Schuff, Hildegunn Marie Tønnessen. 2019. “Dancing Faith: Contemporary Christian Dance in Norway.” Journal of Contemporary Religion 34(3): 529-549. Abstract: Although dance is …
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Rush, “Cross(ing) the Peace Walls in West Belfast”
Rush, Kayla. 2019. “Cross(ing) the Peace Walls in West Belfast: Imitation, Exemplarity, and Divine Power.” Religion 49(4): 592-613. Abstract: This article examines a …
Bratrud, “Ambiguity in a Charismatic Revival”
Bratrud, Tom. (2019) “Ambiguity in a Charismatic Revival: Inverting Gender, Age and Power Relations in Vanuatu.” Ethnos. DOI: 10.1080/00141844.2019.1696855. Abstract: During a Christian …
Casselberry and Pritchard, “Spirit on the Move”
Casselberry, Judith and Elizabeth A. Pritchard. 2019. Spirit on the Move: Black Women and Pentecostalism in Africa and the Diaspora. Durham: Duke …
Johnson, Jessica. 2018. Biblical Porn: Affect, Labor, and Pastor Mark Driscoll’s Evangelical Empire.
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
Hardin, “‘Father released me'”
Hardin, Jessica. 2019. “‘Father released me’: Accelerating Care, Temporal Repair, and Ritualized Friendship among Pentecostal Women in Samoa.” American Ethnologist 46(2). Abstract: …
Bjork-James, “Gender and Religion”
Bjork-James, Sophie. “Gender and Religion.” Oxford Bibliographies. Abstract: Gender is central to most religious orders. In turn, religions have a significant impact …
Thornton, Brendan Jamal. 2016. Negotiating Respect: Pentecostalism, Masculinity, and the Politics of Spiritual Authority in the Dominican Republic
Reviewed by Ruthie Meadows (University of Nevada, Reno). In 2016, I took an evening stroll through the small city of Baracoa, Cuba as the sun set against façades of brightly-painted, columned wooden homes. In a country internationally-renowned for its rich Afro-Cuban musical genres
Elisha, “Dancing the Word”
Elisha, Omri. 2018. “Dancing the Word: Techniques of embodied authority among Christian praise dancers in New York City.” American Ethnologist. 45(3): 380-391. …
Wilcox, “Queer Nuns”
Wilcox, Mellisa. 2018. Queer Nuns: Religion, Activism, and Serious Parody. New York: NYU Press. Publisher’s Description: The Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence make …