Faculty Publications
Selected Publications
Balancing Communities: Nation, State, and Protestant Christianity in Korea, 1884-1942. Honolulu, HI: University of Hawai‘i Press, 2022.
“The Murder Death of Pang Hwa-il: Erasing American Violence, Producing Christian Allies During the Korean War.” Church History 92, no. 3 (Sept. 2023): 626-642. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0009640723002111
“‘People Like You and Me’: The Korean War, Humanitarian Aid, and Creating Compassion.” Journal of Korean Studies 26, no. 1 (Spring 2021): 95-116. https://doi.org/10.1215/07311613-8747733
Selected Publications
The Routledge Companion to the Qu'ran (co-edited with George Archer and Daniel Madigan), Routledge, September 2021.
The Study Qur'an (with S.H. Nasr, C. Dagli, J. Lumbard, and M. Rustom), HarperOne, 2015.
The Charismatic Community: Shi`ite Identity in Early Islam, State University of New York Press, 2007. (Paperback released 2008).
"Ta'wil in the Qur'an and Islamic Exegetical Tradition: The Past and Future of the Qur'an" in The Enigma of Divine Revelation: Between Phenomenology and Comparative Theology (eds. Jean-Luc Marion and Christiaan Jacobs-Vandegeer). Contributions to Hermeneutics 7 (2020).
"Qur'anic Terminology, Translation, and the Islamic Conception of Religion" in Religion 49, no. 3 (2019).
"Conceptions of a Spiritual Elect in Shiite and Sufi Thought: Early Sources and Connections" in Esotérisme shièite, ses racines et ses prolongements (ed. M. Ali Amir-Moezzi), Brepols, 2016.
Selected Publications
Prof. Farina was editor-in-chief of the critically acclaimed Paulist Press 65 volume Classics of Western Spirituality series and general editor of the 25 volume Sources of American Spirituality series. He edited the 12-volume Spiritual Legacy series for the Crossroad Publishing Company. His own writings includes An American Experience of God: The Spirituality of Isaac Hecker (Paulist Press, 1982) and Great Spiritual Masters (Paulist Press 2002), a popular presentation of classical writers for today’s reader. He is the editor of Isaac T. Hecker, the Diary: Romantic Religion in Ante-Bellum America (Paulist Press, 1998), Beauty for Ashes: Spiritual Reflections on the Attack on America (Crossroad, 2002), which won the Catholic Press Association award for Best Book in Spirituality 2001, and The Legacy of Pierre Teilhard de Chardin with James Salmon, S.J. (Paulist Press, 2011).
Selected Publications
“Defending Susanna: Reexamining Judicial Silence in an Apocryphal Courtroom,” in Diné Israel 38 (2024): 33-54.
“The Qumran Sectarians in an Imperial Context: A Postcolonial Reading of Pesher Habakkuk,” in The Dead Sea Scrolls: New Insights on Ancient Texts, eds. Lawrence H. Schiffman and Alex P. Jassen (London: Palgrave Macmillan, 2024), 199-224.
“On Animals, Autonomy, and Apocalypticism in Daniel,” in Humanimal: The Bible and ‘Animal’ Others, eds. Dong Hyeon Jeong, Suzanna Millar, and Megan Remmington, Biblical Interpretation 31 (2023): 546-567.
“The Apocalyptic Moses of Second Temple Literature,” in Essays on the Moses Tradition in Jewish Thought, eds. Mark Leuchter and Zeb Farber. Hebrew Union College Annual 90 (Cincinnati: Hebrew Union College Press, 2019): 185-208.
Alexandria Frisch and Lawrence H. Schiffman, “The Body at Qumran: Flesh and Spirit, Purity and Impurity in the Dead Sea Scrolls,” Dead Sea Discoveries 23 (2016): 1-28.
“Worms, Rotting Flesh, and Falling Bowels: The Power of Disgust in a Motif of Kingly Death in Early Jewish Literature,” Diné Israel 29 (2012): 33-56.
Selected Publications
- Bathukamma. The Empowering Songs and Stories of Women of Telangana in India, ATA Publications, 2022.
- Hindu Pilgrimage: Shifting Patterns of Worldview of Srisailam in South India. Routledge Hindu Studies Series, Routledge and Oxford Centre for Hindu Studies, 2014 and 2017.
- "Bathukamma: The Folk-Song Tradition of the Flower Goddess of Telangana in South India," in The Goddess, ed., Mandakranta Bose, The Oxford History of Hinduism Series, Oxford University Press, 2018.
- “Srisailam” in Brill's Encyclopedia of Hinduism, Ed., Knut A. Jacobsen, Vol. 6, 2017.
- "Who has Privileged Authority and Who has Acquired Authority to Speak for Hinduism in America?" In Deepak Sarma, ed. Authority and Its Challenges in Hindu Texts, Translations, and Transnational Communities, (Deepak Heritage Books: 2009).
- “The Narrative Art of Srisailam Prakara, A Visual Purana,” Artibus Asiae (2008)LXVIII:1, 57-99.
- “Vishnu’s Universe in Ritual Space: The Abhisheka Consecration of Penn Hills’ Sri Venkatesvara,” Journal of Ritual Studies (2006) 20:2, pp.1-18, figures and plates
Selected Publications
Post-Christian Religion in Popular Culture: Theology through Exegesis (Fortress Press, 2024).
An Advaitic Modernity? Raimon Panikkar and Philosophical Theology (Fortress Press, 2024).
Fantasy, Theology, and the Imagination, Co-Edited with Austin Freeman and Fotini Toso (Lanham, MD: Lexington Press, 2023).
"Valar Morghulis: Late Modern Imaginaries of Death and Nihilism in Game of Thrones," in Theology and Game of Thrones, ed. Matthew William Brake (Lanham, MD: Lexington Press, 2022).
“Modern Re-enchantment and Dr. Strange: Pentecostal Analogies, the Spirit of the Multiverse, and the Play on Time and Eternity” in Theology and the Marvel Universe, ed. Gregory Stevenson (Lanham, MD: Lexington Press, 2020).
Contributor, Raimon Panikkar: A Companion to his Life and Thought, ed. Peter Phan and Young-chan Ro (James Clarke & Co., 2018).