Recent Publications & Interviews:

Gray-Hildenbrand, Jenna, and Rebekka King. “Teaching in Contexts: Designing a Competency-based Religious Studies Program.” Teaching Theology and Religion 22 (2019): 191-204. (click) To see a May 2017 interview about our Religious Studies program at MTSU click.

Smith Roberts, Martha and Jenna Gray-Hildenbrand. “Finding Religion, Spirituality, and Flow in Movement: An Ethnography of Value of the Hula Hoop Community.” Nova Religio: The Journal of Alternative and Emergent Religions. 22 no. 3 (Feb. 2019): 36-59.(click)  To see a March 2020 interview with Nova Religio's Co-Editor, Benjamin Zeller, about this article click .

Gray-Hildenbrand, Jenna. “The Appalachian ‘Other’: Academic Approaches to the Study of Serpent-Handling Sects” Religion Compass 10 no. 3 (2016): 47-57. (click)

Gray-Hildenbrand, Jenna and Martha Smith Roberts. “Hula Hoop Spiritualities: Social Media, Embodied Experience, and Communities of Practice,” in Practical Spiritualities in a Media Age, edited by Curtis Coats and Monica M. Emerich, 67-88. New York: Bloomsbury Publishing, 2015. (click)

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