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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
Zwissler, “Religious, Feminist, Activist”
Zwissler, Laurel. 2018. Religious, Feminist, Activist: Cosmologies of Interconnection. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press. Publisher’s Description: In Religious, Feminist, Activist, Laurel …
Handman, “Critical Failures”
Handman, Courtney. “Critical failures.” Critical Research on Religion 6, no. 1 (2018): 16-20. Critique in evangelical Christian contexts has usually been seen …
Bialecki, “Character as Gift and Erasure”
Bialecki, Jon. 2018. Character as gift and erasure. Social Anthropology. SS(0): 1-11. Abstract: For Southern Californian members of the Vineyard network of …
Klaits, “Catch the Word”
Klaits, Frederick. 2017. “Catch the Word”: Violated contracts and prophetic confirmation in African American Pentecostalism. Hau: Journal of Ethnographic Theory 7(3): 237-260. …
Zanfagna, “Holy Hip Hop”
Zanfagna, Christina. 2017. Holy Hip Hop in the City of Angels. Berkeley: University of California Press. Publisher’s Description: In the 1990s, Los Angeles …
Stephens, “‘Tearing Down the Walls of Segregation'”
Stephens, Hilde. 2017. “Tearing Down the Walls of Segregation”: Race, Conservatism, and Evangelical Rap. Journal of American Studies. Early online …
Casselberry, “The Labor of Faith”
Casselberry, Judith. 2017. The Labor of Faith: Gender and Power in Black Apostolic Pentecostalism. Durham: Duke University Press. Publisher’s Description: …
Goff, Farnsley, and Theusen, eds. “Bible in American Life”
Goff, Phillip, Arthur Farnsley II, and Peter J. Theusen, eds. 2017. The Bible in American Life. New York and Oxford: Oxford University …