Elisha, Omri. 2016. Saved by a Martyr: Evangelical Mediation, Sanctification, and the “Persecuted Church.” Journal of the American Academy of …
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Patterson, “Plymouth Rock of the American West”
Patterson, Sara M. 2015. The Plymouth Rock of the American West: Remembering, Forgetting, and Becoming American in Utah. Material Religion 11(3): 329-353. …
Bielo, “Replicating the Holy Land in the U.S”
Bielo, James. 2015. “Replicating the Holy Land in the U.S. (a ‘Materializing the Bible’ Road Trip).” Material Religions. 30 December. Abstract: James S. Bielo analyzes …
Frederick, “Colored Television”
Frederick, Marla F. 2015. Colored Television: American Religion Gone Global. Palo Alto: Stanford University Press. Publisher’s Description: The presence of …
Winchester, “Converting to Continuity”
Winchester, Daniel. 2015. Converting to Continuity: Temporality and Self in Eastern Orthodox Conversion Narratives. Journal for the Scientific Study of …
Blanton, Anderson. 2015. Hittin’ the Prayer Bones: Materiality of Spirit in the Pentecostal South
Reviewed by James S. Bielo (Miami University). Come and listen in to the radio station, Where the mighty hosts of heaven sing, Turn your radio on, turn your radio on, Turn your radio on, turn your radio on…
So sings John Hartford on his 1971 cover of the 1938 southern Gospel standard.
Boyd, “Preaching Prevention: Born-Again Christianity and the Moral Politics of AIDS in Uganda”
Boyd, Lydia. 2015. Preaching prevention: born-again Christianity and the moral politics of AIDS in Uganda. Athens: Ohio University Press. Publisher’s Description: Preaching …
Langford, “Medical Eschatologies: The Christian Spirit of Hospital Protocol”
Langford, Jean M. 2015. Medical Eschatologies: The Christian Spirit of Hospital Protocol. Medical Anthropology, DOI: 10.1080/01459740.2015.1091820 Abstract: If much has been written …
Hernández & Campos-Delgado, “Saints and Virgins”
Hernández, Alberto and Amalia Campos-Delgado. 2015. Saints and Virgins: Religious Pluralism in the City of Tijuana. Religion and Society: Advances in Research 6(1): 142-154. Abstract: A …
DeRogatis, Amy. 2014. Saving Sex: Sexuality and Salvation in American Evangelicalism
Review by Sophie Bjork-James (Vanderbilt University). In 2012, Pastor Ed Young and his wife moved a bed onto the roof of their Texas megachurch to lead a “bed-in” lauding the importance of marital sexual intimacy. Young was celebrating the recent publication of his book, Sexperiment: 7 Days to Lasting Intimacy with Your Spouse