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BOOKS REVIEWED, 3/1/2023 to 3/31/2023
Stealing My Religion: Not Just Any Cultural Appropriation. By Liz Bucar (Harvard University Press, 9/13/2022). Reviewed by Merin Shobhana Xavier.
Defend the Sacred: Native American Religious Freedom beyond the First Amendment. By Michael D. McNally (Princeton University Press, 4/14/2020). Reviewed by James W. Waters.
African religions
The Finger of God: Enoch Mgijima, the Israelites, and the Bulhoek Massacre in South Africa. By Robert R. Edgar (University of Virginia Press, 5/24/2018). Reviewed by Natasha Erlank.
Ancient Religions
Divination and Knowledge in Greco-Roman Antiquity. By Crystal Addey (Editor) (Taylor & Francis Group, 7/15/2021). Reviewed by Sarah S. Eckert.
The Study of Greek and Roman Religions: Insularity and Assimilation. By Nickolas P. Roubekas (Bloomsbury Academic, 8/11/2022). Reviewed by Paul Robertson.
Buddhism
The Buddha's Tooth: Western Tales of a Sri Lankan Relic. By John S. Strong (University of Chicago Press, 10/22/2021). Reviewed by Richard K. Payne.
Christianity (mostly), history of
Ivan Illich: An Intellectual Journey. By David Cayley (Pennsylvania State University Press, 2/18/2021). Reviewed by Myles Werntz.
De Sortibus: A Letter to a Friend about the Casting of Lots. By Thomas Aquinas, Peter Carey (Translator) (Cascade Books, 1/13/2021). Reviewed by Brandon L. Wanless.
Where Paralytics Walk and the Blind See: Stories of Sickness and Disability at the Juncture of Worlds. By Mary Dunn (Princeton University Press, 6/21/2022). Reviewed by Mark Brians.
Memory and the Dissolution of the Monasteries in Early Modern England. By Harriet Lyon (Cambridge University Press, 10/1/2021). Reviewed by Autumn Reinhardt-Simpson.
Gospel Witness Through the Ages: A History of Evangelism. By David M. Gustafson (William B. Eerdmans Publishing Company, 2/24/2022). Reviewed by Mark O. Wilson.
Christianity, biblical interpretation and reception
The Bible in the Early Church. By Justo L. González (William B. Eerdmans Publishing Company, 3/8/2022). Reviewed by Victoria Perez Rivera.
Temptation Transformed: The Story of How the Forbidden Fruit Became an Apple. By Azzan Yadin-Israel (University of Chicago Press, 10/7/2022). Reviewed by Amy L. Balogh.
Christianity, contemporary
Holiness and Pentecostal Movements: Intertwined Pasts, Presents, and Futures. By David Bundy, Geordan Hammond, David Sang-Ehil Han (Editors) (Penn State University Press, 2/1/2022). Reviewed by Andrea Johnson.
Christianity, ethics and social justice
Approaches to Theological Ethics: Sources, Traditions, Visions. By Maureen Junker-Kenny (Bloomsbury Academic & Professional, 11/14/2019). Reviewed by Noah R. Karger.
Christianity, theology
The Eucharistic Form of God: Hans Urs von Balthasar's Sacramental Theology. By Jonathan Martin Ciraulo (University of Notre Dame Press, 3/15/2022). Reviewed by Charles Conway.
A Theology for the Twenty-First Century. By Douglas F. Ottati (William B. Eerdmans Publishing Company, 10/1/2020). Reviewed by Jason Oliver Evans.
The Body of the Cross: Holy Victims and the Invention of the Atonement. By Travis E. Ables (Fordham University Press, 12/7/2021). Reviewed by Andrew Belfield.
Creativity, Theology, and Posttraumatic Growth: The Sacred Impulse of Play and Transformation out of Tragedy. By Dustin S. Risser (Wipf & Stock Publishers, 8/11/2022). Reviewed by Beth Alford.
Comparative Religions, Anthropology of Religions
Stealing My Religion: Not Just Any Cultural Appropriation. By Liz Bucar (Harvard University Press, 9/13/2022). Reviewed by Merin Shobhana Xavier.
Islamic Thought Through Protestant Eyes. By Mehmet Karabela (Routledge, 3/30/2021). Reviewed by Hussam S. Timani.
Somewhere Between Islam and Judaism: Critical Reflections. By Aaron W. Hughes (Equinox Publishing Limited, 8/20/2021). Reviewed by Adam DeSchriver.
The Hidden "God": Towards a Christian Theology of Buddhism. By Peter Baekelmans (Angelico Press, 5/31/2022). Reviewed by Shayne N. Yano.
Hinduism
Performing the Ramayana Tradition: Enactments, Interpretations, and Arguments. By Paula Richman, Rustom Bharucha (Editors) (Oxford University Press, 7/6/2021). Reviewed by Heidi Pauwels.
Indigenous Religions
Defend the Sacred: Native American Religious Freedom beyond the First Amendment. By Michael D. McNally (Princeton University Press, 4/14/2020). Reviewed by James W. Waters.
Islam
Islamic Law: A Very Short Introduction. By Mashood A. Baderin (Oxford University Press, 4/1/2021). Reviewed by Mustapha Sheikh.
What Is Islamic Studies? European and North American Approaches to a Contested Field. By Leif Stenberg, Philip Wood (Editors) (Edinburgh University Press, 1/27/2022). Reviewed by Kecia Ali.
The End of Two Illusions: Islam After the West. By Hamid Dabashi (University of California Press, 4/19/2022). Reviewed by Edward Z. Ablang.
An Anthropology of the Qur'an. By Ahmed Achrati (Taylor & Francis Group, 11/30/2021). Reviewed by Wytze Dijkstra.
Judaism
On My Right Michael, on My Left Gabriel: Angels in Ancient Jewish Culture. By Mika Ahuvia (University of California Press, 6/8/2021). Reviewed by Jeremiah Bailey.
Philosophy of Religion
The Saint and the Atheist: Thomas Aquinas and Jean-Paul Sartre. By Joseph S. Catalano (University of Chicago Press, 2/16/2021). Reviewed by Mireille Bishay.
Comparative Philosophy and Method: Contemporary Practices and Future Possibilities. By Steven Burik, Robert Smid, Ralph Weber (Editors) (Bloomsbury Academic, 3/10/2022). Reviewed by Stephen Dawson.
By Way of Obstacles: A Pathway Through a Work. By Emmanuel Falque, Sarah Horton (Translator) (Cascade Books, 12/1/2022). Reviewed by Mark Novak.
Global Phenomenologies of Religion: An Oral History in Interviews. By Satoko Fujiwara, David Thurfjell, Steven Engler (Editors) (Equinox Publishing Limited, 3/1/2021). Reviewed by John Allison.
Religion & Literature
Heaven's Interpreters: Women Writers and Religious Agency in Nineteenth-Century America. By Ashley Reed (Cornell University Press, 9/15/2020). Reviewed by Samantha (Sam) McLoughlin.
Religion & Politics
The Fierce Life of Grace Holmes Carlson. By Donna T. Haverty-Stacke (NYU Press, 12/29/2020). Reviewed by A. J. Scopino.
What Do We Do When Nobody Is Listening? Leading the Church in a Polarized Society. By Robin W. Lovin (William B. Eerdmans Publishing Company, 6/28/2022). Reviewed by Michael P. DeJonge.
Religion in North America
The Church of the Dead: The Epidemic of 1576 and the Birth of Christianity in the Americas. By Jennifer Scheper Hughes (New York University Press, 8/3/2021). Reviewed by Joshua Mendez.
Howard Thurman and the Disinherited. By Paul Harvey (Eerdmans, 10/27/2020). Reviewed by Nicholas T. Pruitt.
Teaching in Black and White: The Sisters of St. Joseph in the American South. By Barbara E Mattick (Catholic University of America Press, 1/12/2023). Reviewed by James Daryn Henry.
Religion, Art, & Music
The Forbidden Body: Sex, Horror, and the Religious Imagination. By Douglas E. Cowan (New York University Press, 5/17/2022). Reviewed by Luise Merkert.
South Asian Religions, excluding Hinduism-only or Islam-only books
The Veda in Kashmir, Volumes I and II: History and Present State of Vedic Tradition in the Western Himalayas. By Michael Witzel (Harvard University Press, 7/13/2021). Reviewed by Swami Narasimhananda.

BOOKS RECEIVED, 3/1/2023 to 3/31/2023
The Boundary of Laughter: Popular Performances across Borders in South Asia. By Aniket De (Oxford University Press, 3/15/2023).
 
Lincoln's God: How Faith Transformed a President and a Nation. By Joshua Zeitz (Viking, 5/16/2023).
African Religions
Rastafari: The Evolution of a People and Their Identity. By Charles Price (New York University Press, 11/14/2022).
Buddhism
Xuanzang: China’s Legendary Pilgrim and Translator. By Benjamin Brose (Shambhala, 1/19/2021).
Journeys of Transformation: Searching for No-Self in Western Buddhist Travel Narratives. By John D. Barbour (Cambridge University Press, 6/9/2022).
A Tale of Two Stūpas: Diverging Paths in the Revival of Buddhism in China. By Albert Welter (Oxford University Press, 11/4/2022).
Conjuring the Buddha: Ritual Manuals in Early Tantric Buddhism. By Jacob P. Dalton (Columbia University Press, 1/17/2023).
Christianity (mostly), history of
Cloven Country: The Devil and the English Landscape. By Jeremy Harte (Reaktion Books, 12/14/2022).
Unfinished Christians: Ritual Objects and Silent Subjects in Late Antiquity. By Georgia Frank (University of Pennsylvania Press, 02/21/2023).
Christianity, biblical interpretation and reception
Passions of the Christ: The Emotional Life of Jesus in the Gospels. By F. Scott Spencer (Baker Academic, 5/4/2021).
A Social History of Christian Origins: The Rejected Jesus. By Simon J. Joseph (Routledge, 12/30/2022).
Apostle and the Empire: Paul's Implicit and Explicit Criticism of Rome. By Christoph Heilig (William B. Eerdmans Publishing Company, 11/22/2022).
The Old Testament and God. By Craig G. Bartholomew (Baker Academic, 12/13/2022).
Open Canon: Scriptures of the Latter Day Saint Tradition. By Christine Elyse Blythe, Christopher James Blythe, Jay Burton (Editors) (University of Utah Press, 1/20/2023).
Finding Phoebe: What New Testament Women Were Really Like. By Susan E Hylen (William B. Eerdmans Publishing Company, 1/17/2023).
Old Testament Theology: Canon or Testimony. By Walter Brueggemann, Brevard S. Childs (Fortress Press, 04/18/2023).
Christianity, contemporary
Unruly Catholic Feminists: Prose, Poetry, and the Future of the Faith. By Jeana DelRosso, Leigh Eicke, Ana Kothe (Editors) (State University of New York Press, 9/1/2021).
South Asia's Christians: Between Hindu and Muslim. By Chandra Mallampalli (Oxford University Press, 2/17/2023).
Christianity, ethics and social justice
Corpse Care: Ethics for Tending the Dead . By Cody J. Sanders, Mikeal C. Parsons (Fortress Press, 1/1/2023).
Just War and Christian Traditions. By Eric Patterson, J. Daryl Charles (Editors) (University of Notre Dame Press, 12/22/2022).
Resisting Apartheid America: Living the Badass Gospel. By Miguel A. De La Torre (William B. Eerdmans Publishing Company, 1/31/2023).
Liberation and the Cosmos: Conversations with the Elders, Revised Edition. By Barbara A. Holmes (Fortress Press, 2/28/2023).
Christianity, theology
Babel Church: The Subversion of Christianity in an Age of Mass Media, Globalization, and #MeToo. By Li Ma (Wipf & Stock Publishers, 3/16/2021).
In the Image of Her: Recovering Motherhood in the Christian Tradition. By Amy E. Marga (Baylor University Press, 9/15/2022).
Sister Death: Political Theologies for Living and Dying. By Beatrice Marovich (Columbia University Press, 2/7/2023).
Spirituality of Creation, Evolution, and Work: Catherine Keller and Pierre Teilhard de Chardin. By Roger Haight, Alfred Pach, Amanda Avila Kaminski (Editors) (Fordham University Press, 4/4/2023).
Jesus among the Gods: Early Christology in the Greco-Roman World. By Michael F. Bird (Baylor University Press, 10/15/2022).
Comparative Religions, Anthropology of Religions
Come Now, Let Us Argue It Out: Counter-Conduct and LGBTQ Evangelical Activism. By Jon Burrow-Branine (University of Nebraska Press, 11/1/2021).
The Arab Christ: Towards an Arab Christian Theology of Conviviality. By Mouchir Basile Aoun, Sarah Patey (Translator) (Gingko Library, 1/26/2023).
Better Religion: A Primer for Interreligious Peacebuilding. By John D. Barton (Baylor University Press, 9/15/2022).
Kids on the Street: Queer Kinship and Religion in San Francisco's Tenderloin. By Joseph Plaster (Duke University Press, 2/24/2023).
Critical Theory, Methods/Theories in Religious Studies
A Joyfully Serious Man: The Life of Robert Bellah. By Matteo Bortolini (Princeton University Press, 10/19/2021).
A Universe of Terms: Religion in Visual Metaphor. By Mona Oraby, Emilie Flamme (Indiana University Press, 11/1/2022).
Circuits of the Sacred: A Faggotology in the Black Latinx Caribbean. By Carlos Ulises Decena (Duke University Press, 2/3/2023).
Hidden Histories: Faith and Black Lesbian Leadership. By Monique Moultrie (Duke University Press, 3/10/2023).
East Asian Religions, excluding Buddhism-only books
Contemporary Korean Shamanism: From Ritual to Digital. By Liora Sarfati (Indiana University Press, 12/3/2020).
Hinduism
The Vulgarity of Caste: Dalits, Sexuality, and Humanity in Modern India. By Shailaja Paik (Stanford University Press, 10/25/2022).
Middle Class Dharma: Gender, Aspiration, and the Making of Modern Hinduism. By Jennifer D. Ortegren (Oxford University Press, 4/21/2023).
Islam
Islamic Perspectives on International Conflict Resolution: Theological Debates and the Israel-Palestinian Peace Process. By Shameer Modongal (Routledge, 12/30/2022).
Broken: The Failed Promise of Muslim Inclusion. By Evelyn Alsultany (New York University Press, 11/22/2022).
An American Muslim Guide to the Art and Life of Preaching. By Sohaib Sultan, Martin Nguyen (Fortress Press, 3/7/2023).
Judaism
Jews and Their Roman Rivals: Pagan Rome's Challenge to Israel. By Katell Berthelot (Princeton University Press, 10/26/2021).
The Community Rules from Qumran: A Commentary. By Charlotte Hempel (Fortress Press, 1/17/2023).
Living with the Law: Gender and Community Among the Jews of Medieval Egypt. By Oded Zinger (University of Pennsylvania Press, 1/17/2023).
Closed Book: How the Rabbis Taught the Jews (Not) to Read the Bible. By Rebecca Scharbach Wollenberg (Princeton University Press, 4/18/2023).
Philosophy of Religion
Spinoza's Religion: A New Reading of the Ethics. By Clare Carlisle (Princeton University Press, 9/7/2021).
Dark Matters: Pessimism and the Problem of Suffering. By Mara van der Lugt (Princeton University Press, 9/21/2021).
Unchanging Truth of God?:: Crucial Philosophical Issues for Theology. By Thomas G. Guarino (Catholic University of America Press, 4/22/2022).
Wild and Sacred Call: Nature–Psyche–Spirit. By Will W. Adams (State University of New York Press, 2/1/2023).
Religion & Literature
Destruction, Ethics, and Intergalactic Love: Exploring Y: The Last Man and Saga. By Peter Admirand (Routledge, 12/30/2022).
The Habit of Poetry: The Literary Lives of Nuns in Mid-century America. By Nick Ripatrazone (Fortress Press, 5/9/2023).
Religion & Politics
Exploring the Public Effects of Religious Communication on Politics. By Brian Calfano (Editor) (University of Michigan Press, 12/30/2020).
Divined Intervention: Religious Institutions and Collective Action. By Christopher W. Hale (University of Michigan Press, 1/12/2023).
American Biblical Archaeology and Zionism: The Politics of Objectivity from William F. Albright to William G. Dever. By Brooke Sherrard Knorr (Routledge, 12/29/2022).
Sacred Foundations: The Religious and Medieval Roots of the European State. By Anna Grzymała-Busse (Princeton University Press, 1/31/2023).
Capitalist Humanitarianism. By Lucia Hulsether (Duke University Press, 2/3/2023).
Lincoln's God: How Faith Transformed a President and a Nation. By Joshua Zeitz (Viking, 5/16/2023).
Bodies in Early Modern Religious Dissent: Naked, Veiled, Vilified, Worshiped. By Elisabeth Fischer, Xenia von Tippelskirch (Editors) (Routledge, 1/9/2023).
Religion, Art, & Music
Musicology of Religion: Theories, Methods, and Directions. By Guy L. Beck (State University of New York Press, 5/1/2023).
South Asian Religions, excluding Hinduism-only or Islam-only books
Merchants of Virtue: Hindus, Muslims, and Untouchables in Eighteenth-Century South Asia. By Divya Cherian (University of California Press, 12/27/2022).
The Boundary of Laughter: Popular Performances across Borders in South Asia. By Aniket De (Oxford University Press, 3/15/2023).
The Camphor Tree and the Elephant: Religion and Ecological Change in Maritime Southeast Asia. By Faizah Zakaria (University of Washington Press, 2/7/2023).
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