December 10, 2024
By Tuve Floden How can professors prepare their students for work inside or outside of academia? How can students get the most out of their time in graduate school? Good… READ MORE
October 7, 2024
By Ilona Nord What exactly is digital theology? Sounds like a trendy term without having theoretical depth? By looking closely at four recent books located in this emerging field, it… READ MORE
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… READ MORE
June 7, 2024
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… READ MORE
April 10, 2024
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… READ MORE
February 13, 2024
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… READ MORE
April 15, 2021
The comparative method is an attempt not just to identify similarities or differences but to account for them.
May 13, 2019
Research in religion and literature has become increasingly diverse in recent years, with specializations extending well beyond classical fields such as Christian metaphysical and Islamic Sufi poetry
October 24, 2018
This year’s American Academy of Religion annual meeting will host many panels focusing on books in the study of religion.
October 3, 2018
Much of the study of New Religious Movements (NRMs) is based in ethnographic work, but with older groups, scholars often turn to textual sources for analysis.
Four Books on Research, Writing, and Graduate Study
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