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November 11, 2025
Mentoring Graduate Students, Reimagined
From a series by AAR’s Graduate Student Committee on the struggles and obstacles facing graduate students today
RSN Articles
RSN Article
November 11, 2025
Recognizing and Supporting Diversity in Graduate Programs
From a series by AAR’s Graduate Student Committee on the struggles and obstacles facing graduate students today
AAR Publications
The Journal of the American Academy of Religion is generally considered to be the top academic journal in the field of religious studies. This international quarterly journal publishes top scholarly articles that cover the full range of world religious traditions together with provocative studies of the methodologies by which these traditions are explored. Each issue also contains a large and valuable book review section.
Reading Religion, our openly accessible book review website, provides up-to-date coverage of scholarly publishing in religious studies, reviewed by scholars with special interest and/or expertise in the relevant subfields. Reviews are concise, comprehensive, and timely.
Religious Studies News (RSN), our online magazine, is a platform for students and professionals involved in the teaching and scholarship of religion. RSN communicates important events of the field and examines critical issues in education, pedagogy, research, publishing, and the public understanding of religion.
Our publishing program with Oxford University Press (OUP) produces quality scholarship, including many titles that have become essential tools in the development of the field and in the training of new scholars.
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The AAR Podcast
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Androgynes and Eunuchs in Rabbinic Literature with Max K. Strassfeld
Max K. Strassfeld, associate professor of religion at the University of Southern California and winner of the 2023 AAR Book Award for Excellence in the Study of Religion: Textual Studies, speaks to Kristian Petersen about their book, Trans Talmud: Androgynes and Eunuchs in Rabbinic Literature (University of California Press, 2023).
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The Ethics of Tainted Legacies with Karen V. Guth
Karen V. Guth, associate professor of religious studies at the College of the Holy Cross and winner of the 2023 AAR Book Award for Excellence in the Study of Religion: Constructive-Reflective Studies, speaks to Kristian Petersen about her book, The Ethics of Tainted Legacies: Human Flourishing after Traumatic Pasts (Cambridge University Press, 2022).
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Studying Religion in Performance with William Robert
William Robert, professor of religion at Syracuse University and winner of the 2023 AAR Book Award in Religion and the Arts, speaks to Kristian Petersen about his book, Unbridled: Studying Religion in Performance (The University of Chicago Press, 2022).
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