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Four Books on Myth, Ethics, and the Living World

By Nancy Menning In Los Angeles Spring (Aperture, 1986), landscape photographer Robert Adams sums up the previous century’s environmental history of southern California in one sentence: “All that is clear…

Reading Religion Newsletter Vol. 9, Issue 6

Dear Reading Religion Subscribers, July is Disability Pride Month, celebrating the 1990 enactment of the Americans with Disabilities Act. This month, we invite you to explore the intersection of religion and disability…

Reading Religion Newsletter Vol. 9, Issue 5

Dear Reading Religion Subscribers, Celebrate Pride Month with a curated list of reviewed and available books from Reading Religion. This month, we’re pleased to showcase works honoring LGBTQ+ communities, including some that explore queer spiritual identity,…

Four Books on Material and Iconic Sacred Texts

By Bradford A. Anderson For many people, the idea of scriptures is coterminous with textuality: this is seen in the very names we give these collections, from scriptura to sacred…

Four Books on Modern Paganism

By Ethan Doyle White From Wiccan covens assembling in English drawing rooms to Rodnover midsummer gatherings in rural Russia, the modern Pagan religions represent a fascinating and diverse component of…

Four Books on Digital Religion

By Alessandra Vitullo After almost thirty years of research investigating the phenomenon of religions online, the study of digital religion is now recognized as a prominent and important area of…