Thursday, August 18, 2016

Buddhism cluster--Poceski, Knitter/Haight


  • Mario Poceski (ed.), The Wiley Blackwell Companion to East and Inner Asian Buddhism (Malden MA: Wiley Blackwell, 2014)
  • Paul Knitter and Roger Haight, Jesus and Buddha: Friends in Conversation (Maryknoll NY: Orbis Books, 2015)
  • (Not available--assigned for review 8/19/2016)

Wednesday, August 17, 2016

Psychology and Religion cluster--Callahan, Parsons


  • Sidney Callahan, Called to Happiness: Where Faith and Psychology Meet (Maryknoll NY: Orbis Books, 2011)
  • William B. Parsons, Freud and Augustine in Dialogue: Psychoanalysis, Mysticism, and the Culture of Modern Spirituality (Charlottesville VA: University of Virginia Press, 2013)

Theology/Biblical Studies cluster--Williams, Tull/Lapsley, Taylor/de Groot


  • Delores S. Williams, Sisters in the Wilderness: The Challenge of Womanist God-Talk, 20th anniversary ed. (Maryknoll NY: Orbis Books, 2013)
  • Patricia K. Tull and Jacqueline E. Lapsley (eds.), After Exegesis: Feminist Biblical Theology. Essays in Honor of Carol A. Newsom (Waco TX: Baylor University Press, 2015)
  • Marion Ann Taylor and Christiana de Groot (eds.), Women of War, Women of Woe: Joshua and Judges through the Eyes of Nineteenth-Century Female Biblical Interpreters (Grand Rapids MI: William B. Eerdmans, 2016)

Film and Religion cluster--Rindge, Siegler


  • Matthew S. Rindge, Profane Parables: Film and the American Dream (Waco TX: Baylor University Press, 2016)
  • Elijah Siegler (ed.), Coen: Framing Religion in Amoral Order (Waco TX: Baylor University Press, 2016)
  • (Not available--assigned for review)

Thursday, August 4, 2016

Theology cluster--Douglas, White


  • Kelly Brown Douglas, Stand Your Ground: Black Bodies and the Justice of God (Maryknoll NY: Orbis Books, 2015)
  • Carol Wayne White, Black Lives and Sacred Humanity: Toward an African American Religious Naturalism (New York: Fordham University Press, 2016)
  • (not available--assigned for review 8-8-2016)

Baptist Studies cluster--Culpepper, Fisher/Lemons/Mason-Brown, Pratt


  • Scott Culpepper, Francis Johnson and the English Separatist Influence (Macon GA: Mercer University Press, 2011)
  • Linford D. Fisher, J. Stanley Lemons, and Lucas Mason-Brown, Decoding Roger Williams: The Lost Essay of Rhode Island's Founding Father (Waco TX: Baylor University Press, 2014)
  • J. Kristian Pratt, The Father of Modern Landmarkism: The Life of Ben M. Bogard (Macon GA: Mercer University Press, 2013)

NT Studies cluster--Kuhn, Spencer, Green


  • Karl Allen Kuhn, The Kingdom According to Luke and Acts: A Social, Literary, and Theological Introduction (Grand Rapids MI: Baker Academic, 2015)
  • F. Scott Spencer, Salty Wives, Spirited Mothers, and Savvy Widows: Capable Women of Purpose and Persistence in Luke's Gospel (Grand Rapids MI: William B. Eerdmans, 2012)
  • Joel B. Green, Conversion in Luke-Acts: Divine Action, Human Cognition, and the People of God (Grand Rapids MI: William B. Eerdmans, 2015)

Philosophy of Religion cluster--Martens/Evans, Connell, Powell, Colton


  • Paul Martens and C. Stephen Evans (eds.), Kierkegaard and Christian Faith (Waco TX: Baylor University Press, 2016)
  • George B. Connell, Kierkegaard and the Paradox of Religious Diversity (Kierkegaard as a Christian Thinker; Grand Rapids MI: William B. Eerdmans, 2016)
  • Lisa D. Powell, Inconclusive Theologies: Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz, Kierkegaard, and Theological Discourse (Macon GA: Mercer University Press, 2014)
  • Randall G. Colton, Repetition and the Fullness of Time: Gift, Task, and Narrative in Kierkegaard's Upbuilding Ethics (Macon GA: Mercer University Press, 2013)
  • (not available--assigned for review 8-9-2016)

Christianity and Culture/Psychology of Religion cluster--Maltby, Mercer


  • Paul Maltby, Christian Fundamentalism and the Culture of Disenchantment (Charlottesville VA: University of Virginia Press, 2013)
  • Calvin Mercer, Slaves to Faith: A Therapist Looks Inside the Fundamentalist Mind (Westport CT: Praeger, 2009)

Theology cluster--Min, Pui-Lan/González-Andrieu/Hopkins


  • Anselm K. Min (ed.), The Task of Theology: Leading Theologians on the Most Compelling Questions for Today (Maryknoll NY: Orbis Books, 2014)
  • Kwok Pui-Lan, Cecilia González-Andrieu, and Dwight N. Hopkins (eds.), Teaching Global Theologies: Power & Praxis (Waco TX: Baylor University Press, 2015)
  • (Not available--cluster assigned for review 8-5-2016)