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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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Our first-ever film review is live! 🎞️. In Sinners (2025), Ryan Coogler uses vampires, blues & theology to rethink sin & salvation in the Black South. Michael B. Jordan stuns as twin brothers. Read the full review: #SinnersFilm #FilmReview #BlackTheology
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James C. Ungureanu reviews 'Rousseau's God: Theology, Religion, and the Natural Goodness of Man' by John T. Scott (@UChicagoPress)
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Philip Hollander reviews 'Meir Kahane: The Public Life and Political Thought of an American Jewish Radical' by Shaul Magid (@PrincetonUPress)
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Sharonda Stith reviews 'The Prophet's Whistle: Late Antique Orality, Literacy, and the Quran' by George Archer (@UIowaPress)
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Allen Doyle reviews 'C. S. Lewis on Higher Education: The Pedagogy of Pleasure' by Stewart Goetz (@BloomsburyAcad).
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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:
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Joyanna Eisenberg reviews 'Autism and Worship: A Liturgical Theology' by Armand LĂ©on van Ommen (@baylor_press) .
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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.
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Stephen Young reviews 'Restless Devices: Recovering Personhood, Presence, and Place in the Digital Age' by Felicia Wu Song (@ivpress)
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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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Taylor Denyer reviews 'Reckoning Methodism: Mission and Division in the Public Church' by Darryl W. Stephens (@wipfandstock)
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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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Marileen Steyn reviews 'For the Warming of the Earth: Music, faith, and ecological crisis' by Mark Porter (@SCM_Press)
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As issues of climate and ecology become ever more important, Christian communities are increasingly looking for appropriate ways to respond to the current cr...
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"'Sugarcane' doesn’t reopen old wounds—it reveals the ones that never healed.”.This searing review by Zara Surratt honors the documentary’s radical tenderness, exposing the silence, sorrow, and strength at the heart of Indigenous caretaking.
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Sarah Davis-Secord reviews 'Jewish Muslims: How Christians Imagined Islam as the Enemy' by David M. Freidenreich (@ucpress)
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Uncovering the hidden history of Islamophobia and its surprising connections to the long-standing hatred of Jews.Hatred of Jews and hatred of Muslims have be...
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David Greder reviews 'The Study of Religions in Ireland: Past, Present and Future' by Brendan McNamara (Editor), Hazel O'Brien (Editor) (@BloomsburyAcad)
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This book provides a comprehensive and field-defining examination of the study of religions in Ireland. By bringing together some of the foremost experts on ...
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Ian A. Clark reviews 'Geneva's Use of Lies, Deceit, and Subterfuge, 1536-1563: Telling the Old, Old Story in Reformation France' by Jon Balserak (@OUPAcademic)
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Geneva was hated and loved in sixteenth-century France. Representing those who hated them were the French Catholic government, who tried desperately to eradi...
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Bernadette Flanagan reviews 'Soul Woundedness: Spirituality on the Streets of Seattle' by Paul Houston Blankenship-Lai (@FordhamPress)
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A profound exploration into the spiritual beliefs and practices of Seattle’s unhoused youthSoul Woundedness is an intimate, piercing book about ev...
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Benjamin Saunders reviews 'The Aristotelian Tradition in Early Modern Protestantism: Sixteenth- and Seventeenth-Century Commentaries on the Ethics and the Politics' by Manfred Svensson (@OUPAcademic)
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Aristotle's moral and political thought formed the backbone of education in practical philosophy for centuries during the classical and medieval periods. It ...
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Patrick Horn reviews 'Ashoka: Portrait of a Philosopher King' by Patrick Olivelle (@yalepress)
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"When I began my foray into African Christian thought about twenty-five years ago, the question of how to be both African and Christian was foremost on my mind.".An essay by David Ngong: "Four Books on African Christian Theological Thought.".
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By David Ngong In this essay, I write about four books that have shaped my foray into African Christian theological thought. The books are My Faith as an
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Kimbol Soques reviews 'Enfleshing Freedom: Body, Race, and Being, Second Edition' by M. Shawn Copeland (@Fortresspress)
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The achievement of our humanity comes about only through immersion in concrete, visceral, embodied relational experience, yet for many human beings, that ach...
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Bernadette Flanagan reviews 'Soul Woundedness: Spirituality on the Streets of Seattle' by Paul Houston Blankenship-Lai (@FordhamPress)
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A profound exploration into the spiritual beliefs and practices of Seattle’s unhoused youthSoul Woundedness is an intimate, piercing book about ev...
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