Reviewed by Brendan Jamal Thornton (University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill). Depending on what you are looking for, the title of Jessica Johnson’s 2018 volume from Duke University Press may be a bit misleading: you need not be home alone or draw the curtains closed in order to crack the spine of this thoughtful text which is based on a decade of comprehensive ethnographic research
Affect
Dilger, Bochow, Burchardt, Wilhelm-Soloman, “Affective Trajectories”
Dilger, Hansjörg, Astrid Bochow, Marian Burchardt, and Matthew Willhelm-Soloman. 2020. Affective Trajectories: Religion and Emotion in African Cityscapes. Durham: Duke University …
Richlin, “The Affective Therapeutics of Migrant Faith”
Richlin, Johanna Bard. 2019. “The Affective Therapeutics of Migrant Faith: Evangelical Christianity among Brazilians in Greater Washington, DC.” Current Anthropology 69(3). …
Brahinsky, “The effects of scale”
Brahinsky, Josh. 2018. “The effects of scale: How Western agency-anxieties mold affect theory, and how Pentecostalism and neuroscience teach us …
Carroll, Timothy. 2018. Orthodox Christian Material Culture: Of People and Things in the Making of Heaven
Reviewed by Elena Kravchenko. In Orthodox Christian Material Culture: Of People and Things in the Making of Heaven, Timothy Carroll presents a detailed description of how Orthodox Christians who attend and work at St. Æthelwald’s parish in London think about and engage materiality
Willis, “It smells like a thousand angels marching”
Willis, Laurie Denyer. 2018. ‘It smells like a thousand angels marching’: The Salvific Sensorium in Rio de Janeiro’s Western SubĂşrbios. Cultural …
Brown, “In search of the Solemn”
Brown, Bernardo E. 2017. In search of the Solemn with Sri Lankan migrant priests. The Australian Journal of Anthropology. Early online …
Abdel-Fadil, “Conflict and Affect”
Abdel-Fadil, Mona. 2016. Conflict and Affect among Conservative Christians on Facebook. Heidelberg Journal of Religions on the Internet 11:1-27. Abstract: Drawing on the …
Bandak, “The social life of prayers”
Andreas Bandak, 2016. “The social life of prayers – introduction” Religion: 1-18. http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/0048721X.2016.1225904 Abstract: In this introduction the theme of …
Napolitano, “Migrant Hearts and the Atlantic Return”
Napolitano, Valentina. 2016. Migrant Hearts and the Atlantic Return: transnationalism and the Roman Catholic Church. New York: Fordham University Press. Publisher’s …