When Heroes Love: The Ambiguity of Eros in the Stories of Gilgamesh and David (2005).
Warrior, Dancer, Seductress, Queen: Women in Judges and Biblical Israel (1998).
Under Every Green Tree: Popular Religion in Sixth-Century Judah (1992).
"Authority and Epistemology in Islamic Medical Ethics of Women's Reproductive Health" Journal of Religious Ethics. 49: 2, 249-269, 2021.
"De-Universalizing Male Normativity: Feminist Methodologies for Studying Masculinity in Premodern Islamic Ethics Texts" Journal of Islamic Ethics. 4 (2020) 66-97. doi:10.1163/24685542-12340044
"Rearing Gendered Souls: Childhood and the Making of Muslim Manhood in Pre-Modern Islamic Ethics." Journal of the American Academy of Religion. December 2019, Vol. 87, No. 4, pp. 1178–1208 doi:10.1093/jaarel/lfz072
"Thinking of Divorce" in Half of Faith: A Reader on American Muslim Marriage and Divorce in the Twenty-First Century. Kecia Ali, Ed. Boston: OpenBU, 2021. 129-134.
"Pre-Marital Counseling and Nikah Contract Writing Guide" in Tying the Knot: A Womanist/Feminist Guide to Muslim Marriage in America. Kecia Ali, Ed. Boston: Open BU, 2022. 55-66.
"Specific Issues in Muslim Divorce." The Family Law Review: Family Law Section of the State Bar of Georgia. December 2006. 1-5.
"Rereading Islamic Medieval Philosophy for Ethical Gender Relations in Modernity" Proceedings of the Religious and Philosophical Texts Symposium. Faculty of Theology, Istanbul University. 2012.
Evangelicalism in America (2016)
Redeemer: The Life of Jimmy Carter (2014)
Mine Eyes Have Seen the Glory: A Journey into the Evangelical Subculture in America, 5th ed. (2014)
First Freedom: The Fight for Religious Liberty (2012)
The Making of Evangelicalism: From Revivialism to Politics and Beyond (2010)
God in the White House: How Faith Shaped the Presidency from John F. Kennedy to George W. Bush (2008)
Thy Kingdom Come: How the Religious Right Distorts the Faith and Threatens America (2006)
Religion in American Life: A Short History (with Jon Butler and Grant Wacker), 2nd ed. (2011)
Encyclopedia of Evangelicalism (2004)
Grant Us Courage: Travels Along the Mainline of American Protestantism (1996)
A Perfect Babel of Confusion: Dutch Religion and English Culture in Middle Colonies (1989)
West Africa's Women of God: Alinesitoué and the Diola Prophetic Tradition, Bloomington: Indiana University Press, (November 2016). Finalist for Albert J. Raboteau Prize in Africana Religions.
Shrines of the Slave Trade: Diola Religion and Society in Precolonial Senegambia, New York: Oxford University Press, 1999. Winner of the American Academy of Religion Award, "Best First Book in the History of Religions," 2000.
“Jewish Ethics in a Pluralistic World,” Journal of Jewish Thought and Philosophy , 5:2 (1996) 219-236.
Worship of the Heart: A Study in Maimonides’ Philosophy of Religion , (1995).
“Meaning and Reference in Maimonides’ Negative Theology,” Harvard Theological Review , 88:3 (1995) 339-360.
“Petition and Contemplation in Maimonides’ Concept of Prayer,” Religion , 24:1 (January 1994) 59-66.
“Perspectives on Maimonides,” Religious Studies Review , 20:3 (July 1994) 189a-195b.
Books
Lift Every Voice and Swing: Black Musicians and Religious Culture in the Jazz Century (New York: New York University Press, July 2020) (also on Amazon)
--WINNER, 2022 Gustave O. Arlt Award in the Humanities, Council of Graduate Schools
--FINALIST, 2021 Religion and the Arts Book Award, American Academy of Religion
--Reviewed in Reading Religion: https://readingreligion.org/books/lift-every-voice-and-swing
--Reviewed in Cercles: Revue Pluridisciplinaire du Monde Anglophone: http://www.cercles.com/review/r92/Booker.html
--Reviewed in American Catholic Studies: https://muse.jhu.edu/article/854095
--Reviewed in American Religion: https://muse.jhu.edu/article/857086
--Reviewed in Journal of African American History: https://www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/epdf/10.1086/720229
Peer-Reviewed Journal Articles
"Mothers of the Movement: Evangelicalism and Religious Experience in Black Women's Activism," in 'Evangelicalism: New Directions in Scholarship,' ed. Randall Balmer and Edward J. Blum, Special issue of Religions 12 (2), 141 (2021): available https://www.mdpi.com/2077-1444/12/2/141/htm.
"'Deplorable Exegesis': Dick Gregory's Irreverent Scriptural Authority in the 1960s and 1970s," Religion and American Culture: A Journal of Interpretation 30.2 (2020): 1-50, available https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/religion-and-american-culture/ar...
"'Pulpit and Pew': African American Humor on Irreverent Religious Participation in Negro Digest, 1943-1950," Journal of Africana Religions 8.1 (2020): 1-36, available https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.5325/jafrireli.8.1.0001. (PDF available here)
"'God's Spirit Lives in Me': Metaphysical Theology in Charleszetta 'Mother' Waddles' Urban Mission to the Poor," Nova Religio: The Journal of Alternative and Emergent Religions 22.1 (August 2018): 5-33, available http://nr.ucpress.edu/content/22/1/5. (PDF available here)
"Performing, Representing, and Archiving Belief: Religious Expressions among Jazz Musicians," Religions 7 (8), 108 (2016): available http://www.mdpi.com/2077-1444/7/8/108/html.
"'An Authentic Record of My Race': Exploring the Popular Narratives of African American Religion in the Music of Duke Ellington," Religion and American Culture: A Journal of Interpretation 25.1 (2015): 1-36, available https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.1525/rac.2015.25.1.1.
"Civil Rights Religion? Rethinking 1950s and 1960s Political Activism for African American Religious History," Journal of Africana Religions 2.2 (2014): 211-243, available https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.5325/jafrireli.2.2.0211. (PDF available here)
Book Chapters
"'Pray for good sounds': Black Catholic Practice, Friendship, and Irreverence in the Intimate Correspondences of Mary Lou Williams," forthcoming for the "American Catholic Laywomen in the Twentieth Century" book project, ed. Nicholas Rademacher and Sandra Yocum.
"The Hate That Hate Produced: Representing Black Religion in the Twentieth Century," in A Companion to American Religious History, ed. Benjamin E. Park (Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc., 2021), 301-316. (contact for info)
Book Reviews
Review of Alisha Lola Jones, Flaming? The Peculiar Theopolitics of Fire and Desire in Black Male Gospel Performance (New York: Oxford University Press, 2020), for American Religion 2.2 (Spring 2021): 145-147. (PDF available here)
Review of Emily Suzanne Clark and Brad Stoddard, Race and New Religious Movements in the USA: A Documentary Reader (New York: Bloomsbury Academic, 2019), for Nova Religio: The Journal of Alternative and Emergent Religions 24.3 (Feb 2021): 121-122. (PDF available here)
Review of documentary film, Father's Kingdom (2017), for Nova Religio: The Journal of Alternative and Emergent Religions 23.3 (Feb 2020): 114-116. (PDF available here)
Review of Tracy Fessenden, Religion Around Billie Holiday (Penn State University Press, 2018), for Material Religion: The Journal of Objects, Art and Belief (18 July 2019), available https://doi.org/10.1080/17432200.2019.1633084 (PDF available here).
Review of Ula Yvette Taylor, The Promise of Patriarchy: Women and the Nation of Islam (UNC, 2017), for Reading Religion: A Publication of the American Academy of Religion (2018), available http://readingreligion.org/books/promise-patriarchy.
Review of Lerone A. Martin, Preaching on Wax: The Phonograph and the Shaping of Modern African American Religion (NYU, 2014) for Journal of Religion and Culture 25 (2015): 111-115, available http://www.jrc-concordia.ca/preaching-on-wax-review/.
Encyclopedia Entries
"Abraham Joshua Heschel," "Mordecai Wyatt Johnson," "George Dennis Sale Kelsey," and "Benjamin Elijah Mays," in The Martin Luther King, Jr., Encyclopedia, ed. Clayborne Carson, et al. (Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 2007).
Public Scholarly Engagement
"Black Christian Faith: Perennial Decline, Respectability, and 'the back of the church'," Black Perspectives, African American Intellectual History Society, February 10, 2022.
"How to Think beyond 'the Black Church' and the Trope of Generational Rebellion," The Black Church in American Public Life, the Berkley Forum, Georgetown University, co-sponsored by the Center on African-American Religion, Sexual Politics and Social Justice, Columbia University; April 8, 2021
"Prosperity Meets the Poor: The Mission of Mother Waddles in Urban America," Sacred Writes – Faithfully Magazine, October 8, 2020
"Keeping Duke Ellington Alive in Matter and in Spirit," Sacred Matters: Religious Currents in Culture, July 22, 2020
"The Church of Jazz - An Interview with Author Vaughn Booker," 360° Sound, Jul 16, 2020
"Ask the Expert: The Meaning of Jazz," in Dartmouth Alumni Magazine (July-Aug 2020)
"Performance," for the "A Universe of Terms" series, ed. Mona Oraby and Daniel Vaca, The Immanent Frame: Secularism, Religion and the Public Sphere, December 20, 2019
Interview with Tiffanie Wen on the future of religion, "Eight Dartmouth Professors Peer into the Future (It's not all scary.)," in Dartmouth Alumni Magazine (May-Jun 2018)
"The False God of Nationalism," a piece for The New School's Public Seminar, January 9, 2018
A 2017 interview with Professor Judith Weisenfeld of Princeton University, discussing her book, New World A-Coming: Black Religion and Racial Identity during the Great Migration (NYU Pr.) in Religion & Politics.
Resource List for studying Race and Religion in American History, 2014
My most recent major publication is “Head, Proportional, or Progressive: An Evaluation Based on Jewish and Christian Ethics,” in Ethics and Taxation, Robert van Brederode, ed. (Singapore: Springer Publishing, 2019), pp. 115-144.
On May 30, 2015, Dartmouth's Religion Department hosted a conference celebrating my retirement and that of my colleague Nancy Frankenberry. For that conference, Karen Lebacqz and Stephen R. Palmquist delivered papers examining my writings in the areas of bioethics and philosophy of religion. Karen Lebacqz's paper, entitled "On Hope and Hard Choices: Ronald M. Green and Bioethics" now appears in the December issue of The Journal of Religious Ethics [Vol. 44, no. 4, (2016), pp. 722-737], where it is followed by the published version of Stephen R. Palmquist's paper, entitled, "The Paradox of Inwardness in Kant and Kierkegaard: Ronald Green’s Legacy in Philosophy of Religion" [The Journal of Religious Ethics [Vol. 44, no. 4, (2016), pp. 738-751].
My own "Response to Karen Lebacqz and Stephen Palmquist," delivered at the conference, follows their papers in the journal [The Journal of Religious Ethics [Vol. 44, no. 4, (2016), pp. 752-759]. As an author, I am permitted to share this essay with interested readers. It can be read here: response-to-kl-sp
“From Genome to Brainome: Charting the Lessons Learned,” in Neuroethics: Defining the Issues in Theory, Practice, and Policy , J Illes (ed.), (2006), 105-121.“Kant and Kierkegaard on the Need for Historical Faith: An Imaginary Dialogue,” in Kant and the New Philosophy of Religion , C L Firestone and S R Palmquist (eds.), (2006), 157-175.
The Human Embryo Research Debates: Bioethics in the Vortex of Controversy , (2001).
The Ethical Manager , (1994).
Kierkegaard and Kant: the Hidden Debt , (1992).
“Toward a Copernican Revolution in Our Thinking about Life’s Beginning and Life’s End,” Soundings 66/2 (Summer 1983), 152-173. This, essay, which I regard as one of my early and more important contributions to the our debates about personhood, is available online at:https://www.jstor.org/stable/41178251?seq=1#page_scan_tab_contents
“From Genome to Brainome: Charting the Lessons Learned,” in Neuroethics: Defining the Issues in Theory, Practice, and Policy , J Illes (ed.), (2006), 105-121.
“Kant and Kierkegaard on the Need for Historical Faith: An Imaginary Dialogue,” in Kant and the New Philosophy of Religion , C L Firestone and S R Palmquist (eds.), (2006), 157-175.
The Human Embryo Research Debates: Bioethics in the Vortex of Controversy , (2001).
The Ethical Manager , (1994).
Kierkegaard and Kant: the Hidden Debt , (1992).
“Toward a Copernican Revolution in Our Thinking about Life’s Beginning and Life’s End,” Soundings 66/2 (Summer 1983), 152-173. This, essay, which I regard as one of my early and more important contributions to the our debates about personhood, is available online at:https://www.jstor.org/stable/41178251?seq=1#page_scan_tab_contents
Jüdischer Islam: Islam und jüdisch-deutsche Selbstbestimmung, trans. Dirk Hartwig (Berlin: Mathes und Seitz, 2018).
The Muslim Reception of European Orientalism, ed. Susannah Heschel and Umar Ryad (New York: Routledge Press, 2018).
Holocaust Scholarship: Personal Trajectories and Professional Interpretations, ed. Christopher Browning, Susannah Heschel, Michael R. Marrus and Milton Shain (New York: Palgrave-Macmillan Books, 2015).
“Theological Ghosts and Goblins: Martin Luther’s Haunting of Liberal Judaism,” Polyphonie der Theologie: Verantwortung und Widerstand in Kirche und Politik, ed. Matthias Grebe (Stuttgart: W. Kohlhammer Verlag, 2019)
“A Different Kind of Theo-Politics: Abraham Joshua Heschel, the Prophets and the Civil Rights Movement,” Journal of Political Theology (Winter 2020)
“Ecstasy versus Ethics: The Impact of World War I on German Biblical Scholarship on the Hebrew Prophets,” in: The First World War and the Mobilization of Biblical Scholarship, ed. Andrew Mein, Nathan MacDonald and Matthew A. Collins (London: T&T Clark, 2019), 187-206.
“The Philological Uncanny: Nineteenth-Century Jewish Readings of the Qur’an,” The Journal of Qur’anic Studies 20:3 (Fall 2018), 191-211.
“‘Wherever You See the Trace of Man, There I Stand Before You’: The Complexities of God and Human Dignity Within Judaism,” Human Dignity in Context: Explorations of a Contested Concept, ed. Dieter Grimm, Alexandra Kemmerer, Christoph Möllers (Baden-Baden: Nomos, 2018), 129-62.
“Out of the Mystery Comes the Bond: The Role of Rabbi Abraham Joshua Heschel in Shaping Nostra Aetate,” in: Righting Relations after the Holocaust and Vatican II: Essays in Honor of John Pawlikowski, ed. Elena G. Procario-Foley and Robert A. Cathey (New Jersey: Paulist Press, 2018), 199-225.
With Sarah Imhoff, “Where are the Women in Jewish Studies?” Forward (July 2018)
“A Friendship in the Prophetic Tradition: Abraham Joshua Heschel and Martin Luther King, Jr.,” Telos (April 2018), 67-84.
“Jews and Christianity,” in: Cambridge History of Judaism, ed. Mitchell Hart and Tony Michels (New York: Cambridge University Press, 2017), 1063-92.
Timothy Lim has published five authored books, six edited books, and over sixty articles and chapters, including The Earliest Commentary on the Prophecy of Habakkuk (OUP 2020), The Formation of the Jewish Canon (YUP, 2013), and (co-edited with Professor John J. Collins) The Oxford Handbook of the Dead Sea Scrolls (OUP 2010). His most popular book is The Dead Sea Scrolls (OUP 2005; 2nd ed. 2017), which has been translated into eight languages, and made into two audiobooks. His current research is on human and divine love in the "Song of Songs" and its reception history.
The Crusades and the Christian World of the East: Rough Tolerance, (2008).
The Martyrdom of the Franciscans: Islam, the Papacy, and an Order in Conflict (2020).
"What was Crusader about the Crusader States?" Al-Masāq 30 (2018): 317-330.
“True Romans: Remembering the Crusades among Eastern Christians.” Journal of Medieval History 40 (2014): 260-75.
“Martyrdom and the Muslim World through Franciscan Eyes.” The Catholic History Review 97 (2011): 1-23.
“The Chronicle of Matthew of Edessa: Apocalypse, the First Crusade and the Armenian Diaspora,” Dumbarton Oaks Papers , 61 (2007) 157-81.
“Christian Authority in the Latin East: Edessa in Crusader History,” in The Medieval Crusade , S Ridyard (ed.), (2004) 71-84.
Unfortunate Destiny: Animals in the Indian Buddhist Imagination (Oxford University Press, 2017).
Ties That Bind: Maternal Imagery and Discourse in Indian Buddhism (Oxford University Press, 2012).
Head, Eyes, Flesh, and Blood: Giving Away the Body in Indian Buddhist Literature (Columbia University Press, 2007).
"Animal Doubles of the Buddha," Humanimalia 7:2 (2016) 1-34.
"Buddhism and the Family," Oxford Bibliographies in Buddhism, ed. Richard Payne (New York: Oxford University Press, 2014).
"Bad Nun: Thullanandā in Pāli Canonical and Commentarial Sources," Journal of Buddhist Ethics 20 (2013) 18-66.
"An Elephant Good to Think: The Buddha in Pārileyyaka Forest," Journal of the International Association of Buddhist Studies 35:1-2 (2012) 259-293.
“Mother-Love and Mother-Grief: South Asian Buddhist Variations on a Theme,” Journal of Feminist Studies in Religion 23:1 (2007) 95-116.
“Debt to the Mother: A Neglected Aspect of the Founding of the Buddhist Nuns’ Order,” Journal of the American Academy of Religion 74:4 (2006) 861-901.
"On Seeking Guidance." In Spirited Diasporas: New Frontiers and Futures of Afro-Atlantic Religions, edited by Martin Tsang. Gainesville, FL: University of Florida Press (August 2023)
"Pigeons at the Bedside: Negotiations Around Ritual Space in the Hospital" (Nova Religio 27.3, February 2024)
“Imbibing the Universe: Methods of Ingesting the Five Sprouts,” Asian Medicine, Tradition and Modernity 7 (2013).
“The Way of the Yellow and the Red: Sexual Practice in Early Daoism,” Nan Nü, Men, Women and Gender in China 10 (2008).
“Time Manipulation in Early Daoist Ritual: The East Well Chart and the Eight Archivists,” Asia Major 18 (2005)
The Emergence of Daoism: Creation of Tradition. (London: Routledge Press, 2012).
Lived Islam: Colloquial Religion in a Cosmopolitan Tradition Cambridge UP 2020
“The Origins of Islamic Ethics,” in The Blackwell Companion to Religious Ethics , W Schweicker (ed.), (2005) 244-253.
“Afterward: The Past in the Future of Islamic Ethics,” in Islamic Ethics of Life: Abortion, War, and Euthanasia , J E Brockopp (ed.), (2003).
“Late Ottoman Religion,” Archivum Ottomanicum , Special Issue, with H Kayali, 19 (2001) 193-303.
“Musa Kazim: from ’ilm to Polemics,” Archivum Ottomanicum , 19 (2001) 281-306.
Before Revelation: The Boundaries of Muslim Moral Knowledge , (1995).
Books:
Articles and essays:
"Religion, Economics, and the Stories We Tell." Harvard Divinity Bulletin, Autumn/Winter 2021
"Defaced Coins in a Utopian Market" Political Theology Network, July 9, 2020.
"Exceptional Economy: Sovereign Exchanges in Carl Schmitt and Giorgio Agamben" Telos 191 (Summer 2020): 115-136
"Sovereign Debt." Journal of Religious Ethics 46:2 (2018): 239-266.
"Speculating the Subject of Money: Georg Simmel on Human Value." Religions 7.80 (2016): 1-15.
"Irrational Exuberance: Hope, Expectation, and Cool Market Logic." Political Theology 17.2 (2016): 120-136.
"Anarchy, Void, Signature: Agamben's Trinity Among Orthodoxy's Remains." Political Theology
17:1 (2016): 27-46.
"Debt Cancellation as Sovereign Crisis Management," Cosmologics Magazine, Jan 18, 2016.
"Eusebius as Political Theologian: The Legend Continues." Harvard Theological Review 108:1 (2015): 129-154.
"Iconicity of the Photographic Image: Theodore of Stoudios and André Bazin." In Byzantium/Modernism, edited by Roland Betancourt and Maria Taroutina, 237-53. Visualizing the Middle Ages. Leiden: Brill, 2015.