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Religious Studies News is the webmagazine of the American Academy of Religion (AAR), the world's largest scholarly and professional association of academics, teachers, and research scholars...
Elizabeth O'Brien, associate professor of history at UCLA and winner of the 2024 AAR Best First Book in the History of Religions Award, spea...
A recording of one of Leela Prasad's presidential plenaries, held at the 2025 AAR Annual Meeting in Boston. Leela Prasad, Brown University,...
“Jesus saves” banners at the January 6th insurrection. Evangelical elevation of President Trump as God’s elect. Claims of religious freedom...
Max K. Strassfeld, associate professor of religion at the University of Southern California and winner of the 2023 AAR Book Award for Excel...
Karen V. Guth, associate professor of religious studies at the College of the Holy Cross and winner of th e 2023 AAR Book Award for Excelle...
William Robert, professor of religion at Syracuse University and winner of the 2023 AAR Book Award in Religion and the Arts , speaks to Kris...
William Calvo-Quirós, associate professor of American culture at the University of Michigan and winner of the 2023 Best First Book in the Hi...
Mary Dunn — professor of Modern Christianity in the department of theological studies at Saint Louis University, director of the Center for...
American Secularism and Its Believers with Charles McCrary by American Academy of Religion
The Role of Western Universities in Modern Islamic Thought with Megan Brankley Abbas by American Academy of Religion
A Comparative Study of the Cántico Espiritual and the Rāsa Līlā with Gloria Maité Hernández by American Academy of Religion
Religious Cultures of Enslaved Women in the Lower South with Alexis Wells-Oghoghomeh by American Academy of Religion
Metamodernism and the Future of Theory with Jason Ānanda Josephson Storm by American Academy of Religion
Art as Embodied Experience with Kathryn R. Barush by American Academy of Religion
2023 AAR Presidential Address - Amir Hussain by American Academy of Religion
Adam Lyons joins Kristian Petersen to discuss his award-winning book "Karma and Punishment: Prison Chaplaincy in Japan" (Harvard University...
Rhiannon Graybill joins Kristian Petersen to discuss her award-winning book, Texts after Terror: Rape, Sexual Violence, and the Hebrew Bible...
AAR 2022 Presidential Address - Mayra Rivera by American Academy of Religion
AAR Presidents Address - Mayra Rivera by American Academy of Religion
Women, Prayer, and Poetry in Iran with Niloofar Haeri by American Academy of Religion
Sam Gill joins Kristian Petersen to discuss his award-winning 2021 book, The Proper Study of Religion: Building on Jonathan Z. Smith (OUP, 2...
Yuhang Li joins Kristian Petersen to discuss her award-winning book, Becoming Guanyin: Artistic Devotion of Buddhist Women in Late Imperial...
Maria E. Doerfler joins Kristian Petersen to discuss her award-winning book, "Jephthah’s Daughter, Sarah’s Son: The Death of Children in Lat...
Aztec Religion and Art of Writing with Isabel Laack by American Academy of Religion
Kathryn Tanner joins Kristian Petersen to discuss her award-winning 2020 book, "Christianity and the New Spirit of Capitalism." Through the...
2021 AAR President Marla Frederick delivers her presidential address to a crowd at the 2021 Annual Meeting in San Antonio, TX.
Despite the Japanese constitution guaranteeing religious freedom since 1889, after World War II, the United States-occupiers deemed that gua...
The fall of the Soviet Union provides the cultural space for a revival of the religious practices of the Buryat, an indigenous people of sou...
Sugata Ray's 2019 book "Climate Change and the Art of Devotion: Geoaesthetics in the Land of Krishna, 1550-1850" won AAR's Religion and the...
Through a case study of Zava Damdin, a monk living on the frontier of Mongolia at the end of the Qing empire (early 20th century), Matthew K...
Mara Benjamin, Irene Kaplan Leiwant Professor of Jewish Studies at Mount Holyoke College, experimented with genre in her 2018 book "The Obli...
Karin Vélez explains how the 12th century myth of the flying house of Loreto, which tells the story of the home of the Virgin Mary flew away...
Geraldine Heng discusses the obstacles in conceptualizing race in premodernity and the evidence for racialized thinking in the European medi...
The construction and use of the fetish framework in European social theory is the focus of J. Lorand Matory's book, "The Fetish Revisited: M...
Jessica Vantine Birkenholtz talks about the textual and limited iconographic history of the mysterious Nepalese Hindu goddess Svasthani. Bir...
Webinar recording from June 9, 2020. The discussion focused on how scholars of religion can share work related to the study of religion and...
This session brings together editors from scholarly and trade presses, both large and small, to share their perspectives on the acquisition...
Have you been struggling to get proposals accepted to the AAR Annual Meeting? Come to this session to get some tips and ideas about how to b...
Wade Clark Roof is the 2019 winner of the Martin E. Marty Award for the Public Understanding of Religion. Having passed away suddenly on Aug...
This session celebrates the 50th Anniversary of James Cone’s Black Theology and Black Power, published March 1, 1969. This panel features pr...
After Kate Bowler’s 2013 book, Blessed: A History of the American Prosperity Gospel, became an unexpected public hit, she was diagnosed with...
A Blueprint for the Public Study of Religion. In addition to its traditional goal of fostering excellence in the academic study of religion,...
Submissions by women to journals and books series, including JAAR, are lower by percentage than the percentage of women in the field of reli...
Laurie L. Patton is 2019 President of the American Academy of Religion, President of Middlebury College, and a scholar of South Asian histor...
The Teaching and Learning Committee facilitates an engaging, hands on workshop, helping participants build assignments that are creative, mo...
The American Academy of Religion presents its annual Journalism Award to recognize outstanding contributions to religion reporting in the pr...
This panel brings together five editors of religious studies journals to discuss the nuts and bolts of journal editing, with the aim of maki...
AAR 2019 - Aurora, a New E-Learning Platform: An Information Session with Co-Creator, Maren Wood by American Academy of Religion
When humanities scholars talk about exploring and pursuing “alt-ac” and “post-ac” careers, two concerns often dominate the conversation: 1)...
Not every PhD becomes a professor. Some never want to, but a growing number discover too late that there's little room in the academy for th...