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April 21, 2025
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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.
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The AAR Podcast
Listen to interviews with our Book Award winners as well as select recordings from past Annual Meetings.
RSN Podcast
Stories of Sickness and Disability at the Juncture of Worlds with Mary Dunn
Mary Dunn — professor of Modern Christianity in the department of theological studies at Saint Louis University, director of the Center for Research on Global Catholicism, and winner of the 2023 AAR Book Award for Excellence in the Study of Religion: Historical Studies — discusses her book Where Paralytics Walk and the Blind See with Kristian Petersen.
RSN Podcast
American Secularism and Its Believers with Charles McCrary
Charles McCrary, assistant professor of religious studies at Eckerd College and winner of the 2023 Book Award in Analytical-Descriptive Studies from the American Academy of Religion, discusses his book Sincerely Held: American Secularism and Its Believers.
RSN Podcast
The Role of Western Universities in the Education of Scholars of Islam
Megan Brankley Abbas talks about her award-winning book Whose Islam?: The Western University and Modern Islamic Thought in Indonesia which discusses the question of authority in Islamic studies, both religious and academic.