MaterialReligion has some major transitions in 2021! Very exciting for the future of the journal!

More in the MaterialReligion transitions, hillarykaell joins the team as book review editor, joining Jessica Hughes and taking over after several years work by @isaacweiner27 This is going to be a great team!!

The launch of a very special, special MaterialReligion issue on "Religion and Material Texts in the Americas" is TODAY, from 1-2:45 PM EDT, featuring presentations by the authors and a Q&A. Register here for access to the Zoom link: forms.gle/Uo4qNSyqghoz1i…

Catch my talk about Catholic bodies & devotion VCU tomorrow, Tuesday Oct 5th at 4pm ET! There will be muscles, saints, and lots of #DevotionalStuff vcu.zoom.us/s/92977342561?…

Colleagues & friends! Do you know a prospective MA or PhD student who wants to study religion/spirit and ecology? I'm recruiting McGill University in #Anthropology or #ReligiousStudies. Full funding! Please pass on the word & send your people my way.

Overheard on campus… Dad: Do YOU text in class? Do you pull out your phone in class? Son (looking at his phone): No! Never. I loled.

How will we memorialize Covid? David Tollerton has some lessons from the past. #secular #memorialmania #memorials #covid aprilonline.org/pandemic-memor…

🚨New in MaterialReligion: “Cool Christianity: The Fashion-Celebrity-Megachurch Industrial Complex” by Cristina Rocha Brb gonna go read about streetwear & Christian aesthetics, & how celebrities, the fashion industry + entrepreneurs are shaping Christianity doi.org/10.1080/174322…

Need inspiration for your next ink? Want to rethink Catholic studies? To celebrate #aarsbl21 we've made "Men, Tattoos, and Catholic Devotion in Brooklyn" by the incomparable Alyssa Maldonado-Estrada available free for everyone. Read it! doi.org/10.1080/174322… #materialreligion #catholic

Our #aarsbl21 celebration continues! Free access to "'I Got Voodoo, I Got Hoodoo': Ethnography and Its Objects in Disney’s the Princess and the Frog" by Elizabeth Pérez. @UCSBReligion Read it: doi.org/10.1080/174322… Consider submitting your work to Material Religion!

When the noisy neighbor in Bénin is an òrìs.à (divinity), you listen whether you want to or not. "sounding the voice of tolerance: the orò secret society at the yorùbá borderlands" by Brian C. Smithson Free access. Just like Orò's voice. doi.org/10.1080/174322… #aarsbl21 #Africa

Hive mind: I'm desperate to find experts in Dugu or related traditions to review a really interesting essay about altars in Honduras. Please share widely and DM/email me if interested.

1/2 Four essays from the Madina Project have been published in MaterialReligion! With an introduction by Birgit Meyer and Samuel Aniegye Ntewusu, these essays, by Fiifi Fosu-Ankrah, Rashida Alhassan Adum-Atta, Martin Luther Darko, and kautharabdulai,… bit.ly/3ykKSEA

Thanks to @emarledge for this fantastic review of *Exbhibiting Evangelicalism* in Material Religion journal! Great to see it considered alongside another important book on the Museum of the Bible, too. MaterialReligion