This page details the articles, essays, and reviews I have published. Click on the publication name for an abstract, access to the article, or link to the publisher. If you are unable to access the article, please email me for a copy of any published work. I've been pleased to discuss my research with media outlets whenever asked, including interviews with: The Louisville Courier-Journal, The Toronto Star, Curbed, The Walrus, The Huffington Post, The Chronicle of Higher Education, Texas Monthly, The Texas Observer, and Al Jazeera America.
Articles & Essays:
2018 Flower, Soil, Water, Stone: Biblical landscape items and Protestant materiality. Journal of Material Culture (Online, June)
2018 Anthropology, Theology, Critique. Critical Research on Religion 6(1): 28-34.
2018 Immersion as shared imperative: entertainment of/in digital scholarship. Religion (Online first, March).
2018 Providence and Publicity in Waiting for a Creationist Theme Park. In Ethnographies of Waiting: Doubt, Hope, and
Uncertainty. Manpreet K. Janeja and Andreas Bandak, eds. 139-162. London: Bloomsbury.
2017 Performing the Bible. In The Oxford Handbook of the Bible in America. Paul Gutjahr, ed. 484-503. New York and Oxford:
Oxford University Press.
2017 Biblical Gardens and the Sensuality of Religious Pedagogy. Material Religion (Online First)
2017 The Question of Cultural Change in the Social Scientific Study of Religion: Notes from the Emerging Church. Journal for
the Scientific Study of Religion 56(1): 19-25.
2017 The Plausibility of Immersion: Limits and Creativity in Materializing the Bible. In Christianity and the Limits of
Materiality. Minna Oppas and Anna Haapalainen, eds. 122-140. London: Bloomsbury.
2017 Literalism as Creativity: Making a Creationist Theme Park, Reassessing a Scriptural Ideology. In The Bible in American
Life. Philip Goff, Arthur E. Farnsley II, and Peter J. Theusen, eds. 292-304. Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press.
2017 Replication as Religious Practice, Temporality as Religious Problem. History & Anthropology 28(2): 131-148.
2016 The Ancient-Future Time-Crystal: On the Temporality of Emerging Christianity. In Crossing Boundaries, Redefining Faith:
Interdisciplinary Perspectives on the Emerging Church Movement. Michael Clawson and April Stace, eds. 71-91. Eugene, OR: Wipf and Stock Publishers. (co-authored with Jon Bialecki)
2016 What Difference Can It Make? The Cambridge Journal of Anthropology 34(2): 145-47.
2016 Creationist History-Making: Producing a Heterodox Past. In Lost City, Found Pyramid: Understanding Alternative
Archaeologies and Pseudoscientific Practices. Edited by Jeb J. Card and David S. Anderson, 81-101. Tuscaloosa: University
of Alabama press.
2016 Materializing the Bible: Ethnographic methods for the consumption process. Practical Matters 9: 1-17.
2015 Replicating the Holy Land in the U.S. (a 'materializing the Bible' road trip). Material Religions December.
2015 Secular Studies Come of Age. Thesis 11 129(1): 119-130.
2015 Literally Creative: Intertextual Gaps and Artistic Agency. In Scripturalizing the Human: The Written as the Political.
Edited by Vincent L. Wimbush, 20-34. New York: Routledge.
2014 Act Like Men: Social Engagement and Evangelical Masculinity. Journal of Contemporary Religion 29(2): 233-248.
2014 “FORMED”: Emerging evangelicals navigate two transformations. In The New Evangelical Social Engagement. Edited by
Brian Steensland and Philip Goff, 31-49. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
2014 Making a Biblical Theme Park. The Immanent Frame August.
2014 When Prayers Become Things. The Materiality of Prayer Blog May.
2013 Reflections on Summer Reading respondent. The Immanent Frame September.
2013 Missionization. Oxford Bibliographies in “Anthropology”. Ed. John Jackson. New York: Oxford University Press, June.
2013 Walking Prayer. The Materiality of Prayer Blog June.
2013 Conference Dispatch: 2013 Society for the Anthropology of Religion. AnthroCyBib April.
2013 Does Fragmentation = Change? The Immanent Frame exchange on “The new evangelicals,” January.
2013 Urban Christianities: place-making in late modernity. Religion (Special Issue: Urban Christianities) 43(3): 301-311.
2013 Promises of Place: a future of comparative U.S. ethnography. North American Dialogue. 16(1): 1-11.
2013 Writing Religion. In Missionary Impositions: conversion, resistance, and other challenges to objectivity in religious
ethnography. Hillary K. Crane and Deana Weibel, eds. Lanham, MD: Lexington Books, 1-10.
2013 Doing Religious Studies Dialogically. Practical Matters Issue 6.
2012 Belief, Deconversion, and Authenticity among U.S. Emerging Evangelicals. Ethos (Special Issue: The Dynamics of Belief
and Experience) 40(3): 258-276.
2012 Religion Matters: reflections from an AAA teaching workshop. Religion and Society: Advances in Research 3: 203-208.
2012 Comment on “A Hyper-Real God and Modern Belief: toward an anthropological theory of mind.” Current Anthropology
53(4): 384-385.
2012 Religion-Secular, Tangled Divisions. The Revealer September.
2011 Global Christianities. Sociology of Religion 72(2): 246-249.
2011 City of Man, City of God: the re-urbanization of American Evangelicals. City & Society 23(s1): 1-22.
2011 “How much of this is promise?” God as Sincere Speaker in Evangelical Bible reading. Anthropological Quarterly (Special
Issue: Beyond Logos: Extensions of the Language Ideology Paradigm in the Study of Christianity(-ies)) 84(3): 611-634.
2011 Purity, Danger, and Redemption: notes on urban “missional” Evangelicals. American Ethnologist 38(2): 267-280.
2011 Why Some Theories Work and Others Do Not: Analyzing Discourse in the First Bush-Kerry Debate (or, Why George Bush
Is Incredibly Articulate…For Real). In The Joy of Language: Proceedings of a symposium honoring the colleagues of David
Dwyer on the occasion of his retirement. David Dwyer, ed. Pp. 7-1—7-10.
2009 The “Emerging Church” in America: notes on the interaction of Christianities. Religion 39: 219-232.
2009 Encountering Biblicism. In The Social Life of Scriptures: cross-cultural perspectives on Biblicism. James S. Bielo, ed., 1-9.
New Brunswick: Rutgers University Press.
2009 Textual Ideology, Textual Practice: Evangelical Bible Reading in Group Study. In The Social Life of Scriptures: cross-
cultural perspectives on Biblicism. James S. Bielo, ed., 157-175. New Brunswick: Rutgers University Press.
2008 Cultivating Intimacy: interactive frames for Evangelical Bible study. Fieldwork in Religion 3(1): 52-70.
2008 On the Failure of “Meaning”: Bible reading in the anthropology of Christianity. Culture and Religion 9(1): 1-21.
2007 “The Mind of Christ”: financial success, born-again personhood, and the anthropology of Christianity. Ethnos
72(3): 315-338.
2007 Recontextualizing the Bible in Small Group Discourse. SALSA XIV: Texas Linguistic Forum Vol. 50. Austin: Texas
Linguistics Forum.
2004 “Walking in the Spirit of Blood”: moral identity among born-again Christians. Ethnology 43(3): 271-289.
2003 Social Solidarity: how the Arsenal changed the social world of the surrounding region. In The Radford Arsenal: Impacts
and Cultural Change in an Appalachian Region. Mary B. LaLone, et al., eds., 95-108. Radford, VA: Brightside Press.
Book Reviews:
2016 A Companion to the Anthropology of Religion. Social Anthropology 24(1): 103-06.
2016 Shades of White Flight: Evangelical Congregations and Urban Departure. Marginalia Review of Books January.
2015 The Slain God: Anthropologists and the Christian Faith. Journal of Anthropological Research 71: 597-98.
2015 Hittin' the Prayer Bones: Materiality of Spirit in the Pentecostal South. AnthroCyBib November.
2014 The Secular Spectacle: Performing Religion in a Southern Town. Religion and Society: Advances in Research 5
2014 Ecologies of Faith in New York City: The Evolution of Religious Institutions. Critical Research on Religion 2: 322-323.
2014 God's Agents: Biblical Publicity in Contemporary England. American Ethnologist 41(3): 602-604.
2013 Churches and Charity in the Immigrant City: Religion, Immigration, and Civic Engagement in Miami. The Journal of Latin
American & Caribbean Anthropology 18(3): 531-533
2013 Sacred Subdivisions: The Postsuburban Transformation of American Evangelicalism. Anthropological Quarterly
86(4): 1153-1158.
2013 The Color of Sound: Race, Religion, and Music in Brazil. AnthroCyBib May.
2012 A Faith Between. Moral Ambition: Mobilization and Social Outreach in Evangelical Megachurches. Current Anthropology
53(3): 362-364.
2010 Native Christians: Modes and Effects of Christianity among Indigenous Peoples of the Americas. Religion and Society:
Advances in Research 1: 222-224.
2010 City of God: Christian Citizenship in Postwar Guatemala. Anthropology News December: 45. (co-author, Eric Hoenes
del Pinal)
Articles & Essays:
2018 Flower, Soil, Water, Stone: Biblical landscape items and Protestant materiality. Journal of Material Culture (Online, June)
2018 Anthropology, Theology, Critique. Critical Research on Religion 6(1): 28-34.
2018 Immersion as shared imperative: entertainment of/in digital scholarship. Religion (Online first, March).
2018 Providence and Publicity in Waiting for a Creationist Theme Park. In Ethnographies of Waiting: Doubt, Hope, and
Uncertainty. Manpreet K. Janeja and Andreas Bandak, eds. 139-162. London: Bloomsbury.
2017 Performing the Bible. In The Oxford Handbook of the Bible in America. Paul Gutjahr, ed. 484-503. New York and Oxford:
Oxford University Press.
2017 Biblical Gardens and the Sensuality of Religious Pedagogy. Material Religion (Online First)
2017 The Question of Cultural Change in the Social Scientific Study of Religion: Notes from the Emerging Church. Journal for
the Scientific Study of Religion 56(1): 19-25.
2017 The Plausibility of Immersion: Limits and Creativity in Materializing the Bible. In Christianity and the Limits of
Materiality. Minna Oppas and Anna Haapalainen, eds. 122-140. London: Bloomsbury.
2017 Literalism as Creativity: Making a Creationist Theme Park, Reassessing a Scriptural Ideology. In The Bible in American
Life. Philip Goff, Arthur E. Farnsley II, and Peter J. Theusen, eds. 292-304. Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press.
2017 Replication as Religious Practice, Temporality as Religious Problem. History & Anthropology 28(2): 131-148.
2016 The Ancient-Future Time-Crystal: On the Temporality of Emerging Christianity. In Crossing Boundaries, Redefining Faith:
Interdisciplinary Perspectives on the Emerging Church Movement. Michael Clawson and April Stace, eds. 71-91. Eugene, OR: Wipf and Stock Publishers. (co-authored with Jon Bialecki)
2016 What Difference Can It Make? The Cambridge Journal of Anthropology 34(2): 145-47.
2016 Creationist History-Making: Producing a Heterodox Past. In Lost City, Found Pyramid: Understanding Alternative
Archaeologies and Pseudoscientific Practices. Edited by Jeb J. Card and David S. Anderson, 81-101. Tuscaloosa: University
of Alabama press.
2016 Materializing the Bible: Ethnographic methods for the consumption process. Practical Matters 9: 1-17.
2015 Replicating the Holy Land in the U.S. (a 'materializing the Bible' road trip). Material Religions December.
2015 Secular Studies Come of Age. Thesis 11 129(1): 119-130.
2015 Literally Creative: Intertextual Gaps and Artistic Agency. In Scripturalizing the Human: The Written as the Political.
Edited by Vincent L. Wimbush, 20-34. New York: Routledge.
2014 Act Like Men: Social Engagement and Evangelical Masculinity. Journal of Contemporary Religion 29(2): 233-248.
2014 “FORMED”: Emerging evangelicals navigate two transformations. In The New Evangelical Social Engagement. Edited by
Brian Steensland and Philip Goff, 31-49. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
2014 Making a Biblical Theme Park. The Immanent Frame August.
2014 When Prayers Become Things. The Materiality of Prayer Blog May.
2013 Reflections on Summer Reading respondent. The Immanent Frame September.
2013 Missionization. Oxford Bibliographies in “Anthropology”. Ed. John Jackson. New York: Oxford University Press, June.
2013 Walking Prayer. The Materiality of Prayer Blog June.
2013 Conference Dispatch: 2013 Society for the Anthropology of Religion. AnthroCyBib April.
2013 Does Fragmentation = Change? The Immanent Frame exchange on “The new evangelicals,” January.
2013 Urban Christianities: place-making in late modernity. Religion (Special Issue: Urban Christianities) 43(3): 301-311.
2013 Promises of Place: a future of comparative U.S. ethnography. North American Dialogue. 16(1): 1-11.
2013 Writing Religion. In Missionary Impositions: conversion, resistance, and other challenges to objectivity in religious
ethnography. Hillary K. Crane and Deana Weibel, eds. Lanham, MD: Lexington Books, 1-10.
2013 Doing Religious Studies Dialogically. Practical Matters Issue 6.
2012 Belief, Deconversion, and Authenticity among U.S. Emerging Evangelicals. Ethos (Special Issue: The Dynamics of Belief
and Experience) 40(3): 258-276.
2012 Religion Matters: reflections from an AAA teaching workshop. Religion and Society: Advances in Research 3: 203-208.
2012 Comment on “A Hyper-Real God and Modern Belief: toward an anthropological theory of mind.” Current Anthropology
53(4): 384-385.
2012 Religion-Secular, Tangled Divisions. The Revealer September.
2011 Global Christianities. Sociology of Religion 72(2): 246-249.
2011 City of Man, City of God: the re-urbanization of American Evangelicals. City & Society 23(s1): 1-22.
2011 “How much of this is promise?” God as Sincere Speaker in Evangelical Bible reading. Anthropological Quarterly (Special
Issue: Beyond Logos: Extensions of the Language Ideology Paradigm in the Study of Christianity(-ies)) 84(3): 611-634.
2011 Purity, Danger, and Redemption: notes on urban “missional” Evangelicals. American Ethnologist 38(2): 267-280.
2011 Why Some Theories Work and Others Do Not: Analyzing Discourse in the First Bush-Kerry Debate (or, Why George Bush
Is Incredibly Articulate…For Real). In The Joy of Language: Proceedings of a symposium honoring the colleagues of David
Dwyer on the occasion of his retirement. David Dwyer, ed. Pp. 7-1—7-10.
2009 The “Emerging Church” in America: notes on the interaction of Christianities. Religion 39: 219-232.
2009 Encountering Biblicism. In The Social Life of Scriptures: cross-cultural perspectives on Biblicism. James S. Bielo, ed., 1-9.
New Brunswick: Rutgers University Press.
2009 Textual Ideology, Textual Practice: Evangelical Bible Reading in Group Study. In The Social Life of Scriptures: cross-
cultural perspectives on Biblicism. James S. Bielo, ed., 157-175. New Brunswick: Rutgers University Press.
2008 Cultivating Intimacy: interactive frames for Evangelical Bible study. Fieldwork in Religion 3(1): 52-70.
2008 On the Failure of “Meaning”: Bible reading in the anthropology of Christianity. Culture and Religion 9(1): 1-21.
2007 “The Mind of Christ”: financial success, born-again personhood, and the anthropology of Christianity. Ethnos
72(3): 315-338.
2007 Recontextualizing the Bible in Small Group Discourse. SALSA XIV: Texas Linguistic Forum Vol. 50. Austin: Texas
Linguistics Forum.
2004 “Walking in the Spirit of Blood”: moral identity among born-again Christians. Ethnology 43(3): 271-289.
2003 Social Solidarity: how the Arsenal changed the social world of the surrounding region. In The Radford Arsenal: Impacts
and Cultural Change in an Appalachian Region. Mary B. LaLone, et al., eds., 95-108. Radford, VA: Brightside Press.
Book Reviews:
2016 A Companion to the Anthropology of Religion. Social Anthropology 24(1): 103-06.
2016 Shades of White Flight: Evangelical Congregations and Urban Departure. Marginalia Review of Books January.
2015 The Slain God: Anthropologists and the Christian Faith. Journal of Anthropological Research 71: 597-98.
2015 Hittin' the Prayer Bones: Materiality of Spirit in the Pentecostal South. AnthroCyBib November.
2014 The Secular Spectacle: Performing Religion in a Southern Town. Religion and Society: Advances in Research 5
2014 Ecologies of Faith in New York City: The Evolution of Religious Institutions. Critical Research on Religion 2: 322-323.
2014 God's Agents: Biblical Publicity in Contemporary England. American Ethnologist 41(3): 602-604.
2013 Churches and Charity in the Immigrant City: Religion, Immigration, and Civic Engagement in Miami. The Journal of Latin
American & Caribbean Anthropology 18(3): 531-533
2013 Sacred Subdivisions: The Postsuburban Transformation of American Evangelicalism. Anthropological Quarterly
86(4): 1153-1158.
2013 The Color of Sound: Race, Religion, and Music in Brazil. AnthroCyBib May.
2012 A Faith Between. Moral Ambition: Mobilization and Social Outreach in Evangelical Megachurches. Current Anthropology
53(3): 362-364.
2010 Native Christians: Modes and Effects of Christianity among Indigenous Peoples of the Americas. Religion and Society:
Advances in Research 1: 222-224.
2010 City of God: Christian Citizenship in Postwar Guatemala. Anthropology News December: 45. (co-author, Eric Hoenes
del Pinal)