David AlbertsonMathematical Theologies: Nicholas of Cusa and the Legacy of Thierry of Chartres (Oxford University Press, 2014).

David Albertson, co-edited with Cabell H. King, Without Nature? A New Condition for Theology (Fordham University Press, 2009).

Book cover: Mathematical Theologies, by David Albertson. One of the books by our faculty.

Lisa BitelOur Lady of the Rock: Vision and Pilgrimage in the Mojave Desert, with photographs by Matt Gainer  (Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 2015).

Lisa BitelLandscape with Two Saints: How Saint Genovefa of Paris and Saint Brigit of Kildare Built Christianity in Barbarian Europe (New York, NY: Oxford University Press, 2009).

Book cover: Landscape with Two Saints, by Lisa M. Bitel. One of the books by our faculty.

Sheila Briggs, co-edited with Mary McClintock Fulkerson, The Oxford Handbook of Feminist Theology (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2014).

Book cover: The Oxford Handbook of Feminist Theology, by Sheila Briggs, et al. One of the books by our faculty.

Cavan Concannon, and Jull Hicks-Keeton, Does Scripture Speak for Itself: The Museum of the Bible and the Politics of Interpretation (Cambridge University Press, 2023)

Cavan Concannon, Profaning Paul (University of Chicago Press, 2021).

Book cover: Across the Corrupting Sea, by Cavan Concannon. One of the books by our faculty.

Lynn Dodd, co-edited with Ran Boytner and Bradley Parker, Controlling the Past, Owning the Future: The Political Uses of Archaeology in the Middle East (University of Arizona Press, 2010).

Book cover: Controlling the Past, Owning the Future, edited by Lynn Dodd. One of the books by our faculty.

Sherman JacksonInitiative to Stop the Violence: Sadat’s Assassins and the Renunciation of Political Violence (New Haven: Yale University Press, 2015).

Sherman JacksonInitiative to Stop the Violence: Sadat’s Assassins and the Renunciation of Political Violence (New Haven: Yale University Press, 2015).

Book cover: Initiative to Stop the Violence translated by Sherman A. Jackson.

James L. Heft, co-edited with John O’ Malley, After Vatican II: Trajectories and Hermeneutics (Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing Co., 2012)

James L. Heft, co-edited with S.M., Reuven Firestone and Omid Safi, Learned Ignorance: Intellectual Humility Among Jews, Christians and Muslims (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2011).

James Lewis HeftCatholic High Schools: Facing the New Realities (Oxford University Press, 2011).

James Lewis Heft, ed., Catholicism and Interreligious Dialogue (Oxford University Press, 2011).

Book cover: Learned Ignorance, by James L. Heft, et al.

Jessica M Marglin, The Shamama Case: Contesting Citizenship across the Modern Mediterranean (Princeton University Press, 2022)

Jessica Marglin, Across Legal Lines: Jews and Muslims in Modern Morocco (Yale University Press, 2016)

Book Cover: The Shamama Case: Contesting Citizenship Across the Modern Mediterranean by Jessica M. Marglin

James McHugh, An Unholy Brew: Alcohol in Indian History and Religions (Oxford University Press, 2021)

James McHughSandalwood and Carrion: Smell in Indian Religion and Culture (Oxford University Press, 2013).

Book cover: An Unholy Brew, Alcohol in Indian History and Religions, by James McHugh.

Lori Meeks, co-edited with James Benn and James Robson, Buddhist Monasticism in East Asia: Places of Practice (New York: Routledge, 2011).

Lori MeeksHokkeji and the Reemergence of Female Monastic Orders in Premodern Japan (Honolulu: University of Hawai’i Press, 2010).

Book cover: Hokkeji and the Reemergence of Female Monastic Orders in Premodern Japan, by Lori Meeks.

Duncan Williams, American Sutra: A Story of Faith and Freedom in the Second World War (Cambridge University Press, 2019)

Duncan Williams, Hapa Japan: Vol. 2 Identities and Representations (Los Angeles: Kaya Press, 2017)

Duncan Williams, Hapa Japan: Vol. 1 History (Los Angeles: Kaya Press, 2017)

Book cover of American Sutra by Duncan Ryūken Williams.

Diane Winston, ed., The Oxford Handbook of Religion and the American News Media (New York: Oxford University Press, 2012).

Diane Winston, ed., Small Screen, Big Picture: Television and Lived Religion (Baylor University Press, 2009).

Book cover: The Oxford Handbook of Religion and the American News Media, by Diane Winston.

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