01: Last issue’s review of Kim Hansen’s book Military Chaplains and Religious Diversity incorrectly stated that the interviews were based on a representative sample of chaplains. The sample was not meant to be representative of chaplains, but rather was designed to highlight the issues facing the chaplaincy and the diverse religious makeup of the chaplains. […]

01: Ecologies of Faith in New York City (Indiana University Press) looks at how congregations interact with their neighborhoods in ways that are applicable beyond  its New York contexts. The book, co-edited by RW’s editor, Nadia Mian, and Weishan Huang, is largely the result of research from the Ecologies of Learning Project, founded by urban religion scholar Lowell Livezey, who led the way in studying how […]

01: The Journal of Muslims in Europe, a new quarterly publication, is an outgrowth of the annual Yearbook of Muslims in Europe, seeking to provide a more frequent forum for research on the burgeoning European Islamic movements and developments. The journal is interdisciplinary and especially interested in addressing the imbalance in research between Western and […]

01: The article “Growing Acceptance of Black Jews by the Jewish Mainstream” on page 2 in the July-August RW was mistakenly cut short. The final sentence of the article should read: “Today, black Jews see themselves as reaching out to and educating other African groups who identify as Jews.” 02: The current issue of the Bulletin […]

01: The June issue of the e-journal Approaching Religion looks at the “New Visibility of Atheism in Europe.” The articles, stemming from a seminar in January 2012 at the Donner Institute, cover a range of topics related to contemporary atheism in different countries. Teemu Taira looks at the position of atheism in Finland, showing how […]

01: Religion & Politics is the new online news journal of the John C. Danforth Center on Religion and Politics at Washington University in St. Louis. The site is more than the usual opinion blog, as it publishes original articles by leading journalists and academics. The journal is concerned with the interactions between religion and […]

01: The journal Society devotes it January/February issue to the future of social conservatism and includes several interesting articles on its varied religious dimensions. The articles look at world developments and more specific case studies: Joshua Duna’s reports on the political effects of evangelicals in their “headquarter” city of Colorado Springs. Duna finds that on […]

01: Reflections, the magazine of Yale Divinity School, devotes its fall issue to religion and theology and the social media. The issue serves as a window into the question of how mainline Protestants are dealing with the new technology. The issue’s 22 articles suggest a growing engagement with the new media, yet also a concern […]

01: In its Oct. 28–Nov. 10 issue, the National Catholic Reporter features a 20-page special section comparing the five major surveys it has published on American Catholicism since 1987. Compared to the 2011 survey, the results show both decline and stability in Catholic beliefs and practices. The most recent survey, which, like the others, was […]

01: Nova Religio, the journal of “alternative and emergent religions,” devotes most of its August issue to Jews and new religious movements (NRMs), looking both at expressly Jewish movements, such as the Kabbalah Center and Messianic Judaism, and the often-disproportionate involvement of Jews in other religious groups and spiritual movements, such as Buddhism. In the […]