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The end of each year brings with it a series of lists that bibliophiles eagerly await — a rundown of the year’s best books. Baylor professors are often honored on these “best of” lists, on a wide variety of topics.<\/p>\n
For 2022, two books authored by Baylor faculty members earned recognition from Christianity Today<\/em><\/a> and the Englewood Review of Books<\/em><\/a>, giving readers throughout the Baylor Family new titles to add to their reading list.<\/p>\n * Beyond Racial Division: A Unifying Alternative to Colorblindness and Antiracism<\/a><\/em><\/strong>, by Baylor sociology professor George Yancey<\/a>, was named Christianity Today<\/em>‘s book of the year for “Politics & Public Life.”<\/a> Describing Dr. Yancey’s writing as “clear,” “persuasive” and “moving,”\u00a0CT<\/em>‘s reviewer says the book “proposes a compelling alternative to our current racial stalemate that — dare I say it? — actually gives me hope.”<\/p>\n Yancey joined Baylor’s sociology faculty in 2019 after stints at Texas, UTSA, Wisconsin-Whitewater, and North Texas. His research focuses on such topics as racial identity, academic bias, progressive Christians, and anti-Christian hostility. Yancey’s previous books include Compromising Scholarship<\/em><\/a> (on religious and political biases in academia), What Motivates Cultural Progressives<\/a><\/em> (on activists who oppose the Christian Right), and So Many Christians, So Few Lions<\/em><\/a>\u00a0(on anti-Christian sentiment in America).<\/p>\n * Asian Americans and the Spirit of Racial Capitalism<\/a><\/em><\/strong>, by Baylor religion professor Jonathan Tran<\/a>, was honored by the Englewood Review of Books<\/em> as the “best theology book of 2022.”<\/a>\u00a0Englewood’s reviewer described Dr. Tran’s book as “a healing balm” in “our racially-charged, politicized age,” and applauded the book for “depicting how racism in America is inherently and historically tied to political economy.”<\/p>\n Tran came to Baylor in 2006 after earning his M.Div. and Ph.D. from Duke. He served as faculty-in-residence for Memorial and Alexander halls from 2010-15, faculty steward for Baylor’s Honors College from 2015-18,\u00a0and was voted Collins Outstanding Professor of the Year by Baylor seniors in 2017. His previous books include The Vietnam War and Theologies of Memory<\/a><\/em> (a theological analysis of America’s war in Vietnam) and Foucault and Theology<\/a><\/em> (on the ideas of French philosopher Michel Foucault).<\/p>\n Sic \u2019em, Drs. Yancey and Tran!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The end of each year brings with it a series of lists that bibliophiles eagerly await — a rundown of the year’s best books. Baylor professors are often honored on these “best of” lists, on a wide variety of topics. For 2022, two books authored by Baylor faculty members earned recognition from Christianity Today and […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,9,12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-23797","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-academics","category-honors","category-research"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www2.baylor.edu\/baylorproud\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23797","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www2.baylor.edu\/baylorproud\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www2.baylor.edu\/baylorproud\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www2.baylor.edu\/baylorproud\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www2.baylor.edu\/baylorproud\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23797"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www2.baylor.edu\/baylorproud\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23797\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www2.baylor.edu\/baylorproud\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23797"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www2.baylor.edu\/baylorproud\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23797"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www2.baylor.edu\/baylorproud\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23797"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}