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The Church of the Dead: The Epidemic of 1576 and the Birth of Christianity in the Americas
My review of The Church of the Dead: The Epidemic of 1576 and the Birth of Christianity in the Americas by Jennifer Scheper Hughes is available here.... Read More
Latino and Muslim in America
My review of Harold D. Morales’s Latino and Muslim in America: Race, Religion, and the Making of a New Minority is available through this permanent link.... Read More
The Healing Power of the Santuario de Chimayó
My review of Brett Hendrickson’s The Healing Power of the Santuario de Chimayó: America’s Miraculous Church is available through this permanent link.... Read More
Where There’s Smoke, There’s Theory
For most modern American travelers, the idea of lighting up a cigarette on an airplane is a thing of the past – no more than a distant, flickering memory only reignited by characters like Don Draper... Read More
Our Lady of Everyday Life
My review of María Del Socorro Castañeda-Liles’s Our Lady of Everyday Life: La Virgen de Guadalupe and the Catholic Imagination of Mexican American Women in America is available through this... Read More
Another Journal Group
MA Students and faculty met the other day to discuss the article chosen for this meeting of our regular journal group – which just so happened to be an article Prof. Steven Ramey and I coauthored. T... Read More
Framing Mary
My review of the edited Volume Framing Mary: The Mother of God in Modern, Revolutionary, and Post-Soviet Russia can be accessed using this permanent link.... Read More
The Process as a Product
I am often haunted by the memory of the gazpacho I was served in a market just outside of Dallas-Fort Worth nearly a decade ago. I say haunted – even though I very much enjoyed the soup – ... Read More
