American Religion

Today’s post marks our conclusion to the series—for now—and you are in for a treat! Read Leigh Eric Schmidt on his first book, Holy Fairs (1989). american-religion.org/back-pages/on-…

Schmidt reflects on the Geertzian moment that characterized his initial methodology, the evolution of his subsequent research, and the legacy of historical ethnography.

Back Pages is back for a penultimate hurrah! Read Pamela E. Klassen' reflection on her second book, Blessed Events (2001), and how she merged theory with feminist critique at the height of the “ethnographic turn” in arguing for childbirth as a religious form.

Klassen on Blessed Events: american-religion.org/back-pages/pro…

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. psupress.org/journals/jnls_…

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/56…

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

Today we are spotlighting four book reviews in our Fall 2025 issue! Read all reviews here: muse.jhu.edu/pub/3/issue/56…

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

Today we are spotlighting four book reviews in our Fall 2025 issue! Read them all here muse.jhu.edu/pub/3/issue/56…

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/article/…

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/article/…

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/article/…

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/article/…

"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."

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/article/…

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/article/…

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."

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/article/…

Plowdern theorizes the history of anti-Black violence by raising fresh questions about the ways in which scholars construct narratives and approach memory.

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/article/…