Faculty Publications

• Richard Bushman
• Ingolf U Dalferth
• Patrick Mason
• Hamid Mavani
• Anselm K. Min
• Tammi J. Schneider
• Vincent Wimbush

Richard Bushman

• On the Road With Joseph Smith: An Author’s Diary (2007).
• Joseph Smith: Rough Stone Rolling (2007).
• Mormonism: A Very Short Introduction (2008).

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Ingolf Dalferth

• I.U. Dalferth, ed., The Presence and Absence of God, Claremont Studies in the Philosophy of Religion (2010).
• I.U. Dalferth, Ph. Stoellger, and A. Hunziker, eds., Unmöglichkeiten. Zur Phänomenologie und Hermeneutik eines modalen Grenzbegriffs, Religion in Philosophy and Theology 38, (2009).
• Malum. Theologische Hermeneutik des Bösen, (2008).
• Naturrecht in protestantischer Perspektive. (2008).
• Becoming Present. An Inquiry into the Christian Sense of the Presence of God (2006).

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Patrick Mason

• The Mormon Menace: Violence and Anti-Mormonism in the Postbellum South (2011).
• "God and the People: Theodemocracy in Nineteenth-Centruy Mormonism," Journal of Church and State (2011).
• "Opposition to Polygamy in the Postbellum South," Journal of Southern History (August 2010).
• "Honor, the Unwritten Law, and Extralegal Violence; Contextualizing Parley Pratt's Muder," in Parley P. Pratt and the Making of Mormonism, ed. Gregory Armstrong, Matthew J. Grow, and Dennis Siler (forthcoming).
• "What's So Bad about Polygamy/ Teaching American Religious History in the Muslim Middle East," Journal of American History (March 2010).
• "Shrine of the Black Madonna," "Lynching," "Henry McNeal Turner," in The Encyclopedia of African American History, ed. Leslie Alexander and Walter Rucker (2010).
• "Christian Zionism and Its Religious Influence in American Politics," with Khadiga Omar, US - Arab Issues (Spring 2009), Prince Alwaleed Bin Talal Bin Abdulaziz Alsaud Center for American Studies and Research, American University in Cairo.

Hamid Mavani

• Shi‘i Islam: Religious Authority and Political Thought (manuscript completed)
• “Religion and State in Post-revolutionary Iran: Model Proposed by Ayatullah Muhammad Mahdi Shamsuddin,” in Political Sociology of Post-revolutionary Iran. Eds. Mojtaba Mahdavi and Mahmood Ketabi (forthcoming in July 2012).
• “The Case for Secularity in Islam,” The Journal of Islamic Law and Culture (forthcoming in January 2012).“Paradigm Shift in Twelver Shi’i Legal Theory (usul al-fiqh): Ayatullah Yusef Saanei,” Muslim World, vol. 99 (April 2009): 362-82.
• “Ayatullah Khomeini’s Concept of Governance of the Jurist (wilayat al-faqih) Revisited: The Aftermath  of  Iran’s  2009  Presidential  Elections,  The  Middle  East  Journal  (forthcoming  in December 2011).
• “Ayatullah Khomeini’s Concept of Governance (wilayat al-faqih) and the Classical Shi‘i Doctrine of Imamate,” Middle Eastern Studies (forthcoming in November 2011).
• “Ijtihad in Contemporary Shi‘ism: Transition from Individual-oriented to Society-oriented.” The American Journal of Islamic Social Sciences (AJISS), number 3, 27 (Summer 2010): 24-52.
• “Islam” in Siroj Sorajjakool and Mark F. Carr, eds., World Religions for Healthcare Professionals (2009).
• “Tension between the Qur’an and hadith/fiqh: The Case of Offensive Jihad,” (under review).

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Anselm K. Min

• Paths to the Triune God: An Encounter between Aquinas and Recent Theologies (2005).
• The Solidarity of Others in a Divided World: A Postmodern Theology after Postmodernism (2004).

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Tammi J. Schneider

• Sarah: Mother of Nations (2005).
• Mothers of Promise: Women in the Book of Genesis (2008).

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Vincent Wimbush

• “Abstinence,” in Encyclopedia of the Bible and Its Reception, Hans-Josef Klauck et al, eds., (2009).
• “The Bible,” Cambridge Dictionary of Christianity Daniel Patte, ed., (2009).
• “The Bible as a Text in Cultures: African Americans,” in Curtiss P. De Young, et al, eds., The Peoples’ Bible (2009).
• V. Wimbush, ed., Theorizing Scriptures: New Critical Orientations to a Cultural Phenomenon (2008).
• Theorizing Scriptures: New Critical Orientations to a Cultural Phenomenon (2008)

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