Books
Publications
"Proximations of the Public Religion: Worship, Spritual Warfare, and the Ritualization of Christian Dance." American Anthropologist 119(1):73-85, 2017.
“Saved by a Martyr: Evangelical
Mediation, Sanctification, and ‘the Persecuted Church.’” Journal of the American Academy of Religion 84(4):
1056-1080, 2016.
“Personhood: Sin, Sociality, and the
Unbuffered Self in US Evangelicalism.” In The
Anthropology of Global Pentecostalism and Evangelicalism, Rosalind Hackett
and Simon Coleman, eds. New York University Press, 2015.
“All Catholics Now?:
Spectres of Catholicism in Evangelical Social Engagement.” In The New Evangelical
Social Engagement, Brian Steensland and Philip Goff, eds. Oxford University
Press, 2013.
“The
Time and Place for Prayer: Evangelical Urbanism and Citywide Prayer Movements.” Religion 43 (3), 2013.
“Evangelical Megachurches and the Christianization of Civil Society: An
Ethnographic Case Study.” In Politics and Partnerships: The Role of
Voluntary Associations in America’s Political Past and Present, Elisabeth
Clemens and Doug Guthrie, eds. University of Chicago Press, 2011.
“Taking the (Inner) City for God: Ambiguities of Urban Social Engagement among
Conservative White Evangelicals.” In The Fundamentalist City:
Religion and Urbanism in the New Global Order, Nezar AlSayyad and Mejgan
Massoumi, eds. Routledge, 2011.
"Faith
Beyond Belief: Evangelical Protestant Conceptions of Faith and the Resonance of
Anti-Humanism." Social
Analysis, 52 (1), 2008.
"Moral
Ambitions of Grace: The Paradox of Compassion and Accountability in Evangelical
Faith-Based Activism." Cultural
Anthropology, 23 (1), 2008.
"You Can't Talk to an Empty Stomach: Faith-based Activism, Holistic
Evangelism, and the Publicity of Evangelical Engagement." In Proselytization
Revisited: Rights, Free Markets, and Culture Wars, Rosalind Hackett, ed.
Equinox Press, 2008.
"Sins of Our Soccer Moms: Servant Evangelism and the Spiritual Injuries of
Class." In Local Actions: Cultural Activism, Power, and Public
Life in America, Melissa Checker and Margaret Fishman, eds. Columbia
University Press, 2004.
"Sustaining Charisma:
Mormon Sectarian Culture and the Struggle for Plural Marriage, 1852-1890." Nova Religio, 6 (1), 2002.
" A Theology of Blame." Anthropology News, March 2002.