Books by Tanya Erzen and Complete Book Reviews
Tanya Erzen, Author . Univ. of California Press $19.95 (282p) ISBN 978-0-520-24582-2
This is ethnography at its best: an outsider's careful, respectful translation of a subculture that is often poorly understood and easily dismissed in academic and political discourse. In this case, the subculture is religious conservatives who...
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Tanya Erzen. Beacon, $24.95 (184p) ISBN 978-0-8070-0633-7
The sociopolitical implications of the Twilight saga and the "fanpire" it's spawned are given the scholarly treatment by Erzen (Straight to Jesus: Sexual and Christian Conversions in the Ex-Gay Movement), an associate professor of comparative...
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Tanya Erzen. Beacon, $26.95 (248) ISBN 978-0-8070-8998-9
Religion scholar Erzen (Straight to Jesus) delivers another excellent, gripping ethnography, this time interviewing prisoners across the United States who are pursuing a university education while incarcerated. Weaving in historical exposition about
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