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Religious Studies Review
Religious Studies Review (RSR) is a quarterly review of publications across the entire field of religion and related disciplines. RSR is the only publication that provides major review essays and short reviews for over 1,000 titles in religion annually. The editorial staff is composed of professors from all over the world.
About RSR
Editorial Staff
Mark MacWilliams, Executive Editor - Major Reviews
St. Lawrence University
Spencer Dew, Short Reviews Editor
The Ohio State University
Anthony B. Pinn, Managing Editor
Rice University
Holly Walrath, RSR Coordinator
Rice University
Area Editors (by section)
Comparative Studies/Methodology and Theory
- Brian Collins, Ohio University
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Brian Collins, Ohio University
Psychology of Religion
William Parsons, Rice University
Gender and Sexuality Studies
Danielle Dempsey, Oklahoma State University
Jessica Rehman, University of California, Riverside
Kimberly Diaz, University of California, Riverside
Religion and Science
Lisa Stenmark, San Jose State University
Theology
- Christopher Stephenson, Lee University
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Christopher Stephenson, Lee University
- Nancy Bedford, Georgia Harkness Professor of Theology, Garrett-Evangelical Theological Seminary
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Nancy Bedford, Georgia Harkness Professor of Theology, Garrett-Evangelical Theological Seminary
- Matthew Friedman, Subeditor, Missiology, Mission and Evangelism, Asbury Theological Seminary
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Matthew Friedman, Subeditor, Missiology, Mission and Evangelism, Asbury Theological Seminary
- Daniel Castelo, William Kellon Quick Professor of Theology and Methodist Studies, Duke University
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Daniel Castelo, PhD, is the William Kellon Quick Professor of Theology and Methodist Studies. His areas of expertise include Christian theology, Wesleyan and Pentecostal spirituality, and Latinx theology.
Philosophy of Religion
Charles Taliaferro, St. Olaf College
Alexander Cavender, St. Olaf College
Ethics
James P. Bailey, Duquesne University
Religion and Law
Jeffrey Wheatley, Iowa State University
- Jeffrey Wheatley, Iowa State University
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Jeffrey Wheatley is a teacher and researcher who studies religion, culture, and politics with a historical focus on the United States. His current project is on religious fanaticism as an object of secular policing.
Pedagogy
Ken Derry, University of Toronto
Digital Materials and Media
Alessandra Vitullo, Sapienza University of Rome
Religion, Arts and Culture
- Kristen Tobey, John Carroll University
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Kristen Tobey, John Carroll University
- Jeremy Biles, School of the Art Institute of Chicago
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Jeremy Biles is an Associate Professor in the Department of Liberal Arts at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, where he teaches courses on religion, philosophy, and art. He is the author of Ecce Monstrum: Georges Bataille and the Sacrifice of Form; co-editor of Negative Ecstasies: Georges Bataille and the Study of Religion; and co-author of The Abyss, or Life Is Simple.
Ancient Near East
Tyler Mayfield, Louisville Presbyterian Theological Seminary
Greece, Rome, Greco-Roman Period
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Jenny Strauss Clay, University of Virginia
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Jenny Strauss Clay is William R. Kenan Professor of Classics Emerita at the University of Virginia. Her publications have focused on early Greek literature and what she calls the theology of Homer, Hesiod, and the Homeric Hymns.
Christian Origins
- John Goodrich, Moody Bible Institute
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John Goodrich, Moody Bible Institute
- Patrick Gray, Rhodes College
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Patrick Gray (Ph.D., Emory University) is Professor of Religious Studies at Rhodes College in Memphis, TN. He received his Ph.D. in religion from Emory University. His research focuses on the Greco-Roman context of early Christianity and the history of biblical interpretation. He is editor of The Cambridge Companion to the New Testament (2021).
- Stan Harstine, Subeditor, Johannine Literature, Friends University
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Stan Harstine, Subeditor, Johannine Literature, Friends University
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James Prothro, Subeditor, Augustine Institute
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James Prothro, Subeditor, Augustine Institute
- Daniel M. Gurtner, Subeditor, Gospel of Matthew, St. Mary's University, Twickenham
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Daniel M. Gurtner, Subeditor, Gospel of Matthew, St. Mary's University, Twickenham
History of Christianity: Early
- Ben C. Blackwell, Vice Principal and Professor of Early Christianity WTC Theology
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Ben C. Blackwell, Vice Principal and Professor of Early Christianity WTC Theology
- Laura Dingeldein, University of Illinois at Chicago
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Laura Dingeldein is a historian of ancient Mediterranean religion, with expertise in the beginnings of Christianity. Her recent work has focused in particular on early Christians' use of philosophical concepts. She teaches at the University of Illinois Chicago, where she is a clinical assistant professor in the Religious Studies Program.
- Sarah F. Porter, Gonzaga University
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Sarah F. Porter is assistant professor of Religious Studies at Gonzaga University (Spokane, WA). She focuses on late antique Christianity, material culture, and affect.
- Shawn J. Wilhite, California Baptist University
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Shawn J. Wilhite, California Baptist University
History of Christianity: Modern/Global
Nathanael Homewood, Harvard University
Jewish Thought
Seeking Editor
Judaism: Hellenistic through Late Antiquity
Jason Maston, Houston Christian University
Judaism: Medieval/Early Modern Jewish Studies
Deborah Kaye, University of Arizona
Judaism: Modern
Jonathan Zisook, University of Pittsburgh
Islam
Hamed Fayazi, University of Religions and Denominations
Junaid Quadri, University of Illinois at Chicago
Walaa Quisay, Graduate of Oxford University
Africa
Seeking Editor
Oceania
Seeking Editor
The Americas
Daniel Jones, Missouri State University
Nicholas Higgins, North Greenville University
New and Alternative Religious Movements
Lukas Pokorny, University of Vienna
- Lukas K. Pokorny, University of Vienna
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Lukas K. Pokorny is Professor and Chair of Religious Studies at the University of Vienna. Large parts of his current research focus on millenarianism and esotericism (specifically the reception history of East Asia), new religious movements, as well as new, alternative, and Asian diasporic religions in Austria.
South Asia
Steven E. Linquist, Southern Methodist University, Associate Professor and Director of Asian Studies
Gardner Harris, Hampden-Sydney College
East Asia
- Lukas K. Pokorny, University of Vienna
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Lukas K. Pokorny is Professor and Chair of Religious Studies at the University of Vienna. Large parts of his current research focus on millenarianism and esotericism (specifically the reception history of East Asia), new religious movements, as well as new, alternative, and Asian diasporic religions in Austria.
Buddhism
- Justin McDaniel, University of Pennsylvania
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Justin McDaniel, University of Pennsylvania
- Matthew Steven Mitchell, High Point University
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Matthew Steven Mitchell is a visiting assistant professor of Religion at High Point University in North Carolina. His research is on early modern Japanese Buddhism.
Inner Asia
Rory Lindsay, University of California, Santa Barbara
Political Theology
Nicholas Higgins, North Greenville University
Get Involved
General inquiries about the journal can be made by contacting us at rsr@rice.edu. If you are interested in writing reviews for RSR, we encourage you to contact the area editor(s) of the sections in which you are interested. Please include a CV and possible titles you are interested in reviewing (see our list of books available for review). Please note, we prefer to review titles published in the last three years.
We accept books related to religion in our areas of focus for review. Please send all books for review to the RSR Editorial Office:
Religious Studies Review - MS 156
Rice University
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Houston, TX 77251-1892
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