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
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Warner-Garcia, “Sex and Faith in Dialogue”
Warner-Garica, Shawn Rachel. 2018. “Sex and Faith in Dialogue: Interdiscursivity and Academic Activism in Baptist Communities.” PhD Dissertation, Department of …
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 …
Bjork-James, “Training the Porous Body”
Bjork-James, Sophie. 2018. “Training the Porous Body: Evangelicals and the Ex-Gay Movement.” American Anthropologist. 120(4): 647-658 In this article, I examine …
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 …
Thomas, “Tying of the Ceremonial Wedding Thread”
Thomas, Sonja. 2016. The Tying of the Ceremonial Wedding Thread: A Feminist Analysis of “Ritual” and “Tradition” among Syro-Malabar Catholics …
Quiroz, “The Dilemmas of Monogamy”
Quiroz, Sitna. 2016. The Dilemmas of Monogamy: Pleasure, Discipline and the Pentecostal Moral Self in the Republic of Benin. Religions 7(8):102-118. Abstract: Based on …
Boyd, Lydia. 2015. Preaching prevention: born-again Christianity and the moral politics of AIDS in Uganda
Reviewed by Anna Eisenstein (University of Virginia). Lydia Boyd’s Preaching Prevention charts two moments in Uganda’s recent history: the roll-out of the US President’s Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief (PEPFAR), and Uganda’s Anti-Homosexuality Bill.
van Klinken and Chitando (eds), “Public Religion and the Politics of Homosexuality in Africa”
van Klinken, Adriaan, and Ezra Chitando, eds. 2016. Public Religion and the Politics of Homosexuality in Africa. Oxford: Routledge. Publisher’s …
Pieterse, “Managing belief in a hostile world”
Pieterse, Jim. 2016. Managing belief in a hostile world: experiencing gifts of the Spirit at a small Pentecostal Charismatic Church …