Graduate Student Publications

The following graduate students produced these publications while enrolled in UNC's Religious Studies department:

Ayubi, Zahra. “Negotiating Justice: American Muslim Women Navigating Islamic Divorce and Civil Law.” Journal for Islamic Studies 30 (2010): 78-102.

________.  “Specific Issues in Muslim Divorce.”  The Family Law Review: A Publication of the Family Law Section of the State Bar of Georgia.  December 2006.

________. “Divorce.”  Encyclopedia of Muslim American History.  New York: Facts On File, 2008.

________. “Families.”  Encyclopedia of Muslim American History.  New York: Facts On File, 2008.

________. “No More Crooked Ribs: Use of Israiliyyat in Tafsir on Human Creation.”  Azizah Magazine 6(1).

________.  “Facing Divorce in the Social Arena.”  Azizah Magazine 4(4).

________.  “Book Review of Barazangi’s Woman’s Identity and The Qur’an: A New Reading.”  Azizah Magazine 4(4).

________. “ Book Review of Women Embracing Islam.”  Azizah Magazine 5(4).

________.  “Book Review of Muslim Women’s Fiction: Once in a Promised Land, and Zaatar Days Henna Nights.”  Azizah Magazine 5(1).

Blankenship, Anne. “Catholic American Citizenship: Prescriptions for Children from Treasure Chest of Fun and Fact, 1946-1963.”  Graven Images: Religion in Comic Books and Graphic Novels, ed. A. David Lewis and Christine Hoff Kraemer, 63-77.  New York: Continuum, 2010.

Blazer, Annie. “Review of William J. Baker, Playing With God: Religion and Modern Sport (Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 2007).”  In International Journal of Religion and Sport 1 (2009).

Combs, Jason. “A Ghost on the Water?: Understanding an Absurdity in Mark 6:49-50.”  Journal of Biblical Literature 127(2) (2008): 345-358.

Denison, Brandi. “The Meeker Massacre: Religious Identity as Cultural Exchange.”  In Making and Breaking Bonds: Reviewing the Meanings and Contexts of North American Indian Captivity, Adoption and Slavery, ed. Max Cacori and Stephanie Pratt.  London: Palgrave Press, forthcoming.

________.  “Review of Tisa Wenger, We Have a Religion: The 1920s Pueblo Indian Dance Controversy and American Religious Freedom.”  Ethnohistory (Spring 2010).

________.   “Art Blakey.”  In Encyclopedia of Muslim-American History, ed. Edward E. Curtis IV.  New York: Facts on File, Inc., 2010.

Duffy, John-Charles. “Elders on the Big Screen: Film and the Globalized Circulation of Mormon Missionary Images.”  In Peculiar Portrayals: Mormons on the Page, Stage, and Screen, ed. Mark T. Decker and Michael Austin, 113-43.  Logan: Utah State University Press, 2010.

________.   “Reinventing McLellin: A Historiographical Review.”  In The William E. McLellin Papers, 1854-1880, ed. Stan Larson and Samuel J. Passey, 83-104.  Salt Lake City: Signature Books, 2007.

________.   “Mormons/Latter-day Saints,” “Peyote,” “Popol Vuh,” and “Quetzalcoátl.” In Hispanic American Religious Cultures, ed. by Miguel A. de la Torre.  Santa Barbara: ABC-CLIO, 2009.

________.   “Affirmation: Gay and Lesbian Mormons,” “Mormonism,” and “Restoration Church of Jesus Christ.”  In Homosexuality and Religion: An Encyclopedia, ed. Jeffrey S. Siker.  Westport, Conn.: Greenwood Press, 2007.

________.   “The Use of ‘Lamanite’ in Official LDS Discourse.”  Journal of Mormon History 34(1) (Winter 2008): 118-167.

________.   “Can Deconstruction Save the Day? ‘Faithful Scholarship’ and the Uses of Postmodernism.”  Dialogue: A Journal of Mormon Thought 41(1) (Spring 2008): 1-33.

________.   “Concealing the Body, Concealing the Sacred: The Decline of Ritual Nudity in Mormon Temples.”  Journal of Ritual Studies 21(2) (2007): 1-21.

________.  “Just How ‘Scandalous’ Is the Golden Plates Story? Academic Discourse on the Origin of the Book of Mormon.”  John Whitmer Historical Association Journal 26 (2006): 142-165.

________.   “Clyde Forsberg’s Equal Rites and the Exoticizing of Mormonism.”Dialogue: A Journal of Mormon Thought 39(1) (Spring 2006): 4-34.

________.  “Review of Terryl L. Givens, People of Paradox: A History of Mormon Culture.”  Journal of Mormon History 34(3) (Summer 2008): 248-254.

Duncan, Carrie. “Field L: The Southeast Acropolis.”  In Madaba Plains Project 12: The 2010 Season at Tall al-`Umayri and Subsequent Studies, ed. D. R. Clark and K. V. Bramlett.  Berrien Springs, Mich.: Andrews University Press, forthcoming.

Foody, Kathleen. “Utopia.” In Encyclopedia of Islamic Political Thought.  Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2010.

________.  “Review: Islam and Dissent in Postrevolutionary Iran.” In Contemporary Islam. Forthcoming.

Gindi, Joseph. “For Whom is the Fight Against Discrimination?  Jews, Liberal Equality and Ethnic-Nationalism.”  In Jewish Choices, Jewish Voices: Social Justice, ed. Rabbis Elliot Dorff and Danya Ruttenberg.  New York: Jewish Publication Society, 2010.

Goodwin, Megan. “A Woman's Part: Unmanliness in Neopagan Seið Magic.”  In Magic and the Modern, ed. M. Edward Bever and Randall Styers.  Forthcoming.

________.  “Thinking Sex and American Religions.” Religion Compass 5 (2011): 772–787. doi: 10.1111/j.1749-8171.2011.00316.x

________.   "Conversion to Narrative: Magic as Religious Language in Grant Morrison's Invisibles."  In Graven Images: Religion in Comic Books and Graphic Novels, ed. Christine Hoff Kraemer and A. David Lewis, 258-273.  New York: Continuum, 2010.

________.  “Queer, Not Gay: Limits of Acceptable Sexual Transgressions in NRM Discourse," The Journal of the Faculty of Religious Studies, McGill University 36 (2009): 75-95.

________.  “Douglas E. Cowan, Cyberhenge: Modern Pagans on the Internet.”  Alternative Spirituality and Religion Review.

Grey, Matthew. “Ancient Jewish Cemeteries.” Encyclopedia of Ancient History, ed. Roger Bagnall, Gideon Bohak, et al.  Oxford: Blackwell Publishing, 2010.

________.  “Jewish Priests and Levites.” Encyclopedia of Ancient History, ed. Roger Bagnall, Gideon Bohak, et al.  Oxford: Blackwell Publishing, 2010.

________.  “Review of Anthony Tomasino’s ‘Judaism before Jesus.’”  Near East Archaeological Society Bulletin (2010).

Lipton, G. A. “Secular Sufism: Neoliberalism, Ethnoracism, and the Reformation of the Muslim Other.”  The Muslim World 101 (2011): 427–440.

________.  “Muhibb Allah Ilahabadi’s Taswiya Contextualized.”  In Muslim Cultures in the Indo-Iranian World during the Early-Modern and Modern Periods, ed. Denis Hermann and Fabrizio Speziale, 475-97.  Berlin: Klaus Schwarz Verlag, 2010.

________.“The Equivalence” (Al-Taswiya) of Muhibb Allah Ilahabadi: Avicennan Neoplatonism and the School of Ibn ‘Arabi in South Asia. Saarbrücken: VDM Verlag, 2009.

________.  “Muhibb Allah Ilahabadi: South Asian Heir to Ibn 'Arabi,”  Journal of the Muhyiddin Ibn 'Arabi Society 45 (2009): 89-119.

Lofton, Kathryn. “The Methodology of the Modernists: Process in American Protestantism.”  Church History: Studies of Christianity and Culture 75(2) (June 2006): 374-402.

________.  “The Preacher Paradigm: Biographical Promotions and the Modern-Made Evangelist.”  Religion and American Culture: A Journal of Interpretation 16(1) (Winter 2006): 95-123.

________.  “Purifying America: Rites of Salvation in the Soap Campaign.”  In How Purity Is Made, ed. Udo Simon and Petra Rösch.  Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz Publishing House.

________.  “Liberal Sympathies: Morris Jastrow (1861-1921) and the Science of Religion.”  In American Religious Liberalism Reconsidered, ed. Sally Promey and Leigh Schmidt. Bloomington: Indiana University Press.

________.   “Antisabbatarianism.”  In Encyclopedia of African American History, 1619-1895: From the Colonial Period to the Age of Frederick Douglass, ed. Paul Finkelman.  New York: Oxford University Press, 2006.

________.  “Ralph Abernethy,” “Jane Addams,” “Fannie Lou Hamer,” “Daniel Payne,” “William J. Seymour,” “Al Sharpton,” and “Andrew Young.”  In Encyclopedia of Modern Christian Politics, ed. Ray Domenico and Mark Hanley.  Westport, Conn.: Greenwood Publishing, 2006.

Morgenstein Fuerst, Ilyse R. “Space, Power, And Stories: Hagiography, Nationalist Discourse, and the Construction of Sacred Space at the Khwaja Sahib in Ajmer, India,” Symposia: The Graduate Student Journal of the Centre for the Study of Religion at the University of Toronto. Volume 3, 1 (2011), pp. 55-69.

________. (2011). Review of Sameetah Agha, Elizabeth Kolsky, and Nicholas B. Dirks, Fringes of Empire: Peoples, Places, and Spaces in Colonial India. The Journal of Asian Studies, 70:2, pp. 602-604.

________.Review of Islam in South Asia in Practice, ed. Barbara Metcalf. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2009, in Journal of Contemporary Asia, 41: 1, February 2011, pp. 176-178.

________.“al-Sa’di,” “Ahmad Khan,” and “al-Hamadhini.” Biographical Dictionary of Islamic Civilisation and Culture, ed. Mustafa Shah. London: IB Taurus, forthcoming

Peterfeso, Jill. “From Testimony to Seximony, from Script to Scripture: Revealing Mormon Women’s Sexuality through the Mormon Vagina Monologues.” Journal of Feminist Studies in Religion 27.2 (Fall 2011): 31-49.

________. “With an Altar for a Stage: Protest, Possibility, and Trans-Performance in a Roman Catholic Womenpriests’ Ordination.” Ecumenica 4.1 (Spring 2011): 39-60.

________. “Review of Beyond the Suffering: Embracing the Legacy of African-American Soul Care and Spiritual Direction, by Robert W. Kelleman and Karole A. Edwards.” Religious Studies Review 36.1 (March 2010): 94.

Reynolds, Bennie. Light Against Darkness: Dualism in Ancient Mediterranean Religion and the Contemporary World, eds., Armin Lange, Eric Meyers, Bennie Reynolds, and Randall Styers.  JAJSup; Göttingen: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, 2011.

________.  “What Are Demons of Error?  The Meaning of טעותא שידי and Israelite Child Sacrifice.”   Revue de Qumran 88 (2007): 593-613.

________.  “Adjusting the Apocalypse: How 4QApocryphon of Jeremiah C updates the Book of Daniel.”  In The Dead Sea Scrolls in Context, ed. Emanuel Tov et al.  Leiden: Brill, 2011.

________.  “Symbolic and Non-Symbolic Visions of the Book of Daniel in Light of the Dead Sea Scrolls.”  In Proceedings of the International Meeting of the Society of Biblical Literature, Rome, 2009, ed. Armin Lange, Kristin De Troyer, and Shani Tzoref.  Atlanta: SBL, 2011.

________.  “Molek: Dead or Alive?  The Meaning and Derivation of מלך and mlk,” in Human Sacrifice in Jewish and Christian Tradition, ed. Karin Finsterbusch, Armin Lange, and K.D.F. Römheld , 133-150.  Leiden: Brill, 2007.

________.  “אשור” and “בעל” in Theologisches Wörterbuch zu den Qumrantexten, ed. Heinz-Josef Fabry and Ulrich Dahmen.  Stuttgart: Kohlhammer-Verlag, under contract.  (Will also be published in English as The Theological Dictionary of the Qumran Texts.)

________.  “Jabneh,” “Kedron,” “Machaerus,” “Macron,” “Maked,” “Mallus,” and “Manius, Titus.”  In The New Interpreter’s Dictionary of the Bible, vol. III.  Nashville: Abingdon, 2008.

________.  “Didrachma.”  In The New Interpreter’s Dictionary of the Bible, vol. II.  Nashville: Abingdon, 2007.

________.  “Bosor,” in The New Interpreter’s Dictionary of the Bible, vol. I.  Nashville: Abingdon, 2006.

________.  “Review of C. D. Elledge, The Bible and the Dead Sea Scrolls.  Dead Sea Discoveries 15 (2008): 296-7.

Rubel, Nora. “Chicken Soup for the Souls of Black Folk: African American Converts to Judaism and the Negotiation of Identity,” Social Compass: Revue Internationale de Sociologie de la Religion/ International Review of Sociology of Religion 3 (September 2004).

Seales, Chad. “Parades and Processions: Ritual Landscape and the Politics of Place in a Nuevo New South Town.”  Numen 55(1) (2008): 44-67.

________.  “Cultivating the Desolate Meadows: Industry, Religion, and Social Differentiation in Siler City, North Carolina, 1884-1932.”  North Carolina Historical Review (January 2008): 57-87.

________.  “Burned Over Bono: U2’s Rock ‘n’ Roll Messiah and His Religious Politic.”  Journal of Religion and Popular Culture (Fall 2006).

________.  “New Latino Destinations,” co-authored with Manuel Vásquez and Marie Friedman Marquardt.  Latinas/os in the United States: Changing the Face of América, ed. Havidán Rodríguez, Rogelio Sáenz, and Cecilia Menjívar.  New York: Springer Publishing, 2008.

________.  “Regionalism in the United States.”  In Encyclopedia of the Modern World, ed. Peter N. Stearns.  New York: Oxford University Press, 2008.

________.  “Congregations.”  In The Encyclopedia of Religion, Communication, and Media, ed. Daniel Stout.  Great Barrington, Mass.: Berkshire Publishing Group, 2006.

________.   “Review of Samuel S. Hill, ed., New Encyclopedia of Southern Culture, Volume 1: Religion.”  Religious Studies Review (October 2007): 330-331.

________.   “Review of Mary Beth Swetnam Mathews, Rethinking Zion.”  North Carolina Historical Review (April 2007): 232-233.

________.   “Review of Mark Chaves, Congregations in America.”  Religious Studies Review (January 2006): 59.

Thayne, Stanley. "Walking on Water: Nineteenth-Century Prophets and a Legend of Religious Imposture."  Journal of Mormon History 36(2) (Spring 2010): 160-204.  Also in Between Pulpit and Pew: History, Lore, and Mormon Encounters with the Paranormal, ed. W. Paul Reeve.  Logan: Utah State University Press, 2011.

________.  “The Book of Mormon,” co-authored with David Howlett.  In Mormonism: A Historical Encyclopedia, ed. W. Paul Reeve and Ardis Parshall.  Santa Barbara: ABC-Clio, 2010.

________.  “One Grand Unified System: Herbert Spencer’s Influence on Mormon Thought.”  In Archive of Restoration Culture: Summer Fellows’ Papers, 2006-2007, ed. Richard L. Bushman.  Provo: BYU Studies, forthcoming.

Tiitsman, Jenna. “Planetary Subjects after the Death of Geography.”  In Planetary Loves: Gayatri Spivak, Postcoloniality, and Theology, ed. Stephen Moore and Mayra Rivera.  New York: Fordham University Press, 2010.

________.  “Teaching Religious Diversity and Conflict.”  In Education, Innovation, and Discovery: The Distinctive Promise of the American Research University, ed. Wendy Katkin, 52055.  Coral Gables, Fl.: The Reinvention Center at the University of Miami, 2009.

________.  “‘If Only You Could See What I’ve Seen Through Your Eyes’: Destabilized Spectatorship and Creation’s Chaos in Blade Runner.” Cross Currents, 54:1, 2004.

________.  “Review of David Morgan, The Lure of Images and David Morgan, ed., Key Words in Religion, Media, and Culture.”  Journal of the Scientific Study of Religion, forthcoming.

________.  “Review of Stewart Hoover, Religion in the Media Age and Mara Einstein, Brands of Faith: Marketing Religion in a Commercial Age.” Communication Review 11(4): 370-375.

Weiner, Isaac. “Sound.”  Invited article for special issue, “Key Words in Material Religion.”  Material Religion, forthcoming July 2011.

________.  “Sound and American Religions.”  Religion Compass 3(5) (September 2009): 897-908.

________.  “Displacement and Re-placement: The International Friendship Bell as a Translocative Technology of Memory.”  Material Religion 5(2) (July 2009): 180-205.

________.  “Education: Court Cases.”  In The Encyclopedia of Religion in America, ed. Charles Lippy and Peter Williams.  Washington, D.C.: CQ Press, 2010.

________.  “Hamtramck.”  In Polish-American History and Culture: An Encyclopedia, ed. James S. Pula.  Jefferson, N.C.: McFarland Publishers, forthcoming.

________.   “Review of Sarah Barringer Gordon, The Spirit of the Law: Religious Voices and the Constitution in Modern America.”  Church History (March 2011).

________.   “Review of Rosemary Radford Ruether, America, Amerikkka: Elect Nation and Imperial Violence.”  Journal of Church and State 50(4) (Autumn 2008): 736-7.

________.   “Review of Nancy T. Ammerman, ed., Everyday Religion: Observing Modern Religious Lives.”  Religious Studies Review 33(4) (October 2007): 329-30.

________.   “Review of Annetta L. Gomez-Jefferson, The Sage of Tawawa.” Religious Studies Review 32(3) (July 2006): 206.

________.   “Review of David M. O’Brien, Animal Sacrifice and Religious Freedom.”  Religious Studies Review 32(1) (January 2006): 58.

Werlin, Steven. “Jews in the Land: Maccabees to the Mishnah.”  In Wiley-Blackwell History of Jews and Judaism, ed. A. T. Levenson.  Oxford: Blackwell, forthcoming.

________.  “First Jewish War,” “Masada,” and “Qumran.”  In The Cambridge Dictionary of Jewish Religion, History, and Culture, ed. J.R. Baskin.  Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, in press.

________.  “The Maccabean Revolt: Between Tradition and History.”  Teaching the Bible 1(5).

________.  “Adoraim” and “Ammudim, Chorvat.”  In Encyclopedia of the Bible and Its Reception, ed. H.-J. Klauck, et al.  Berlin: Walter de Gruyter, 2009-2010.

________.  “Archaeology: Sites in the Middle East.”  In Encyclopedia of Ancient Greece and Rome, ed. M. Gargarin.  New York: Oxford University Press, 2009.

________.  "Masada."  In The New Interpreter's Dictionary of the Bible, ed. K.D. Sakenfeld. Nashville: Abingdon Press, 2008.

________.   “Review of Ehud Netzer, The Architecture of Herod, the Great Builder.”  Henoch (2008).

White, Benjamin. “How to Read a Book: Irenaeus and the Pastoral Epistles Reconsidered.”  Vigiliae Christianae, forthcoming.

________.   “Reclaiming Paul?: Reconfiguration as Reclamation in 3 Corinthians.”  Journal of Early Christian Studies 17(4) (2009): 497-523.

Wilson, Jeff. “’Deeply Female and Universally Human:’ The Rise of Kuan-yin Worship in America.”  Journal of Contemporary Religion 23(3) (October 2008): 285-306.

________.  “Pure Land Iconography and Ritual Intent: A Comparative Study of the Visualization Texts Kuan Wu-Liang-Shou-Fo Ching and Amitabha Sadhana.”  Pure Land 22 (December 2006): 167-186.

________.  “Aesthetics of American Zen: Tradition, Adaptation, and Innovation in the Rochester Zen Center Garden.”  Japan Studies Review 9 (May 2005): 101-114.

________.  “Buddhism in America.”  In Introduction to New and Alternative Religions in the United States, ed. Eugene V. Gallagher and W. Michael Ashcraft.  Santa Barbara: Greenwood, 2006.

Zeller, Benjamin. “Scaling Heaven’s Gate: Individualism and Salvation in a New Religious Movement.”  Nova Religio 10(2) November 2006.

________.   “Review of Christopher Partridge, ed., New Religions: A Guide.”  Nova Religio
11(1) (Aug 2007).