Blair Gadsby

Research Articles: 

2024. The Nones of Mombasa: Religious Disbelief and Disaffiliation on the East African Coast. Journal of Africana Religions. Volume 12, No.1, 29-52. The Nones of Mombasa: Religious Disbelief and Disaffiliation on the East African Coast | Journal of Africana Religions | Scholarly Publishing Collective. 

2021. East African Religious Pluralism: An Urban Coastal Case Study. Journal of Religion in Africa. Volume 51: (3-4), 397-425. (2021) (brill.com). (Research article). Online Publication Date: 24 Mar 2022. East African Religious Pluralism in: Journal of Religion in Africa Volume 51 Issue 3-4 (2021) (brill.com). 

2021. Another Warning From the Past (chapter segment from book Religious Delusions, American Style: Manipulations of the Public's Mind serialized at Alternative Considerations of Jonestown, San Diego State University) Another Warning from the Past – Alternative Considerations of Jonestown & Peoples Temple (sdsu.edu).  Gadsby also has a page at the Alternative Considerations of Jonestown website where his research into Jim Jones, Peoples Temple and Jonestown can be found: Articles by Blair Gadsby – Alternative Considerations of Jonestown & Peoples Temple (sdsu.edu).

2017. A Challenge for the Academic Study of Religion: No Such Thing as ‘Sacred’ Cows, Right? Method and Theory in the Study of Religion. Vol. 29 (4-5): 79-93. Brill Publications.(Research paper, pedagogy). http://booksandjournals.brillonline.com/content/journals/10.1163/15700682-12341406.

2006. Teaching Religion(s) in the Community College: Students Can Handle Theory Early. Bulletin for the Council of Societies for the Study of Religion. Vol.35 (4): 92-95. (Teaching, pedagogy). 

1997. Using Natural Wonders to Stimulate Confused Residents. Elder Care Journal. November. Phoenix. Pg.11.

Book Reviews 

2024. The Palgrave Handbook of African Traditional Religion. Edited by Ibigbolade S. Aderibigbe and Toyin Falola. Palgrave Macmillan, 2022. xxiii + 642 pages. $249.99 hardcover; $249.99 softcover; ebook available. Nova Religio: The Journal of Alternative and Emergent Religions. Vol.27 (4): 125-127. Project MUSE - The Palgrave Handbook of African Traditional Religion. Edited by Ibigbolade S. Aderibigbe and Toyin Falola (jhu.edu). 

2023. Speaking of Satan in Zambia: Making Cultural and Personal Sense of Narratives about Satanism. By Johanneke Kroesbergen-Kamps. Nova Religio: The Journal of Alternative and Emergent Religions. Vol.27 (2): 125-127.  Review: Speaking of Satan in Zambia: Making Cultural and Personal Sense of Narratives about Satanism, by Johanneke Kroesbergen-Kamps | Nova Religio | University of California Press (ucpress.edu)

2023.  A Phenomenology of Indigenous Religions: Theory and Practice. By James L. Cox. In Nova Religio: The Journal of Alternative and Emergent Religions. Vol.26 (3): 117-119. https://doi.org/10.1525/nr.2023.26.3.117. 

2022. Affective Trajectories: Religion and Emotion in African Cityscapes. Edited by Hansjorg Dilger, et al. Duke University Press, 2020. In Nova Religio: The Journal of Alternative and Emergent Religions. Vol.26 (1): 111–113. Review: Affective Trajectories: Religion and Emotion in African Cityscapes, edited by Hansjörg Dilger, Astrid Bochow, Marian Burchardt, and Matthew Wilhelm-Solomon | Nova Religio | University of California Press (ucpress.edu); Nova Religio | University of California Press (ucpress.edu). 

2022.  Innovation and Competition in Zimbabwean Pentecostalism: Megachurches and the Marketization of Religion. Edited by Ezra Chitando. Bloomsbury, 2021. In Nova Religio: The Journal of Alternative and Emergent Religions. Vol.25 (3):125-126.   Volume 25 Issue 3 | Nova Religio | University of California Press (ucpress.edu). Nova Religio | University of California Press (ucpress.edu) Search Results | Nova Religio | University of California Press (ucpress.edu)

2017. Chasing Down Religion in Reading Religion. An online publication of the American Academy of Religion. July 13. https://readingreligion.org/books/chasing-down-religion. 

Chapters in Books

2017. Does the Academic Study of Religion Deny the Existence of God? In Religion in 5 Minutes, Eds. Aaron W. Hughes and Russell T. McCutcheon. London: Equinox Publishing. Pgs. 265-268.  https://www.equinoxpub.com/home/religion-in-five-minutes-aaron-hughes-russell-t-mccutcheon/. (Show Table of Contents, essay #71).

Books

2019/2020. Religious Delusions, American Style: Manipulations of the Public's Mind. Walterville, Oregon: Trine Day. (Historiography American religions, critical theory and American religions, American politics). Religious Delusions American Style – Trineday.