UH History Grad Student News
Posted: February 27, 2008

Phil Sinitiere, a Ph.D. candidate who studies American religious history at the University of Houston, recently signed a contract with New York University Press to publish a book on contemporary American religion he co-authored with Tulane sociologist Shayne Lee. Titled Holy Mavericks: evangelical Innovators and the Spiritual Marketplace, Lee and Sinitiere's interdisciplinary book uses the theory of religious economy to study contemporary religious trends in the United States. Through archival research, participant-observation, and interviews, the book explores the market appeal of five evangelicals who make strong cases to replace Billy Graham as America's leading Protestant preacher and evangelist: Paula White, T.D. Jakes, Rick Warren, Brian McLaren, and Houston's Joel Osteen. Holy Mavericks should appear in early-to-mid 2009.

Two Ph.D. students published articles in the Fall 2007 issue of the UCLA-based journal Viator in Fall 2007. Holle Canatella's article is "Friendship in Anselm of Canterbury's Correspondence: Ideals and Experience." Courtney Demayo is the author of "The Theory and Practice of Friendship in the Middle Ages: Ciceronian Amicitia in the Letters of Gerbert of Aurillac." Learn more about this issue of the journal at http://www.cmrs.ucla.edu/publications/viator_vol38-02_abstracts.html.

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