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Books<\/h5>\n
Moral Ambition: Mobilization and Social Outreach in Evangelical Megachurches, University of California Press. 2011.<\/p>\n
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Selected Publications<\/h5>\n
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\u201cMirrors of the Past: Time and Historical Consciousness in Contemporary Western Astrology.\u201d Comparative Studies in Society and History 67(1): 223-248, 2025.<\/p>\n
\u201cSpeaking in Celestial Signs\u201d The Language of Western Astrology and the (Tenuous) Bonds of Occult Sociality.\u201d Religion and Society: Advances in Research 12: 149-162, 2021. <\/p>\n
“Dancing the Word: Techniques of Embodied Authority Among Christian Praise Dancers in New York City.” American Ethnologist 45(3):380-391, 2018.<\/p>\n
“Proximations of the Public Religion: Worship, Spiritual Warfare, and the Ritualization of Christian Dance.” American Anthropologist 119(1):73-85, 2017.<\/p>\n
\u201cSaved by a Martyr: Evangelical Mediation, Sanctification, and \u2018the Persecuted Church.\u2019\u201d Journal of the American Academy of Religion 84(4): 1056-1080, 2016.<\/p>\n
\u201cPersonhood: Sin, Sociality, and the Unbuffered Self in US Evangelicalism.\u201d In The Anthropology of Global Pentecostalism and Evangelicalism, Rosalind Hackett and Simon Coleman, eds. New York University Press, 2015.<\/p>\n
\u201cAll Catholics Now?: Spectres of Catholicism in Evangelical Social Engagement.\u201d In The New Evangelical Social Engagement, Brian Steensland and Philip Goff, eds. Oxford University Press, 2013.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe Time and Place for Prayer: Evangelical Urbanism and Citywide Prayer Movements.\u201d Religion 43 (3), 2013.<\/p>\n
\u201cEvangelical Megachurches and the Christianization of Civil Society: An Ethnographic Case Study.\u201d In Politics and Partnerships: The Role of Voluntary Associations in America\u2019s Political Past and Present, Elisabeth Clemens and Doug Guthrie, eds. University of Chicago Press, 2011.<\/p>\n
\u201cTaking the (Inner) City for God: Ambiguities of Urban Social Engagement among Conservative White Evangelicals.\u201d In The Fundamentalist City: Religion and Urbanism in the New Global Order, Nezar AlSayyad and Mejgan Massoumi, eds. Routledge, 2011.<\/p>\n
“Faith Beyond Belief: Evangelical Protestant Conceptions of Faith and the Resonance of Anti-Humanism.” Social Analysis, 52 (1), 2008.<\/p>\n
“Moral Ambitions of Grace: The Paradox of Compassion and Accountability in Evangelical Faith-Based Activism.” Cultural Anthropology, 23 (1), 2008.<\/p>\n
“You Can’t Talk to an Empty Stomach: Faith-based Activism, Holistic Evangelism, and the Publicity of Evangelical Engagement.” In Proselytization Revisited: Rights, Free Markets, and Culture Wars, Rosalind Hackett, ed. Equinox Press, 2008.<\/p>\n
“Sins of Our Soccer Moms: Servant Evangelism and the Spiritual Injuries of Class.” In Local Actions: Cultural Activism, Power, and Public Life in America, Melissa Checker and Margaret Fishman, eds. Columbia University Press, 2004.<\/p>\n
“Sustaining Charisma: Mormon Sectarian Culture and the Struggle for Plural Marriage, 1852-1890.” Nova Religio, 6 (1), 2002.<\/p>\n
” A Theology of Blame.” Anthropology News, March 2002.<\/p>\n
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