Download PDF: Menhinick, Searching, not Leaving For the first time in recorded history, religious membership in the United States has dropped below 50%. Earlier this year, in March 2021, Gallop released this finding in its most recent poll, which tracks
Download PDF: Malladi RV, Impersonations Harshita Mruthinti Kamath Oakland: University of California Press, 2019. 215 pages. $34.95. Kamath’s book is an ethnographic study of the practice of gendered guising in the Kuchipudi dance tradition of South India. Kuchipudi is both a
Download PDF: Kim RV, Faith in Flux By Devaka PremawardhanaPhiladelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2018. 232 pages. $49.95. The spread of Christianity worldwide during the twenty-first century cannot be discussed without the success of Pentecostalism. While the heavy presence of
Download PDF: RV The, Wiley Blackwell Reader Edited by Bonnie J. Miller-McLemoreHoboken, NJ: Wiley, 2019. 424 pages. $51.95. Describing one’s area of interest as “practical theology” can often elicit the follow-up retort, “. . . as opposed to impractical theology?”
Download PDF: Curtis, Turning the Wheel Practical Matters is proud to publish Issue 12, Revolutions and Re-Imaginations: New Directions in Religious Practices and Practical Theology. We are grateful to the authors, peer reviewers, and supportive colleagues who helped us bring
At the Practical Matters conference at Emory University in March 2018, four graduates of Emory’s Initiative in Religious Practices and Practical Theology shared their “big idea” for the study of religious practices. Practical Matters Journal is proud to publish each
At the Practical Matters conference at Emory University in March 2018, four graduates of Emory’s Initiative in Religious Practices and Practical Theology shared their “big idea” for the study of religious practices. Practical Matters Journal is proud to publish each
At the Practical Matters conference at Emory University in March 2018, four graduates of Emory’s Initiative in Religious Practices and Practical Theology shared their “big idea” for the study of religious practices. Practical Matters Journal is proud to publish each
At the Practical Matters conference at Emory University in March 2018, four graduates of Emory’s Initiative in Religious Practices and Practical Theology shared their “big idea” for the study of religious practices. Practical Matters Journal is proud to publish each
Download PDF: Messner RV, Practical Matters Conference The Emory Practical Matters Conference was a culminating event following 15 years of intellectual and practical community engagement through the Emory Initiative in Religious Practices and Practical Theology. Thanks to a grant from
Download PDF: Curtis and Zoltan, Practicing Re-Imagination While many of the articles in this issue address new directions in the academic study of religious practices, innovations and transformations of religious practices themselves are happening among practitioners all the time. To
Download PDF: RV Angulo, Vulnerability and Valour By: Jessica M. KeadyLondon: Bloomsbury T&T Clark, 2017. 240 pages. $120.00. Jessica Keady’s work sheds light on the complex and dynamic relationship between gender and impurity in the sectarian Dead Sea Scrolls communities.
Download PDF: RV Barber, Religion as a Social Determinant Edited By: Ellen Idler New York: Oxford University Press, 2014. 445 pages. $51.00 The edited volume, Religion as a Social Determinant of Health, is unique in that the editor, sociologist Ellen Idler,
The two issues on Worship, Ritual and Theory represent the first pass by this journal on ritual practices (particularly those labeled “worship”) as refracted through the methodological and theoretical lenses of multiple fields. Our first two articles, “What in God’s
Download PDF: RV Best A Living Tradition By David Pitt, Stefanos Alexopoulos, and Christian McConnell (editors) Collegeville: Liturgical Press, 2012. 272 pages. $29.95. In A Living Tradition, David Pitt, Stefanos Alexopoulos, and Christian McConnell have brought together a diverse group of
Download PDF: RV Sivakumar Things By Dick Houtman and Brigit Meyer (Editors) New York: Fordham University Press, 2012. 482 pages. $31.50 Recent volumes on materiality and material culture have outlined its genealogy through philosophical (particularly phenomenological) enquiry upon human perception and
Download PDF: RV Krone Religion Food and Eating Edited By Benjamin E. Zeller, Marie W. Dallam, Reid L. Neilson, & Nora L. Rubel New York: Columbia University Press 2014. 336 pages. $35.00. Food is inextricable from religion. Despite this fact, relatively
Download PDF: RV King Sensational Devotion By Jill Stevenson Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2013. 328 pages. $50.00. Reading Jill Stevenson’s rich descriptions of evangelical piety and performance in Sensational Devotion is not unlike having dinner for the first time with the