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Religion

Review of India in the Persian World of Letters by Arthur Dudney (2022)

Converting “Latinos” during Salem’s Witch Trials: A Review of Cotton Mather’s Spanish Lessons: A Story of Language, Race, and Belonging in the Early Americas (2022) by Kirsten Silva Gruesz

Review of After the Flood: Imagining the Global Environment in Early Modern Europe by Lydia Barnett (2019)

Digital Archive Review: Age of Revolutions and the Newberry French Pamphlet Collection

Age of Coexistence: The Ecumenical Frame and the Making of the Modern Arab World by Ussama Makdisi (2019)

The King of Adobe: Reies López Tijerina, Lost Prophet of the Chicano Movement by Lorena Oropeza (2019)

Red China’s Green Revolution: Technological Innovation, Institutional Change, and Economic Development under the Commune by Joshua Eisenman (2018)

African Catholic Decolonization and the Transformation of the Church by Elizabeth A. Foster (2019)

When Answers are not Enough: The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum

The Visitor: André Palmeiro and the Jesuits in Asia by Liam Matthew Brockey (2014)

Play Review – Monroe by Lisa B. Thompson (2018)

Paper Cadavers: The Archives of Dictatorship in Guatemala (2014)

Film Review – The Miseducation of Cameron Post (Dir: Desiree Akhavan, 2018)

Veiled Empire: Gender and Power in Soviet Central Asia, By Douglas Northrup (2003)

The End of White Christian America, by Robert P. Jones (2016)

Modern Islamic Thought in a Radical Age, by Muhammad Qasim Zaman (2012)

The Web of Empire, By Alison Games (2008)

The Rise of Liberal Religion, by Matthew Hedstrom (2013)

Encountering America: Humanistic Psychology, Sixties Culture, and the Shaping of the Modern Self, by Jessica Grogan (2012)

Historical Perspectives on Agnieszka Holland’s In Darkness (2011)

From Virile Woman to Woman Christ: Studies in Medieval Religion and Literature, by Barbara Newman (1995)

Religion and the Decline of Magic, by Keith Thomas (1971)

Ordinary Lives in the Early Caribbean: Religion, Colonial Competition, and the Politics of Profit, by Kristen Block (2012)

Medieval Islam and its Monuments

Germans into Nazis, by Peter Fritzsche (1998)

Seeing John Donne Speak: The New Archive (No. 14)

Visitors of the Nile: The New Archive (No. 13)

A Jesuit in the Forbidden City: Matteo Ricci, 1552-1610, by R. Po-chia Hsia (2010)

The Israeli Republic, by Jalal Al-e Ahmad (2014)

Great Books on Islam in American Politics & History

Co-Winner of April Essay Contest: Another Face of Empire: Bartolomé de Las Casas, Indigenous Rights, and Ecclesiastical Imperialism by Daniel Castro (2007)

Great Books on Possession, Exorcism and Witchcraft

Slave Rebellion in Brazil: The Muslim Uprising of 1835 in Bahia by João José Reis (1993)

Politics of Piety: The Islamic Revival and the Feminist Subject by Saba Mahmood (2004)

State of Virginity: Gender, Religion, and Politics in an Early Modern Catholic State by Ulrike Strasser (2004)

Performing Piety: Making Space Sacred with the Virgin of Guadalupe by Elaine A. Peña (2011)

Devoted to Death: Santa Muerte, the Skeleton Saint by R. Andrew Chesnut (2011)

Saint and Nation: Santiago, Teresa of Avila, and Plural Identities in Early Modern Spain by Erin Kathleen Rowe (2011)

Joseph Smith: Rough Stone Rolling by Richard Lyman Bushman (2007)

Great Books on William James and The Varieties of Religious Experience

Robert Abzug on The Varieties of Religious Experience

Book cover of The Politics of the Veil by Joan Wallach Scott

The Politics of the Veil by Joan Wallach Scott

For Greater Glory (2012)

The Sole Spokesman: Jinnah, the Muslim League and the Demand for Pakistan by Ayesha Jalal (1985)

Tropical Zion: General Trujillo, FDR, and the Jews of Sosúa by Allen Wells (2009)

Film Review – A Separation (2011)

Footnote (2011)

Book cover of A History of Islam in America by Kambiz GhaneaBassiri

A History of Islam in America: From the New World to the New World Order by Kambiz GhaneaBassiri (2010)

Iranophobia: The Logic of an Israeli Obsession by Haggai Ram (2009)

The Tenth Parallel: Dispatches from the Fault Line between Christianity and Islam by Eliza Griswold (2010)

Summer for the Gods: The Scopes Trial and America’s Continuing Debate Over Science and Religion by Edward L. Larson (2006)

Day of Wrath (1943)

Book cover of Midnight's Children with a New Introduction by the Author by Salman Rushdie

Midnight’s Children by Salman Rushdie (1980)

Great Books on Atlantic Empires

Book cover of Making Islam Democratic: Social Movements and the Post-Islamic Turn by Asef Bayat

Making Islam Democratic: Social Movements and the Post-Islamist Turn by Asef Bayat (2007)

Everyday Crimes: The Shop on Main Street (1965)

Great Books on Egypt in the Modern World

Zeitoun by Dave Eggers (2009)

Book cover of Securing Africa: Post-9/11 Discourses on Terrorism edited by Malinda S. Smith

Securing Africa: Post-9/11 Discourses on Terrorism ed. Malinda S. Smith (2010)

Book cover of The Great Partition: The Making of India and Pakistan by Yasmin Khan

The Great Partition: The Making of India and Pakistan by Yasmin Khan (2008)

Book cover of The Voices of Morebath: Reformation & Rebellion in an English Village by Eamon Duffy

The Voices of Morebath: Reformation and Rebellion in an English Village by Eamon Duffy (2001)

Book cover of Foucault's Pendulum by Umberto Eco

Foucault’s Pendulum by Umberto Eco (1988)

Book cover of Death is a Festival: Funeral Rites and Rebellion in Nineteenth-Century Brazil by João José Reis

Death is a Festival: Funeral Rites and Rebellion in Nineteenth-Century Brazil by João José Reis (2007)

Book cover of The Other Side of Silence: Voices From the Partition of India by Urvashi Butalia

Review of The Other Side of Silence: Voices from the Partition of India by Urvashi Butalia (2000) by Urvashi Butalia

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