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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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Announcements — American Religion
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American Religion @amrel.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
The authors consider how the films ask us to reconsider who gets to be “good,” who is deemed “wicked,” and what it costs everyone when that distinction is made while reified on and against certain bodies. You don't want to miss it!
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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
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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
- Seth Perry on _Joseph Smith_ by John Turner muse.jhu.edu/article/993179 - Anthony M. Trujillo on _Religion in the Lands that Became America_ by Thomas A. Tweed muse.jhu.edu/article/993180
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American Religion @amrel.bsky.social · 08/07/2026
- Seth Perry on _Joseph Smith_ by John Turner muse.jhu.edu/article/993179 - Anthony M. Trujillo on _Religion in the Lands that Became America_ by Thomas A. Tweed muse.jhu.edu/article/993180
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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
- Maddie Shorman on _Prioritizing Faith_ muse.jhu.edu/article/993175 - Amy Fallas on _Martyrs and Migrants_ muse.jhu.edu/article/993176
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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
- David Reed Hall, "A Cult Movie" - Savannah Flanagan, "The Trauma of Childbirth" - Ashley Douglas, "Outsider Hagiographies" Read their responses here: www.american-religion.org/testament-an...
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A Roundtable on The Testament of Ann Lee — American Religion
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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
For further information, see: american-religion.org/announcements We look forward to your submissions!
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American Religion @amrel.bsky.social · 28/05/2026
Please send submissions to amrel@iu.edu by August 30, 2026, and include: 1) an abstract of the dissertation 2) the complete dissertation as a pdf file 3) the author’s current CV
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American Religion @amrel.bsky.social · 28/05/2026
The prize recognizes outstanding dissertation writing in the field broadly understood as “religion in the Americas.” Our definitions of these operative terms are capacious, and we welcome submissions that deploy a broad array of methods and geographical orientations.
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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
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Procreation Stories — American Religion
Pamela E. Klassen on Blessed Events (2001)
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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
Katie Heatherly on _Empire of Purity_ by Eva Payne Rachel B. Gross on _Religion in Plain View_ by Sally M. Promey Eli Rosenblatt on _The Jewish South_ by Shari Rabin Shari Rabin on _Sovereignty and Religious Freedom_ by Simon Rabinovitch
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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
Ryan Tobler on _The Delight Makers_ by Catherine Albanese Claire Rostov on _Waste Wars_ by Alexander Clapp Nanea Renteria on _Land is Kin_ by Dana Lloyd Evan Berry on _Golden States_ by Eileen Luhr
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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
"This article addresses the roots and routes of American Muslim comedy by retracing the early motivations of Preacher Moss, and it considers how his career and narrative set the tone for the articulation of so-called American Muslim comedy into the twenty-first century."
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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
Sullivan reflects "on the long and puzzling love/hate relationship between the papacy and the US and how the history of that ambivalent relationship reveals the still unsettled nature of religious disestablishment in the US."
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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
Plowdern theorizes the history of anti-Black violence by raising fresh questions about the ways in which scholars construct narratives and approach memory.
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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
Fessenden reflects on the intellectual roots of her project, the book’s intervention in the field of religion and literature, and its enduring reception. This is the last of Back Pages for this semester! Stay tuned for future projects in the works . . .
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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
Sullivan reflects on an alternative title to the book, why “cemetery anarchy” might have more precisely captured the dynamics of the trial, and the endurance of the book’s theorization of law and religion.
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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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