articles & chapters

“Unmasking Islamophobia: Anti-Muslim Hostility and/as White Supremacy,” in “Roundtable: ‘Religio-Racial Identity’ as Challenge and Critique,” Journal of the American Academy of Religion 88.2 (2020): 354-386.

“Unpacking the Bunker: Sex, Abuse, and Apocalypticism in ‘Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt,’” in “On the Edge of Apocalypse,” CrossCurrents 68.2 (2018): 237-259.

“They Couldn’t Get My Soul: Recovered Memories, Ritual Abuse, and the Specter(s) of Religious Difference,” in “Bodies and their Care in a Secular Age,” Studies in Religion/Sciences Religieuses 47.2 (2018): 280-298.

“‘They Do That to Foreign Women’: Domestic Terrorism and Contraceptive Nationalism in Not Without My Daughter,” in “Shifting Boundaries: The Study of Islam in the Humanities,” The Muslim World 106.4 (2016): 759-780.

“Staying After Class: Memory and Materiality beyond Heaven’s Gate,” Nova Religio: The Journal of Alternative and Emergent Religions 20.4 (2017): 80-93.

“Thinking Sex and American Religions,” Religion Compass 5.12 (2011): 772-787.

“This Field Which Is Not One / The Body Is Smart: Rethinking Theory in the Study of Religion,” in Key Categories in the Study of Religion: Contexts and Critiques, ed. Rebekka King, pp. 135-145. Sheffield: Equinox, 2022.

“‘I Can Take Your Eyes’: Islam and Gendered Surveillance in A Girl Walks Home Alone at Night,” in New Approaches to Islam in Film, ed. Kristian Petersen, pp. 139-147. Abingdon: Routledge Press. 

“Costs of Corporate Christian Conscience: How Women, Queers, and People of Color Are Paying for Hobby Lobby’s Sincerely Held Beliefs,” in Religion in the Age of Obama, ed. Juan M. Floyd-Thomas and Anthony Pinn, pp. 94-107. New York: Bloomsbury, 2018.

“Manning the High Seat: Seiðr as Self-Making in Contemporary Norse Neopaganisms,” in Magic in the Modern World, ed. Marco Edward Bever and Randall Styers, pp. 152-170. University Park, PA: Penn State University Press, 2017.

"Conversion to Narrative: Magic as Religious Language in Grant Morrison's Invisibles," in Graven Images: Religion in Comic Books and Graphic Novels, ed. Christine Hoff Kraemer and A. David Lewis, pp. 258-273. New York: Continuum, 2010.

Encyclopedia Entries

“Gender, Race, and American Islamophobia,” in the Routledge Handbook of Islam and Gender, ed. Justine Howe. Abingdon: Routledge Press (2020).

“Mormon Traditions: Gender, Sexuality, and Embodiment,” in Macmillan Interdisciplinary Handbooks: Embodied Religion, ed. Kent Brintnall. London: Macmillan (2016).

“Sex and New Religions,” in The Oxford Handbook of New Religious Movements, Second Edition, ed. James R. Lewis. Oxford: Oxford (2016).

“Gender,” in The Bloomsbury Companion to New Religious Movements, ed. George D. Chryssides and Benjamin E. Zeller. New York: Bloomsbury (2014).

“Sexuality Studies,” in The Bloomsbury Companion to New Religious Movements, ed. George D. Chryssides and Benjamin E. Zeller. New York: Bloomsbury (2014).

“Sexuality and American Religions,” in Encyclopedia of Psychology and Religion, Second Edition, eds. David Leeming, Katherine Madden, and Stanton Marlon. New York: Springer New York Heidelberg Dordrecht London (2014).

Book Reviews

Review of Muslim Cool: Race, Religion, and Hip-Hop in the United States, by Su’ad Abdul Khabeer. American Academy of Religion’s Reading Religion.

Review of Convulsing Bodies: Religion and Resistance in Foucault, by Mark Jordan. Religious Studies Review 42.3 (2016): 190.

Review of Polygamy in Primetime: Media, Gender, and Politics in Mormon Fundamentalism, by Janet Bennion. Mormon Studies Review 2 (2015): 166-171.

Review of Pray the Gay Away: The Extraordinary Lives of Bible Belt Gays, by Bernadette Barton. Theology and Sexuality 20.2 (2014): 151-180.

“Dis/enchantment: Locating Modernity between Secularism and ‘The Sacred.’” Review of The Place of Enchantment: British Occultism and the Culture of the Modern by Alex Owen and Authors of the Impossible: The Paranormal and the Sacred, by Jeffrey Kripal. WSQ: Women’s Studies Quarterly 40: 3&4 (2012): 326 – 333.

Religion Is Not Done With You: Or, The Hidden Power of Religion on Race, Maps, Bodies, and Law (Boston: Beacon Press, forthcoming November 2024), with Ilyse Morgenstein Fuerst.