Books:

• American Religion: Contemporary Trends — Mark Chaves
• The Aryan Jesus: Christian Theologians and the Bible in Nazi Germany — Susannah Heschel
• Augustine’s Confessions: A Biography — Garry Wills
• The Book of Mormon: A Biography — Paul C. Gutjahr
• The Church of Scientology: A History of a New Religion — Hugh B. Urban
• Concealment and Revelation: Esotericism in Jewish Thought and its Philosophical Implications — Moshe Halbertal translated by Jackie Feldman
• Death and Immortality in Late Neoplatonism: Studies on the Ancient Commentaries on Plato’s Phaedo — Sebastian Ramon Philipp Gertz
• The Desert and the Sown: The Syrian Adventures of the Female Lawrence of Arabia — Gertrude Bell
• Desert Queen: The Extraordinary Life of Gertrude Bell: Adventurer, Adviser to Kings, Ally of Lawrence of Arabia — Janet Wallach

• Dietrich Bonhoeffer’s Letters and Papers from Prison: A Biography — Martin E. Marty
• The Encyclopedia of War — Gordon Martel
• Evolution and Belief: Confessions of a Religious Paleontologist — Robert J. Asher — Response from the author!
• The First Modern Jew: Spinoza and the History of an Image — Daniel B. Schwartz
• Gertrude Bell: Queen of the Desert, Shaper of Nations — Georgina Howell
• How Judaism Became a Religion: An Introduction Modern Jewish Thought — Leora Batnitzky

• The I Ching: A Biography — Richard J. Smith
• Imago Dei: The Byzantine Apologia for Icons — Jaroslave Pelikan — Exhibit of Byzantine Icons at the Metropolitan Museum of Art
• The Jewish Jesus: How Judaism and Christianity Shaped Each Other — Peter Schafer
• Latino Catholicism: Transformation in America’s Largest Church — Timothy Matovina
• Legacy: A Genetic History of the Jewish People — Harry Ostrer
• Metaphysics — Peter van Inwagen
• Mystery Cults of the Ancient World — Hugh Bowden
• On Sacrifice — Moshe Halbertal
• The Origins of Jewish Mysticism – Peter Schafer
• Princeton Readings in Religion and Violence — edited and introductions by Mark Juergensmeyer and Margo Kitts

• The Scandal of Kabbalah — Yaacob Dweck
• A Short Introduction to the Tiberian Masoretic Bible and its Reading Tradition — Geoffrey Khan
• The Tibetan Book of the Dead: A Biography — Donald S. Lopez, Jr. — Description from the author
• A Very Brief History of Eternity — Carlos Eire — Interview with the author here!

Journals:

• Journal of Near Eastern Studies, Vol. 71, No. 1, April 2012