Recent Faculty Publications
Check out the recent publications made by the faculty of the Religious Studies Department.
Katharine Gerbner, Archival Irruptions
Constructing Religion and Criminalizing Obeah in Eighteenth-Century Jamaica (Duke University Press, 2025).
Stephen Ahearne-Kroll, The Origins of the Corinthian Christ Group: Paul’s Chord of Gods (Edinburgh University Press, 2024).
Anna Lise Seastrand, Body, History, Myth: Early Modern Murals in South India (Princeton University Press, 2024).
Homewood, Nathanael. Seductive Spirits: Deliverance, Demons, and Sexual Worldmaking in Ghanaian Pentecostalism. Stanford University Press, 2024.
Alexander Jabbari, The Making of Persianate Modernity: Language and Literary History between Iran and India (Cambridge University Press, 2023).
Ahearne-Kroll, Stephen. The Oxford Handbook of the Synoptic Gospels. Oxford University Press, 2023.
Includes an essay from Melissa Harl Sellew.
Bernard M. Levinson and Robert P. Ericksen (eds.), The Betrayal of the Humanities: The University during the Third Reich (Indiana University Press, 2022).
Reviews:
Harvard Reads
Reviews by Kristin De Troyer, Kathleen Gallagher Elkins, Kristen Lindbeck, and Rannfrid I. Lasine Thelle in Review of Biblical Literature 25 (2023): 2–40.
Jeanne Halgren Kilde, editor. The Oxford Handbook of Religious Space. New York: Oxford University Press, 2022.
Levinson, Hanne Løland, The Death Wish in the Hebrew Bible: Rhetorical Strategies for Survival. Society for Old Testament Study Monographs. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2021.
Awards:
Canadian Society of Biblical Studies book award: R. B. Y. Scott Award, 2023.
Kirsten Fischer, American Freethinker: Elihu Palmer and the Struggle for Religious Freedom in the New Nation (University of Pennsylvania Press, 2021).
“Austria and Bohemia.” In Reformations Compared. Religious Transformations across Early Modern Europe, eds. Henry Jefferies and Richard Rex (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2024), 61-79.