Marcia Hermansen, PhD

Research Interests

Islamic Studies, Theory and Method in the Study of Religion, Comparative Religion, South Asian and Middle East Studies, Mysticism, Women and Gender, Religion in America, Critical Theory, Youth Cultures, Islamic Theology, Interfaith Dialogue

Selected Publications

Hermansen Publications since 2013

Books

Religious Diversity at School: Educating for New Pluralistic Contexts. Co-edited with Ednan Aslan. Weisbaden: Springer, 2021. 

Varieties of American Sufism: Islam, Sufi Orders and Authority in a Time of Transition, co-edited with Elliott Bazzano. Albany, NY SUNY Press, 2020.

Religion and Violence: Muslim and Christian Theological and Pedagogical Reflections, co-edited with Ednan Aslan, Wiesbaden: Springer, 2017.

Islam, Religions, and Pluralism in Europe, co-edited with Ednan Aslan and Ranja Ebrahim, Wiesbaden: Springer 2016.

Islam and Citizenship Education, co-edited with Ednan Aslan, Springer, 2015.

Muslima Theology: The Voices of Muslim Women Theologians, co-edited with Ednan Aslan and Elif Medeni. Peter Lang, 2013.

Book Chapters

鈥淔eminism and the Divine Feminine: an Exploration of Female Elements in Ivan Agu茅li and Subsequent Traditionalist Thought.鈥� In Anarchist, Artist, Sufi: The Politics, Painting, and Esotericism of Ivan Agu茅li ed. Mark Sedgwick, Bloomsbury, 2021, 151-164.

鈥淏eyond Barelwiism: Tahir ul-Qadri as an Example of Trends in Global Sufism鈥� in Sufis and the State: The Politics of Islam in South Asia and Beyond ed. Katherine P. Ewing and Rosemary R. Corbett, Columbia University Press, 2020, 57-73.

鈥淏eyond East Meets West: Space and Simultaneity in Post-Millennial Western Sufi Auto-Biographical Writings鈥� in Sufism East and West: Mystical Islam and Cross-Cultural Exchange in the Modern World. Ed. Jamal Malik and Saeed Zarrabi-Zadeh, Brill, 2019, 149-179.

"American Milad: Celebrating the Birthday of the Prophet" in The Practice of Islam in America, ed. Edward Curtis. New York University Press, 2017, 123 - 140. 

"Muslim Theologians of Non-Violence in Religion and Violence: Muslim and Christian Theological and Pedagogical Reflections," Ednan Aslan and Marcia Hermansen (eds), Wiesbaden: Springer, 2017, 147-162.

鈥淔easts of Paradise: Banqueting and Sacrifice in the Islamic Tradition鈥� in Holy Wealth: Accounting for This World and The Next in Religious Belief and Practice. Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz, 2017, 131-144.

鈥淭he Shahadah鈥� in Foundations of Islam Zafar Ishaq Ansari and I. Nawwab (eds.) Paris: UNESCO, 2016, 627-651.

鈥淐lassical and Contemporary Islamic Perspectives on Religious Plurality in Islam鈥�, Islam, Religions and Pluralism in Europe Wiesbaden, Germany: Springer, 2016, 39-56.

鈥淎lter/native Democracies: Muslim and Catholic Negotiations of Culture, Religion, and Citizenship in the 21st Century鈥� in Democracy, Culture, and Catholicism: Voices from Four Continents ed. Michael Schuck, Fordham University Press, 2015, 134-148.

鈥淲ho is Fethullah Gulen? An Overview of His Life鈥� in Hizmet Means Service ed. Martin E. Marty, University of California Press, 2015, 18-40.

鈥淪ufi Movements in America鈥� in the Oxford Handbook of American Islam, edited by Y. Haddad and J. Smith Oxford, 2014, 119-136.

鈥淎merican Sufis and American Islam: From Private Spirituality to the Public Sphere鈥� in Islamic Movements and Islam in the Multicultural World: Islamic Movements and Formation of Islamic Ideologies in the Information Age. Kazan: Russian Federation, Kazan Federal University Publishing House, 2014, 189-208.

鈥淐onversion to Islam: Historical and Theological Perspectives鈥� in The Oxford Handbook of Religious Conversion ed. Lewis Rambo and Charles Farhadian, Oxford, 2014, 632-666.