Publications : Sarah Shortall

BOOKS

Soldiers of God in a Secular World: Catholic Theology and Twentieth-Century French Politics (Forthcoming, Harvard University Press, 2021).

Laurence Wylie Prize in French Cultural Studies
Giuseppe Alberigo Award (junior category), European Academy of Religion
College Theology Society Book Award
First place, History category, Catholic Media Association Book Awards
Shortlist, Wallace K. Ferguson Prize (best book on non-Canadian history), Canadian Historical Association

Christianity and Human Rights, co-edited with Daniel Steinmetz-Jenkins (Cambridge University Press, 2020).

ARTICLES AND ESSAYS

“Decolonizing Theology: EATWOT and the Rise of Third World Theologies,” in Decolonization and the Remaking of Christianity, ed. Elizabeth Foster and Udi Greenberg (in press, University of Pennsylvania Press), 198-217.

“From the Three Bodies of Christ to the King’s Two Bodies: The Theological Origins of Secularization Theory,” Modern Intellectual History (published online; forthcoming in print).

“Religion and the Divine: A Global History of Twentieth-Century Catholicism through the Eucharist,” A Cultural History of Ideas in the Modern Age, ed. Stefanos Geroulanos (Bloomsbury Academic, 2022), 109-26.

“God of the Continental Philosophers,” Commonweal (February 28, 2020). Review of Edward Baring, Converts to the Real: Catholicism and the Making of Continental Philosophy (Harvard University Press, 2019).

“When Catholicism Embraced Modernity,” Boston Review (August 10, 2018). Review of James Chappel, Catholic Modern: The Challenge of Totalitarianism and the Making of the Church (Harvard University Press, 2018).

“Theology and the Politics of Christian Human Rights,” Journal of the History of Ideas 79, no. 3 (July 2018): 445-460.

“Lost in Translation: Religion and the Writing of History,” Modern Intellectual History 13, no. 1 (April 2016): 273-286.

“Psychedelic Drugs and the Problem of Experience,” Past and Present 222, suppl 9 (2014), 187-206.

COMMENTARY

At The Immanent Frame (Social Science Research Council):

“Conclusion,” forum on “Experience between the secular and the divine,” October 30th, 2020.
“Beyond a Christian genealogy of the secular,” forum on “History and theorizing the secular,” September 6th, 2017
The Vatican Spring? (Forum I co-organized on the election of Pope Francis), May 10th, 2013.
The Vatican and the “war on women religious,” May 4th, 2012.
Of saints, separatism, and secularization (part 2), January 3rd, 2011.
Of saints, separatism, and secularization (part 1), November 24th, 2010.
Belonging without believing, August 30th, 2010.
Impure thoughts, July 6th, 2010.
Sex, scandal, and the secular, June 24th, 2010.

On the Québec Charter of Values:

“There’s more than one path to female empowerment,” The Montreal Gazette, November 13^th, 2013.
“Importing France’s model of laïcité is a mistake for the PQ,” The Montreal Gazette, October 2^nd, 2013.

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