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Jana Riess | |
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Born | Jana Kathryn Riess December 13, 1969 [ third-party source needed] United States |
Occupation | Writer |
Language | English |
Nationality | American |
Education | PhD |
Alma mater | Columbia University[ citation needed] |
Period | 1990s-present |
Genre | Religion |
Spouse | Phil Smith [1]: 5, 153 |
Children | Jerusha (born c. 1999) [1]: 19, 56 |
Jana Kathryn Riess (born December 13, 1969) [2][ page needed] [1]: 158 [ third-party source needed] is an American professor, writer, and editor. Riess' writings have focused on American religions, especially the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS Church) of which she is a member, and other new religious movements.[ not verified in body]
As she describes in her own autobiographical writings, Riess was born in the Midwestern United States, and has an older brother, John. [1]: 58, 168 She and her mother Phyllis [2]: xix were, per her description, abandoned by her father without warning in 1984, [1]: 166–9 by which time her brother was on his own.[ citation needed] Riess has described her father, who died at age 71 in Mobile, Alabama, in October 2010, [1]: 166–9 as "an angry atheist" and her mother as "considerably more charitable but no more interested in organized religion." [1]: 1
Riess has a Bachelor's degree from Wellesley College, a Master's degree in theology from the Princeton Theological Seminary, and a PhD in American Religious studies from Columbia University.[ citation needed]
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Riess is an expert on religion in literature.[ citation needed] As of this date,[ when?] Riess is a Religion and American Studies professor at Miami University in Oxford, Ohio.[ citation needed]
From 1999 to 2008 she was the religion book editor for Publishers Weekly. [3] [4][ third-party source needed]
A member of the LDS Church, Riess has spoken at Brigham Young University Women's Conference and other gatherings of the LDS Church, as well as professional conferences.[ citation needed]
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Riess' 2019 The Next Mormons: How Millennials Are Changing the LDS Church, received critical praise; [5][ verification needed] [6] Phil Zuckerman, a professor of sociology at Pitzer College in Claremont, California, [7] describes the work as "[s]ociologically sound, extremely well-researched and well-written". [6]
Riess and her colleague Benjamin Knoll published a landmark analysis[ clarification needed][ full citation needed] which questioned the accuracy of reports that LDS membership was growing. [6] [5][ verification needed]
On October 4, 2009, Riess began a project to tweet the bible. Her "Twible" quest concluded in January 2013. Each tweet summarizes a chapter of the bible. Riess tweets the bible in order and plans to hit all 1,189 chapters in 140 characters. [8] She later published it in book form as The Twible: All the Chapters of the Bible in 140 Characters or Less . . . Now with 68% More Humor! [9]
In July 2001 Riess moderated a debate between Richard Abanes and Connie Neal at a convention of Christian retailers over the "real religious concern" over the Harry Potter books with regard to their presentation of witchcraft and aspects of the occult. [10] Among the books by Riess are the 2004 What Would Buffy Do?,[ citation needed] and an abridgment of the Book of Mormon with commentary.[ clarification needed][ citation needed]
As of 2017, she was conducting the "The Next Mormons" survey project to look at how different generations of Mormons have interacted with the Church. [11][ needs update]
Riess is a convert to the LDS Church.[ citation needed] She is married to Phil Smith, and they reside in Cincinnati. [3]
Riess, Jana (2002), The Spiritual Traveler: Boston and New England: A Guide to Sacred Sites and Peaceful Places, Mahwah, NJ: HiddenSpring, ISBN 978-1-58768-008-3
Phil Zuckerman is a professor of sociology and secular studies at Pitzer College in Claremont, California. He is the author of Society Without God (2008) and Faith No More (2011).[ verification needed]
'There's a real religious concern,' observes Jana Riess of Publishers Weekly, who moderated an [Richard] Abanes - [Connie] Neal debate at a July convention of Christian retailers. 'Evangelical Christians believe that witchcraft is real.' / But, she said, witchcraft in the Potter novels 'is not a worldview in the way evangelicals would think of it.' She likens the fuss to parallel complaints when 'The Wizard of Oz' was published a century ago.
This article may rely excessively on sources
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Jana Riess | |
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Born | Jana Kathryn Riess December 13, 1969 [ third-party source needed] United States |
Occupation | Writer |
Language | English |
Nationality | American |
Education | PhD |
Alma mater | Columbia University[ citation needed] |
Period | 1990s-present |
Genre | Religion |
Spouse | Phil Smith [1]: 5, 153 |
Children | Jerusha (born c. 1999) [1]: 19, 56 |
Jana Kathryn Riess (born December 13, 1969) [2][ page needed] [1]: 158 [ third-party source needed] is an American professor, writer, and editor. Riess' writings have focused on American religions, especially the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS Church) of which she is a member, and other new religious movements.[ not verified in body]
As she describes in her own autobiographical writings, Riess was born in the Midwestern United States, and has an older brother, John. [1]: 58, 168 She and her mother Phyllis [2]: xix were, per her description, abandoned by her father without warning in 1984, [1]: 166–9 by which time her brother was on his own.[ citation needed] Riess has described her father, who died at age 71 in Mobile, Alabama, in October 2010, [1]: 166–9 as "an angry atheist" and her mother as "considerably more charitable but no more interested in organized religion." [1]: 1
Riess has a Bachelor's degree from Wellesley College, a Master's degree in theology from the Princeton Theological Seminary, and a PhD in American Religious studies from Columbia University.[ citation needed]
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Riess is an expert on religion in literature.[ citation needed] As of this date,[ when?] Riess is a Religion and American Studies professor at Miami University in Oxford, Ohio.[ citation needed]
From 1999 to 2008 she was the religion book editor for Publishers Weekly. [3] [4][ third-party source needed]
A member of the LDS Church, Riess has spoken at Brigham Young University Women's Conference and other gatherings of the LDS Church, as well as professional conferences.[ citation needed]
This section needs expansion with: a full scholarly representation on this scholar's writings, based on third party sources. You can help by
adding to it. (April 2023) |
Riess' 2019 The Next Mormons: How Millennials Are Changing the LDS Church, received critical praise; [5][ verification needed] [6] Phil Zuckerman, a professor of sociology at Pitzer College in Claremont, California, [7] describes the work as "[s]ociologically sound, extremely well-researched and well-written". [6]
Riess and her colleague Benjamin Knoll published a landmark analysis[ clarification needed][ full citation needed] which questioned the accuracy of reports that LDS membership was growing. [6] [5][ verification needed]
On October 4, 2009, Riess began a project to tweet the bible. Her "Twible" quest concluded in January 2013. Each tweet summarizes a chapter of the bible. Riess tweets the bible in order and plans to hit all 1,189 chapters in 140 characters. [8] She later published it in book form as The Twible: All the Chapters of the Bible in 140 Characters or Less . . . Now with 68% More Humor! [9]
In July 2001 Riess moderated a debate between Richard Abanes and Connie Neal at a convention of Christian retailers over the "real religious concern" over the Harry Potter books with regard to their presentation of witchcraft and aspects of the occult. [10] Among the books by Riess are the 2004 What Would Buffy Do?,[ citation needed] and an abridgment of the Book of Mormon with commentary.[ clarification needed][ citation needed]
As of 2017, she was conducting the "The Next Mormons" survey project to look at how different generations of Mormons have interacted with the Church. [11][ needs update]
Riess is a convert to the LDS Church.[ citation needed] She is married to Phil Smith, and they reside in Cincinnati. [3]
Riess, Jana (2002), The Spiritual Traveler: Boston and New England: A Guide to Sacred Sites and Peaceful Places, Mahwah, NJ: HiddenSpring, ISBN 978-1-58768-008-3
Phil Zuckerman is a professor of sociology and secular studies at Pitzer College in Claremont, California. He is the author of Society Without God (2008) and Faith No More (2011).[ verification needed]
'There's a real religious concern,' observes Jana Riess of Publishers Weekly, who moderated an [Richard] Abanes - [Connie] Neal debate at a July convention of Christian retailers. 'Evangelical Christians believe that witchcraft is real.' / But, she said, witchcraft in the Potter novels 'is not a worldview in the way evangelicals would think of it.' She likens the fuss to parallel complaints when 'The Wizard of Oz' was published a century ago.