RPUC Reading List in Religion, Law, and Student Life

RPUC members have collectively read the following sources

Ammerman, Nancy. 2013. “Spiritual but not Religious? Beyond Binary Choices in the Study of Religion,” Journal for the Scientific Study

of Religion, Vol. 52, No. 2 (June): 258-278.

Ammerman, Nancy. 2013. Sacred Stories, Spiritual Tribes: Finding Religion in Everyday Life. New York: Oxford University Press.

Beliso-De Jesús, Aisha M. 2018. “Confounded Identities: A Meditation on Race, Feminism, and Religious Studies in Times of White
Supremacy.” Journal of the American Academy of Religion. Vol. 86, no. 1 (June): 307-340.

Brown, Candy Gunther. 2019. Debating Yoga and Mindfulness in Public Schools. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press.

Karapanagiotis, Nicole. 2017. “(Inadvertently) Instructing Missionaries in (Public University) World Religions Courses: Examining a Pedagogical Dilemma, its Dimensions, and a Course Section Solution.” Teaching Theology and Religion. Vol. 20, no. 1. 46-65.

Kunzman, Robert. 2015. “Talking with Students who already know the Answer: Navigating Ethical Certainty in Democratic Dialogue.” In

Religion in the Classroom: Dilemmas for Democratic Education. Edited by Jennifer Hauver James and Keith C. Barton. 79-89.

New York: Routledge.

Pickell, Travis. 2019. “Gentle Space-Making: Christian Silent Prayer, Mindfulness, and Kenotic Identity Formation.” Studies in Christian Ethics 32, no. 1. 66-77.

Schmalzbauer, John and Kathleen A. Mahoney. 2018. The Resilience of Religion in American Higher Education. Waco, TX: Baylor

University Press.

Schneider, Rachel C. and Sophie Bjork-James. 2020. “Wither Whiteness and Religion?” Implications for Theology and the Study of
Religion” Journal of the American Academy of Religion.

Smith, Brian H. 2013. “Teaching the Devout Student: Faith and Scholarship in the Classroom.” Teaching Theology and Religion Vol. 16, no. 2. 132-149.

Stewart, Dafina Lazarus, Michael M. Kocet, and Sharon Lobdell. 2001. “The Multifaith Campus: Transforming Colleges and Universities for Spiritual Engagement” About Campus (March-April): 11-18.

Sullivan, Winnifred Fallers. The Impossibility of Religious Freedom. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2018 [2005].

Thiranagama, Sharika. 2018 “Introduction: Whose Civility?” Anthropological Theory. Vol 18. 153-177.

Wilcox, Melissa. 2009. “Chapter 1.”Queer Women and Religious Individualism. Bloomington: Indiana University Press.

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