Recent Faculty Publications
Check out the recent publications made by the faculty of the Religious Studies Department:
![The Oxford Handbook of Religious Space](/sites/cla.umn.edu/files/styles/teaser_image_portrait/public/Religious%20Space.jpg?h=a156a0d0&itok=CWGBOg5J)
Jeanne Halgren Kilde, editor. The Oxford Handbook of Religious Space. New York: Oxford University Press, 2022.
![Prisoner of the Infidels](/sites/cla.umn.edu/files/styles/teaser_image_portrait/public/Giancarlo%20Casale.jpg?h=2ac1945d&itok=I14bTa_z)
Prisoner of the Infidels: The Memoir of an Ottoman Muslim in Seventeenth-Century Europe by Osman of Timişoara (Oakland: University of California Press, 2021).
https://www.ucpress.edu/book/9780520383395/prisoner-of-the-infidels
![Death Wish in the Hebrew Bible](/sites/cla.umn.edu/files/styles/teaser_image_portrait/public/Death%20Wish%20in%20the%20Hebrew%20Bible_0.jpg?h=204d1517&itok=0OytkZlf)
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.
![Kirsten Fischer Rethinking Freethought Lecture Flyer](/sites/cla.umn.edu/files/styles/teaser_image_portrait/public/Kirsten%20Fischer%20Rethinking%20Freethought%20Lecture%20Flyer.jpg?h=4105718a&itok=Fm0fu1Is)
Kirsten Fischer, American Freethinker: Elihu Palmer and the Struggle for Religious Freedom in the New Nation (University of Pennsylvania Press, 2021).
https://www.pennpress.org/9780812252712/american-freethinker/
![Mediterranean Captivity through Arab Eyes](/sites/cla.umn.edu/files/styles/teaser_image_portrait/public/Nabil%20Matar.jpg?h=646c50d2&itok=grm5Rm_w)
Nabil Matar, Mediterranean Captivity through Arab Eyes, 1517-1798 (Leiden, Brill) 2020.
![StevenOstrow](/sites/cla.umn.edu/files/styles/teaser_image_portrait/public/StevenOstrow.jpg?h=6981f79a&itok=z7kc_QvP)
Steven Ostrow with Chiara Franceschini and Patrizia Tosini, eds., Chapels of the Cinquecento and Seicento in the Churches of Rome: Form, Function, Meaning, Milan: Officina Libraria, 2020.
![Christian Slavery Conversion and Race in the Protestant Atlantic World](/sites/cla.umn.edu/files/styles/teaser_image_portrait/public/Christian%20Slavery.jpg?h=72e0457b&itok=MiqLZb6-)
Katharine Gerbner, Christian Slavery: Conversion and Race in the Protestant Atlantic World. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2019
https://www.pennpress.org/9780812224368/christian-slavery/
![Before Voltaire The French Origins of "Newtonian" Madness](/sites/cla.umn.edu/files/styles/teaser_image_portrait/public/Before%20Voltaire.jpg?h=72e0457b&itok=SrJeiElm)
Shank, JB. Before Voltaire: The French Origins of "Newtonian" Mechanics, 1680-1715. University of Chicago Press, 2018
https://press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/book/chicago/B/bo27256815.html