Four Books on Heteroglossic Voice - Reading Religion
By Mary Shan Overton With literary and academic voices and perspectives being suppressed in the United States, I have elected to defend books and writers| Reading Religion
Dear Reading Religion Subscribers, We’re pleased to bring you the latest from Reading Religion, the American Academy of Religion’s online home for scholarly book reviews and essays. This edition features a review of the... READ MORE The post Reading Religion Newsletter Vol. 10, Issue 7 appeared first on Reading Religion.| Reading Religion
By Mary Shan Overton With literary and academic voices and perspectives being suppressed in the United States, I have elected to defend books and writers| Reading Religion
Historian Zara Surratt explores how Sugarcane weaves ceremony, oral history, and archival truth-telling into a searing documentary about intergenerational trauma and care.| Reading Religion
Dear Reading Religion Subscribers, Welcome to the latest edition of the newsletter for Reading Religion, the American Academy of Religion’s openly accessible website for scholarly book reviews and essays. In this issue, we... READ MORE The post Reading Religion Newsletter Vol. 10, issue 6 appeared first on Reading Religion.| Reading Religion
By David Ngong In this essay, I write about four books that have shaped my foray into African Christian theological thought. The books are My Faith as an African by... READ MORE The post Four Books on African Christian Theological Thought appeared first on Reading Religion.| Reading Religion
Dear Reading Religion Subscribers, We’re excited to bring you the latest from Reading Religion, the American Academy of Religion’s online| Reading Religion
By David W. Stowe Though most of my research has involved music in religion, that’s not where I began. My dissertation was a cultural history of big-band swing music. Apart... READ MORE The post Four Books on Music and Religion appeared first on Reading Religion.| Reading Religion
Religious studies, encompassing a broader temporal scale than modernity, should include a spatial analysis of religious practice and production that is geographically and historically inclusive. This essay examines three recent titles that engage meaningfully with spatial dimensions of religion across different times and social and political contexts. The approaches taken in these works are different but offer valuable insights for those looking to understand how religious faiths and beliefs ...| Reading Religion
Dear Reading Religion Subscribers,We're excited to share a major first: our inaugural film review is now live—and it covers one of the year's| Reading Religion
By Charles Hambrick-Stowe The invitation to write on “four books that have shaped [my] academic journey” took me back to where my passion for the study of American history—religious, cultural,... READ MORE The post Four Books on American Intellectual (and Cultural and Religious) History appeared first on Reading Religion.| Reading Religion
The title Sinners invites a theological reading. Who are the sinners, and what is sin? In a world where whiteness proclaims itself as salvation, Remmick’s declaration—“I am the way”—parodies Christian soteriology while invoking a colonial logic of civilizing mission.| Reading Religion
The editors of Reading Religion have curated a reading list to celebrate the life and legacy of Pope Francis, who died today at age 88. The first Latin| Reading Religion
Dear Reading Religion Subscribers,Reading Religion has compiled a list of reviews and available books to honor Earth Month. These| Reading Religion
By Pauline McKenzie Aucoin These four ethnographic studies explore religious practice in the modern—and rapidly changing—world, while also highlighting| Reading Religion
By Nancy Menning In Los Angeles Spring (Aperture, 1986), landscape photographer Robert Adams sums up the previous century’s environmental history of| 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,| Reading Religion
