On Discursive Theological Analysis
A Bibliography for those interested in understanding the more technical elements of my essays on theology and culture.
Of the many texts listed below there are a few authors I want to point out as the most important. John Sanders, Althaus-Reid, Emilie Townes, Nancy Ammerman, Gadamer, Von Stuckrad, and Titus Hjelm.
Adera, Godfrey Owino. 2022. “Black, Queer, and Christian: Exploring Sexuality as an Emerging Contour of Black Theology.” The Ecumenical Review 74 (4): 658–70. https://doi.org/10.1111/erev.12723.
Althaus-Reid, Marcella. From Feminist to Indecent Theology. SCM Press, 2004.
- The Queer God. Abingdon, Oxon: Routledge, 2003.
- Indecent Theology: Theological Perversions in Sex, Gender, and Politics. Abingdon, Oxon: Routledge, 2000.
Ammerman, Nancy. 1997. Congregation and Community. Rutgers University Press.
Baker-Fletcher, Karen. Sisters of Dust, Sisters of Spirit: Womanist Wordings on God and Creation. Minneapolis, MN: Fortress Press, 1998.
Berger, Peter L. The Sacred Canopy: Elements of a Sociological Theory of Religion. New York: Anchor Books, 1990.
Butler, Anthea. White evangelical racism: the politics of morality in America. Chapel Hill, North Carolina: The University of North Carolina Press, 2021
Butler, J. (2011). Bodies That Matter: On the Discursive Limits of Sex (1st ed.). Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9780203828274
CARPENTER, ANNE M. Nothing Gained Is Eternal: A Theology of Tradition. Augsburg Fortress, 2022. https://doi.org/10.2307/j.ctv29sfw6b.
Chicago Statement on Biblical Inerrancy, 1978. Accessed through Digital Archives at Dallas Theological Seminary
Clapp, Rodney. A Peculiar People: The Church as Culture in a Post-Christian Society. Downers Grove, Ill: intervarsity Press, 1996.
M. Shawn Copeland, Enfleshing Freedom: Body, Race, and Being (Minneapolis: Fortress Press, 2009)
Daughrity, Dyron B., ed. 2024. Christianity in North America: An Introduction. London, UK: Bloomsbury Academic/Bloomsbury Publishing Plc.
Deckman, Melissa, and Erin Cassese. 2021. “Gendered Nationalism and the 2016 US Presidential Election: How Party, Class, and Beliefs about Masculinity Shaped Voting Behavior.” Politics & Gender 17 (2): 277–300. https://doi.org/10.1017/S1743923X19000485.
Denker, Angela. 2025. Disciples of White Jesus: The Radicalization of American Boyhood. Minneapolis: Broadleaf Books.
Du Mez, Kristin Kobes. 2020. Jesus and John Wayne: How White Evangelicals Corrupted a Faith and Fractured a Nation. First edition. New York, NY: Liveright Publishing Corporation, a division of W.W. Norton & Company, Inc.
Emerson, Michael O., and Christian Smith. Divided by Faith Evangelical Religion and the Problem of Race in America. Oxford; Oxford University Press, 2000.
Espinoza, Roberto Che. 2022. Body Becoming: The Path to Our Liberation. Broadleaf.
- 2019. Activist Theology. Augsburg Fortress Press.
Gillespie, Michael Allen. The Theological Origins of Modernity. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2008. Accessed November 11, 2025. ProQuest Ebook Central.
Gramsci, Antonio. The Prison Notebooks.
Guth, Karen V. The Ethics of Tainted Legacies: Human Flourishing after Traumatic Pasts. Cambridge, United Kingdom; Cambridge University Press, 2022.
Harris, Melanie L. Gifts of Virtue, Alice Walker, and Womanist Ethics. 1st ed. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2010.
Hjelm, Titus, ed. Peter L. Berger and the Sociology of Religion: 50 Years after the Sacred Canopy. London; Bloomsbury Academic, 2018.
- “Discourse Analysis” in Routledge Handbook of Research Methods in the Study of Religion 2021.
Hollinger, David A. 2020. “A Double Whammy for the History of Evangelical Protestantism.” Modern American History (Cambridge) 3 (2–3): 269–72. https://doi.org/10.1017/mah.2020.10.
hooks, bell. 2004. The Will to Change: Men, Masculinity, and Love.
King, Martin Luther. 2010. Where Do We Go from Here : Chaos or Community? Boston: Beacon Press.
Lewis, Matt. 2024. “Opinion: Evangelicals See Trump’s Hedonism as Godly ‘Masculinity’: They’re Done Making Excuses to Justify Their Support for the Un-Pious Ex-President. Now, They’re Fully Owning His Sinfulness as a Christian Virtue.” The Daily Beast.\
Lloyd, Vincent. “For What Have Whites to Hope” in Political Theology. 2016.
Mallon, Ron, “Naturalistic Approaches to Social Construction”, The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy (Summer 2024 Edition), Edward N. Zalta & Uri Nodelman (eds.), URL = <https://plato.stanford.edu/archives/sum2024/entries/social-construction-naturalistic/>.
Malpas, Jeff, “Hans-Georg Gadamer”, The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy (Fall 2025 Edition), Edward N. Zalta & Uri Nodelman (eds.), URL = <https://plato.stanford.edu/archives/fall2025/entries/gadamer/>.
Marsden, George M. 2022. Fundamentalism and American Culture. Third edition. New York, NY: Oxford University Press.
Massey, Lesly F. 2021. “Biblical Inerrancy: An Anxious Reaction to Perceived Threat.” Pennsylvania Literary Journal 13 (1): 100–342.
McFarland, Ian A, eBooks Corporation, and Ian A. (Ian Alexander) McFarland. 2011. The Cambridge Dictionary of Christian Theology. Cambridge; Cambridge University Press.
McKinney, Jennifer. 2023. Making Christianity Manly Again: Mark Driscoll, Mars Hill Church, and American Evangelicalism. 1st ed. United Kingdom: Oxford University Press.
McMillan, Jill. 1988 “Institutional Plausibility Alignment as Rhetorical Exercise: A Mainline Denomination’s Struggle with the Exigence of Sexism” in Journal for the Social Scientific Study of Religion.
Menzies, James. 2017. “International Council on Biblical Inerrancy.” Evangelical America: An Encyclopedia of Contemporary American Religious Culture.
Morice Brubaker, Sarah. Doing Theology in the Age of Trump: A Critical Report on Christian Nationalism. Eugene, OR, 2018. EBSCOhost
Nelson, Anne. 2019 Shadow Network: Media, Money, and the Secret Hub of the Radical Right. New York: Bloomsbury Publishing.
Noll, Mark A., America’s Book: The Rise and Decline of a Bible Civilization, 1794-1911 (New York, 2022; Oxford Academic, 21 Apr. 2022)
- Scandal of the Evangelical Mind. (Grand Rapids, Mich.: W.B. Eerdmans, 1994)
Paustian, Mark. 2023. “A Critique of Berger and Luckmann’s social construction of reality: a Christian Micro-Social Constructivist View” in Wisconsin Lutheran Quarterly
Robertson, Brandon. 2025. Queer & Christian: Reclaiming the Bible, Our Faith, and Our Place at the Table. St. Martin’s Essentials.
Sandu, Antonio. “Appreciative Philosophy: Towards a Constructionist Approach of Philosophical and Theological Discourse.” Journal for the Study of Religion & Ideologies 10, no. 28 (2011): 129–53. EBSCOhost.
Sanders, Cody J. Queer Lessons for Churches on the Straight & Narrow: What All Christians Can Learn from LGBTQ Lives. Macon, Ga: Faithlab, 2013.
Starr, Paul. 2019. Entrenchment: Wealth, Power, and the Constitution of Democratic Societies. New Haven: Yale University Press.
Steelman, Austin. 2024. “Paper Gods: The Bible, The Constitution, And the Evangelical Revolt Against Modernity, 1923-1986.” ProQuest Dissertations & Theses.
Sutton, Matthew Avery. 2024. Redefining the History and Historiography on American Evangelicalism in the Era of the Religious Right, Journal of the American Academy of Religion, Volume 92, Issue 1, Pages 37–60, https://doi.org/10.1093/jaarel/lfae063
Swartz, Lisa Weaver. 2023. Stained Glass Ceilings : How Evangelicals Do Gender and Practice Power.
Tonstad, Linn Marie. Queer Theology: Beyond Apologetics. Eugene, Oregon: Cascade Books, 2018.
Townes, Emilie. 2006. Womanist Ethics and the Cultural Production of Evil (New York: Palgrave MacMillan)
Volf, Miroslav. A Public Faith: How Followers of Christ Should Serve the Common Good. Grand Rapids, Mich: Brazos Press, 2011.
Von Stuckrad, Kocku. 2013. “Discursive Study of Religion: Approaches, Definitions, Implications” in Method and Theory in the Study of Religion 25. Brill.
Van Roojen, Mark Steven. 2015. Metaethics: A Contemporary Introduction. First edition. New York: Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group.
Walker, Alice. The Same River Twice: Honoring the Difficult. New York: Washington Square Press, 1997.
Wijsen, Frans Jozef Servaas. 2016. Making Religion: Theory and Practice in the Discursive Study of Religion. Boston: Brill.