{"product_id":"american-examples-vol-2-new-conversations-about-religion-volume-2-paperback","title":"American Examples, Vol 2: New Conversations about Religion Volume 2 - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eSamah Choudhury\u003c\/b\u003e (Editor), \u003cb\u003eMichael J. Altman\u003c\/b\u003e (Editor), \u003cb\u003ePrea Persaud\u003c\/b\u003e (Editor)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eFresh new perspectives on the study of religion, ranging from SoulCycle to Mark Twain\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ci\u003eAmerican Examples: New Conversations about Religion, Volume Two\u003c\/i\u003e, is the second in a series of annual anthologies produced by the American Examples workshop hosted by the Department of Religious Studies at The University of Alabama. In the latest volume from this dynamic academic project, nine scholars with diverse topics and methodologies vividly reimagine the meaning of all three words in the phrase \"American religious history.\" The essays use case studies from America, broadly conceived, to ask trenchant theoretical questions that are of interest to scholars and students beyond the subfield of American religious history. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Cody Musselman uses a Weberian analysis to explore questions of identity, authority, and authenticity in the world of SoulCycle while Zachary T. Smith finds commonality between the rhetoric and practices of scholarship and mixed martial arts. Erik Kline provides a new perspective on the psychedelic mysticism of the 1960s, and Brook Wilensky-Lanford takes stock of the cultural power of parody in Mark Twain's last work of fiction. Christopher Cannon Jones examines the reciprocal relationship between religious texts and cultural contexts by comparing early Mormon missions to Hawai'i and Jamaica and Lindsey Jackson explores what debates over circumcision can tell us about gender stereotypes and motherhood. Dana Lloyd uses the 1988 Supreme Court decision in \u003ci\u003eLyng v. Northwest Indian Cemetery Protective Association \u003c\/i\u003eas a case study in order to consider how Indigenous religion and sovereignty have been understood and adjudicated in the American legal system. Matt Sheedy studies the identity categories of \"atheist\" and \"ex-Muslim\" and Brad Stoddard uses ethnographic fieldwork to evaluate the role of religious pluralism in regulating and policing correctional institutions. Editors Samah Choudhury and Prea Persaud provide an introduction that reconsiders the trajectory of the American Examples project in light of the siege on the US Capitol in January 2021 and the continuing COVID pandemic. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Visit americanexamples.ua.edu for more information on upcoming workshop dates and future projects. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003eCONTRIBUTORS\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cbr\u003e Michael J. Altman \/ Samah Choudhury \/ Lindsey Jackson \/ Christopher Cannon Jones \/ \/ Erik Kline \/ Dana Lloyd \/ Cody Musselman \/ Prea Persaud \/ Matt Sheedy \/ Zachary T. Smith \/ Brad Stoddard \/ Brook Wilensky-Lanford \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eSamah Choudhury\u003c\/b\u003e is assistant professor in the Department of Philosophy and Religion at Ithaca College. Her research surrounds American Muslim humor as it relates to formations of race and racialization, Muslim masculinities, and secularism in the United States. She holds a doctorate in Islamic studies from UNC Chapel Hill. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003ePrea Persaud\u003c\/b\u003e is lecturer in the Department of Religious Studies at the University of North Carolina Charlotte, where she teaches classes on Hinduism, religion in the Americas (inclusive of the Caribbean), and issues concerning race, identity, and postcolonialism. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003eMichael J. Altman\u003c\/b\u003e is director of the American Examples working group and associate professor of religious studies at the University of Alabama. He is the author of \u003ci\u003eHeathen, Hindoo, Hindu: American\u003c\/i\u003e\u003ci\u003eRepresentations of India, 1721-1893\u003c\/i\u003e. \u003cbr\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 298\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.94 x 8.98 x 5.91 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e December 06, 2022\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47333977063673,"sku":"9780817360658","price":48.53,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0789\/2782\/3097\/files\/N2xEZmM5UVR5L1BMRjhUMU1nQmNFUT09.webp?v=1769642425","url":"https:\/\/bookscloud.io\/products\/american-examples-vol-2-new-conversations-about-religion-volume-2-paperback","provider":"BooksCloud Book Dropshipping","version":"1.0","type":"link"}