Reading Religion @readingreligion.bsky.social · 25/06/2026This is Reading Religion’s final social media post. Thanks to everyone who read, reviewed, wrote, shared, and supported our work over the years. While no further posts will be made, this account will remain available as an archive. Thank you for being part of the conversation. 020
Reading Religion @readingreligion.bsky.social · 22/06/2026Here is Reading Religion’s final newsletter. Thank you to everyone who read, reviewed, wrote, published, and supported Reading Religion over the years. We are grateful for the community that made this work possible. eepurl.com/oIfsulzZGEeepurl.comA Fond Farewell and Final ReviewsDear Reading Religion Subscribers, 000
Reading Religion @readingreligion.bsky.social · 23/02/2026For nearly a decade, Reading Religion has served as a scholarly and public resource for reviews of books, films, and review essays in religious studies. Thank you to the editors, reviewers, authors, publishers, and readers whose care and labor sustained this work. 001
Reading Religion @readingreligion.bsky.social · 12/02/2026After careful consideration, the American Academy of Religion has decided that Reading Religion will cease operations on May 31, 2026. Reviews will continue through May, after which the site will become a public archive. With gratitude. Official Statement: buff.ly/DYwZsambuff.ly 210
Reading Religion @readingreligion.bsky.social · 30/01/2026How do objects, texts, and memory shape what we think we know about Charlemagne and sacred power? This new Reading Religion review essay rethinks Carolingian religious politics beyond myths of sacral empire. buff.ly/OkqHj0N 000
Reading Religion @readingreligion.bsky.social · 09/12/2025Our latest Four Books post highlights scholarship that reframes how we think about South Asian religions—Sikh history, caste, Hindu–Muslim relations, and Islamic pasts and futures. Read here → buff.ly/ZA0YXpU What recent work has reshaped your understanding of the region?buff.lyFour Books to Change Your Thinking About South Asian Religions - Reading ReligionBy Anne Murphy There are times in a career when work in the field stops you in your tracks. With this “Four Books” installment, I’d like to present two 022
Reading Religion @readingreligion.bsky.social · 24/11/2025Davyda M. Hammond reviews 'Black Religion in the Madhouse: Race and Psychiatry in Slavery's Wake' by Judith Weisenfeld. buff.ly/Tt4zYaT 031
Reading Religion @readingreligion.bsky.social · 23/11/2025Free books at AAR/SBL! 📚 Visit the AAR exhibit booth, sign up for the Reading Religion newsletter, and pick out a free book (while supplies last). #ReadingReligion #AARSBL25 042
Reading Religion @readingreligion.bsky.social · 22/11/2025At the AAR/SBL annual meetings in Boston, we stand with colleagues raising concerns about ICE enforcement in and around sacred spaces. Please read the AAR Board statement and share know-your-rights “red cards” if you’re on site. aarweb.org/news/aar-sta... #AARSBL2025aarweb.orgStatement by the AAR Board of Directors, in Boston on November 21, 2025 - AARStatement by the AAR Board of Directors, in Boston on November 21, 2025 As we are gathered in Boston for the Annual Meeting of the world’s largest professional society of religious studies scholars, w... 130
Reading Religion @readingreligion.bsky.social · 22/11/2025We are here in the exhibit hall at #aarsbl25 Stop by and say hello to Evan and Kimberly! #bookreviews #religiousstudies #books 110
Reading Religion @readingreligion.bsky.social · 20/11/2025Ever thought about how a zombie show, a robot priest, or a futuristic wild west reflect religious questions? This review opens just that door. Dive in: buff.ly/hzP6ibt 000
Reading Religion @readingreligion.bsky.social · 18/11/2025What does it mean to signify Black religion? Juan M. Floyd-Thomas explores four key works that trace how Black religious life reshapes symbols, meaning, and culture. Read: buff.ly/mr3jyCZ 000
Reading Religion @readingreligion.bsky.social · 14/11/2025Shu-chen Hsu Hsiung reviews 'Negotiating the Christian Past in China: Memory and Missions in Contemporary Xiamen' by Jifeng Liu. buff.ly/q86Cw5P 000
Reading Religion @readingreligion.bsky.social · 12/11/2025What happens when pop idols become shamans? Minjung Noh’s review of K-Pop Demon Hunters explores how the film turns Korean shamanism into pop spectacle—where fandom becomes faith and music becomes ritual. Read more: buff.ly/pe8a31l #Religion&Culture #KPop #FilmReview #PopularCulture #ReadingReligion 011
Reading Religion @readingreligion.bsky.social · 10/11/2025Justin Hawkins reviews 'Wayfaring: A Christian Approach to Mental Health Care' by Warren Kinghorn. buff.ly/TU17lgG 000
Reading Religion @readingreligion.bsky.social · 06/11/2025Ethan Doyle White reviews 'Vernacular Religion: Collected Essays of Leonard Norman Primiano' by Deborah Dash Moore (Editor) (@NYUpress) buff.ly/LCNih3S 000
Reading Religion @readingreligion.bsky.social · 04/11/2025During Native American Heritage Month, we turn to Sugarcane—a searing documentary co-directed by Julian Brave NoiseCat and Emily Kassie—and our review exploring its portrayal of Indigenous caretaking, silence, and survival in the wake of church-run residential schools. Read more → buff.ly/WnFYBVz 011
Reading Religion @readingreligion.bsky.social · 31/10/2025Nancy Menning reviews 'Entangled Being: Unoriginal Sin and Wicked Problems' by Rebecca L. Copeland. buff.ly/umNssXV 000
Reading Religion @readingreligion.bsky.social · 29/10/2025Our October newsletter is here! Explore our Four Books essay on Buddhist modernism, a new reading list on magic, horror, and the supernatural, plus the latest reviews and titles available for review. Read now → buff.ly/WtNFtU8 #ReligiousStudies #BookReview #BuddhistModernism #MagicAndFaith 000
Reading Religion @readingreligion.bsky.social · 27/10/2025Ryan Coogler’s Sinners—where theology meets Southern Gothic horror—is back in IMAX just in time for Halloween. Our review unpacks its mix of sin, blues, and blood in the Deep South. Read more: buff.ly/Oj2koEy #SinnersMovie #Theology #SouthernGothic #Horror #BlackCinema 000
Reading Religion @readingreligion.bsky.social · 20/10/2025John Cottingham reviews 'Negative Natural Theology: God and the Limits of Reason' by Christopher J Insole. readingreligion.org/9780198932970readingreligion.orgNegative Natural Theology - Reading ReligionHow can we live in harmony with the universe, and not just in it? What is it to feel at home in the world?Some thinkers who feel the force of these questions... 000
Reading Religion @readingreligion.bsky.social · 16/10/2025Lora Walsh reviews 'Conversion and the Contest of Creeds in Early Medieval Christianity' by Marta Szada. readingreligion.org/978100942644... 010
Reading Religion @readingreligion.bsky.social · 14/10/2025Evan Sandsmark reviews 'Caryll Houselander: A Biography' by Mary Frances Coady. readingreligion.org/978162698530... 000
Reading Religion @readingreligion.bsky.social · 10/10/2025Jared Secord reviews 'Ancient Christians and the Power of Curses: Magic, Aesthetics, and Justice' by Laura Salah Nasrallah. readingreligion.org/978100940573... 000
Reading Religion @readingreligion.bsky.social · 09/10/2025New from Reading Religion — "Four Books on Buddhist Modernism" by Jack Meng-Tat Chia explores how Buddhism has engaged with modernity across time and space, from ethics under colonialism to digital-era innovation. buff.ly/D3yLCD1 010
Reading Religion @readingreligion.bsky.social · 08/10/2025In this essay, Karen Jackson-Weaver reflects on four seminal works that have shaped her scholarship and the field of womanist theology and ethics. readingreligion.org/blog/four-bo... 010
Reading Religion @readingreligion.bsky.social · 06/10/2025In celebration of Hispanic Heritage Month, check out our reading list! aarweb.org/news/hispani...aarweb.orgHispanic Heritage Month Reading List - AARSome Suggested Titles from AAR's Reading Religion Reading Religion is an openly accessible book review website published by the American Academy of Religion. The site provides up-to-date coverage of… 000
Reading Religion @readingreligion.bsky.social · 02/10/2025Weston Wright reviews 'Making Pagans: Theatrical Practice and Comparative Religion in Early Modern England' by John Kuhn. readingreligion.org/978151282509... 000
Reading Religion @readingreligion.bsky.social · 30/09/2025Peyton White reviews 'Cannabis, Sacred and Profane' by Christopher Partridge. buff.ly/EUHaGKq 000
Reading Religion @readingreligion.bsky.social · 26/09/2025Kyle Schiefelbein-Guerrero reviews 'Bonhoeffer for the Church: An Introduction' by Matthew D. Kirkpatrick. readingreligion.org/9781506497822 000
Reading Religion @readingreligion.bsky.social · 24/09/2025Jennifer Schlegel reviews 'The Hidden Roots of White Supremacy: and the Path to a Shared American Future' by Robert P. Jones readingreligion.org/978166800952... 000
Reading Religion @readingreligion.bsky.social · 23/09/2025New at Reading Religion! Four Books on Womanist Epistemology Hispanic Heritage Month Reading List Latest reviews & books Read more: buff.ly/5AL26lM 000
Reading Religion @readingreligion.bsky.social · 22/09/2025Marion Eames White reviews 'When a Human Gives Birth to a Raven: Rabbis and the Reproduction of Species' by Rafael Rachel Neis (@ucpress) readingreligion.org/9780520391192 000
Reading Religion @readingreligion.bsky.social · 18/09/2025KD Thompson reviews 'Zanzibari Muslim Moderns: Islamic Paths to Progress in the Interwar Period' by Anne K. Bang (@OUPAcademic) readingreligion.org/9780197797754 000
Reading Religion @readingreligion.bsky.social · 16/09/2025Gaye Morris reviews 'The Popes on Air: The History of Vatican Radio from Its Origins to World War II' by Raffaella Perin. readingreligion.org/978153150715... 000
Reading Religion @readingreligion.bsky.social · 12/09/2025Jonah Peter Bissell reviews 'The Bible and Farm Animal Welfare' by David Grumett. readingreligion.org/979838521859... 000
Reading Religion @readingreligion.bsky.social · 10/09/2025Manasicha Akepiyapornchai reviews 'Empire Inside Out: Religion, Conquest, and Community in Kṛṣṇadevarāya's Āmuktamālyada' by Ilanit Loewy Shacham. readingreligion.org/9780197776223 000
Reading Religion @readingreligion.bsky.social · 08/09/2025Fernando Garcia reviews 'Growing in Virtue: Aquinas on Habit' by William C. Mattison III. readingreligion.org/9781647123284 000
Reading Religion @readingreligion.bsky.social · 04/09/2025Tiffany Hunsinger reviews 'Another Gospel: Christian Nationalism and the Crisis of Evangelical Identity' by Joel Looper. readingreligion.org/9780802884275 000
Reading Religion @readingreligion.bsky.social · 02/09/2025Tazeen M. Ali reviews 'Neo-Traditionalism in Islam in the West: Orthodoxy, Spirituality and Politics' by Walaa Quisay. readingreligion.org/978139950277... 011
Reading Religion @readingreligion.bsky.social · 29/08/2025James C. Ungureanu reviews 'Rousseau's God: Theology, Religion, and the Natural Goodness of Man' by John T. Scott. readingreligion.org/978022682550... 000
Reading Religion @readingreligion.bsky.social · 27/08/2025Philip Hollander reviews 'Meir Kahane: The Public Life and Political Thought of an American Jewish Radical' by Shaul Magid. buff.ly/YgmNtTD 000
Reading Religion @readingreligion.bsky.social · 25/08/2025Sharonda Stith reviews 'The Prophet's Whistle: Late Antique Orality, Literacy, and the Quran' by George Archer. readingreligion.org/9781609389451 000
Reading Religion @readingreligion.bsky.social · 21/08/2025Allen Doyle reviews 'C. S. Lewis on Higher Education: The Pedagogy of Pleasure' by Stewart Goetz. readingreligion.org/9781350355118 000
Reading Religion @readingreligion.bsky.social · 20/08/2025New reviews & essays are live at Reading Religion! * Sugarcane doc review * Essay on voices of resistance *End of Summer reading list *Call for editorial board members 👉 Read more in our newsletter: buff.ly/MYU5IUf 000
Reading Religion @readingreligion.bsky.social · 19/08/2025Joyanna Eisenberg reviews 'Autism and Worship: A Liturgical Theology' by Armand Léon van Ommen. readingreligion.org/9781481319898 020
Reading Religion @readingreligion.bsky.social · 12/08/2025Stephen Young reviews 'Restless Devices: Recovering Personhood, Presence, and Place in the Digital Age' by Felicia Wu Song readingreligion.org/9781666775631 000
Reading Religion @readingreligion.bsky.social · 12/08/2025This searing review of "Sugarcane" by historian Zara Surratt honors the documentary’s radical tenderness, exposing the silence, sorrow, and strength at the heart of Indigenous caretaking. shorturl.at/5196d 010
Reading Religion @readingreligion.bsky.social · 08/08/2025Taylor Denyer reviews 'Reckoning Methodism: Mission and Division in the Public Church' by Darryl W. Stephens readingreligion.org/9781666775631readingreligion.orgReckoning Methodism - Reading ReligionReckoning Methodism addresses the brokenness of The United Methodist Church (UMC) in the United States. Homosexuality is but one of several fault lines with ... 000
Reading Religion @readingreligion.bsky.social · 05/08/2025"'Sugarcane' doesn’t reopen old wounds—it reveals the ones that never healed.” This searing review by historian Zara Surratt honors the documentary’s radical tenderness, exposing the silence, sorrow, and strength at the heart of Indigenous caretaking. Read the review: shorturl.at/5196d 000