Edward Curtis, a professor of religious studies at Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis, is editor of the forthcoming The Practice of Islam in America: An Introduction (NYU Press).
Eric Kurlander is professor of history at Stetson University. His previous books include The Price of Exclusion: Ethnicity, National Identity, and the Decline of German Liberalism, 1989–1933 and…
Jason Ā. Josephson-Storm is Chair & Associate Professor of Religion at Williams College. Josephson-Storm received his Ph.D. from Stanford University and has held visiting positions at Princeton…
Michelle Lelwica is Professor of Religion at Concordia College in Moorhead, Minnesota, where she teaches courses on the intersection of religion, gender, culture, and the body. She did her graduate…
H. G. Cocks is Associate Professor of History at Nottingham University, UK. He is the author of Nameless Offences: Homosexual Desire in 19th Century England (Tauris, 2009); The Modern History of…
Antony Alumkal is Associate Professor of Sociology of Religion at the Iliff School of Theology in Denver, Colorado. He is the author of Asian American Evangelical Churches: Race, Ethnicity, and…
A new book of essays on the meaning of Avatar, is a down-in-the-dirt wrestling match between those who resonate with it and those who hate a film that’s been labeled pro-civilization and anti-civilization, pro-science and anti-science, un-American and too American, feminist and misogynistic, leftist and neoconservative, and pagan, atheistic, theistic, and animistic.
What inspired you to write The Future of the Arab Spring? The Arab revolutions, which began in December 2010, were my most obvious inspiration. As someone who had worked on and long been obsessed with…