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Member Publications




This section is devoted to celebrating and sharing the recent scholarship produced by members of our region. If you have a book or article that you would like to add to this list, please let us know!

2020 Publications
Baker, Josiah. "One Lord, One Faith, One Baptism’? Between Trinitarian Ecumenism and Oneness Pentecostals." Journal of Pentecostal Theology 29, no. 1 (2020): 95–112.

Baker, Josiah. "Prácticas de curación pentecostales y católicas en Latinoamérica: Un caso de estudio postliberal." Estudios Eclesiásticos 95, no. 372 (2020): 7–30.


Daughrity, Dyron. "Alexander Campbell's View of Baptists." In Revelation and Leadership in the Kingdom of God, edited by Andrei Orlov. Piskataway, NJ: Gorgias Press, 2020. ​

Daughrity, Dyron. "BJP and Donyi-Polo: New Challenges to Christianity in Arunachal Pradesh and Northeast India." In International Bulletin of Mission Research (forthcoming).

Daughrity, Dyron. "India, Bharat (The Republic of India)." World Christian Encyclopedia, 3rd Ed. (Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2020). Co-authored.


Daughrity, Dyron. "Racial Diversity and Missions in the Stone Campbell Movement." In Restoration Quarterly 62:2 (2020).

Hennessey, Anna. "Chinese Images of Nature, Body, and Cosmos: Visualizing Human Physiology and Homeostasis with the Natural World." In Sustainable Societies: Interreligious, Interdisciplinary Responses, edited by Rita D. Sherma. New York: Springer Publishing, forthcoming.


Miles-Tribble, Valerie. Change Agent Church in Black Lives Matter Times: Urgency for Action. Lanham: Lexington/Fortress Academic, imprint of Rowman & Littlefield, 2020.

Whitaker, Roy. "Black Utopian and Dystopian Technological Simulation: Tupac Shakur’s Holographic Persona at the Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival." Świat i Słowo (World and Word) (forthcoming).
 
Whitaker, Roy. "Blackness of Art and Whiteness of Atheism: Greydon Square’s Underground 
Hip Hop in the Age of Unbelief."  Journal of Hip Hop Studies (forthcoming).

Whitaker, Roy. "Reflections on Afrika Bambaataa’s Universal Zulu Nation: Horizons, Hip Hop, and Hybridity."  Journal of Contemporary Religion (forthcoming).   
 

2019 Publications
Adesanya, Ineda Pearl, ed. Kaleidoscope: Broadening the Palette in the Art of Spiritual Direction. New York: Church Publishing, Inc., 2019.

Baker, Josiah. "Amore amoris tui facio istuc : L’emploi par Augustin du témoignage dans les Confessions." Mayéutica 45, no. 99 (2019): 63–78.
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Daughrity, Dyron. Christianity: Facts and Fiction. Santa Barbara: ABC-CLIO, 2019.

Daughrity, Dyron. Marriage in World Christianity." Encyclopedia of the Bible and Its Reception (Berlin: De Gruyter, 2019). Co-authored.


Lee, Jonathan H. X. Asian American History Day by Day. Santa Barbara, CA: Greenwood, 2019. 

Smith Hansen, Konden. Frontier Religion: Mormons and America, 1857-1907. Salt Lake City: University of Utah Press, 2019 [Best First Book award, Mormon History Association]


2018 Publications
Daughrity, Dyron. "Martin Luther and Alexander Campbell: Seven Parallels." In Restoration Quarterly 60:2 (2018).

Daughrity, Dyron. Rising: The Amazing Story of Christianity's Resurrection in the Global South. Minneapolis: Fortress Press, 2018.

Daughrity, Dyron. "World Christianity Needs Ethiopia." In Hekima Review 58 (December 2018).


Hennessey, Anna. Imagery, Ritual, and Birth: Ontology Between the Sacred and the Secular. Lanham, Maryland: Lexington Books, Imprint of Rowman & Littlefield, 2018.

Hennessey, Anna. Review of Birth in Ancient China: A Study of Metaphor and Cultural Identity in Pre-Imperial China (SUNY, 2017), Constance A. Cook and Xinhui Luo. Body and Religion, Equinox Publishing, 2018.


Hennessey, Anna. "The Intellectual Marginalization of Childbirth and Its Real-World Implications." Journal of Prenatal & Perinatal Psychology: vol. 32 (3) (March 2018): 271-280.

Lee, Jonathan H. X. Japanese Americans: The History and Culture of a People. Santa Barbara, CA: ABC-CLIO, 2018.

Whitaker, Roy. "Martin Luther King Jr. and Mormonism: Dialogue, Race, and Pluralism." Dialogue: A Journal of Mormon Thought 51, no. 3 (Fall 2018): 131–53.   
 
Whitaker, Roy.  “Martin Luther King Jr. and Nostalgia: An Interdisciplinary Perspective.” Sociological Imagination 54, no. 1 (Fall 2018): 23-40.  
 
Whitaker, Roy.  "Underground Music," "Straight Outta Compton." The St. James Encyclopedia
of Hip Hop Culture. St. James Press (Spring 2018).  
 

2017 Publications
Daughrity, Dyron. Martin Luther: A Biography for the People. Abilene: ACU Press, 2017.

Hennessey, Anna. "Ritual and Art in a Philosophy of Birth." Spirituality and Childbirth, edited by Susan Crowther and Jenny Hall. London: Routledge, 2017.

Ninh, Thien-Huong. Race, Gender, and Religion in the Vietnamese Diaspora: The New Chosen People. New York, NY: Palgrave, 2017.


von der Horst, Dirk. Jonathan's Loves, David's Laments: Gay Theology, Musical Desires, and Historical Difference. Eugene, Oregon: Pickwick Publications, 2017.

2016 Publications
Daughrity, Dyron. Roots: Understanding Why We Do What We Do In Church. Abilene: Leafwood/ACU Press, 2016. 

Daughrity, Dyron. Understanding World Christianity: India. Co-author with Jesudas Athyal. Minneapolis: Fortress Press, 2016. 330 pages.


Gallab, Abdullahi. Their Second Republic: Islamism in the Sudan from disintegration to Oblivion. London: Routledge, 2016.

Hennessey, Anna. Review of Families of Virtue: Confucian and Western Views on Childhood Development. Erin M. Cline. Dao: A Journal of Comparative Philosophy. Springer, 2016.


Lee, Jonathan H. X. Chinese Americans: The History and Culture of a People. Santa Barbara, CA: ABC-CLIO, 2016.

Lee, Jonathan H. X. Lee and Christen T. Sasaki, eds. Asian American History: Primary Documents of the Asian American Experience. Co-editor with Christen T. Sasaki. San Diego, CA:  Cognella Academic Publishing, 2016.


Whitaker, Roy.  "Our Loyalties Must Become Ecumenical’:Martin Luther King Jr., as a Pluralist Theologian." Journal of Ecumenical Studies 51, no. 3 (Summer 2016): 402–22. 

2015 Publications
Daughrity, Dyron.To Whom Does Christianity Belong?: Critical Issues in World Christianity. Minneapolis: Fortress Press, 2015.

Hennessey, Anna. "Representations of Birth and Motherhood as Contemporary Forms of the Sacred." In Natal Signs: Cultural Representations of Pregnancy, Birth and Parenting, edited by Nadya Burton. Bradford, Canada: Demeter Press, 2015.


Lee, Jonathan H. X., Fumitaka Matsuoka, Edmond Yee, and Ronald Y. Nakasone, eds. Asian American Religious Cultures, 2 volumes. Santa Barbara, CA and Denver, CO: ABC-CLIO, 2015.

Lee, Jonathan H. X. Southeast Asian Diaspora in the United States: Memories and Visions, Yesterday, Today, and Tomorrow. Newcastle, UK: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2015.

Lee, Jonathan H. X. History of Asian Americans: Exploring Diverse Roots. Santa Barbara: ABC-CLIO/Greenwood Press, 2015.

Lee, Jonathan H. X. Kong Chow Temple Report. San Francisco: Chinese History Society of America, 2015.

Whitaker, Roy. "Religious Dialogue across Lines of Difference: Mormons, Evangelicals, and Others 
Agreeing to Disagree." Mormon Studies Review 2 (2015): 105–15.  

2014 Publications

Atkinson, Jay. “Alfred Cole Unmasked: The Provenance of the Universalist Preaching Commission.” In Journal of Unitarian Universalist History XXXVII (2013-2014), 100-125.

Gallab, Abdullahi. A Civil Society Deferred: the Tertiary Grip of Violence in the Sudan. University Press of Florida, 2014. 

Hennessey, Anna. Review of Philosophical Inquiries into Pregnancy, Childbirth, and Mothering, edited by Sheila Lintott and Maureen Sander-Staudt. Journal of the Motherhood Initiative Vol 5, No 2 (2014): 194-198. 


Lee, Jonathan H. X. Asian American Identities and Practices: Folkloric Expressions in Everyday Life. Co-editor with Kathleen Nadeau. Lanham: Lexington Books/Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Inc. 2014. (Paperback version November 2015).

Lee, Jonathan H. X. Guest editor: Teaching Asian American Religions. American Academy of Religions, Spotlight on Teaching (May 2014). Web.

Maloney, Susan M. "Obedience, Responsibility and Freedom: Anita M. Caspary, IHM, and the Post-Conciliar Renewal of Catholic Women Religious" in U.S. Catholic Historian, Fall 2014, Vol 32, No.4.

2013 Publications
Cartier, Marie. Baby, You Are My Religion: Women, Gay Bars and Theology Before Stonewall. Routledge, 2014, paperback; (Acumen, 2013, hardback).

Hennessey, Anna. "The Troublesomeness of Metaphysicians: Subjectivity, Objectivity and Aesthetic Relativism." In Beyond Histories: Art's Dilemmas and Trajectories, edited by Vladimir Marchenkov. New York: Hampton Press, 2013.


Lee, Jonathan H. X. co-guest editor with Kathleen M. Nadeau, Asian American Folklore: Passages & Practices. Amerasia Journal. UCLA Asian American Studies Center Press. Vol. 39. No. 2. (2013).

Lee, Jonathan H. X. and March Thi Pham. “Pedagogy for Healing and Justice through Cambodian American Literature,” in Worldly Teaching: Critical Pedagogy and Global Literature.  Edited by Masood Ashraf Raja and Hillary Stringer. New York:  Palgrave MacMillan (2013): 97-111.

Lee, Jonathan H. X. “The Global and Civil Dimensions of Tzu Chi Compassion Society’s Peace Work in America.” Living in Peace: Insights from Buddhism. Edited Chanju Mun and Ronald S. Green. Honolulu: Blue Pine (2013): 143-157.

Silverman, Emily Leah. Edith Stein and Regina Jonas: Religious Visionaries of the Death Camps. Acumen Publishing, 2013.

2012 Publications
Daughrity, Dyron. Church History: Five Approaches to a Global Discipline. New York: Peter Lang Publications, 2012.

Hennessey, Anna. "
Representations of the World and Cosmos in Chinese Tomb Décor." World History Encyclopedia (Era 3: 300 BCE – 300CE ), vols. 5 & 6. William E. Mierse, Ed. ABC-CLIO, 2012.

Lee, Jonathan H. X. with the Center for Lao Studies. Laotians in the San Francisco Bay Area (Images of America), with the Center for Lao Studies.  Arcadia Publishing: Mount Pleasant, SC, 2012.

Lee, Jonathan H. X. “Tzu Chi Compassion Society’s Peace Work in America.” Journal of International Association of Buddhist Universities 3.1 (2012): 145-164.

Lee, Jonathan H. X. and Vivian-Lee Nyitray. “Things Matter: Chinese American Culture Work and the Gods of Marysville” in Chinese America: History and Perspective, The Journal of the Chinese Historical Society of America (2012): 1-5.

Lee, Jonathan H. X. “‘Singing Our Lives with His Words’: R.J. Sin, kambodschanisch-amerikanische Musiker der Geschichte und Gegenwart verknüpft [Cambodian American Musician Strumming History, Pain, and Subjectivity].” Südostasien [Southeast Asia] (Apr. 2012): 12-14. 

Silverman, Emily Leah, Dirk von der Horst, and Whitney Bauman. Voices of Feminist Liberation: Writings in Celebration of Rosemary Radford Ruether. Equinox Publishing Limited, 2012.

2011 Publications   
Gallab, Abdullahi. Their Second Republic: Islamism in the Sudan from Disintegration to Oblivion. Hampshire: Ashgate Publishers, 2011. 

Garber, Zev (ed). The Jewish Jesus: Revelation, Reflection, Reclamation. Shofar Supplements in Jewish Studies. West Lafayette [Indiana]: Purdue University Press, 2011.

Hennessey, Anna. "Art," Encyclopedia of Global Religion. Mark Juergensmeyer and Wade Clark Roof, eds. Sage Publications, 2011.

Hennessey, Anna. "Buddhist Art on the Silk Road." World History Encylcopedia (Era 4:  300-1000 CE), vols. 7 & 8. Wilfred Bisson, Ed. ABC-CLIO, 2011.

Hennessey, Anna. "Early Medieval Chinese Alchemy." World History Encyclopedia (Era 4:  300-1000 CE), vols. 7 & 8. Wilfred Bisson, Ed. ABC-CLIO, 2011.

Hennessey, Anna. Review of Radical Spirits: Spiritualism and Women's Rights in Nineteenth-Century America, by Ann Braude. Alternative Spirituality and Religion Review Volume 2, Issue 1 (2011): 110-112.

Lee, Jonathan H. X. Guest editor, Peace Review: A Journal of Social Justice. Symposium: Cambodia’s Genocide and Tribunals. Volume 23, Number 4 (October-December 2011).

Lee, Jonathan H. X. and Kathleen Kadeau. Encyclopedia of Asian American Folklore and Folklife. Three Volumes. Santa Barbara, CA: ABC-CLIO, 2011.

Lee, Jonathan H. X. “Contesting Hindu Material and Visual Cultures, Forging Hindu American Identity and Subjectivity,” in Nidan: International Journal for the Study of Hinduism. Theme: Hinduism and Materiality. Durban, South Africa, University of KwaZulu-Natal, Volume 23 (December 2011), pp. 73-84. 

Lee, Jonathan H. X. “Maintaining Patterns: Community Ritual and Pilgrimage in a Diasporic Taiwanese American Religious Community,” in Asia Pacific: Perspectives. Vol. 10, No. 1 (April 2011), pp. 82-102.

2010 Publications
Daughrity, Dyron. The Changing World of Christianity: The Global History of a Borderless Religion. New York: Peter Lang Publications, 2010.

Lee, Jonathan H. X. Cambodian American Experiences: Histories, Communities, Cultures, and Identities. Dubuque, IA: Kendall and Hunt Publishing Company, 2010. Second edition 2015.

2009 Publications
Ali, Soaud T. A Religion, Not a State: Ali 'Abd al-Raziq's Islamic justification of Political Secularism. University of Utah Press, 2009.

Jacobs, Steven L. (ed.). Maven in Blue Jeans: A Festschrift in Honor of Zev Garber.  Shofar Supplements in Jewish Studies. West Lafayette [Indiana]: Purdue University Press, 2009.

2008 Publications
Daughrity, Dyron. Bishop Stephen Neill: From Edinburgh to South India. New York: Peter Lang Publications, 2008. 

Gallab, Abdullahi. The First Islamist Republic: Development and Disintegration of Islamism in the Sudan. Hampshire: Ashgate Publishers, 2008.