Jason Bruner

Monographs

1. Jason Bruner. How to Study Global Christianity: A Short Guide for Students. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2022.
2. Jason Bruner. Imagining Persecution: Why American Christians Believe There is a Global War Against Their Faith. New Brunswick: Rutgers University Press, 2021.
3. Jason Bruner. Living Salvation in the East African Revival in Uganda. Studies in African History and the Diaspora Series. Rochester: University of Rochester Press, 2017. 

Edited Book

• Jason Bruner and David C. Kirkpatrick, eds. Global Visions of Violence: Agency and Persecution in World Christianity. New Brunswick: Rutgers University Press, 2022. 

Journal Special Issue 

• Co-editor, with David Dmitri Hurlbut, “Religious Conversion in Africa” special issue of Religions11:8 (2020).

Peer-Reviewed Journal Articles 

1. Jason Bruner. “Image and Imagination in Photographing American Religion.” Religious Studies Review (2026).
2. Jason Bruner and Candace Lukasik, “Power Circuits: Asymmetries of Global Christianity.” Journal of the American Academy of Religion (2024).
3. Jason Bruner and David C. Kirkpatrick. “Intra-Christian Violence and the Problematisation of the World Christian Paradigm.” Journal of Ecclesiastical History (2022).
4. Volker Benkert, Kelly Bitler, Jason Bruner, Lauren McArthur Harris, Kevin McHugh, David Pijawka, Sharon C. Smith, Hava Tirosh-Samuelson, and Marc Vance. “A Monument to Resilience: One Phoenix Building and the Three Communities It Served, 1955-2021.” Journal of Arizona History 62, no. 2 (Summer 2021), 249-269.
5. Stephanie F. Reid, Taylor Kessner, Lauren McArthur Harris, Volker Benkert, and Jason Bruner. “Comparative Genocide Pedagogy and Survivor Testimony: Lessons learned from a High School Unit on the Holocaust and the Rwandan Genocide.” The History Teacher 54:2 (2021): 297-335.
6. Jason Bruner and Dima Hurlbut. “New Approaches to ‘Converts’ and ‘Conversion’ in Africa.” Religions 11:8 (2020) (4,600 words).
7. Lauren Harris, Stephanie Reid, Volker Benkert, and Jason Bruner. “Developing Curriculum for the Comparative Study of Genocide.” Theory and Research in Social Education 47:4 (2019): 497-525.
8. Jason Bruner. “Pentecostalism’s Movements: A Review of Faith In Flux,” Religious Studies Review 45:3 (2019): 308-310 (2,500 words).
9. Jason Bruner. “Religion and Politics in the East African Revival.” International Bulletin of Mission Research 43:4 (2019): 311-319.
10. Jason Bruner. “Conversion and the Problem of Discontinuity in the East African Revival.” Journal of Ecclesiastical History 70:2 (2019): 304-321.
11. Jason Bruner. “‘What is a European hospital but a pagan shrine?’ Missionaries, Progress, and the Problem of Materiality in Colonial Uganda.” Material Religion 14:3 (2018): 314-338.
12. Jason Bruner. “Religion, Medicine, and Global Health in Uganda: Reflecting Critically on an Afternoon at Mulago Hospital.” Fieldwork in Religion 12:1 (2017): 27-49.
13. Jason Bruner, Volker Benkert, Marcie Hutchinson, Lauren Harris, and Anders Erik Lundin. “Developing a Comparative Genocide Method.” World History Connected 14:2 (June 2017), (7,000 words). [Corresponding author and contributed 20% of article.]
14. Lauren Harris, Volker Benkert, Jason Bruner, Marcie Hutchinson, and Anders Erik Lundin. “Learning and Researching Genocide Comparatively.” World History Connected 14:2 (June 2017), (3,200 words). [Contributed 20% of article.]
15. Jason Bruner. “Contesting Confession in the East African Revival.” Anglican and Episcopal History 84:3 (2015): 253-278.
16. Jason Bruner. “‘The testimony must begin in the home’: The Life of Salvation and the Remaking of Homes in the East African Revival in Southern Uganda, c. 1930-1955.” Journal of Religion in Africa 44:3-4 (2014): 309-332.
17. Jason Bruner. "The Cambridge Seven, Late Victorian Culture, and the Chinese Frontier." Social Science and Missions, Special Issue: “Beyond Borders: 'China' in Missions” 27:1 (2014): 7-30.
18. Jason Bruner. “Public Confession and the Moral Universe of the East African Revival.” Studies in World Christianity 18:3 (2012): 254-268.
19. Jason Bruner. "Keswick and the East African Revival: A Historiographical Reappraisal." Religion Compass 5:9 (2011): 1-13.
20. Jason Bruner. “Inquiring into Empire: Princeton Seminary’s Society of Inquiry on Mission, the Opium Trade, and the British Empire, ca. 1830-1850.” Mission Studies 27:2 (2010): 194-219.
21. Jason Bruner. “Divided We Stand: North American Evangelicals and the Crisis in the Anglican Communion.” Journal of Anglican Studies 8:1 (2010): 101-125. 

Book Chapters 

1. Jason Bruner. “World Christianity after World Religions,” in Thomas Seat, Christie Chui-Shan Chow, Sunder John Boopalan, and Deanna Ferree Womack, eds. Disciplinary Tensions in World Christianity: Methodology, Power Dynamics, and the History of Religions (Minneapolis: Fortress Press, forthcoming 2026).
2. Jason Bruner. “The East African Revival.” Palgrave Handbook of Christianity in Africa, Toyin Falola and Andrew Barnes, eds. (Palgrave MacMillan, 2024).
3. Jason Bruner. “Imperialism in Africa and the Question of Genocide.” In Terrortimes, Terrorscapes? Temporal, Spatial and Memory Continuities of War and Genocide in 20th Century Europe, Volker Benkert and Michael Mayer, eds. (Purdue University Press, 2022).
4. Jason Bruner. “British Missions and Missionaries in the High Imperial Era, ca. 1857-1914." In The Routledge History of Western Empires, Robert Aldrich and Kirsten McKenzie, eds. (Routledge, 2013), 425-438.
5. Jason Bruner. "Fishers of Men and Hunters of Lion: British Missionaries and Big Game Hunting in Colonial Africa." In A Cultural History of Firearms in the Age of Empire, Karen Jones, Giacomo Macola, and David Welch, eds. (Ashgate, 2013), 57-72. 

Creative Writing

1. Jason Bruner. “Life in the Valley: A Found Liturgy.” Jokes Review. March 2024.
2. Jason Bruner. “Let Me Try Again.” Color Tag Magazine IV. January 2022.
3. Jason Bruner and David Blakeman. Sonoran Water. Desert Legends craft book series, Institute of Humanities Research, ASU. 2021.
4. Jason Bruner. “Resurrection Like Green Apple Plastic: On Maury Gortemiller’s Do the Priest in Different Voices.” Oxford American. Summer/Fall, 2020. (Issue awarded “Notable Special Issue” by Best American Essays 2020.)
5. Jason Bruner. “All Things Are Possible.” All Cities Are Beautiful. Part I. March 2020.
6. (Under pseudonym), “Gifts.” 100 Word Story
7. (Under pseudonym), “A Year Up the Mountain.” Eclectica Magazine
8. Jason Bruner. “Eavesdropping in Arizona.” River Teeth: A Journal of Nonfiction Narrative. August 14, 2017.
9. Jason Bruner. “This Place Is an Altar.” Good Letters, Image Journal. April 2017.
10. Jason Bruner. “Unhitching.” Biostories. Winter/Spring 2016. Volume 6, issue 1.
11. Jason Bruner. “Sanctification.” Human Parts. July 24, 2015.
12. Jason Bruner. “A Death in Exile.” PTS Testament. Winter 2013.

Visual Arts

1. “My Lives with Crispin,” Jokes Review, spring 2026.
2. Life in the Valley. is Press, 2024.
3. With Keeley Bruner. Body of the Earth. Denver: Benschop Books, 2022.
4. With Keeley Bruner. Dreaming along the Laurel. Tempe: Thea Press, 2022.
5. “Goddamn Phoenix.” Slag Glass City. April 19, 2021. Analog photo essay.
6. “Left.” Color Tag Magazine. March 2021. “New Topo” exhibition. Analog photo.
7. “Pisgah.” Analog Café. March 2020. Analog photo essay.
8. “So-So.” Analog Café. November 26, 2020. Analog photo essay.
9. “Untitled portrait, 2019.” Analog Forever Magazine. June 15, 2020. “The Eye of the Beholder” online analogue photography exhibition.
10. “So-So, 2” Color Tag Magazine. Spring 2020.
11. “At Work on Central Avenue.” Analog Café. May 4, 2020. Series of 35mm and 120mm photographs.
12. “So-So.” Analog Forever Magazine. January 13, 2020. “The Future’s So Bright…” online analogue photography exhibition.
13. “Resplendent.” GNU Journal; 2019 Nonfiction; digital photograph.
14. “Tryna eat.” Breadcrumbs Magazine Dec. 26, 2018; digital photograph.
15. “Her face.” Broad River Review vol. 26 (2004); graphite on paper

Book Reviews 

1. Jason Bruner. Review of Scott W. Sunquist, The Shape of Christian History. Continuity and Diversity in the Global Church, in Journal of Ecclesiastical History 74:4 (2023).
2. Jason Bruner and David Kirkpatrick. Review of Daniel Philpott and Timothy Shah, eds., Under Caesar’s Sword: How Christians Respond to Persecution, in Journal of World Christianity 10:1 (2020).
3. Jason Bruner. Review of Rachel McBride Lindsey, A Communion of Shadows: Religion and Photography in Nineteenth-Century America, in Anglican and Episcopal History 88:3 (2019).
4. Jason Bruner. Review of David Hollinger, Protestants Abroad, in the Journal of Presbyterian History 97:2 (2019).
5. Jason Bruner. Review of Paddy Musana, et al., eds., The Ugandan Churches and the Political Centre, in International Bulletin of Mission Research 42:4 (2018).
6. Jason Bruner. Review of Derek Cooper, Introduction to World Christian History (Downers Grove: IVP Academic, 2016), in Anglican and Episcopal History 87:3 (2018).
7. Jason Bruner. Review of Derek Peterson, Ethnic Patriotism and the East African Revival: A History of Dissent, c. 1935-1972 (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2013), in The Historian 78:1 (2016).
8. Jason Bruner. Review of Wilbert R. Shenk, The History of the American Society of Missiology, 1973-2013 (Elkhart: Institute of Mennonite Studies, 2014), in International Bulletin of Missionary Research 39:2 (2015).
9. Jason Bruner. Review of Michael A. Rutz, The British Zion: Congregationalism, Politics, and Empire, 1790-1850 (Waco: Baylor University Press, 2011), in Anglican and Episcopal History 83:3 (2014).
10. Jason Bruner. Review of T. Jack Thompson, Light on Darkness? Missionary Photography of Africa in the Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Centuries (Grand Rapids: Eerdmans Publishing, 2011), in Itinerario: International Journal on the History of European Expansion and Global Interaction 36:3 (2012).
11. Jason Bruner. Review of Neil Kodesh, Beyond the Royal Gaze: Clanship and Public Healing in Buganda (Charlottesville: University of Virginia, 2010), in African Studies Quarterly 12:4 (2011).
12. Jason Bruner. Review of Augustine S.O. Okwu, Igbo Culture and the Christian Missions: Conversion in Theory and Practice, 1857-1957 (New York: University Press of America, 2011), in African Studies Quarterly 12:3 (2011).
13. Jason Bruner. Review of Mark Shaw, Global Awakening: How 20th-Century Revivals Triggered a Christian Revolution (Downers Grove: IVP Academic, 2010), in Africa Journal of Evangelical Theology 29:2 (2010).
14. Jason Bruner. Review of Philip Jenkins, The Lost History of Christianity: The Thousand-Year Golden Age of the Church in the Middle East, Africa, and Asia – and How It Died (New York: Harper One, 2008), in Anglican and Episcopal History 79:2 (July 2010).
15. Jason Bruner. Review of R. Todd Putnam and Mark S. Sweetnam, The Scofield Bible: Its History and Impact on the Evangelical Church (Colorado Springs, CO: Paternoster, 2009), in Evangelical Review of Theology 35:1 (January 2011).
16. Jason Bruner. Review of Jeffrey Cox, The British Missionary Enterprise since 1700 (London: Routledge, 2008), in Koinonia 22 (2011

Encyclopedia Articles

1. Jason Bruner. “Uganda.” In Encyclopedia of Christianity in the Global South, George Thomas Kurien and Mark Lamport, ed. New York: Rowman and Littlefield, 2018.
2. Jason Bruner. “Missions and Anthropology.” In Encyclopedia of Christianity in the Global South, George Thomas Kurien and Mark Lamport, ed. New York: Rowman and Littlefield, 2018.