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An open book review site published by the American Academy of Religion (AARWeb). We provide up-to-date coverage of scholarly publishing in religious studies.

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Reading Religion @readingreligion.bsky.social · 25/06/2026
This 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.
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Reading Religion @readingreligion.bsky.social · 22/06/2026
Here 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/oIfsulzZGE
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A Fond Farewell and Final Reviews
Dear Reading Religion Subscribers,
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Reading Religion @readingreligion.bsky.social · 23/02/2026
For 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.
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Reading Religion @readingreligion.bsky.social · 12/02/2026
After 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/DYwZsam
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Reading Religion @readingreligion.bsky.social · 30/01/2026
How 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
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Reading Religion @readingreligion.bsky.social · 09/12/2025
Our 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?
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Four Books to Change Your Thinking About South Asian Religions - Reading Religion
By 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
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Reading Religion @readingreligion.bsky.social · 24/11/2025
Davyda M. Hammond reviews 'Black Religion in the Madhouse: Race and Psychiatry in Slavery's Wake' by Judith Weisenfeld. buff.ly/Tt4zYaT
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Reading Religion @readingreligion.bsky.social · 23/11/2025
Free 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
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Reading Religion @readingreligion.bsky.social · 22/11/2025
At 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... #AARSBL2025
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Statement by the AAR Board of Directors, in Boston on November 21, 2025 - AAR
Statement 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...
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Reading Religion @readingreligion.bsky.social · 22/11/2025
We are here in the exhibit hall at #aarsbl25 Stop by and say hello to Evan and Kimberly! #bookreviews #religiousstudies #books
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Reading Religion @readingreligion.bsky.social · 20/11/2025
Ever 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
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Reading Religion @readingreligion.bsky.social · 18/11/2025
What 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
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Reading Religion @readingreligion.bsky.social · 14/11/2025
Shu-chen Hsu Hsiung reviews 'Negotiating the Christian Past in China: Memory and Missions in Contemporary Xiamen' by Jifeng Liu. buff.ly/q86Cw5P
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Reading Religion @readingreligion.bsky.social · 12/11/2025
What 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
Animated image of the K-pop trio HUNTR/X—Rumi, Mira, and Zoey—standing in dynamic poses with glowing weapons, against a purple and blue stage backdrop filled with light trails from K-Pop Demon Hunters.
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Reading Religion @readingreligion.bsky.social · 10/11/2025
Justin Hawkins reviews 'Wayfaring: A Christian Approach to Mental Health Care' by Warren Kinghorn. buff.ly/TU17lgG
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Reading Religion @readingreligion.bsky.social · 06/11/2025
Ethan Doyle White reviews 'Vernacular Religion: Collected Essays of Leonard Norman Primiano' by Deborah Dash Moore (Editor) (@NYUpress) buff.ly/LCNih3S
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Reading Religion @readingreligion.bsky.social · 04/11/2025
During 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
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Reading Religion @readingreligion.bsky.social · 31/10/2025
Nancy Menning reviews 'Entangled Being: Unoriginal Sin and Wicked Problems' by Rebecca L. Copeland. buff.ly/umNssXV
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Reading Religion @readingreligion.bsky.social · 29/10/2025
Our 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
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Reading Religion @readingreligion.bsky.social · 27/10/2025
Ryan 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
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Reading Religion @readingreligion.bsky.social · 20/10/2025
John Cottingham reviews 'Negative Natural Theology: God and the Limits of Reason' by Christopher J Insole. readingreligion.org/9780198932970
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Negative Natural Theology - Reading Religion
How 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...
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Reading Religion @readingreligion.bsky.social · 16/10/2025
Lora Walsh reviews 'Conversion and the Contest of Creeds in Early Medieval Christianity' by Marta Szada. readingreligion.org/978100942644...
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Reading Religion @readingreligion.bsky.social · 14/10/2025
Evan  Sandsmark reviews 'Caryll Houselander:  A Biography' by Mary Frances Coady. readingreligion.org/978162698530...
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Reading Religion @readingreligion.bsky.social · 10/10/2025
Jared Secord reviews 'Ancient Christians and the Power of Curses: Magic, Aesthetics, and Justice' by Laura Salah Nasrallah. readingreligion.org/978100940573...
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Reading Religion @readingreligion.bsky.social · 09/10/2025
New 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
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Reading Religion @readingreligion.bsky.social · 08/10/2025
In 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...
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Reading Religion @readingreligion.bsky.social · 06/10/2025
In celebration of Hispanic Heritage Month, check out our reading list! aarweb.org/news/hispani...
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Hispanic Heritage Month Reading List - AAR
Some 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…
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Reading Religion @readingreligion.bsky.social · 02/10/2025
Weston Wright reviews 'Making Pagans: Theatrical Practice and Comparative Religion in Early Modern England' by John Kuhn. readingreligion.org/978151282509...
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Reading Religion @readingreligion.bsky.social · 30/09/2025
Peyton White reviews 'Cannabis, Sacred and Profane' by Christopher Partridge. buff.ly/EUHaGKq
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Reading Religion @readingreligion.bsky.social · 26/09/2025
Kyle Schiefelbein-Guerrero reviews 'Bonhoeffer for the Church: An Introduction' by Matthew D. Kirkpatrick. readingreligion.org/9781506497822
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Reading Religion @readingreligion.bsky.social · 24/09/2025
Jennifer Schlegel reviews 'The Hidden Roots of White Supremacy: and the Path to a Shared American Future' by Robert P. Jones readingreligion.org/978166800952...
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Reading Religion @readingreligion.bsky.social · 23/09/2025
New at Reading Religion! Four Books on Womanist Epistemology Hispanic Heritage Month Reading List Latest reviews & books Read more: buff.ly/5AL26lM
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Reading Religion @readingreligion.bsky.social · 22/09/2025
Marion 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
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Reading Religion @readingreligion.bsky.social · 18/09/2025
KD Thompson reviews 'Zanzibari Muslim Moderns: Islamic Paths to Progress in the Interwar Period' by Anne K. Bang (@OUPAcademic) readingreligion.org/9780197797754
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Reading Religion @readingreligion.bsky.social · 16/09/2025
Gaye Morris reviews 'The Popes on Air: The History of Vatican Radio from Its Origins to World War II' by Raffaella Perin. readingreligion.org/978153150715...
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Reading Religion @readingreligion.bsky.social · 12/09/2025
Jonah Peter Bissell reviews 'The Bible and Farm Animal Welfare' by David Grumett. readingreligion.org/979838521859...
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Reading Religion @readingreligion.bsky.social · 10/09/2025
Manasicha Akepiyapornchai reviews 'Empire Inside Out: Religion, Conquest, and Community in Kṛṣṇadevarāya's Āmuktamālyada' by Ilanit Loewy Shacham. readingreligion.org/9780197776223
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Reading Religion @readingreligion.bsky.social · 08/09/2025
Fernando Garcia reviews 'Growing in Virtue: Aquinas on Habit' by William C. Mattison III. readingreligion.org/9781647123284
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Reading Religion @readingreligion.bsky.social · 04/09/2025
Tiffany Hunsinger reviews 'Another Gospel: Christian Nationalism and the Crisis of Evangelical Identity' by Joel Looper. readingreligion.org/9780802884275
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Reading Religion @readingreligion.bsky.social · 02/09/2025
Tazeen M. Ali reviews 'Neo-Traditionalism in Islam in the West: Orthodoxy, Spirituality and Politics' by Walaa Quisay. readingreligion.org/978139950277...
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Reading Religion @readingreligion.bsky.social · 29/08/2025
James C. Ungureanu reviews 'Rousseau's God: Theology, Religion, and the Natural Goodness of Man' by John T. Scott. readingreligion.org/978022682550...
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Reading Religion @readingreligion.bsky.social · 27/08/2025
Philip Hollander reviews 'Meir Kahane: The Public Life and Political Thought of an American Jewish Radical' by Shaul Magid. buff.ly/YgmNtTD
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Reading Religion @readingreligion.bsky.social · 25/08/2025
Sharonda Stith reviews 'The Prophet's Whistle: Late Antique Orality, Literacy, and the Quran' by George Archer. readingreligion.org/9781609389451
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Reading Religion @readingreligion.bsky.social · 21/08/2025
Allen Doyle reviews 'C. S. Lewis on Higher Education: The Pedagogy of Pleasure' by Stewart Goetz. readingreligion.org/9781350355118
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Reading Religion @readingreligion.bsky.social · 20/08/2025
New 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
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Reading Religion @readingreligion.bsky.social · 19/08/2025
Joyanna Eisenberg reviews 'Autism and Worship: A Liturgical Theology' by Armand Léon van Ommen. readingreligion.org/9781481319898
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Reading Religion @readingreligion.bsky.social · 12/08/2025
Stephen Young reviews 'Restless Devices: Recovering Personhood, Presence, and Place in the Digital Age' by Felicia Wu Song readingreligion.org/9781666775631
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Reading Religion @readingreligion.bsky.social · 12/08/2025
This 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
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Reading Religion @readingreligion.bsky.social · 08/08/2025
Taylor Denyer reviews 'Reckoning Methodism: Mission and Division in the Public Church' by Darryl W. Stephens readingreligion.org/9781666775631
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Reckoning Methodism - Reading Religion
Reckoning Methodism addresses the brokenness of The United Methodist Church (UMC) in the United States. Homosexuality is but one of several fault lines with ...
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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
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