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.

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 

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. (Read free).

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.