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In celebration of Women’s History Month, our editors have curated a new reading list of reviewed and available titles! These books range from biographies of Golda Meir and Sojourner Truth to books about single evangelical women and women healers. These are just some of the books and reviews that we have at Reading Religion. If we are missing any books from our reading list o, send us a note and let us know!

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Kimberly Davis  
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BOOKS REVIEWED, 2/1/2023 to 2/28/2023
MOVE: An American Religion. By Richard Kent Evans (Oxford University Press, 6/12/2022). Reviewed by Paul Anthony.
When God Stops Fighting: How Religious Violence Ends. By Mark Juergensmeyer (University of California Press, 1/11/2022). Reviewed by Eileen Barker.
Ancient Religions
The Kushnameh: The Persian Epic of Kush the Tusked. By Iranshah, Hee Soo Lee (Editor), Kaveh L. Hemmat (Translator) (University of California Press, 7/19/2022). Reviewed by Robert Ames.
Writing and Rewriting History in Ancient Israel and Near Eastern Cultures. By Isaac Kalimi (Editor) (Harrassowitz, 2/5/2020). Reviewed by Ralph K. Hawkins.
Buddhism
Illuminating the Intent: An Exposition of Candrakirti's Entering the Middle Way. By Tsongkhapa, Thupten Jinpa Langri (Translator) (Wisdom Publications, 4/20/2021). Reviewed by Edward Arnold.
Christianity (mostly), history of
Unspeakable Cults: An Essay in Christology. By Paul J. Dehart (Baylor University Press, 8/1/2021). Reviewed by Evan Kuehn.
Christian Maps of the Holy Land. By Pnina Arad (Brepols Publishers, 7/30/2020). Reviewed by Gert Jonathan Naberman.
Invitation to Syriac Christianity: An Anthology. By Michael Philip Penn, Scott Fitzgerald Johnson, Christine Shepardson, Charles M. Stang (Editors) (University of California Press, 2/22/2022). Reviewed by Fabrizio Petorella.
Christianity, biblical interpretation and reception
The Supporting Cast of the Bible: Reading on Behalf of the Multitude. By Gina Hens-Piazza (Lexington Books/Fortress Academic, 1/14/2020). Reviewed by John Herbst.
Christianity, ethics and social justice
The Spirit of Soul Food: Race, Faith, and Food Justice. By Christopher Carter (University of Illinois Press, 12/21/2021). Reviewed by Chad Seales.
How to Fight Racism: Courageous Christianity and the Journey Toward Racial Justice. By Jemar Tisby (Zondervan, 1/5/2021). Reviewed by Kevin D. Clarke.
Sex, Tech, and Faith: Ethics for a Digital Age. By Kate Ott (William B. Eerdmans Publishing Company, 8/16/2022). Reviewed by Rick Pidcock.
Queer Holiness: The Gift of LGBTQI People to the Church. By Charlie Bell (Darton, Longman and Todd, 5/31/2022). Reviewed by Mark Rowland.
The Ethics of Tainted Legacies: Human Flourishing after Traumatic Pasts. By Karen V. Guth (Cambridge University Press, 7/28/2022). Reviewed by Rebekah Miles.
Christianity, theology
Only God Will Save Us: The Nature of God and the Christian Life. By Simon Cuff (Hymns Ancient & Modern Ltd, 6/30/2020). Reviewed by Mark P. Hertenstein.
Karl Barth's Ontology of Divine Grace: God's Decision is God's Being. By Tyler J. Frick (Mohr Siebeck, 9/1/2021). Reviewed by Bradley Penner.
Calvin and the Christian Tradition: Scripture, Memory, and the Western Mind. By R. Ward Holder (Cambridge University Press, 6/9/2022). Reviewed by Andrew Stout.
The Cerulean Soul: A Relational Theology of Depression. By Peter J. Bellini (Baylor University Press, 8/1/2021). Reviewed by Kevin Lazarus.
Comparative Religions, Anthropology of Religions
Translocal Lives and Religion: Connections between Asia and Europe in the Late Modern World . By Philippe Bornet (Editor) (Equinox Publishing Limited, 3/15/2020). Reviewed by Muhammed Ek.
When God Stops Fighting: How Religious Violence Ends. By Mark Juergensmeyer (University of California Press, 1/11/2022). Reviewed by Eileen Barker.
Handbook of UFO Religions. By Benjamin E. Zeller (Editor) (BRILL, 3/8/2021). Reviewed by Melody Everest.
Critical Theory, Methods/Theories in Religious Studies
What Is Religion? Debating the Academic Study of Religion. By Aaron W. Hughes, Russell T. McCutcheon (Editors) (Oxford University Press, 11/17/2021). Reviewed by Hannah Griese.
East Asian Religions, excluding Buddhism-only books
The Luminous Way to the East: Texts and History of the First Encounter of Christianity with China. By Matteo Nicolini-Zani (Oxford University Press, 04/12/2022). Reviewed by Heejun Yang.
Hinduism
Māyā in the Bhāgavata Purāṇa: Human Suffering and Divine Play. By Gopal K Gupta (Oxford University Press, USA, 12/8/2020). Reviewed by Jeremy Hanes.
The Rāmāyaṇa of Vālmīki: The Complete English Translation. By Robert P. Goldman, Sally J. Sutherland Goldman (Editors) (Princeton University Press, 1/18/2022). Reviewed by Paula Richman.
Judaism
The Only Woman in the Room: Golda Meir and Her Path to Power. By Pnina Lahav (Princeton University Press, 9/6/2022). Reviewed by Philip Hollander.
Philosophy of Religion
Religious Disagreement and Pluralism. By Matthew A. Benton, Jonathan L. Kvanvig (Editors) (Oxford University Press, 2/28/2022). Reviewed by Zachariah Motts.
Religion & Law
Banning Black Gods: Law and Religions of the African Diaspora. By Danielle N. Boaz (Penn State University Press, 11/1/2022). Reviewed by Alexandria Griffin.
Religion & Literature
The Mask of Memnon: Meaning and the Novel. By Jean-Luc Beauchard (Wipf and Stock Publishers, 3/31/2022). Reviewed by L.M. Rising.
Religion & Politics
The Psychology of Christian Nationalism: Why People Are Drawn In and How to Talk Across the Divide. By Pamela Cooper-White (Fortress Press, 5/31/2022). Reviewed by Jacob Alan Cook.
Religion and Politics Beyond the Culture Wars: New Directions in a Divided America. By Darren Dochuk (Editor) (University of Notre Dame Press, 10/15/2021). Reviewed by Aaron Stauffer.
Public Confessions: The Religious Conversions That Changed American Politics. By Rebecca L Davis (University of North Carolina Press, 5/1/2021). Reviewed by Jeffrey Scholes.
Religion in North America
The Bible Told Them So: How Southern Evangelicals Fought to Preserve White Supremacy. By J. Russell Hawkins (Oxford University Press, 5/27/2021). Reviewed by V. Jacquette Rhoades.
Adopting for God: The Mission to Change America through Transnational Adoption. By Soojin Chung (New York University Press, 12/14/2021). Reviewed by Maci Sepp.
Bedlam in the New World: A Mexican Madhouse in the Age of Enlightenment. By Christina Ramos (University of North Carolina Press, 3/15/2022). Reviewed by Alejandro Renteria.
MOVE: An American Religion. By Richard Kent Evans (Oxford University Press, 6/12/2022). Reviewed by Paul Anthony.
American Prophets: The Religious Roots of Progressive Politics and the Ongoing Fight for the Soul of the Country. By Jack Jenkins (HarperOne, 4/27/2021). Reviewed by Adam Waters.

BOOKS RECEIVED, 2/1/2023 to 2/28/2023
Jewish Blues: A History of a Color in Judaism. By Gadi Sagiv (University of Pennsylvania Press, 2/14/2023).


 
The Myth of Colorblind Christians: Evangelicals and White Supremacy in the Civil Rights Era. By Jesse Curtis (NYU Press, 11/9/2021).
African Religions
Speaking of Satan in Zambia: Making cultural and personal sense of narratives about Satanism. By Johanneke Kroesbergen-Kamps (AOSIS, 12/31/2022).
Buddhism
Two Truths in Indian Buddhism: Reality, Knowledge, and Freedom. By Sonam Thakchoe (Wisdom Publications, 4/18/2023).
Christianity (mostly), history of
Legions of Pigs in the Early Medieval West. By Jamie Kreiner (Yale University Press, 10/27/2020).
The Lives of Saint Constantina: Introduction, Translations, and Commentaries. By Marco Conti, Virginia Burrus, Dennis Trout (Editors) (Oxford University Press, 1/4/2021).
Kindred Spirits: Friendship and Resistance at the Edges of Modern Catholicism. By Brenna Moore (University of Chicago Press, 7/02/2021).
Making Christian History: Eusebius of Caesarea and His Readers. By Michael Hollerich (University of California Press, 6/22/2021).
Divine Accounting: Theo-Economics in Early Christianity. By Jennifer A. Quigley (Yale University Press, 6/8/2021).
The Popes against the Protestants: The Vatican and Evangelical Christianity in Fascist Italy. By Kevin Madigan (Yale University Press, 8/17/2021).
Qumran and Christian Origins. By Jörg Frey, Jacob Cerone (As told to) (Baylor University Press, 6/1/2022).
An Evangelical Adrift: The Making of John Henry Newman’s Theology. By Geertjan Zuijdwegt (Catholic University of America Press, 1/6/2023).
Mary Magdalene: A Cultural History. By Philip C. Almond (Cambridge University Press, 2/2/2023).
Mobile Saints: Relic Circulation, Devotion, and Conflict in the Central Middle Ages. By Kate Craig (Routledge, 1/9/2023).
Christianity, biblical interpretation and reception
Secret Gospel of Mark: A Controversial Scholar, a Scandalous Gospel of Jesus, and the Fierce Debate over Its Authenticity. By Geoffrey S Smith, Brent C Landau (Yale University Press, 3/21/2023).
Christianity, contemporary
Smart Suits, Tattered Boots: Black Ministers Mobilizing the Black Church in the Twenty-First Century. By Korie Little Edwards, Michelle Oyakawa (New York University Press, 2/1/2022).
Christianity, ethics and social justice
Jesus the Refugee: Ancient Injustice and Modern Solidarity. By D. Glenn Butner; Jr. (Fortress Press, 1/24/2023).
Christianity, theology
The Oxford Handbook of the Reception of Aquinas. By Matthew Levering, Marcus Plested (Editors) (Oxford University Press, 3/14/2021).
Regret: A Theology. By Paul J. Griffiths (University of Notre Dame Press, 2/15/2021).
Formed Together: Mystery, Narrative, and Virtue in Christian Caregiving. By Keith Dow (Baylor University Press, 2/15/2021).
The Image of God in the Theology of Gregory of Nazianzus. By Gabrielle Thomas (Cambridge University Press, 2/16/2023).
Spiritual Formation As the Hero's Journey in John of Ruusbroec. By Robert Pelfrey (Routledge , 4/7/2022).
Karl Barth and Liberation Theology. By Paul Dafydd Jones, Kaitlyn Dugan (Editors) (Bloomsbury Academic, 1/12/2023).
Comparative Religions, Anthropology of Religions
Christ Returns from the Jungle: Ayahuasca Religion as Mystical Healing. By Marc G. Blainey (State University of New York Press, 6/1/2021).
Material Mystery: The Flesh of the World in Three Mythic Bodies. By Karmen MacKendrick (Fordham University Press, 8/17/2021).
Religion and the Rise of Sport in England. By Hugh McLeod (Oxford University Press, 2/10/2023).
Critical Theory, Methods/Theories in Religious Studies
Religion's Power: What Makes It Work. By Robert Wuthnow (Oxford University Press, 11/25/2022).
East Asian Religions, excluding Buddhism-only books
The Interpretation of Tang Christianity in the Late Ming China Mission: Manuel Dias Jr.’s Correct Explanation of the Tang “Stele Eulogy on the Luminous Teaching” (1644). By Matteo Nicolini-Zani (Brill, 3/30/2023).
Hinduism
Deceptive Majority: Dalits, Hinduism, and Underground Religion. By Joel Lee (Cambridge University Press, 8/5/2021).
The Dharma of Justice in the Sanskrit Epics: Debates on Gender, Varna, and Species. By Ruth Vanita (Oxford University Press, 10/31/2022).
Islam
Islamic Gardens and Landscapes. By D. Fairchild Ruggles (University of Pennsylvania Press, 3/1/2022).
Freedom of Speech in Universities: Islam, Charities and Counter-terrorism. By Alison Scott-Baumann, Simon Perfect (Routledge , 8/29/2022).
The Higher Objectives of Islamic Theology: Toward a Theory of Maqasid al-Aqida. By Mohammed Gamal Abdelnour (Oxford University Press, 11/4/2022).
The Women's Mosque of America: Authority and Community in US Islam. By Tazeen M. Ali (New York University Press, 11/1/2022).
Rebuilding Community: Displaced Women and the Making of a Shia Ismaili Muslim Sociality. By Shenila Khoja-Moolji (Oxford University Press, 7/11/2023).
Judaism
Blood Libel: On the Trail of an Antisemitic Myth. By Magda Teter (Harvard University Press, 1/28/2020).
Gendering Modern Jewish Thought. By Andrea Dara Cooper (Indiana University Press, 11/2/2021).
The Return of the Absent Father: A New Reading of a Chain of Stories from the Babylonian Talmud. By Haim Weiss, Shira Stav, Batya Stein (Translator) (University of Pennsylvania Press, 2/25/2022).
Jews of Iran: A Photographic Chronicle. By Hassan Sarbakhshian, Lior B Sternfeld, Parvaneh Vahidmanesh (Penn State University Press, 9/6/2022).
Religion Around Walter Benjamin . By Brian Britt (Penn State University Press, 9/27/2022).
Resurrecting the Jew: Nationalism, Philosemitism, and Poland’s Jewish Revival. By Geneviève Zubrzycki (Princeton University Press, 9/27/2022).
Jewish Blues: A History of a Color in Judaism. By Gadi Sagiv (University of Pennsylvania Press, 2/14/2023).
Philosophy of Religion
The Delight Makers: Anglo-American Metaphysical Religion and the Pursuit of Happiness. By Catherine L. Albanese (University of Chicago Press, 1/17/2023).
Religion & Literature
Bad Humor: Race and Religious Essentialism in Early Modern England. By Kimberly Anne Coles (University of Pennsylvania Press, 4/19/2022).
Religion & Politics
A Brief Apology for a Catholic Moment. By Jean-Luc Marion, Stephen E. Lewis (Translator) (University of Chicago Press, 5/3/2021).
Holy Vote: Inequality and Anxiety among White Evangelicals. By Sarah Diefendorf (University of California Press, 2/7/2023).
Religion & Science
Theology and Climate Change. By Paul Tyson (Routledge, 9/26/2022).
Religion in North America
Church of Saint Thomas Paine: A Religious History of American Secularism. By Leigh Eric Schmidt (Princeton University Press, 11/2/2021).
The Myth of Colorblind Christians: Evangelicals and White Supremacy in the Civil Rights Era. By Jesse Curtis (NYU Press, 11/9/2021).
Religion Is Raced: Understanding American Religion in the Twenty-First Century. By Grace Yukich , Penny Edgell (Editors) (New York University Press, 7/28/2020).
South Asian Religions, excluding Hinduism-only or Islam-only books
Ravana's Kingdom: The Ramayana and Sri Lankan History from Below. By Justin W. Henry (Oxford University Press, 10/18/2022).
The Dancer's Voice: Performance and Womanhood in Transnational India. By Rumya Sree Putcha (Duke University Press, 12/9/2022).
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