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Works from 2022

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“Thousands and Thousands of Lovers”: Sense of Community Among the Nuns of Helfta, Anna Harrison

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What Remains of the Night? The Unbearable Burden of Grief, Anna Harrison

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Segmeted Secrecy as Catholic Ecclesial Practice: The Case of Gay Priests, Brett C. Hoover

Works from 2021

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‘A New and Special Joy’: Increasing the Happiness of Mary and the Saints in the Helfta Spirituality, Anna Harrison

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Conscience and Confidence: Rebel Hearts, Anna Harrison

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Evaluating the Moral Framing of Disaffiliation: Sociological and Pastoral Perspectives on the Rise of the “Nones”, Brett C. Hoover

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Still Unaccommodated: Why Are Hispanic Catholics Treated Unequally?, Brett C. Hoover

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‘Chickens coming home to roost’: American Muslims in the Aftermath, Amir Hussain

Works from 2020

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Mass in the Time of Quarantine, Anna Harrison

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Joy and Strain in Shared Parishes: Look Who’s Here, Brett C. Hoover

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Many Arts, One Body: Interview with Brett Hoover, Brett C. Hoover

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The Disarray of Christmas, Brett C. Hoover

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War and autocephaly in Ukraine, Cyril Hovorun

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Interview, Amir Hussain

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Muslims in America: Living up to the Ideals of the Greatest, Amir Hussain

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Double review of Jean Bethke Elsthain, Augustine and the Limits of Politics and Debra Erickson and Michael Le Chevallier eds., Jean Bethke Elshtain: Politics, Ethics, and Society, Matthew R. Petrusek

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Afterword, Matthew R. Petrusek and Johnathan Rothchild

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Introduction, Matthew R. Petrusek and Johnathan Rothchild

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Protestant and Orthodox Perspectives on Dignity: A Response, Matthew R. Petrusek and Johnathan Rothchild

Works from 2019

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Religious Experience and Yoga, Christopher Chapple

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Muslim, Jewish, and Catholic Perspectives on Sacred Spaces and Sacred Clothing: An Interfaith Panel Discussion, Reuven Firestone, Amir Hussain, and Pim Valkenberg

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Practical Theology in the United States, Brett C. Hoover

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Patristics and sociolinguistics, Cyril Hovorun

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Review of Blinded by the Light directed by Gurinder Chadha, Amir Hussain

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Review of Republic of Islamophobia: The Rise of Respectable Racism in France by Jim Wolfreys, and American Islamophobia: Understanding the Roots and Rise of Fear by Khaled A. Beydoun, Amir Hussain

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Seeking Understanding: Helping Graduate Students to Write for Scholarly Journals in Religion, Amir Hussain

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Sexuality, Spirituality, and the Love of God, Amir Hussain

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Review of Kevin M. Clark ed., The Seven Deadly Sins: Sayings of the Father of the Church (Washington DC: The Catholic University of America Press, 2018) and Gail Ramshaw, Saints on Sunday: Voices from Our Past Enlivening Our Worship (Collegeville, MN: Liturgical Press, 2018), Matthew Petrusek

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The Mysticism of Encounter: How Pope Francis Provides Fresh Grounds for Solidarity by Transcending Postcolonial and Civilizational-Clash Paradigms of the Other, Matthew R. Petrusek

Works from 2018

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‘Where Have You Vanished?’: Aelred of Rievaulx’s Lamentation on Simon, Anna Harrison

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Parish M Ministry in a Multicultural Church: Where Are We?, Brett C. Hoover

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Silent Majorities: Power Dynamics in Catholic Parishes Shared by Latinos, Brett C. Hoover

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American Muslims in the Age of President Trump, Amir Hussain

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Review of Muslim Americans in the Military: Centuries of Service by Edward E. Curtis IV, Amir Hussain

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The Legacy of Wilfred Cantwell Smith, Amir Hussain

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The Surprise of Reconciliation in the Catholic Tradition, Jonathan Rothchild

Works from 2017

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The Uruly, Chaotic Wind of God: Imagining a Church and Ministry Stirred Up and Prodded by the Spirit, Brett C. Hoover

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Ecumenism: Rapprochement through co-working to reconciliation, Cyril Hovorun

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American Muslims in the Age of President Trump, Amir Hussain

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Funerals and Death Rites: Honoring the Departed, Amir Hussain

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Review of Before Orthodoxy: The Satanic Verses in Early Islam by Shahab Ahmed, Amir Hussain

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‘The Most Beautiful of Stories’: A Muslim Reflection on the Qur’an and Moral Injury, Amir Hussain

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Towards a Hermeneutic of Humanity: Wilfred Cantwell Smith and the Study of Muslims, Amir Hussain

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Making the Fundamental Option Fully Free: How Human Capabilities Help Clarify Rahner’s Conception of Justice, Matthew Petrusek

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Book Review of John J. Fitzgerald, The Seductiveness of Virtue: Abraham Joshua Heschel and John Paul II on Morality and Personal Fulfillment, Matthew R. Petrusek

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Dialoguing from a Fixed Point: How Aristotle and Pope Francis Illuminate the Promise — and Limits — of Inclusion in Catholic Higher Education, Matthew R. Petrusek

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Federalism, Subsidiarity, and Voting Rights: Critiquing the Shelby County decision through Johannes Althusius and Catholic Social Teaching, Jonathan Rothchild

Works from 2016

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Blaming the Stranger: Parishes Must Resist the Myth of the Latino Threat, Brett C. Hoover

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Emerging Adults’ Religiousness and Spirituality: Meaning-Making in an Age of Transition, Brett C. Hoover

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Help My Unbelief, Brett C. Hoover

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How Islam became 'American', Amir Hussain

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Longing and Gender: A Response to Holly Hillgardner and Tracy Sayuki Tiemeier, Amir Hussain

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Muslims and the Making of America, Amir Hussain

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Professor Joseph T. O’Connell: A Remembrance, Amir Hussain

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The Future of Islam and Jesuit Universities, Amir Hussain

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Book Review of E. Christian Brugger, Capital Punishment and Roman Catholic Moral Tradition, second edition, Matthew R. Petrusek

Book Review: University Ethics: How Colleges Can Build and Benefit from a Culture of Ethics. By James F. Keenan, Matthew R. Petrusek

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Human Capacities and the Problem of Universally Equal Dignity: Two Philosophical Test Cases and a Theistic Response, Matthew R. Petrusek

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The Image of God and Moral Action: Challenging the Practicality of the Imago Dei, Matthew R. Petrusek

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Systematic Theology: A Roman Catholic Approach, Thomas P. Rausch

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Go Into the Streets: the Welcoming Church of Pope Francis, Thomas P. Rausch and Richard R. Gaillardetz

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Comparative Theology at the Intersections of (Multi)Racial and (Multi)Religious Identities, Tracy Tiemeier

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Women’s Virtue, Church Leadership, and the Problem of Gender Complementarity, Tracy Tiemeier

Works from 2015

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Survey of Catholic Social Teaching, James L. Fredericks

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Watered Down or Dried Up?, Brett C. Hoover

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Editor’s Note: Adiós, Amir Hussain

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Muslim Traditions, Amir Hussain

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Muslim Traditions, Amir Hussain

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(Re)presenting: Muslims on North American Television, Amir Hussain

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A Concise Introduction to World Religions, Amir Hussain, Willard G. Oxtoby, Roy C. Amore, and Alan F. Segal

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Squaring the City: Between Roman and Rabbinic Urban Geometry, Gil P. Klein

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The Relevance of Karl Rahner’s View of Human Dignity for the Catholic Social Thought Tradition, Matthew R. Petrusek

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Faith, Hope, and Charity: Benedict XVI on the Theological Virtues, Thomas P. Rausch

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Theology’s New Turn: A Survey of Contemporary Movements, Thomas P. Rausch

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Micah: A Commentary, Daniel L. Smith-Christopher

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Thinking on Islands, Daniel L. Smith-Christopher

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Toddlers and Teas: Parenting in a Multireligious World, Tracy Tiemeier

Works from 2014

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About Religion, Roy C. Amore and Amir Hussain

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American Innocence: Niebuhr and the Ironies of History, An Exchange, James L. Fredericks

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Confucianism, Catholic Social Teachings, and Human Rights, James L. Fredericks

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Francis's Interreligious Friendships: Soccer and Lunch, Followed by Dialogue, James L. Fredericks

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Best Practices for Multicultural Communities: Great Parishes Shared by Several Ethnicities Discover Ways to Give Each Group What It Needs While Also Forging Unity, Brett C. Hoover

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Best Practices for Shared Parishes, Brett C. Hoover

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Blood and Ink: Ignacio Ellacuría, Jon Sobrino, and the Jesuit Martyrs of the University of Central America, Brett C. Hoover

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Faith from Nowhere: Feminist Ecclesiological Reflections on the ‘Liquid Catholicism’ of New Media, Brett C. Hoover

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Lost and Found: Immigrant Conversion Stories, the New Evangelization, and Parish Life, Brett C. Hoover

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Review of Memory and Honor: Cultural and Generational Ministry with Korean American Communities, Brett C. Hoover

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Review of The Faith of Girls: Children’s Spirituality and Transition to Adulthood, Brett C. Hoover

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The Shared Parish: Latinos, Anglos, and the Future of U.S. Catholicism, Brett C. Hoover

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Editor’s Note: "God bless Elijah / With the feather in his hand", Amir Hussain

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Toward a Muslim Theology of Migration, Amir Hussain

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Current Issues, Amir Hussain and Roy C. Amore

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In Memoriam: Jean Bethke Elshtain (1941–2013), Matthew R. Petrusek

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Dorothy Day and the Catholic Worker, Thomas P. Rausch

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This is our Faith: An Introduction to Catholicism, Thomas P. Rausch

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A Postcolonial Reading of Apocalyptic Literature: On Mixing Monsters, Daniel L. Smith-Christopher

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Reading the Christian Old Testament in the Contemporary World, Daniel L. Smith-Christopher

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Singing Lamentations and Reading the Blues, Daniel L. Smith-Christopher

Works from 2013

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The Eternal Present: Slow Knowledge and the Renewal of Time, Douglas E. Christie

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The Joy of Feeling Close to God: The Practice of Prayer and the Work of Accompaniment, Douglas E. Christie