American Religion
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Published semiannually, American Religion offers an open-access forum for intellectual and creative engagement with religion in the Americas.
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/articl... - Janine Giordano Drake on _Orthodoxy on the Line_ by Aram Sarkisian muse.jhu.edu/article/993178
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/ 993173 - Vincent Lloyd on _Underworld Work_ muse.jhu.edu/article/993174
Check out these reviews of four new books in religious studies in our Spring 2026 issue! muse.jhu.edu/pub/3/article/993169 muse.jhu.edu/article/993170 muse.jhu.edu/article/993171 muse.jhu.edu/article/993172
Today we are featuring Andrew Walker-Cornetta's essay, "Obfuscating Itineraries," in our Spring 2026 issue! Read further here: muse.jhu.edu/pub/3/articl...
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.
Today we are featuring Emily Cohen's comic, "Conflicted," in our Spring 2026 issue! Check it out here: muse.jhu.edu/pub/3/articl...
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/articl...
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/articl...
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/articl...
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/articl...
We are delighted to announce American Religion's sixth annual dissertation prize! www.american-religion.org/announcements
Announcements — American Religion
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Today’s post marks our conclusion to the series—for now—and you are in for a treat! Leigh Eric Schmidt reflects on the Geertzian moment at the time of writing, the evolution of his subsequent research and methodology, and the legacy of historical ethnography www.american-religion.org/back-pages/o...
On the Convergence of History and Cultural Anthropology — American Religion
Leigh Eric Schmidt on Holy Fairs (1989)
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Back Pages is back for a penultimate hurrah! Read Pamela E. Klassen on her second book, Blessed Events (2001), and her reflection on merging theory with feminist critique at the height of the “ethnographic turn” in arguing for childbirth as a religious form.
Check out Arab Americana, an awesome new journal founded by Dr. Edward E. Curtis IV! The journal is currently issuing a call for papers for their first issue. www.psupress.org/journals/jnl...
Today we are spotlighting two book reviews in our Fall 2025 issue! Tracy Fessenden on _Thoreau’s Axe_ by Caleb Smith Elaine Lai on _American Koan_ by Ben Van Overmeire Read further here muse.jhu.edu/pub/3/issue/...
Today we are spotlighting four book reviews in our Fall 2025 issue! Read all reviews here: muse.jhu.edu/pub/3/issue/...
Today we are spotlighting four book reviews in our Fall 2025 issue! Read them all here muse.jhu.edu/pub/3/issue/...
Today we are spotlighting Morgan Barbre's and Kathryn Lofton's review essay of "The Hoosier Cabinet in Kitchen History" by IU alum Nancy Hiller. To read further, go to muse.jhu.edu/pub/3/articl...
Today we are spotlighting James B. Nicola's poem, "States of Matter," in our Fall 2025 issue! To read further, go to muse.jhu.edu/pub/3/articl...
Today we are spotlighting Frank Jamison's poem, "Three Orders of Prayer," in our Fall 2025 issue! To read further, go to muse.jhu.edu/pub/3/articl...
Today we are spotlighting Dustin P. Brown's poem, "Sé Catedral," in our Fall 2025 issue! To read further, go to muse.jhu.edu/pub/3/articl...
Today we are spotlighting Morgane Thonnart's article, "Preacher Moss Sets the Tone: A New Genealogy and Anatomy of American Muslim Comedy," in our Fall 2025 issue! muse.jhu.edu/pub/3/articl...
Today we are spotlighting Megan Leverage's article, "S. W. Hopkins’s 'Gospel of Intelligent Industry': The Industrial Religion of the Mt. Pleasant Indian Industrial Boarding School," in our Fall 2025 issue! muse.jhu.edu/pub/3/articl...
Today we are spotlighting Winnifred Fallers Sullivan's essay, "Notes on an American Pope," in our Fall 2025 issue! To read the entire essay, go to muse.jhu.edu/pub/3/articl...
Today we are spotlighting Chandra Plowden's essay, "A Case for Half-Lives: Ten Years after a Charleston Shooting" in our Fall 2025 issue! muse.jhu.edu/pub/3/articl...
Back Pages is back again with your biweekly Tuesday installment: Tracy Fessenden on Culture and Redemption (2007). Read further here: www.american-religion.org/back-pages/o...
On Culture and Redemption: Religion, the Secular, and American Literature — American Religion
Tracy Fessenden on Culture and Redemption (2007)
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Back Pages is back again with your biweekly Thursday installment: Winnifred Fallers Sullivan on her book, The Impossibility of Religious Freedom (2005). Read further here: www.american-religion.org/back-pages/c...
Cametery Anarchy — American Religion
Winnifred Fallers Sullivan on The Impossibility of Religious Freedom (2005)
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Back Pages is back again with your biweekly Tuesday installment: Mark Hulsether on his book, Building a Protestant Left (1999). Read further here: www.american-religion.org/back-pages/r...
Rethinking the Protestant Left — American Religion
Mark Hulsether on Building a Protestant Left (1999)
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Back Pages is back again with your biweekly Thursday installment: Mark Valeri on Law and Providence in Joseph Bellamy’s New England (1994). Read further here: www.american-religion.org/back-pages/l...
Law and Providence Revisited — American Religion
Mark Valeri on Law and Providence (1994)
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