Publications & Presentations

Rycenga, Jennifer J

Publications & Presentations

  • Jennifer J. Rycenga. "Re-Thinking Marriage: Religious Authority and Religious Imagination in Arguments for Same-Sex Marriage" Review Essay. Vol. 35. Issue 1. (March 2009). pp.1-11.

    Abstract: Review Essay of six books on theme of Same-Sex Marriage

  • Jennifer J. Rycenga. "Religious Controversies over Christmas" Edinburgh University Press. Book chapter. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, (2008). pp.71-87.
  • Jennifer J. Rycenga. "Review of Melting the Venusberg: A Feminist Theology of Music, by Heidi Epstein" Book Review. Vol. 12. Issue Winter. (2008). pp.117-122.
  • Jennifer J. Rycenga. "Prudence Crandall" Greenwood Press. Encyclopedia Article. Vol. 1. Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, (2007). pp.196-198.
  • Jennifer J. Rycenga. "Elizabeth Heyrick" Greenwood Press. Encyclopedia Article. Vol. 1. Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, (2007). pp.325-326.
  • Jennifer J. Rycenga. "Maria Stewart" Greenwood Press. Encyclopedia Article. Vol. 2. Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, (2007). pp.656-658.
  • Jennifer J. Rycenga. "Benjamin Lundy" Greenwood Press. Encyclopedia Article. Vol. 2. Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, (2007). pp.452-454.
  • Jennifer J. Rycenga. "Quakers and Antislavery" Greenwood Press. Encyclopedia Article. Vol. 2. Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, (2007). pp.549-554.
  • Jennifer J. Rycenga. "Review of The Recycled Bible: Autobiography, Culture, and the Space Between, edited by Fiona C. Black." Book Review. Vol. 30. Issue 3. (2007). pp.393-396.
  • Jennifer J. Rycenga. "Review of Queering Creole Traditions, by Randy Connor and David Sparks" Book Review. Vol. 34. Issue 3. (August 2007).
  • Jennifer J. Rycenga. "Review of Fanon: The Postcolonial Imagination by Nigel Gibson" Book Review. Vol. 42. Issue 3/4. (2007). pp.360-363.
  • Jennifer Rycenga and Sheila Whitely, editors. "Queering the Popular Pitch" Routledge. Book. New York: Routledge, (2006).
  • Jennifer J. Rycenga. ""Is This Desire?: Queering Large-scale Form in Rock Music"" Routledge. Book chapter. New York: Routledge, (2006). pp.235-247.
  • Jennifer J. Rycenga. "Cosmology Hopping: Engaging and Avoiding Controversy in the Religious Studies Classroom" Occasional Essay. Vol. 21. Issue 4. (October 2006). pp.iv.

    Abstract: in "Spotlight on Teaching," Cynthia Ann Humes, guest editor

  • Jennifer J. Rycenga. "A Greater Awakening: Women's Intellect as a Factor in Early Abolitionist Movements, 1824-1834" Article. Vol. 21. Issue 2. (2005). pp.31-59.
  • Jennifer J. Rycenga. "Elizabeth Cady Stanton" Macmillan Reference and Thompson/Gale. Encyclopedia Article. Vol. 13. Detroit: Macmillan Reference and Thompson/Gale, (2005). pp.8730-8732.
  • Jennifer J. Rycenga et. al., Melissa Wilcox, facilitator. "Roundtable Discussion: What is the Future of Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender and Queer Studies in Religion?" Panel Discussion. Vol. 5. Issue 2. (2004). pp.267-281.
  • Jennifer J. Rycenga. "Review of Touchdown Jesus by R. Laurence Moore" Book Review. Vol. vii. (2004).
  • Jennifer J. Rycenga. "Review of Traces of the Spirit: The Religious Dimensions of Popular Music by Robin Sylvan" Book Review. Vol. vii. (2004).
  • Jennifer J. Rycenga. "Passionate Gratitude" Music Review. Vol. 14. Issue 1. (2004). pp.5-6.
  • Jennifer J. Rycenga. "Guru Nanak and Religious Diversity" San José State University. Occasional Essay. Vol. Winter. San José State University, (2004).
  • Jennifer J. Rycenga. "Religion, Spirituality, and Popular Music" Cassell. Encyclopedia Article. Vol. 1. London: Cassell, (2003). pp.338-345.
  • Jennifer J. Rycenga. "Review of Poetry, Prose and Art in the American Social Gospel Movement, 1880-1910 by John C. Waldmeir" Book Review. Vol. v. (2003).
  • Jennifer J. Rycenga. "Review of Border Crossings: Christian Trespasses on Popular Culture and Public Affairs by Rodney Clapp" Book Review. Vol. iii. (2003).
  • Jennifer J. Rycenga. "Tales of change within the sound: Form, lyrics, and philosophy in the music of Yes." Book Chapter. (January 2002).
  • Jennifer J. Rycenga. "Queerly amiss: Sexuality and the logic of Adorno's dialectics." Book Chapter. (January 2002).
  • Jennifer J. Rycenga. "Review of With God on Their Side: Sport in the Service of Religion edited by Tara Magdalinski and Timothy J.L. Chandler" Book Review. Vol. ii. (2002).
  • Jennifer J. Rycenga. "Dropping in for the holidays: Christmas as commercial ritual at the Precious Moments Chapel." Book Chapter. (January 2001).
  • Jennifer J. Rycenga and Marguerite Waller, editors. "Frontline feminisms: Women, war, and resistance." Book. (January 2001).
  • Jennifer J. Rycenga. "The Influence of Asian Religious Thought on Avant-Garde Jazz and Classical Music in the United States and Canada" Garland. Encyclopedia Article. Vol. 3. New York: Garland, (2001). pp.129-133.
  • Jennifer J. Rycenga. "Maria Stewart, Black Abolitionist, and the idea of freedom." Book Chapter. (January 2000).
  • Jennifer J. Rycenga. "Anguished Shouts and Religious Echoes: Octavia Butler’s Kindred in the Religious Studies Classroom." Article. Vol. 11. Issue 2. (2000). pp.185-189.
  • Jennifer J. Rycenga. "Passionate Struggle is Not an Intuition: An Argument and Appreciation of Mary Daly" Article. Vol. 24. Issue May. (2000). pp.31-35.
  • Jennifer J. Rycenga. "Review of Nineteenth-Century Writings on Homosexuality: A Sourcebook, edited by Chris White" Book Review. Vol. 7. Issue 1. (2000). pp.27.
  • Jennifer J. Rycenga and Carol Anderson. "Mary Daly: Grand Agitator and Revolting Hag" Introductory Article. Vol. 24. (May 2000). pp.9-12.

    Abstract: Introduction to special issue articles on Daly

  • Jennifer J. Rycenga. "Review of Reclaiming the Spiritual in Art: Contemporary Cross-Cultural Perspectives, edited by Dawn Perlmutter and Debra Koppman" Book Review. Vol. 68. Issue 2. (2000). pp.439-442.
  • Jennifer J. Rycenga. "Review-essay of Is This Desire?, by P.J. Harvey" Music Review. Vol. 10. Issue 1. (2000). pp.8-10.
  • Jennifer J. Rycenga. "Review of Coming Out as a Sacrament by Chris Glaser" Book Review. Vol. 6. Issue 2. (2000). pp.7-8.
  • Jennifer J. Rycenga. "Review of The Global Emergence of Gay and Lesbian Politics edited by Barry Adam, Jan Willem Duyvendak and André Krouwel" Book Review. Vol. 6. Issue 2. (2000). pp.22-23.
  • Jennifer J. Rycenga. "Crossroads." Encyclopedia Article. Vol. 1. (January 1999). pp.224-226.
  • Jennifer J. Rycenga. "Music." Encyclopedia Article. Vol. 2. (January 1999). pp.687-690.
  • Jennifer J. Rycenga. "Seclusion." Encyclopedia Article. Vol. 2. (January 1999). pp.875-878.
  • Jennifer J. Rycenga. "Review of Diary of a Shirtmaker by Edith Simcox" Book Review. Vol. 5. Issue 3. (1999). pp.12-13.
  • Jennifer J. Rycenga. "Silence." Encyclopedia Article. Vol. 2. (January 1999). pp.907-908.
  • Jennifer J. Rycenga. "Review of We Are Everywhere, edited by Shane Phalen and Mark Blasius" Book Review. Vol. 4. Issue 4. (1998). pp.33-34.
  • Jennifer J. Rycenga. "The perils and pleasures of being an out Lesbian academic; or speech from the scaffold." Book Chapter. (January 1997).
  • Jennifer J. Rycenga. "Sisterhood: A Loving Lesbian Ear Listens to Progressive Heterosexual Women's Rock Music" University Press of Virginia. Book chapter. Charlottesville, VA: University Press of Virginia, (1997). pp.204-228.
  • Jennifer J. Rycenga. "Clearly God Intended Polemics to be Threadbare: Some Christian Theological Justifications for Monogamy and Polygyny" Five Leaves Publications. Book chapter. London: Five Leaves Publications, (1995). pp.87-106.
  • Jennifer J. Rycenga. "Review of Just Good Friends by Elizabeth Stuart" Book Review. Vol. 4. Issue 1. (1997). pp.20.
  • Jennifer J. Rycenga. "Review of When the Drummers Were Women by Lane Redmond" Book Review. (1997).
  • Jennifer J. Rycenga. "Review of The Sound of the Dove by Beverly Bush Patterson" Book Review. Vol. 14. Issue 3. (1996). pp.384-387.
  • Jennifer J. Rycenga. "Lesbian compositional process." Book Chapter. (January 1994).
  • Jennifer J. Rycenga. "Review of Lesbians Talk Left Politics" Book Review. Vol. 2. Issue 2. (1995). pp.6-7.
  • Jennifer J. Rycenga. "The Uncovering of Ontology in Music: Speculative and Conceptual Feminist Compositions" Article. Vol. 3. Issue 1 (Spring/Summer). (1994). pp.22-46.
  • Jennifer J. Rycenga. "Review of Sisters, Sexperts, Queers by Arlene Stein" Book Review. Vol. 1. Issue 2. (1994). pp.22.
  • Jennifer J. Rycenga. "Review of All American Music: Composition in the Late Twentieth Century by John Rockwell" Book Review. Vol. 4. Issue 1/2. (1984). pp.34-38.