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The Department of Religion congratulates Professor Gary Dorrien on the publication of his memoir "Over from Union Road My Christian-Left-Intellectual Life” now available from Baylor University Press. Professor Dorrien was recently awarded the Gandhi, King, Mandela Peace Prize at Morehouse College in Atlanta, Georgia.

Gil Anidjar’s latest book, On the Sovereignty of Mothers: The Political as Maternal, will be published in November by Columbia University Press. The Press is featuring the book on its website, in a blog post by Professor Anidjar, that picks up on some of the key themes in the book. 

Aziza Shanazarova, Assistant Professor in the Department of Religion, has a new book out with Cambridge University Press, Female Religiosity in Central Asia: Sufi Leaders in the Persianate World. Through revealing the fascinating story of the Sufi master Aghā-yi Buzurg and her path to becoming the “Great Lady” in sixteenth-century Bukhara, Professor Shanazarova invites readers into the little-known world of female religious authority in early modern Islamic Central Asia, revealing a far more multifaceted gender history than previously supposed.