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The Roots of Reproductive Injustice: A conversation with Elizabeth O'Brien

The Sovereignty of Hope: Scholarship, Precarity, and the Future of Academic Freedom

The Role of Religion in Today's Democratic Crises

Androgynes and Eunuchs in Rabbinic Literature with Max K. Strassfeld

The RSN Podcast: In Conversation with AAR Book Award Winner Karen V. Guth

The RSN Podcast: In Conversation with AAR Book Award Winner William Robert

The RSN Podcast: In Conversation with William Calvo-Quirós

The RSN Podcast: In Conversation with AAR Book Award Winner Mary Dunn

American Secularism and Its Believers with Charles McCrary

The Role of Western Universities in Modern Islamic Thought with Megan Brankley Abbas

A Comparative Study of the Cántico Espiritual and the Rāsa Līlā with Gloria Maité Hernández

Religious Cultures of Enslaved Women in the Lower South with Alexis Wells-Oghoghomeh

Metamodernism and the Future of Theory with Jason Ānanda Josephson Storm

Art as Embodied Experience with Kathryn R. Barush

2023 AAR Presidential Address - Amir Hussain

Buddhist Chaplaincy in Japan with Adam Lyons

Rape, Sexual Violence, and the Hebrew Bible with Rhiannon Graybill

AAR 2022 Presidential Address - Mayra Rivera

AAR Presidents Address - Mayra Rivera

Women, Prayer, and Poetry in Iran with Niloofar Haeri

Building on Jonathan Z. Smith's Study of Religion with Sam Gill

Artistic Devotion of Buddhist Women in Late Imperial China

The Death of Children in Late Antiquity with Maria E. Doerfler

Aztec Religion and Art of Writing with Isabel Laack

Christianity and the New Spirit of Capitalism with Kathryn Tanner

AAR 2021 Presidential Address - Marla Frederick

Competing Constructions of Religious Freedom in Allied-Occupied Japan

State and Religious Rituals of Religion and State among the Buryat People

The Little Ice Age and Devotional Practices in the Transforming Landscape of Northern India

A Counternarrative of Buddhism in Modern History with Matthew W. King

Caretaking and Childrearing in Modern Jewish Theology with Mara Benjamin

The Flying House of Loreto and the Growth of Catholicism with Karin Vélez

The Invention of Race in the European Middle Ages with Geraldine Heng

"The Fetish Revisited" with J. Lorand Matory

Jessica Vantine Birkenholtz on the Nepalese Hindu Goddess Svasthani

Religious Studies and the 2020 Election: Tips for Sharing Scholarship with the Public

AAR 2019 - Making a Match: Finding the Right Publisher for Your Work

AAR 2019 - The Art of Writing AAR Proposals

2019 Martin E. Marty Award for the Public Understanding of Religion Forum: Wade Clark Roof

AAR 2019 - The 50th Anniversary of Black Theology and Black Power: Looking Back, Moving Forward

AAR 2019 - Conversation with Kate Bowler & Laurie Patton on Becoming a Public Intellectual

2019 AAR Presidential Address by Laurie Patton - “And Are We Not of Interest to Each Other?”

AAR 2019 - Women and Publishing

AAR 2019 - Book Panel: "Who Owns Religion?" by Laurie Louise Patton

AAR 2019 - Death to the Term Paper! Building Better Assignments and Assessments

2019 AAR Award-Winning Religion Journalists: What We Covered in 2018 and What's Next

AAR 2019 - How to Get Published in Religious Studies Journals

AAR 2019 - Aurora, a New E-Learning Platform: An Information Session with Co-Creator, Maren Wood

AAR 2019 - Career Services for Non-Academic Careers

AAR 2019 - Considering Careers and Success outside of Academy: A Book Discussion with Kelly J. Baker

AAR 2019 - Presenting at the AAR/SBL Annual Conference Made Easy

AAR 2019 - Housing, Health, and Equity: Government as a Site for Intersectional Justice

AAR 2019 - Preparing Scholars of Religion for Non-Academic Careers: What’s a Faculty Member to Do?

The Aural Experience of the Hagia Sophia with AAR Book Award Winner Bissera Pentcheva

Religion in the Life and Work of Langston Hughes: A Conversation with Wallace Best

Modernity's Commitment to Reality with Nancy Levene, 2018 AAR Book Award Winner

Conversion in America: A conversation with Lincoln Mullen

Career Services for Nonacademic Careers (2019)

Contingency Possibilities: Career Options within and beyond the Academy

Beyond the Ivory Tower: Putting Religion Expertise to Work outside the Academy

Preparing Scholars of Religion for Nonacademic Careers: What’s a Faculty Member to Do? (2019)

Seeing the Myth in Human Rights with author Jenna Reinbold

Considering the Sudanese Islamic State with Noah Salomon

Faculty Members on Preparing Scholars of Religion for Non-academic Careers

Populism through the Lens of Religion and Race

Protecting the Vulnerable on Campus - Academic Labor, LGBTIQ Persons, and Grad Students

2017 Plenary Address: Deval Patrick

2017 Marty Forum: Winnifred Fallers Sullivan

Recolonizing the Academy Under a Trump Presidency

Another Plan “A”: Religious Studies and Careers Beyond the Academy

Lena Salaymeh on Critiques and New Directions in Studying Islamic Legal Traditions

Inside the State Department: Scholars Reflect on Working for the Government

2017 Annual Meeting Plenary: Linda Sarsour

Reformation and Reformations

Religion on Television: Production, Positives and Perils/Pitfalls

Career Services for Nonacademic Careers

Existentialism, Authenticity, and Asceticism with Noreen Khawaja

2017 AAR Presidential Address - Eddie Glaude: Religion and the Most Vulnerable

"Goddess and God in the World": An Embodied Theological Conversation

Black Liberation Theologies of Disability

Writing Religion Online: Scholars and Journalists in Conversation (SBLAAR16)

Religious Difference in a Secular Age: A Minority Report Roundtable Discussion

2016 Plenary Address: Michelle Alexander with Kelly Brown Douglas

Religion, Immigration, and Politics: North American and European Perspectives

Fatemeh Keshavarz: Unsilencing the Sacred – Poetic Conversations with the Divine

Reclaiming the Radical Revolutionary: Celebrating Obery Hendricks' "The Politics of Jesus"

2016 Presidential Address: Serene Jones on Revolutionary Love

Father J. Bryan Hehir: 2016 Martin E. Marty Award for the Public Understanding of Religion Forum

Preparing Scholars for Nonacademic Careers: What's a Faculty Member to Do?

Preparing for a Nonacademic Career: What's a Scholar to Do?

Revolutions of Love: The Politics and Flesh of Religion

Bhrigupati Singh on Questions of Secularity, Religion, and Quality of Life in Rural India

2016 AM: Cornel West's Neglected Contribution to the Pragmatist Canon

AM 2016 Plenary Address: Julián Castro

AM 2016: Love and Hate in American Religion

AM 2016: What’s Love Got to Do with It? Critical Appraisals of Love as a Civic Value

AAR AM: Roundtable on Religion, Race, and the 2016 Elections

Christians and Zoroastrians in Ancient Iran – Richard E. Payne

Francis J. Beckwith on Reason, Faith, and Beliefmaking

How Repentance Became Biblical: An Interview with David Lambert

Christianity in the Kingdom of Kongo: An Interview with Cécile Fromont

Mood, Emotion, and Affect in Hindu and Christian Theologies

Honoring Karen McCarthy Brown

Ziba Mir-Hosseini with Diana Eck on Islamic Law, Gender, and Women's Rights (2015 Marty Award Forum)

Razi's Impact on the Islamic Tradition: A Conversation with Tariq Jaffer

Media Representations Of ISIS - ISIL

Religious Liberty, The Supreme Court, RFRA, And RLUIPA

Chaplaincy, Secular Space, and the US Constitution: A Conversation with Winnifred Fallers Sullivan

Tillich's Theological Legacies

Ebola, Africa, And Beyond: An Epidemic in Religious and Public Health Perspectives

The Value of Religious Studies in an Age of Budget Cuts

Morality Without Religion: Empathy, Fairness, and Prosocial Primates

Anya Bernstein, Religious Bodies Politic: Rituals of Sovereignty in Buryat Buddhism

The Study of Religion and Responses to Terrorism: Paris, Beirut, and Beyond

Valuing the Study of Religion: Thomas A. Tweed 2015 AAR Presidential Address

“Normativity” and the Academic Study of Religion: Theology v. Religious Studies

Racial Injustice and Religious Response from Selma to Ferguson (2015 AAR Plenary Panel)

Leela Prasad, Moved by Gandhi -- A Documentary Film

Mark Rowe, Female Priests in Japanese Temple Buddhism

Brian Pennington, Natural Disaster and Divine Agency: Hindu Theodicies of Climate Change

SherAli Tareen, Islam, Tradition, and Democracy: The Case of the Deoband Madrasa

Judith Butler's Parting Ways (Columbia University Press, 2012)

Plenary Panel: Public Understanding of Religion and Issues of Religious Pluralism: Plenary Panel

What Americans Want from Immigration Reform: Insights from the PRRI/Brookings Religion Survey

Special Topics Forum: Remembering Robert N. Bellah (1927-2013)

Marty Forum: Wendell Berry

Presidential Address: John Esposito

Plenary: A Lifetime of Learning: An Interview with Diana Eck

Plenary Panel: Pope Francis and the State of Global Catholicism

Querying Natural Religion: Immanence, Gaia, and the Parliament of Lively Things

Plenary: Karen Armstrong: The Science of Compassion

Andrew Quintman, The Yogin and the Madman: Reading the Biographical Corpus of Tibet's Saint Milarepa

Kyle Harper, From Shame to Sin: The Christian Transformation of Sexual Morality in Late Antiquity

Anna Sun, Confucianism as a World Religion: Contested Histories and Contemporary Realities

Willis Jenkins, The Future of Ethics: Sustainability, Social Justice, and Religious Creativity