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Published semiannually, American Religion offers an open-access forum for intellectual and creative engagement with religion in the Americas.

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American Religion @amrel.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Featuring our very own Sarah Imhoff! www.instagram.com/reel/DdQ-neK...
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Feminist Studies in Religion LAB on Instagram: "@FSRLAB is excited to present a new series (in time for school ✏️📚📖): LAB Teaching Resources Spotlight featuring the @hlucefdn funded project titled, Un...
fsrlab on September 12, 2026: "@FSRLAB is excited to present a new series (in time for school ✏️📚📖): LAB Teaching Resources Spotlight featuring the @hlucefdn funded project titled, Under Gods @undergo...
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American Religion @amrel.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
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: www.american-religion.org/announcements
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American Religion @amrel.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
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. www.american-religion.org/reel-world-r...
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Defying Accountability: Wicked, For Good, and the Afterlives of Oz — American Religion — American Religion
This is the second conversation from the Race, Film, and the Moral Imaginary spring series. Here we talk about Wicked: Part 1 and its sequel Wicked: For Good to explore themes of prejudice, iden...
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American Religion @amrel.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
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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American Religion @amrel.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
A friendly reminder that submissions to American Religion's annual dissertation prize are due by Sunday August 30!! For further information see: www.american-religion.org/announcements
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American Religion @amrel.bsky.social · 08/07/2026
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
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American Religion @amrel.bsky.social · 03/07/2026
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
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American Religion @amrel.bsky.social · 01/07/2026
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
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American Religion @amrel.bsky.social · 30/06/2026
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...
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American Religion @amrel.bsky.social · 29/06/2026
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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American Religion @amrel.bsky.social · 27/06/2026
Today we are featuring Emily Cohen's comic, "Conflicted," in our Spring 2026 issue! Check it out here: muse.jhu.edu/pub/3/articl...
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American Religion @amrel.bsky.social · 26/06/2026
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...
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American Religion @amrel.bsky.social · 25/06/2026
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...
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American Religion @amrel.bsky.social · 23/06/2026
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...
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American Religion @amrel.bsky.social · 21/06/2026
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...
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American Religion @amrel.bsky.social · 28/05/2026
We are delighted to announce American Religion's sixth annual dissertation prize! www.american-religion.org/announcements
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American Religion @amrel.bsky.social · 16/04/2026
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...
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On the Convergence of History and Cultural Anthropology — American Religion
Leigh Eric Schmidt on Holy Fairs (1989)
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American Religion @amrel.bsky.social · 14/04/2026
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.
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American Religion @amrel.bsky.social · 01/04/2026
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...
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American Religion @amrel.bsky.social · 29/01/2026
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/...
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American Religion @amrel.bsky.social · 28/01/2026
Today we are spotlighting four book reviews in our Fall 2025 issue! Read all reviews here: muse.jhu.edu/pub/3/issue/...
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American Religion @amrel.bsky.social · 25/01/2026
Today we are spotlighting four book reviews in our Fall 2025 issue! Read them all here muse.jhu.edu/pub/3/issue/...
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American Religion @amrel.bsky.social · 23/01/2026
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...
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American Religion @amrel.bsky.social · 21/01/2026
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...
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American Religion @amrel.bsky.social · 20/01/2026
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...
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American Religion @amrel.bsky.social · 19/01/2026
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...
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American Religion @amrel.bsky.social · 17/01/2026
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...
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American Religion @amrel.bsky.social · 15/01/2026
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...
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American Religion @amrel.bsky.social · 14/01/2026
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...
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American Religion @amrel.bsky.social · 13/01/2026
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...
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American Religion @amrel.bsky.social · 11/01/2026
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American Religion @amrel.bsky.social · 18/11/2025
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...
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On Culture and Redemption: Religion, the Secular, and American Literature — American Religion
Tracy Fessenden on Culture and Redemption (2007)
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American Religion @amrel.bsky.social · 13/11/2025
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...
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Cametery Anarchy — American Religion
Winnifred Fallers Sullivan on The Impossibility of Religious Freedom (2005)
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American Religion @amrel.bsky.social · 11/11/2025
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...
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Rethinking the Protestant Left — American Religion
Mark Hulsether on Building a Protestant Left (1999)
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American Religion @amrel.bsky.social · 06/11/2025
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...
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Law and Providence Revisited — American Religion
Mark Valeri on Law and Providence (1994)
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American Religion @amrel.bsky.social · 04/11/2025
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...
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Rethinking Campus Evangelicalism — American Religion
Schmalzbauer on the history of campus evangelicalism
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American Religion @amrel.bsky.social · 03/11/2025
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.
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American Religion @amrel.bsky.social · 30/10/2025
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.
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American Religion @amrel.bsky.social · 30/10/2025
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.”
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American Religion @amrel.bsky.social · 30/10/2025
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.
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American Religion @amrel.bsky.social · 30/10/2025
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.
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American Religion @amrel.bsky.social · 30/10/2025
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.”
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American Religion @amrel.bsky.social · 30/10/2025
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...
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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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American Religion @amrel.bsky.social · 28/10/2025
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....
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The Growth of Bad Order — American Religion
Jason C. Bivins on The Fracture of Good Order (2003)
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American Religion @amrel.bsky.social · 23/10/2025
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....
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We Have a Religion in Retrospect — American Religion
Tisa Wenger on We Have a Religion (2009)
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American Religion @amrel.bsky.social · 21/10/2025
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...
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Back to the Puritans — American Religion
Amanda Porterfield on Female Piety in Puritan New England (1992)
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American Religion @amrel.bsky.social · 16/10/2025
Back Pages is back again with your biweekly Thursday installment: Thomas Tweed on American religious historiography. Tweed reflects on the place-centered focus of his scholarship and the importance of narrative complexity in US history. Read further here: www.american-religion.org/back-pages/d...
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Documenting the Emergence of a White Male Protestant Establishment — American Religion
Thomas Tweed on American religious historiography
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American Religion @amrel.bsky.social · 14/10/2025
Back Pages is back again with your biweekly Tuesday installment: Paul Harvey on his book, “Redeeming the South” (1997). Harvey discusses the “cult of the archive,” salient questions in religious historiography, and recent work on biography.Read further here: www.american-religion.org/back-pages/r...
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Redeeming My Own Work — American Religion
Paul Harvey on Redeeming the South (1997)
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American Religion @amrel.bsky.social · 09/10/2025
Back Pages is back again with your biweekly Thursday installment: Courtney Bender on her book Heaven’s Kitchen (2003). Read further here: www.american-religion.org/back-pages/g....
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Going For It — American Religion
Courtney Bender on Heaven's Kitchen (2003)
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American Religion @amrel.bsky.social · 07/10/2025
Back Pages is back again with your biweekly Tuesday installment: W. Clark Gilpin on his book, “A Preface to Theology” (1996). Gilpin reflects on his use of Lippmann and the book’s call for public theological dialogue. Read further here: www.american-religion.org/back-pages/a....
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A Preface to Theology — American Religion
W. Clark Gilpin on A Preface to Theology (1996)
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