresses the roots and routes of American Muslim comedy by retracing the early motivations of Preacher Moss, and it considers how his career and narrative set the tone for the articulation of so-called American Muslim comedy into the twenty-first century."
Today we are spotlighting Morgane Thonnart's article, "Preacher Moss Sets the Tone: A New Genealogy and Anatomy of American Muslim Comedy," in our Fall 2025 issue! muse.jhu.edu/pub/3/articl...
Today we are spotlighting Megan Leverage's article, "S. W. Hopkins’s 'Gospel of Intelligent Industry': The Industrial Religion of the Mt. Pleasant Indian Industrial Boarding School," in our Fall 2025 issue! muse.jhu.edu/pub/3/articl...
Sullivan reflects "on the long and puzzling love/hate relationship between the papacy and the US and how the history of that ambivalent relationship reveals the still unsettled nature of religious disestablishment in the US."
Today we are spotlighting Winnifred Fallers Sullivan's essay, "Notes on an American Pope," in our Fall 2025 issue! To read the entire essay, go to muse.jhu.edu/pub/3/articl...
Plowdern theorizes the history of anti-Black violence by raising fresh questions about the ways in which scholars construct narratives and approach memory.
Today we are spotlighting Chandra Plowden's essay, "A Case for Half-Lives: Ten Years after a Charleston Shooting" in our Fall 2025 issue! muse.jhu.edu/pub/3/articl...
Fessenden reflects on the intellectual roots of her project, the book’s intervention in the field of religion and literature, and its enduring reception.
This is the last of Back Pages for this semester! Stay tuned for future projects in the works . . .
Back Pages is back again with your biweekly Tuesday installment: Tracy Fessenden on Culture and Redemption (2007). Read further here: www.american-religion.org/back-pages/o...
Sullivan reflects on an alternative title to the book, why “cemetery anarchy” might have more precisely captured the dynamics of the trial, and the endurance of the book’s theorization of law and religion.
Back Pages is back again with your biweekly Thursday installment: Winnifred Fallers Sullivan on her book, The Impossibility of Religious Freedom (2005). Read further here: www.american-religion.org/back-pages/c...
Hulsether reflects on the religious and political situation while writing his dissertation, reception to the argument, and its endurance into the present moment.
Back Pages is back again with your biweekly Tuesday installment: Mark Hulsether on his book, Building a Protestant Left (1999). Read further here: www.american-religion.org/back-pages/r...
Valeri reflects on the book’s historiographical invention, new directions in the history of the American Revolution and religion since publication, and lingering methodological and substantive questions.
Back Pages is back again with your biweekly Thursday installment: Mark Valeri on Law and Providence in Joseph Bellamy’s New England (1994). Read further here: www.american-religion.org/back-pages/l...
Back Pages is back again with your biweekly Tuesday installment: John Schmalzbauer discusses how 2016 was a turning point among scholars of evangelicalism and recent academic conversations about the intersection of race and religion. Read further here: www.american-religion.org/back-pages/r...
Congratulations to Dr. Burnside, to Dr. Martini, and thank you to everyone who submitted their work. The field is as strong as it has ever been, and we are humbled by the opportunity to engage with it in this way and heartened to see so much smart, creative, and insightful scholarship being created.
Dr. Burnside is a Lecturer in Philosophy and Religious Studies at Morgan State University and received her PhD in religion from Florida State University.
Faced with an uncommonly strong field, the judges awarded an Honorable Mention for the first time in the history of the prize. The committee was deeply impressed by the theoretical sophistication of its treatment of family farming and the US Department of Agriculture.
Congratulations to Dr. Talia Burnside, whose dissertation “So God Made a Farmer: Religion, Flesh, and the State on the Family Farm” has won American Religion Dissertation Prize's Honorable Mention.
