Awards

Lisa M. Cataldo, Fordham University, This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it
Recipient of the Stephen A. Mitchell Author's Award, granted by the International Association for Relational Psychoanalysis and Psychotherapy, for the outstanding paper submitted by a psychoanalyst who has been out of training for five years or less.

Anthony Cerulli, Hobart and William Smith Colleges, This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it
Awarded an American Council of Learned Societies Fellowship for his project "Medical Narratives and Allegorical Bodies in Indian Medical Literature."

Scott Kenworthy, Miami University, Ohio, This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it
Awarded the 2010 Frank S. and Elizabeth D. Brewer Prize of the American Society of Church History for his book The Heart of Russia: Trinity-Sergius, Monasticism, and Society after 1825. New York: Oxford University Press, 2010.

Rodger M. Payne, University of North Carolina, Asheville, This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it
Participated in a Fulbright-Hays summer seminar for university faculty exploring religious diversity in Morocco and Tunisia during the summer of 2011.

Books and Major Publications

Febe Armanios, Middlebury College, This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it
Coptic Christianity in Ottoman Egypt. New York: Oxford University Press, 2011. ISBN: 978-0-19-974484-8.

Guy Beck, Tulane University, This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it
Sonic Liturgy: Ritual and Music in Hindu Tradition. Studies in Comparative Religion Series. Frederick M. Denny, Series Editor. Columbia, SC: University of South Carolina Press, 2011. ISBN: 978-1-61-117037-5.

Guy Beck, Tulane University, This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it
Vaishnava Temple Music in Vrindaban: The Radhavallabha Songbook. Blazing Sapphire Press, October 2011.

Ellen J. Blue, Phillips Theological Seminary, This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it
St. Mark's and the Social Gospel: Methodist Women and Civil Rights in New Orleans, 1895-1965. Knoxville: University of Tennessee Press, 2011. ISBN: 978-1-57-233821-0.

Lucy Bregman, Temple University, This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it
Preaching Death: The Transformation of Christian Funeral Sermons. Waco, TX: Baylor University Press, 2011. 978-1-60-258320-7.

Joseph Cheah, Saint Joseph College, This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it
Race and Religion in American Buddhism: White Supremacy and Immigrant Adaptation. New York: Oxford University Press, 2011. ISBN 978-0-19-975628-5.

Monica A. Coleman, Claremont School of Theology, This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it , Nancy R. Howell, Saint Paul School of Theology, This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it , and Helene T. Russell, Christian Theological Seminary, This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it , eds.
Creating Women's Theology: A Movement Engaging Process Thought. Eugene, OR: Pickwick Publications, 2011. ISBN: 978-1-61-097177-5.

Jean Ehret, Sacred Heart University, Connecticut, This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it , and Erwin Möde, eds.
The Challenge of the Catholic Intellectual Tradition: Making a Difference in Contemporary Academic Settings. Münster: Lit Verlag Glaube und Ethos, vol. 10, 2011. ISBN 978-3-64-390070-8.

Carl W. Ernst, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it
How to Read the Qur'an: A New Guide, with Select Translations. Chapel Hill, NC: University of North Carolina Press, December 2011. ISBN: 978-0-80-783516-6.

Fabrizio M. Ferrari, University of Chester, This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it
Health and Religious Rituals in South Asia: Disease, Healing, and Possession. New York: Routledge, 2011. ISBN: 978-0-41-556145-7.

Talya Fishman, University of Pennsylvania, This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it
Becoming the People of the Talmud: Oral Torah as Written Tradition in Medieval Jewish Cultures. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2011. ISBN: 978-0-81-224313-0.

David Freidenreich, Colby College, This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it
Foreigners and Their Food: Constructing Otherness in Jewish, Christian, and Islamic Law. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2011. ISBN: 978-0-52-025321-6.

Lynne Gerber, University of California, Berkeley, This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it
Seeking the Straight and Narrow: Weight Loss and Sexual Reorientation in Evangelical America. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2012. ISBN: 978-0-22-628811-6.

Laura Hartman, Augustana College, This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it
The Christian Consumer: Living Faithfully in a Fragile World. New York: Oxford University Press, 2011. ISBN: 978-0-19-974642-2.

Jane Naomi Iwamura, University of California, Los Angeles, This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it
Virtual Orientalism: Asian Religions and American Popular Culture. New York: Oxford University Press, 2011. ISBN: 978-0-19-973861-8.

Michael Jerryson, Eckerd College, This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it
Buddhist Fury: Religion and Violence in Southern Thailand. New York: Oxford University Press, 2011. ISBN: 978-0-19-979323-5.

Grace Kao, Claremont School of Theology, This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it
Grounding Human Rights in a Pluralist World. Washington, D.C.: Georgetown University Press, 2011. ISBN: 978-1-58-901733-7.

Cleo McNelly Kearns, New York University, This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it
Virgin Mary, Monotheism, and Sacrifice. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 2008. ISBN: 978-0-52-187156-3.

Justin Klassen, Bellarmine University, This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it
The Paradox of Hope: Theology and the Problem of Nihilism. Eugene, OR: Cascade Books, 2011. ISBN: 978-1-60-899770-1.

Reid Locklin, University of Toronto, This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it
Liturgy of Liberation: A Christian Commentary on Shankara's Upadesasahasri. Leuven: Peeters Publishing, 2011. ISBN: 978-9-04-292563-2.

Robert N. McCauley, Emory University, This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it
Why Religion Is Natural and Science Is Not. New York: Oxford University Press, 2011. ISBN: 978-0-19-982726-8.

Anne E. Patrick, Carleton College, This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it
Women, Conscience, and the Creative Process: 2009 Madeleva Lecture in Spirituality. Mahwah, NJ: Paulist Press, 2011. ISBN: 978-0-80-914706-9.

Daniel Rancour-Laferriere, University of California, Davis, This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it
The Sign of the Cross: From Golgotha to Genocide. Piscataway, NJ: Transaction Publishers, 2011. ISBN: 978-1-41-281133-0.

A. Whitney Sanford, University of Florida, This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it
Growing Stories from India: Religion and the Fate of Agriculture. Lexington, KY: University Press of Kentucky, 2011. ISBN: 978-0-81-313412-3.

Luis Santamaría del Río, Red Iberoamericana de Estudio de las Sectas (RIES), This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it , and David Santamaria
Los otros Creyentes: El HechoRreligioso no Católico en la Provincia de Zamora (The Other Believers: The Non-Catholic Religious Fact in the Province of Zamora). Semuret, 2011. ISBN: 978-8-48-895498-5.

Glen G. Scorgie, Bethel University, This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it , general editor
Dictionary of Christian Spirituality. Consulting editors: Simon Chan, Gordon T. Smith, and James D. Smith III. Grand Rapids, MI: Zondervan, 2011. ISBN: 978-0-31-029066-7.

Eliezer Segal, University of Calgary, This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it
For Signs and for Seasons. Seattle, WA: CreateSpace, 2011. ISBN: 978-1-46-361001-2.

Eliezer Segal, University of Calgary, This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it
On the Trails of Tradition: Explorations of Jewish Life and Learning. Seattle, WA: CreateSpace, 2011. ISBN: 978-1-46-362391-3.

Eliezer Segal, University of Calgary, This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it
Reading Jewish Religious Texts. New York: Routledge, 2011. ISBN: 978-0-41-558821-8.

Megan Adamson Sijapati, Gettysburg College, This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it
Islamic Revival in Nepal: Religion and a New Nation. New York: Routledge, 2011. ISBN: 978-0-41-561874-8.

Benjamin Stewart, Lutheran School of Theology, Chicago, This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it
A Watered Garden: Christian Worship and Earth's Ecology. Minneapolis: Augsburg Fortress Press, 2011. ISBN: 978-0-80-665393-8.

Laura Stivers, Dominican University of California, This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it
Disrupting Homelessness: Alternative Christian Approaches. Minneapolis: Augsburg Fortress Press, 2011. ISBN: 978-0-80-069797-6.

Laura Stivers, Dominican University of California, This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it , James Martin-Schramm, Luther College, This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it , and Christine E. Gudorf, Florida International University, This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it
Christian Ethics: A Case Method Approach. Fourth Edition. Maryknoll, NY: Orbis Books, 2012. ISBN: 978-1-57-075966-6.

Lucian Turcescu, Concordia University, This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it , and Lavinia Stan
Church, State, and Democracy in Expanding Europe. New York: Oxford University Press, 2011. ISBN: 978-0-19-533710-5.

Catherine Wessinger, Loyola University, New Orleans, This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it
Oxford Handbook of Millennialism. New York: Oxford University Press, 2011. ISBN: 978-0-19-530105-2.

Career Transitions

Richard Heyduck, Wiley College, This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it
Appointed Assistant Professor of Religion at Wiley College.

Andre E. Johnson, Memphis Theological Seminary, This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it
Named the Dr. James L. Netters Assistant Professor of Rhetoric, Religion, and African American Studies.

Grace Yia-Hei Kao, Claremont School of Theology, This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it
Recently became the first person of Taiwanese descent as well as the first Asian-American female to be awarded tenure at Claremont School of Theology.

James Clement van Pelt, Yale University, This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it
Became Program Coordinator, Yale Initiative in Religion, Science, and Technology, at Yale Divinity School.

In Memoriam

Sarah Hammond, College of William and Mary
Sarah Hammond passed away November 2011. She was a professor of American religious history and a 2009 Lake Doctoral Dissertation Fellow at Indiana University. A tribute to Dr. Hammond, with links to other tributes, can be found at Religion Dispatches.