U.S. Religious History and Politics:
- Winnifred F. Sullivan, Prison Religion: Faith-Based Reform and the Constitution , (Princeton Univ. Press, 2009).
- James M. O'Toole, The Faithful: A History of Catholics in America, (Belknap Press, Nov. 2009).
- Moshik Temkin, The Sacco-Vanzetti Affair: America on Trial, (Yale University Press, April 2009).
- Shayne Lee & Phillip Luke Sinitiere, Holy Mavericks: Evangelical Innovators and the Spiritual Marketplace, (NYU Press, April 2009).
- Hasia R. Diner, We Remember with Reverence and Love: American Jews and the Myth of Silence after the Holocaust, 1945-1962, (NYU Press, April 2009).
Europe, Asia and the Middle East:
- Alan E. Steinweis, Kristallnacht 1938, (Belknap Press, Nov. 2009).
- Rebecca Nedostup, Superstitious Regimes: Religion and the Politics of Chinese Modernity, (Harvard East Asian Monographs, Nov. 2009).
- Benjamin J. Kaplan, Divided by Faith: Religious Conflict and the Practice of Toleration in Early Modern Europe, (Belknap Press, Oct. 2009).
- Robert Garland, Introducing New Gods: The Politics of Athenian Religion, (Cornell University Press, 2009).
- Ali A. Allawi, The Crisis of Islamic Civilization, (March 2009, Yale University Press).
- Thomas Brudholm & Thomas Cushman (eds.), The Religious in Responses to Mass Atrocity: Interdisciplinary Perspectives, (Cambridge University Press, Feb. 2009).