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.
Today we are spotlighting four book reviews in our Fall 2025 issue!
Read them all here muse.jhu.edu/pub/3/issue/...
Read them all here muse.jhu.edu/pub/3/issue/...
January 25, 2026 at 11:33 PM
Today we are spotlighting four book reviews in our Fall 2025 issue!
Read them all here muse.jhu.edu/pub/3/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...
To read further, go to muse.jhu.edu/pub/3/articl...
January 23, 2026 at 1:18 AM
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...
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...
To read further, go to muse.jhu.edu/pub/3/articl...
January 21, 2026 at 2:45 AM
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...
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...
To read further, go to muse.jhu.edu/pub/3/articl...
January 20, 2026 at 2:28 AM
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...
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...
To read further, go to muse.jhu.edu/pub/3/articl...
January 19, 2026 at 12:08 AM
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...
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...
January 17, 2026 at 2:51 AM
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...
January 15, 2026 at 10:11 PM
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...
January 14, 2026 at 9:30 PM
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...
January 13, 2026 at 5:35 PM
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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November 18, 2025 at 12:23 PM
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...
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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November 13, 2025 at 12:05 PM
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...
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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November 11, 2025 at 11:59 AM
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...
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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November 6, 2025 at 11:44 AM
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...
Back Pages is back again with your biweekly Tuesday installment: John Schmalzbauer discusses how 2016 was a turning point among scholars of evangelicalism and recent academic conversations about the intersection of race and religion. Read further here: www.american-religion.org/back-pages/r...
Rethinking Campus Evangelicalism — American Religion
Schmalzbauer on the history of campus evangelicalism
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November 4, 2025 at 12:33 PM
Back Pages is back again with your biweekly Tuesday installment: John Schmalzbauer discusses how 2016 was a turning point among scholars of evangelicalism and recent academic conversations about the intersection of race and religion. Read further here: www.american-religion.org/back-pages/r...
Congratulations to Dr. Talia Burnside, whose dissertation “So God Made a Farmer: Religion, Flesh, and the State on the Family Farm” has won American Religion Dissertation Prize's Honorable Mention.
November 3, 2025 at 8:23 PM
Congratulations to Dr. Talia Burnside, whose dissertation “So God Made a Farmer: Religion, Flesh, and the State on the Family Farm” has won American Religion Dissertation Prize's Honorable Mention.
The prize jury found it to be scholarship of remarkable creativity and sophistication, marshaling a range of methods and critical approaches to consider in new—and entertaining—ways not just the what but the how and why of scholarly endeavor.
October 30, 2025 at 4:45 PM
The prize jury found it to be scholarship of remarkable creativity and sophistication, marshaling a range of methods and critical approaches to consider in new—and entertaining—ways not just the what but the how and why of scholarly endeavor.
Rather than treating science and religion as exclusive frameworks for being in the world, this study argues that SETI practitioners engage in forms of religious work—mediating presence and absence, cultivating openness to transcendent figures, and managing radical uncertainty.”
October 30, 2025 at 4:45 PM
Rather than treating science and religion as exclusive frameworks for being in the world, this study argues that SETI practitioners engage in forms of religious work—mediating presence and absence, cultivating openness to transcendent figures, and managing radical uncertainty.”
In Martini’s own words, “The Evidence of Things Not Seen” "examines the search for extraterrestrial intelligence (SETI) as a site where scientific practice contributes to the enchantment of the universe through material and discursive processes that sustain openness to unknowable others.
October 30, 2025 at 4:45 PM
In Martini’s own words, “The Evidence of Things Not Seen” "examines the search for extraterrestrial intelligence (SETI) as a site where scientific practice contributes to the enchantment of the universe through material and discursive processes that sustain openness to unknowable others.
Connor Martini earned his PhD from Columbia University’s Department of Religion, and he’s currently a Postdoctoral Research associate at Princeton’s Center for Culture, Society, and Religion.
October 30, 2025 at 4:45 PM
Connor Martini earned his PhD from Columbia University’s Department of Religion, and he’s currently a Postdoctoral Research associate at Princeton’s Center for Culture, Society, and Religion.
We are thrilled to congratulate Dr. Connor Martini as the winner of American Religion’s fifth annual dissertation prize! Dr. Martini’s dissertation is titled, “The Evidence of Things Not Seen.”
October 30, 2025 at 4:44 PM
We are thrilled to congratulate Dr. Connor Martini as the winner of American Religion’s fifth annual dissertation prize! Dr. Martini’s dissertation is titled, “The Evidence of Things Not Seen.”
Back Pages is back again with your biweekly Thursday installment: Candy Gunther Brown on The Word in the World (2004). Brown reflects on continuity in the practice of reading overtime and her recent, multidisciplinary research. Read further here: www.american-religion.org/back-pages/f...
From The Word in the World to More Words in a More Connected and Contested World — American Religion
Candy Gunther Brown on Word in the World (2004)
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October 30, 2025 at 10:32 AM
Back Pages is back again with your biweekly Thursday installment: Candy Gunther Brown on The Word in the World (2004). Brown reflects on continuity in the practice of reading overtime and her recent, multidisciplinary research. Read further here: www.american-religion.org/back-pages/f...
Back Pages is back again with your biweekly Tuesday installment: Jason C. Bivins on the Fracture of Good Order (2003).Bivins reflects on the political moment that shaped the book’s research questions and the applicability of its method for today’s politics. www.american-religion.org/back-pages/t....
The Growth of Bad Order — American Religion
Jason C. Bivins on The Fracture of Good Order (2003)
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October 28, 2025 at 10:35 AM
Back Pages is back again with your biweekly Tuesday installment: Jason C. Bivins on the Fracture of Good Order (2003).Bivins reflects on the political moment that shaped the book’s research questions and the applicability of its method for today’s politics. www.american-religion.org/back-pages/t....
Back Pages is back again with your biweekly Thursday installment: Tisa Wenger on We Have a Religion (2009). Wenger reflects on the genesis of the book’s theoretical framing and new directions in Indigenous scholarship since publication. Read further here: www.american-religion.org/back-pages/w....
We Have a Religion in Retrospect — American Religion
Tisa Wenger on We Have a Religion (2009)
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October 23, 2025 at 10:49 AM
Back Pages is back again with your biweekly Thursday installment: Tisa Wenger on We Have a Religion (2009). Wenger reflects on the genesis of the book’s theoretical framing and new directions in Indigenous scholarship since publication. Read further here: www.american-religion.org/back-pages/w....
Back Pages is back again with your biweekly Tuesday installment: Amanda Porterfield on her book Female Piety in Puritan New England (1992). Porterfield reflects on puritan rhetoric and the trial of Anne Hutchinson. Read further here: www.american-religion.org/back-pages/b...
Back to the Puritans — American Religion
Amanda Porterfield on Female Piety in Puritan New England (1992)
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October 21, 2025 at 10:43 AM
Back Pages is back again with your biweekly Tuesday installment: Amanda Porterfield on her book Female Piety in Puritan New England (1992). Porterfield reflects on puritan rhetoric and the trial of Anne Hutchinson. Read further here: www.american-religion.org/back-pages/b...