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Bloomington, IN
Joined July 2019
A friendly reminder that submissions to American Religion's annual dissertation prize are due in THREE days by Sunday August 30!! For further information see: american-religion.org/announ…
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Check out an exciting new roundtable discussion on the movies Wicked and Wicked: For Good! Featuring Samah Choudhury, Mihee Kim-Kort, and Amey Victoria Adkins-Jones, the conversation explores themes of prejudice, identity, and belonging. american-religion.org/reel-w…
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The authors consider how the films ask us to reconsider who gets to be “good,” who is deemed “wicked,” and what it costs everyone when that distinction is made while reified on and against certain bodies. You don't want to miss it!
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We are thrilled to welcome Dana Logan to American Religion’s editorial board! Logan is an Associate Professor of History at UNC Greensboro. She is a scholar of evangelicalism, civil society in the nineteenth-century United States, discipline, and the everyday experience of ritual
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A friendly reminder that submissions to American Religion's annual dissertation prize are due by Sunday August 30!! For further information see: american-religion.org/announ…
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Check out these reviews of four new books in religious studies in our Spring 2026 issue! - Melissa Borja on _Without a Prayer_ by Leslie Beth Ribovich muse.jhu.edu/pub/3/article/9… - Janine Giordano Drake on _Orthodoxy on the Line_ by Aram Sarkisian muse.jhu.edu/article/993178
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- Seth Perry on _Joseph Smith_ by John Turner muse.jhu.edu/article/993179 - Anthony M. Trujillo on _Religion in the Lands that Became America_ by Thomas A. Tweed muse.jhu.edu/article/993180
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Check out these reviews of four new books in religious studies in our Spring 2026 issue! - Samira Mehta on _Conceiving Christian America_ muse.jhu.edu/pub/3/article/9… - Vincent Lloyd on _Underworld Work_ muse.jhu.edu/article/993174
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- Maddie Shorman on _Prioritizing Faith_ muse.jhu.edu/article/993175 - Amy Fallas on _Martyrs and Migrants_ muse.jhu.edu/article/993176
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Today we are featuring Andrew Walker-Cornetta's essay, "Obfuscating Itineraries," in our Spring 2026 issue! Read further here: muse.jhu.edu/pub/3/article/9…
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We are thrilled to announce on the American Religion website a new series on The Testament of Ann Lee (2025)! Edited by Dana Logan (UNC Greensboro), the roundtable features responses from three graduate students on various aspects of the film.
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- David Reed Hall, "A Cult Movie" - Savannah Flanagan, "The Trauma of Childbirth" - Ashley Douglas, "Outsider Hagiographies" Read their responses here: american-religion.org/testam…
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Today we are featuring Emily Cohen's comic, "Conflicted," in our Spring 2026 issue! Check it out here: muse.jhu.edu/pub/3/article/9…
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Today we are featuring Hannah Thorpe's and Sophie Bjork-James's article, "Toppling the Jenga Tower," in our Spring 2026 issue! muse.jhu.edu/pub/3/article/9…
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Today we are featuring Connor Martini's article, "Lessons from a Reticent Guest: ‘Oumuamua and the Indeterminacy of Enchantment" in our Spring 2026 issue! muse.jhu.edu/pub/3/article/9…
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Today we are featuring Savannah Flanagan's article, "Pastoral Maternity Care: The Moravians’ Utopian Vision of Reproductive Healthcare and its Limitations," in our Spring 2026 issue! Read further here: muse.jhu.edu/pub/3/article/9…
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We are delighted to announce the publication of our Spring 2026 issue! Today, we are featuring Edward E. Curtis's important article on the intersection religion and Arab American studies. muse.jhu.edu/pub/3/article/9…
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