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Joshua T. Parks reviews "The Politics of Religious Literacy" by Justine Esta Ellis.

The Politics of Religious Literacy - Reading Religion Religious Literacy has become a popular concept for navigating religious diversity in public life. Spanning classrooms to boardrooms, The Politics of Re...

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Mark McClish reviews "Widows Under Hindu Law" by David Brick.

Widows Under Hindu Law - Reading Religion During British colonial rule in India, the treatment of high-caste Hindu widows became the subject of great controversy. Such women were not permitted to rem...

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Rachel Matheson reviews "Effacing the Self" by Marc De Kesel.

Effacing the Self - Reading Religion In spirituality and mysticism, many seek a counterbalance to the strong emphasis on the self that modernity demands of us: We desire a fixed self on the one ...

Philip Chivily reviews "Afro-Atlantic Catholics" by Jeroen Dewulf.

Afro-Atlantic Catholics - Reading Religion This volume examines the influence of African Catholics on the historical development of Black Christianity in America during the seventeenth century.Black C...

Austin Story reviews "Fallen Angels in the Theology of St. Augustine" by Gregory D. Wiebe.

Fallen Angels in the Theology of St Augustine - Reading Religion This book ventures to describe Augustine of Hippo's understanding of demons, including the theology, angelology, and anthropology that contextualize it. Demo...

Spencer Kunz reviews "Christianity and the Alt-Right" by Damon T. Berry.

Christianity and the Alt-Right - Reading Religion Christianity and the Alt-Right: Exploring the Relationship looks back at the 2016 presidential election and the support President Trump enjoye...

Richard M. Blaylock reviews "Cursing with God" by Trevor Laurence.

Cursing with God - Reading Religion To the modern ear, the concept of cursing sounds otherworldly, mystical, abhorrent. For some the idea may evoke images of terror—images not of God but ...

Marion Eames White reviews "Circuits of the Sacred" by Carlos Ulises Decena.

Circuits of the Sacred - Reading Religion In Circuits of the Sacred Carlos Ulises Decena examines transnational black Latinx Caribbean immigrant q***r life and spirit. Decena models what he...

Kevin Scott reviews "From Judgment to Hope" by Walter Brueggermann. /

From Judgment to Hope - Reading Religion While conservative interpreters might believe that prophets were predictors and progressives believe the prophets to be simply social advocates, Walter Brueg...

Alexander D'Alisera reviews "A History of Christianity in Wales" by David Ceri Jones, Barry J. Lewis, Madeleine Gray, and D. Densil Morgan.

A History of Christianity in Wales - Reading Religion Christianity, in its Catholic, Protestant and Nonconformist forms, has played an enormous role in the history of Wales and in the defining and shaping of Wel...

Jackson Nii Sabaah Adamah reviews "Who Are My People? Love, Violence, and Christianity in Sub-Saharan Africa" by Emmanuel Katongole.

Who Are My People? - Reading Religion Who Are My People? explores the complex relationship between identity, violence, and Christianity in Africa.In Who Are My People?, Emmanuel Katongo...

Margaret D. Kamitsuka reviews "Under the Bed of Heaven: Christian Eschatology and Sexual Ethics" by Richard W. McCarty.

Under the Bed of Heaven - Reading Religion Under the Bed of Heaven is a work of Christian ethics that examines how eschatology might reshape concepts of sexual morality. With the rise of institut...

Our latest Four Books essay examines from Bradford A. Anderson, looks at material and iconic sacred texts.

Four Books on Material and Iconic Sacred Texts - Reading Religion By Bradford A. Anderson For many people, the idea of scriptures is coterminous with textuality: this is seen in the very names we give these collections,

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Ian Alexander Cuthbertson reviews "A Universe of Terms: Religion in Visual Metaphor" by Emilie Flamme.

A Universe of Terms - Reading Religion How can we foster a more inclusive, responsible, and communicative future? What if illustrated scholarship is one way to get there? Organized aroun...

Gregory M. Clines reviews "Religious Reading and Everyday Lives in Devotional Hinduism" by Emilia Bachrach.

Religious Reading and Everyday Lives in Devotional Hinduism - Reading Religion Religious texts are not stable objects, passed down unchanged through generations. The way in which religious communities receive their scriptures changes ov...

Barnabas Aspray reviews "Jesus the Refugee" by D. Glenn Butler, Jr.

Jesus the Refugee - Reading Religion Images of modern refugees often invoke images of the infant Christ and the historical circumstances of the holy family's flight to Egypt in the face of p***e...

Patrick Horn reviews "Swami Vivekananda's Vedāntic Cosmopolitanism" by Swami Medhananda.

Swami Vivekananda's Vedāntic Cosmopolitanism - Reading Religion Swami Vivekananda, the nineteenth-century Hindu monk who introduced Vedanta to the West, is undoubtedly one of modern India's most influential philosophers. ...

Isaac Barnes May reviews "The End of Public Ex*****on" by Michael Ayers Trotti.

The End of Public Ex*****on - Reading Religion Before 1850, all legal ex*****ons in the South were performed before crowds that could number in the thousands; the last legal public ex*****on was in 1936. ...

Kevin Schilbrack reviews "A Philosopher Looks at the Religious Life" by Zena Hitz.

A Philosopher Looks at the Religious Life - Reading Religion What is happiness? Does life have a meaning? If so, is that meaning available in an ordinary life? The philosopher Zena Hitz confronted these questions head-...

Matthew A. Foust reviews "John Dewey and Daoist Thought" (Vol. 1) and "John Dewey and Confucian Thought" (Vol. 2) by Jim Behuniak.

John Dewey and Daoist Thought - Reading Religion Proposes an “intra-cultural philosophy” based on John Dewey’s “cultural turn” and promotes Daoist thought as a resource that can help to reconstruc...

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Peter Admirand reviews "Guarded by Two Jaguars" by Eric Hoenes del Pinal.

Guarded by Two Jaguars - Reading Religion In communities in and around Cobán, Guatemala, a small but steadily growing number of members of the Q’eqchi’ Maya Roman Catholic parish o...

Tucker Adkins reviews "Prosperity Gospel Latinos and Their American Dream" by Tony Tian-Ren Lin.

Prosperity Gospel Latinos and Their American Dream - Reading Religion In this immersive ethnography, Tony Tian-Ren Lin explores the reasons that Latin American immigrants across the United States are increasingly drawn to Prosp...

Christopher Shannon reviews "The Bible and the Crisis of Modernism" by Tomáš Petráček.

The Bible and the Crisis of Modernism - Reading Religion A detailed study of the Catholic Church’s acceptance of the historical-critical method and modernization through the pivotal work of European theologia...

Dirk von der Horst reviews "(White) Washing Our Sins Away" by Deborah Justice.

(White)Washing Our Sins Away - Reading Religion What if simply changing musical styles could resurrect social power and religious vitality? By the early 1990s, Christianity was losing ground nationally, an...