American Examples, the program for early-career scholars of religion in America funded by the Luce Foundation, is proud to announce a new publication relationship with the University of Alabama Press. UAP will be publishing an anthology of research essays from each of the American Examples cohorts beginning with the first AE cohort that met in spring of 2019. The first anthology, titled American Examples: A New Conversation About Religion, will be published in the summer of 2021. We are very excited to partner with UAP and look forward to four more anthologies over the next four years of the program’s funding.

Here’s a sneak peak of the table of contents for the first volume:

American Examples: A New Conversation About Religion
Edited by Michael J. Altman

Preface
Michael J. Altman

Foreword:
An Experiment in Comparative Analogy
Steven Ramey and Vaia Touna

Introduction:
Something Someone Called Religion Somewhere Someone Called America
Michael J. Altman

The Rivers that Divide Us:
Creolization, Caribbeaness, and other Categories in the Study of Caribbean Hinduism
Prea Persaud

Atheist Indoctrination?:
Practicing Atheism in Parenthood
Hannah Scheidt

Spatial Hierarchy and Religious Distinction in an American Architectural Utopia
Travis Warren Cooper

What Makes Humor Muslim?
Samah Choudhury

Pregnancy as Prosperity, Fertility as Faith:
3 Proposals on Women’s Reproductive Bodies in Nigerian Pentecostal Churches
Emily D. Crews

Afterword
Richard Newton