Antoinette DeNapoli
John F. Weatherly Professor of Religion, Chair (Professor of South Asian Religions)
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- Women and Representation in Buddhist Asia: Innovative Pedagogies, Alternative Narratives, and Reimagined Philosophies. Co-edited with Sujata Gadkar-Wilcox and Kevin Curtis Taylor. SUNY Press, Asian Studies Development Series, Forthcoming.
- Gurus, Priestesses, Saints, Mediums and Yoginis: Holy Women as 'Influencers' in Hindu Culture. Co-edited with June McDaniel. Religions: MDPI, ISSN 2077-1444, Forthcoming. https://www.mdpi.com/journal/religions/special_issues/Hindu_Culture
- “Everyone drinks from the same well”: Charismatic Female Gurus as “Religious Feminist Influencers” in South Asian Hinduism,” Special Issue Gurus, Priestesses, Saints, Mediums and Yoginis: Holy Women as Influencers in Hindu CultureReligions 2023, 14(6), 785; https://doi.org/10.3390/rel14060785.
- “Can a Woman be a True Guru?: Female Gurus’ Grassroots Religious Gender Activism, and the Performativity of Saintliness at the Kumbh Mela,” in Feminist Encounters: A Journal of Critical Studies in Culture and Politics, Special Issue on Gender Activism in South Asia, edited by Munira Cheema,Volume 7, no. 1 (Spring 2023): https://doi.org/10.20897/femenc/12884.
- “‘I will be the Shankaracharya for women’: Gender, Agency, and a Guru’s Quest for Equality in Hinduism,” in Laughter, Creativity, and Perseverance: Female Agency in Hinduism and Buddhism, 75-102, edited by Ute Hüsken. Oxford: Oxford University Press (2022).
- “Eve, Mattidia, and the Gender Discourse of the Greek Pseudo-Clementine Novel,” Early Christianity 11 (2020): 171-190.
- Religion and the Digital Arts. Leiden: Brill, 2020
- Inspired by the Word: The Bible Through the Eyes of the Great Masters. Nashville, TN: Worthy Publishing, 2017.
- “Where Embodiment Meets Environment: A Meditation on the Work of Hans Breder and Ana Mendieta with Accompanying Interview with Hans Breder.” In Art, Religion, and the Environment, edited by Forrest Clingerman. Boston: Brill Publishers, 2016.
- “TechnoTopia: The Convergence of Art and Technology in the Twentieth Century and Beyond.” In Hope and the Longing For Utopia. Edited by Daniel Boscaljon. Oregon: Pickwick Publications, 2014, 180-193.
- “Atheism and the Visual Arts.” Oxford Handbook of Atheism. Edited by Stephen Bullivant and Hichael Ruse. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2013, 698-709.
- “Luke as Tradent and Hermeneut: ‘As one who has a thoroughly informed familiarity with all the events from the top’ (Luke 1:3),” Novum Testamentum 58 (2016): 259–300
- “Das Doppelwerk des Lukas und Heil als Geschichte: Oscar Cullmans auffälliges Schweigen bezüglich des stärksten Beführworter seiner Konzeption der Heilsgeschichte im Neuen Testament,” in Moessner, Luke the Historian of Israel’s Legacy (2016), 302–14
- Luke the Historian of Israel’s Legacy, Theologian of Israel’s ‘Christ’: A New Reading of the ‘Gospel Acts’ of Luke, Beihefte zur Zeitschrift für die neutestamentliche Wissenschaft 182 (Berlin: De Gruyter, 2016)
- “Redemption,” in The Oxford Encyclopedia of the Bible and Theology, eds. S. E. Ballentine, et al. (Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press, 2015): 2:222–27
- Edited with D. Marguerat, M. Parsons and M. Wolter, Luke the Interpreter of Israel, vol. 2, Paul and the Heritage of Israel: Paul’s Claim upon Israel’s Legacy in Luke and Acts in the Light of the Pauline Letters, Library of New Testament Studies 452 (London: T&T Clark, 2012)
- (2016). “The Box” and the Dark Night of the Soul: An Autoethnography from the Force of Losing a Child in the Delivery Room. Online Journal of Health Ethics. 12(1).
- The Ivory Tower and the Sword: Francisco Vitoria Confronts the Emperor. Pickwick Publications, 2016.
- “What Were the Most Popular tafsīrs in Islamic History? Part 2: A Preliminary Profile of the Top 50 Works and their Authors.” Journal of Qur'anic Studies 27, no. 1 (2025), 29–58 (in press).
- Qur’an Commentary and the Biblical Turn: A History of Muslim Exegetical Engagement with the Biblical Text. Berlin: De Gruyter, 2024. For more, please see the publisher's description, this interview, or the first half of this article. Arabic translation: Tafsīr al-Qurʾān wa-l-munʿaṭaf al-kitābī: tārīkh tafāʿul al-tafsīr al-islāmī maʿa al-kitāb al-muqaddas. Trans. Muṣṭafā Samīr ʿAbd al-Raḥīm. Sharjah and Oran, Dār al-Rawāfid al-Thaqāfiyya in partnership with Ibn Nadīm li-l-Nashr wa-l-Tawzīʿ, 2025.
- “What Were the Most Popular Tafsīrs in Islamic History? Part 1: An Assessment of the Manuscript Record and the State of European-Language Tafsīr Studies.” Journal of Qur'anic Studies 25, no. 3 (2023) (open-access link).
- "Modern Epoch: Islam," in Encyclopedia of the Bible and Its Reception, Berlin: De Gruyter (2021), 19:594–598.
- "The Importance of Ottoman Tafsir: A Codicological Perspective," in Osmanlı’da İlm-i Tefsir, ed. M. Taha Boyalık and Harun Abacı (Istanbul: İSAR Yayınları, 2019), 521-537.
- A History of the Application of Islamic Law in Nigeria. London: Palgrave Macmillan, 2017.
- “Islamic Communities in the United States: Issues of Religion and Political Identity” in Contemporary Perspectives on Religions in Africa and the African Diaspora, edited by Ibigbolade S. Aderibigbe and Carolyn M. Jones Medine. (England: Palgrave Macmillan, 2015): 259-274.
- “Isma`il al-Faruqi and Ijtihad” in Islam and Knowledge: Al-Faruqi’s Concept of Religion in Islamic Thought. Edited by Imtiyaz Yusuf. New York: I. B. Tauris, 2012, pp. 127- 137.
- “Muslims and Christians in Yorubaland: Unavoidable Neighbors” in A New Day: Essays on World Christianity in Honor of Lamin Sanneh, edited by Akintunde E. Akinade. (New York: Peter Lang, 2012)
- “Islam in Africa” in The Wiley-Blackwell Companion to African Religions, edited by Elias Kifon Bongmba. (UK: West Sussex, A John Wiley and Sons Inc., Publications, 2012); 323-337.
- “Baptists in the Caribbean,” The Oxford Handbook of Baptist Studies, edited by Paul Fiddes, Betsy Flowers, Steve Harmon, and David Bebbington. (Oxford, UK: Oxford University Press), forthcoming.
- “Foreign Standards for a ‘Home’ Mission: American Baptist Home Mission Society’s Ministerial Education Program in Early Twentieth-Century Cuba,” in Perspectives in Religious Studies, vol. 50, num 1, Spring 2023.
- “Christianity in Cuba,” in The Oxford Dictionary of the Christian Church, 4th edition, edited by Andrew Louth. (Oxford, UK: Oxford University Press), 2022.
- “Venezuela: Historical and Contemporary Perspectives,” in Encyclopedia of Christianity in the Global South, edited by Mark A. Lamport and George Thomas Kurian. (Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield), 2018.