Recent Faculty Publications

• “Onondaga Nation Land Rights and the Doctrine of Discovery” (revised) with Joe Heath, in Neighbor to Neighbor, Nation to Nation: Readings about the Relationship of the Onondaga Nation with Central New York, USA (Syracuse: Neighbors of the Onondaga Nation (NOON), 2014), 17-18.
• “Indigenous ‘Texts’ of Inhabiting the Land: George Washington’s Wampum Belt and the Canadaigua Treaty.” In Iconic Books and Texts (ed. J. W. Watts. London: Equinox, 2013. 361-372.
• “The Sä·noñh—Great Law of Peace Center–Welcomes Public,” Public: A Journal of Imagining America, Vol. 1&2 (2013) online.

• “Martin Buber” (revised) in the Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy (2014), online.
• “After Germany: An American Jewish Philosophical Manifesto,” in Jewish Philosophy for the Twenty-First Century (ed. H. T. Samuelson and A. Hughes; Leiden: Brill, 2014), 42-60.
• “The Patient Political Gesture: Law, Liberalism, and Talmud,” in Judaism, Liberalism, and Political Theology(ed. R. Rashkover and M. Kavka; Bloomington: Indiana U, 2014), 241-264.
• “Aura and the ‘Spiritual in Art’ in the Age of Digital Reproduction,” in Thinking Jewish Culture in America(Bloomington: Indiana U Press, 2014), 185-218.
• Editor with Martin Kavka and David Novak, The Cambridge History of Jewish Philosophy: The Modern Period (Cambridge, 2012).

• ” ‘Nec sanabatur vulnus illud meum’ (Conf. 6:15): Trauma, Time and Voice in Augustine’s Confessions,” in Trauma and Traumatization in Individual and Collective Dimensions (ed. E.-M. Becker, J. Dochhorn, E. Holt; Gottingen: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, 2014), 100-110.
• “History, Theology, Orthodoxy, Polydoxy,” Modern Theology 30 (2014), 7-16.
• The Life of Saint Helia: Critical Edition, Translation, Introduction, and Commentary, co-edited with Marco Conti. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2013.
• “Bodies, Desires, Confessions: Shame in Plotinus, Antony, and Augustine.” In Shame Between Penance and Punishment (ed. B. Sère and J. Wettlaufer. Florence:
  SISMEL-Edizioni del Galluzzo, 2013), 23-48.
• “‘The Passover Still Takes Place Today’: Exegesis, Asceticism, Judaism, and Origen’s On Passover.” InAsceticism and Exegesis in Early Christianity: The Reception of New Testament Texts in Ancient Ascetic Discourses (ed. H.-U.  Wiedemann. Göttingen: Vandenhoeck and Ruprecht, 2013), 235-45.
• “‘Honor the Fathers’: Exegesis and Authority in the Life of Saint Helia.” In Asceticism and Exegesis in Early Christianity: The Reception of New Testament Texts in Ancient Ascetic Discourses (ed. H.-U. Wiedemann. Göttingen: Vandenhoeck and Ruprecht, 2013), 445-57.
• “Nothing is Not One: Revisiting the ex nihilo.” Modern Theology 29.2 (2013): 33-48.
• “Augustine, Rosenzweig, and the Possibility of Experiencing Miracle.” In Material Spirit (ed. C. Good, M. Asensi, and G. Stallings. New York: Fordham University Press, 2013), 94-110.
• “Seducing Theology.” Theology and Sexuality 18:2 (2013).
• “Gender, Eros, and Pedagogy: Macrina’s Pious Household.” In Ascetic Culture (ed. B. Leyerle and R. D. Young; University of Notre Dame Press, 2013), 167-81.
• “Augustine’s Bible.”  Ideology, Culture, and Translation, edited by Scott Elliott and Roland Boer.  Semeia Studies.  Atlanta: Society of Biblical Literature, 2012. Pages 69-82.

• From Comrades to Bodhisattvas: Moral Dimensions of Lay Buddhist Practice in Contemporary China.University of Hawaii, 2014.
• “Buddhism in the Modern World.” David L. McMahan, ed. New York: Routledge Press, 2012. Pp. 68-88.

• (editor) David Ehrlich’s Who Will Die Last: Stories of Life in Israel, Syracuse: Syracuse University Press, 2013.

• (with B. R. Gujar, M. Gujar and C. Gujar) “Shared Knowledges: Family, Fusion, Friction, Fabric,” Ethnography 15/3 (2014), 331-354.
• “Women’s Place-Making in Santosh Nagar: Gendered Constellations,” in Routledge Handbook of Gender in South Asia (ed. L. Fernandes; London: Routledge, 2014), 173-188.
• “Sweetness and Light: The Bright Side of Pluralism in a North Indian Town.” In Religious Pluralism, State and Society in Asia, ed. C. Formichi. London: Routledge, 2013. 113-137.
• (with Bhoju Ram Gujar) “A thousand Nagdis.”Anthropology Today 29/5 (2013):22-27.
• “Food Values Beyond Nutrition.” In Handbook on Food, Politics and Society, edited by Ronald J. Herring. Oxford Handbooks Online. Oxford University Press, 2013.
• “Ainn-Bai’s sarvadharm yatra: A mix of experiences.” InLines in Water: Religious Boundaries in South Asia(ed. T. R. Kassam and E. Kent, Syracuse: Syracuse University Press, 2013), 300-329.

• “Work and Life in Balance,” Religious Studies News(2015), online.
• “Filming Reconciliation: Affect ande Nostalgia in The Tree of Life,” Journal of Religion and Film (2014), online.
• “Religion and Film: A Pedagogical Review,” Journal of the American Academy of Religion 81/4 (2013), 1139-50.

• (Editor with Eliza Kent) Lines in Water: Religious Boundaries in South Asia, Syracuse: Syracuse University Press: 2013.

• (Co-editor) Sainthood and Race: Marked Flesh, Holy Flesh. London: Routledge, 2014.
• “The Post-Racial Saint? From Barack Obama to Paul of Tarsus,” in Sainthood and Race (2014), 182-198.
• “Of Fathers and Sons, Prophets and Messiahs,” inSouls: a Critical Journal of Black Politics, Culture and Society 16/3-4 (2014), 209-226.
• “Organizing Race: Taking Race Seriously in Faith-Based Community Organizing,” Journal of Religious Ethics 42/4 (2014), 640-660.
• “The Rhetoric of the Middle,” Syndicate (2014), online and print.
• “Christianity,” in The Fin de Siecle World (London: Routledge, 2014), 568-581.
• “Thick or Thin? Liberal Protestant Public Theology,”Journal of Religious Ethics 42/2 (2014), 335-356.
• “Marcuse the Lover,” Telos 165 (2013): 9-22.
• “Love, Justice, and Natural Law: Martin Luther King, Jr., and Human Rights,” in Human Rights from a Third World Perspective (ed. Jose-Manuel Barreto; Newcastle: Cambridge Scholars Press, 2013), 237-55.
• “Race and Religion,” Critical Research on Religion 1:1 (2013), 80-86.
• (Editor) Race and Political Theology, Stanford University Press, 2012.

• Lincoln’s Bishop: A President, A Priest, and the Fate of 300 Dakota Sioux Warriors. Harper Collins, 2014.

• “To Live, by Grace.” In Living Together: Jacques Derrida’s Communities of Violence and Peace, ed. E. Weber (Fordham University Press, 2013): 153–67.
• “Nude, Glorious, Living,” Political Theology 14.1 (2013): 115–30.
• “Performing Religiously Between Passion and Resistance,” Journal for Cultural and Religious Theory12.2 (2012): 69–84.
• “A Mystic Impulse: From Apophatics to Decreation in Pseudo-Dionysius, Meister Eckhart, and Simone Weil,”Medieval Mystical Theology 21.1 (2012): 113–32.

• “From Diaspora to (Global) Civil Society: Global Gurus and the Processes of De-ritualization and De-ethnization in Singapore,” in Hindu Rituals at the Margins: Tranformations, Innovations, Reconsiderations (ed. T. Pintchman, L. Penkower; Columbia, SC: U. of South Carolina, 2014), 186-207.
• “Reading Walden Pont at Marina Bay Sands–Singapore,” Journal of the American Academy of Religion 82/1 (2014), 217-247.
• “Engineering an Artful Practice: On Jaggi Vasudev’s Isha Yoga and Sri Sri Ravishankar’s Art of Living.” InGurus of Modern Yoga (ed. E. Goldberg and M. Singleton. New York: Oxford University Press, 2013), 283-307.
• “Beyond Pluralism: Global Gurus and the Third Stream of American Religiosity.” In Gods in America: Religious Pluralism in the United States (ed. C. L. Cohen and R. L. Numbers (New York: Oxford University Press, 2013), 228-248.
• “A Birthday Party for a Sacred Scripture: The Gita Jayanti and the Embodiment of God as the Book.” InIconic Books and Texts (ed. J. W. Watts. London: Equinox, 2013.

• “Sexual Behavior, Medical Control of” in Encyclopedia of Bioethics (4th ed.; Gale-Macmillan Reference, 2014), 6:2914-2921.
• “Addendum, Psychoanalysis and Dynamic Therapies,” in Encyclopedia of Bioethics (4th ed.; Gale-Macmillan Reference, 2014), 5:2472-2473.
• “Psychodynamic Psychotherapies” (edited and revised), Encyclopedia of Bioethics (4th ed.; Gale-Macmillan Reference, 2014), 5:2565-2572.
• “Ethical Aspects of Teletherapy.” In Psychoanalysis Online: Mental Health, Teletherapy, Training (ed. Jill Savege Scharff; London: Karnac, 2013), ch. 8.
• “Ethics in Psychoanalysis,” in Textbook of Psychoanalysis, 2nd edition (ed. G. Gabbard, B. Litowitz and P. W. A. Cooper: Washington, DC: American Psychiatric Publishing, 2012), Chapter 24, pp. 349-366.
• “Ethical Review of Radiation Effect Narratives,” inTortured Science: Health Studies, Ethics and Nuclear Weapons, ed. by Dianne Quigley, Amy Lowman, and Steve Wing. Amityville, NY: Baywood Publishing Co., 2012, Chapter 11, pp. 219-239.

• Leviticus 1-10, Historical Commentary on the Old Testament, Louvain: Peeters, 2013.
• (editor) Iconic Books and Texts, London: Equinox, 2013.
• “The Political and Legal Uses of Scripture,” in The New Cambridge History of the Bible, vol. 1, (ed. J. Schaper and J. C. Paget, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2013), 345-64.
• “Scripturalization and the Aaronide Dynasties,” Journal of Hebrew Scriptures 13 (2013), online.
• “Illustrating Leviticus: Art, Ritual and Politics,” Biblical Reception 2 (2013), 3-15.
• “The Three Dimensions of Scriptures,” in Iconic Books and Texts (ed. Watts; London: Equinox, 2013), 9-32.
• “Ancient Iconic Texts and Scholarly Expertise,” inIconic Books and Texts (ed. Watts; London: Equinox, 2013), 407-418.

Recent Books by Alumni

• A Religion of One’s Own (Penguin, 2014)

• Heaven Can Wait: Purgatory in Catholic Devotional and Popular Culture (Oxford University Press, 2014).

• The Rebellious No: Variations on a Secular Theology of Language (Fordham University Press, 2014)
  

• Capitalizing Religion: Ideology and the Opiate of the Bourgeoisie (Bloomsbury, 2014)
• A Critical Introduction to the Study of Religion(Equinox, 2012)
• (Co-editor) Collaborative Futures: Critical Reflections on Publicly Active Graduate Education (Syracuse University Press, 2012)

• (Co-editors with B. Keith Putt) The Future of Continental Philosophy of Religion (Indiana University Press, 2014)
• Religion, Politics and the Earth: The New Materialism(Palgrave Macmillan, 2012)

• The Boulder: A Philosophy for Bouldering (Stone Country, 2013)