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{{short description|American writer and editor (born 1969)}}
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'''Jana Kathryn Riess''' (born December 13, 1969)<ref name=Selections/>{{page needed | date = April 2023}}<ref name=Flunking/>{{rp|158}}{{third party inline|date = April 2023}} is an American professor, writer, and editor. Riess' writings have focused on American religions, especially [[the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints]] (LDS Church) of which she is a member, and other [[new religious movements]].{{citation needed lead | date = April 2023}}
'''Jana Kathryn Riess''' (born December 13, 1969)<ref>{{cite web|title=The Book of Mormon: selections annotated and explained|work=Copyright Catalog (1978 to present)| publisher=[[United States Copyright Office]]|url=http://cocatalog.loc.gov/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?v1=4&ti=1,4&Search_Arg=riess%20jana&Search_Code=NALL&CNT=25&PID=Z1vRO4sR2Cjcpy3j8PBk8aKATfSrw&SEQ=20100621135354&SID=1|accessdate=June 21, 2010}}</ref><ref>''Flunking Sainthood'', p. 158</ref> is an American writer and editor.
 
==Early life and education==
Riess's writings have focused on American religions, usually on organized movements such as [[The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints]] (LDS Church) and [[The Church of Christ, Scientist]].
As she describes in her own autobiographical writings, Riess was born in the [[Midwestern United States]], and has an older brother, John.<ref name=Flunking>{{cite book |author=Riess, Jana| year=2011 | title=fLunking sainthood: A Year of Breaking the Sabbath, Forgetting to Pray, and Still Loving My Neighbor | location=Brewster, MA | publisher=Paraclete Press | isbn=978-1-55725-660-7 | url=https://books.google.com/books?id=P2d4U-kUOisC|access-date = 29 April 2023}} Note, the unique spelling of the first word of the book's title is as it is presented by the author, on the title page of the book.</ref>{{rp|58,168}} She and her mother Phyllis<ref name=Selections>{{cite book|author = Riess, Jana | date = 2005 | title=The Book of Mormon: Selections Annotated and Explained|series = SkyLight Illuminations | volume = 12 | location = Nashville, TN | publisher = SkyLight Paths Publishing | isbn = 978-1-59473-076-4 | url = https://books.google.com/books?id=zwUA8GC-HMkC | access-date = 29 April 2023 }}</ref>{{rp|xix}} were, per her description, abandoned by her father without warning in 1984,<ref name=Flunking/>{{rp|166-9}} by which time her brother was on his own.{{fact|date = April 2023}} Riess has described her father, who died at age 71 in [[Mobile, Alabama]], in October 2010,<ref name=Flunking/>{{rp|166-9}} as "an angry atheist" and her mother as "considerably more charitable but no more interested in organized religion."<ref name=Flunking/>{{rp|1}}
 
Riess has a [[Bachelor's degree]] from [[Wellesley College]], a Master's degree in theology from the [[Princeton Theological Seminary]], and a PhD in [[Religious studies|American Religious studies]] from [[Columbia University]].{{fact|date = April 2023}}
==Background==
Riess was born in the US [[Midwestern United States|Midwest]], one of two children.<ref>She has an older brother, John (ref. ''Flunking Sainthood'', pp. 58, 168)</ref> Her father<ref>Her father died at age 71 in Mobile, Alabama, in October 2010 (''Flunking Sainthood'', pp. 166–169)</ref> abandoned the family (mother Phyllis<ref>''Annotated Book of Mormon'', p. xix</ref> and Jana; by that time the brother was on his own) without warning in 1984.<ref>''Flunking Sainthood'', pp. 166–169</ref>
 
==Career==
Riess has a [[Bachelor's degree]] from [[Wellesley College]]. She received a Master's degree in theology from the [[Princeton Theological Seminary]] and a PhD in [[Religious studies|American Religious studies]] from [[Columbia University]]. Riess is a Religion and American Studies professor at [[Miami University]] in Oxford, Ohio. She and husband Phil Smith reside in [[Cincinnati]].<ref name=howtogive>{{cite journal|last=Riess, Jana|title=How to Give a Sacrament Meeting Talk: An Open Letter to Converts|journal=[[Sunstone Magazine]]|issue=142|date=September 2006|pages=55–57|url=http://www.sunstonemagazine.com/wp-content/uploads/sbi/articles/142-55-57.pdf|accessdate=June 21, 2010}}.</ref> A convert to the LDS Church, Riess has spoken at [[Brigham Young University]] Women's Conference and other gatherings of the LDS Church, as well as professional conferences.▼
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Riess is an expert on religion in literature.{{fact|date = April 2023}} As of this date,{{when|date = April 2023}} Riess is a Religion and American Studies professor at [[Miami University]] in Oxford, Ohio.{{fact|date = April 2023}}
 
From 1999 to 2008 she was the religion book editor for ''[[Publishers Weekly]]''.<ref name=howtogive/><ref>{{cite web |author=Pagitt, Doug |author2=Riess, Jana | date = 17 February 2022 | title=Common Good Faith—The Rise of the Progressive Mormons with Jana Riess | format = podcast guest autobiography | url=https://votecommongood.podbean.com/e/common-good-faith-the-rise-of-the-progressive-mormons-with-jana-riess/ | location = Edina, MN | publisher = The Common Good Podcast |language=en|access-date = 29 April 2023}}</ref>{{third party inline|date = April 2023}}
==Writings==
Among the books by Riess are ''[[What Would Buffy Do?]]'' and an abridgment of the [[Book of Mormon]] with commentary. Riess is a member of the LDS Church, having converted as an adult.<ref>"My dad was an angry atheist . . My mom was considerably more charitable but no more interested in organized religion." (''Flunking Sainthood'', p. 1)</ref> Riess is an expert on religion in literature. In 2001 she moderated a debate over whether the ''[[Harry Potter]]'' books were a tract for witchcraft.<ref>[http://www.deseretnews.com/article/873509/Some-Christian-critics-take-aim-at-Harry-Potter.html ''Deseret News'', 9 December 2001]</ref> In her 2019 ''The Next Mormons: How Millennials Are Changing the LDS Church'', which received critical praise,<ref name=byuacceptance /><ref name=mormonreportskepticism /> Riess and her colleague Benjamin Knoll published a landmark analysis which questioned the accuracy of reports that LDS membership was growing.<ref name=byuacceptance>https://byustudies.byu.edu/content/next-mormons-how-millennials-are-changing-lds-church</ref><ref name=mormonreportskepticism>{{Cite web|url=https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/the-secular-life/201905/secularization-hits-the-mormons|title = Secularization Hits the Mormons &#124; Psychology Today}}</ref> She has been the religion book editor for ''[[Publishers Weekly]]''.<ref name=howtogive/>
 
A member of the LDS Church, Riess has spoken at [[Brigham Young University]] Women's Conference and other gatherings of the LDS Church, as well as professional conferences.{{fact|date = April 2023}}
==Tweeting the Bible==▼
On October 4, 2009, Riess began a project to [[Twitter|tweet]] the bible. Her "Twible" quest concluded in January 2013. Each tweet summarizes a chapter of the bible. Riess tweets the bible in order and plans to hit all 1,189 chapters in 140 characters.<ref>[http://www.patheos.com/Resources/Additional-Resources/Tweeting-the-Bible "Tweeting the Bible"], ''[[Patheos]]''</ref>
 
==Works=Writings===
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Riess' 2019 ''The Next Mormons: How Millennials Are Changing the LDS Church'', received critical praise;<ref name=Cranney>{{cite journal | author = Cranney, Stephen | date = April 2019 | title = The Next Mormons: How Millennials Are Changing the LDS Church | format = book review | journal = BYU Studies Quarterly | volume = 58 | issue = 2 | pages = 177–183 | url = https://scholarsarchive.byu.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=4940&context=byusq | access-date = 29 April 2023}}{{verification needed|date = April 2023}}</ref>{{verification needed|date = April 2023}}<ref name=Zuckerman>{{Cite web | author = Zuckerman, Phil | date = May 6, 2019 | title = Secularization Hits the Mormons: Is the LDS church losing ground? | work = PsychologyToday.com | url = https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/the-secular-life/201905/secularization-hits-the-mormons | access-date = 29 April 2023}}</ref> [[Phil Zuckerman]], a professor of [[sociology]] at [[Pitzer College]] in [[Claremont, California]],<ref>{{cite web | date = 29 April 2023 | title = Phil Zuckerman |website=TheGuardian | url = https://www.theguardian.com/profile/phil-zuckerman | access-date = 29 April 2023 | quote = Phil Zuckerman is a professor of sociology and secular studies at Pitzer College in Claremont, California. He is the author of Society Without God (2008) and Faith No More (2011).}}{{verification needed|date = April 2023}}</ref> describes the work as "[s]ociologically sound, extremely well-researched and well-written".<ref name=Zuckerman/>
 
Riess and her colleague Benjamin Knoll published a landmark analysis{{what|date = April 2023}}{{full|date = April 2023}} which questioned the accuracy of reports that LDS membership was growing.<ref name=Zuckerman/><ref name=Cranney/>{{verification needed|date = April 2023}}
 
▲====Tweeting the Bible====
On October 4, 2009, Riess began a project to [[Twitter|tweet]] the bible. Her "Twible" quest concluded in January 2013. Each tweet summarizes a chapter of the bible. Riess tweets the bible in order and plans to hit all 1,189 chapters in 140 characters.<ref>{{cite web |author=Mooney, Deborah Arca |author2=Riess, Jana | date = April 9, 2010 | title = Tweeting the Bible: An Interview with Jana Riess | work = Patheos.com | url = http://www.patheos.com/Resources/Additional-Resources/Tweeting-the-Bible | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20100529100349/http://www.patheos.com/Resources/Additional-Resources/Tweeting-the-Bible | access-date = 29 April 2023| archive-date = May 29, 2010 }}</ref> She later published it in book form as ''The Twible: All the Chapters of the Bible in 140 Characters or Less . . . Now with 68% More Humor!''<ref>{{cite web | author = Riess, Jana | date = 29 April 2023 | title = Authors: Jana Riess | format = contributor biographical sketch | work = FaithandLeadership.com | url = https://faithandleadership.com/authors/jana-riess | location = Durham, NC | publisher = Leadership Education at Duke Divinity, Duke University | language=en}}</ref>
 
===Other work===
In July 2001 Riess moderated a debate between [[Richard Abanes]] and [[Connie Neal]] at a convention of Christian retailers over the "real religious concern" over the ''[[Harry Potter]]'' books with regard to their presentation of witchcraft and aspects of the occult.<ref>{{cite news | date = 15 June 2009 | orig-date = August 31, 2001 | title = Harry Potter Raises Eyes of Christians |newspaper=[[The Ledger]] | url = https://www.theledger.com/story/news/2001/08/31/harry-potterraises-eyesof-christians/26540865007/ | access-date = 29 April 2023 | quote = 'There's a real religious concern,' observes Jana Riess of Publishers Weekly, who moderated an [Richard] Abanes - [Connie] Neal debate at a July convention of Christian retailers. 'Evangelical Christians believe that witchcraft is real.' / But, she said, witchcraft in the Potter novels 'is not a worldview in the way evangelicals would think of it.' She likens the fuss to parallel complaints when 'The Wizard of Oz' was published a century ago.}}</ref> Among the books by Riess are the 2004 ''[[What Would Buffy Do?]]'',{{fact|date = April 2023}} and an abridgment of the [[Book of Mormon]] with commentary.{{what|date = April 2023}}{{fact|date = April 2023}}
 
As of 2017, she was conducting "The Next Mormons" survey project to look at how different generations of Mormons have interacted with the Church.<ref>{{cite news |author=Nielsen, Alyssa | date = 1 June 2017 | title=Religion Scholar Studies Why Millennials Leave LDS Church | work=[[The Daily Universe|Universe.BYU.edu]] | url=https://universe.byu.edu/2017/06/01/religion-scholar-studies-why-millennials-leave-the-lds-church/ |access-date=29 April 2023}}</ref>{{update after|2023|4|29}}
 
==Personal life==
▲Riess hasis a [[Bachelor'sconvert degree]]to fromthe [[WellesleyLDS CollegeChurch]]. She received a Master's degree in theology from the [[Princeton Theological Seminary]] and a PhD in [[Religious studies{{fact|Americandate Religious= studies]]April from2023}} [[Columbia University]]. RiessShe is amarried Religionto andPhil American Studies professor at [[Miami University]] in OxfordSmith, Ohio. She and husband Phil Smiththey reside in [[Cincinnati]].<ref name=howtogive>{{cite journal|lastauthor= Riess, Jana |title=How to Give a Sacrament Meeting Talk: An Open Letter to Converts|journal=[[Sunstone Magazine]]|issue=142|date=September 2006|pages=55–57|url=http://www.sunstonemagazine.com/wp-content/uploads/sbi/articles/142-55-57.pdf|accessdateaccess-date=June 21, 2010}}.</ref> A convert to the LDS Church, Riess has spoken at [[Brigham Young University]] Women's Conference and other gatherings of the LDS Church, as well as professional conferences.
 
==Works==
;Books
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*{{citation|last=Riess, Jana|title=The Spiritual Traveler: Boston and New England: A Guide to Sacred Sites and Peaceful Places|publisher=HiddenSpring|location=Mahwah, NJ|year=2002|isbn=978-1-58768-008-3|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=lp8jNUMvIqkC&pg=PP1}}
* {{citation|last=Riess|first=Jana|author-mask= ——|title=What Would Buffy Do?: The Vampire Slayer as Spiritual Guide|publisher=[[Jossey-Bass]]|location=San Francisco|year=2004|isbn=978-0-7879-6922-6|title-link=What Would Buffy Do?: The Vampire Slayer as Spiritual Guide}}
* {{citation|last1=Riess|first1=Jana|author-mask= ——|title=Mormonism for Dummies|last2=Bigelow|first2=Christopher Kimball|publisher=[[John Wiley & Sons]]|location=Hoboken, NJ|year=2005|isbn=978-0-7645-7195-4|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=bS_PAAAACAAJ}}
* {{citation|last=Riess|first=Jana|author-mask= ——|title=The Book of Mormon: Selections Annotated and Explained|publisher=SkyLight Paths|location=Woodstock, VT|year=2005|isbn=1-59473-076-8|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=zwUA8GC-HMkC&pg=PP1}}
* {{citation|last1=OgilbeeRiess|first1=MarkJana|last2author1-mask=Riess ——|first2year=Jana2011 | title=AmericanfLunking Pilgrimagesainthood: ElevenA SacredYear Journeysof Breaking the Sabbath, Forgetting to Pray, and SpiritualStill Destinations|publisher=ParacleteLoving My Neighbor Press| location=Brewster, MA |year publisher=2006Paraclete Press | isbn=978-1-55725-447660-47 | url=https://archivebooks.orggoogle.com/details/americanpilgrima0000ogilbooks?id=P2d4U-kUOisC|access-date = 29 April 2023}}
* {{citation|lastlast1= __Ogilbee|first1=Mark|last2=Riess|first2=Jana|title=FlunkingAmerican SainthoodPilgrimage: AEleven YearSacred of Breaking the Sabbath, Forgetting to Pray,Journeys and StillSpiritual Loving My NeighborDestinations|publisher=Paraclete Press|location=Brewster, MA|year=20112006|isbn=978-1-55725-660447-74|url=httphttps://wwwarchive.paracletepress.comorg/details/americanpilgrima0000ogil}}
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;Articles
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* {{citation|author=Riess, Jana|title=Stripling Warriors Choose the Right: The Cultural Engagements of Contemporary Mormon Kitsch|journal=Sunstone Magazine|issue=114|date=June 1999|pages=36–47|url=http://www.sunstonemagazine.com/wp-content/uploads/sbi/articles/114-36-47.pdf}}
* {{citation|last=Riess|first=Jana|author-mask= ——|title='Heathen in Our Fair Land': Presbyterian Women Missionaries in Utah, 1870–90|journal=[[Journal of Mormon History]]|volume=26|issue=1|date=Spring 2000|pages=165–195|url=http://content.lib.utah.edu/u?/jmh,13424|access-date=December 3, 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110808142518/http://content.lib.utah.edu/u/?%2Fjmh%2C13424|archive-date=August 8, 2011|url-status=dead|df=mdy-all}}
* {{citation|last=Riess|first=Jana|author-mask= ——|title=New Genres, Emerging Audiences|journal=[[Publishers Weekly]] |volume=247|issue=34|date=August 21, 2000|page=S4|url=http://www.accessmylibrary.com/coms2/summary_0286-28218432_ITM}}
* {{citation|last=Riess|first=Jana|author-mask= ——|chapter=Mormon Fast and Testimony Meetings|title=Religions of the United States in Practice|volume=2|editor=Colleen McDannell|publisher=[[Princeton University Press]]|location=Princeton, NJ|year=2001|pages=67–71|isbn=0-691-01001-3}}
* {{citation|last=Riess|first=Jana|author-mask= ——|chapter=The Latter-day Saint Word of Wisdom|title=Religions of the United States in Practice|volume=2|year=2001|pages=297–301|publisher=Princeton University Press |isbn=0-691-01001-3}}
* {{citation|last=Riess|first=Jana|author-mask= ——|chapter=Introduction|title=Mary Baker Eddy, Speaking for Herself: Autobiographical Reflections|publisher=The Writings of Mary Baker Eddy|location=Boston|year=2002|pages=[https://archive.org/details/marybakereddyspe00eddy/page/ xv–xlv]|isbn=0-87952-275-5|url=https://archive.org/details/marybakereddyspe00eddy/page/}}
* {{citation|last=Riess|first=Jana|author-mask= ——|title=Strengthening the Part-Member Marriage?: We're Just Fine, Thank You|journal=Sunstone|issue=126|date=March 2003|pages=66–67|url=http://www.sunstonemagazine.com/wp-content/uploads/sbi/articles/126-66-67.pdf}}
* {{citation|last=Riess|first=Jana|author-mask= ——|title=Seek Ye Out of the Best Flicks: R-Rated Movies That Have Helped Me Think About the Gospel|journal=Sunstone Magazine|issue=128|date=July 2003|pages=42–44|url=http://www.sunstonemagazine.com/wp-content/uploads/sbi/articles/128-42-44.pdf}}
* {{citation|last=Riess|first=Jana|author-mask= ——|title='More Fully Unspotted from the World': Thoughts on Sabbath Keeping|journal=Sunstone|issue=135|date=March 2005|pages=23–25|url=http://www.sunstonemagazine.com/wp-content/uploads/sbi/articles/135-16-27.pdf}}
* {{citation|last=Riess|first=Jana|author-mask= ——|title=Sacred Envy: What I've Learned from Other Religions|journal=Sunstone|issue=136|date=March 2005|pages=52–54|url=http://www.sunstonemagazine.com/wp-content/uploads/sbi/articles/136-52-54.pdf}}
* {{citation|last=Riess|first=Jana|author-mask= ——|title=For the Love of Reading|journal=Sunstone|issue=138|date=September 2005|pages=56–58|url=http://www.sunstonemagazine.com/wp-content/uploads/sbi/articles/138-56-58.pdf}}
* {{citation|last=Riess|first=Jana|author-mask= ——|title=How to Give a Sacrament Meeting Talk: An Open Letter to Converts|journal=Sunstone|issue=142|date=September 2006|pages=55–57|url=http://www.sunstonemagazine.com/wp-content/uploads/sbi/articles/142-55-57.pdf}}
* {{citation|last=Riess|first=Jana|author-mask= ——|title=Why the Heck Don't Mormons Swear?: Musings on the Sacred and the Profane|journal=Sunstone|issue=146|date=June 2007|pages=57–59|url=http://www.sunstonemagazine.com/wp-content/uploads/sbi/articles/146-57-59.pdf}}
* {{citation|last=——Riess|first=Jana|author-mask= ——|title=We're Christians Too |journal=[[Christian Century]] |volume=124 |issue=20 |date=October 2, 2007 |pages=9–10 |url=http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m1058/is_20_124/ai_n27402872/ |archive-url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20081011211715/http://www.findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m1058/is_20_124/ai_n27402872 |archivedatearchive-date=October 11, 2008 }}
* {{citation|last=Riess|first=Jana|author-mask= ——|title=Tributaries of Faith|journal=Sunstone|issue=148|date=December 2007|pages=20–26|url=http://www.sunstonemagazine.com/wp-content/uploads/sbi/articles/148-20-26.pdf}}
* {{citation|last=Riess|first=Jana|author-mask= ——|title=Book of Mormon Stories that Steph Meyer Tells to Me: LDS Themes in the Twilight Saga and the Host|journal=[[BYU Studies]]|volume=48|issue=3|year=2009|pages=141–47}}
{{ref end}}
 
;Other
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* {{citation|author=Riess, Jana|chaptertitle=The Saints Go Marching In: Mormonism in American Politics, 1970–1990|publisher=Department of Religion, Wellesley College|location=Wellesley, MA|year=1991|series=[Honors thesis]}}
* {{citation|last=Riess|first=Jana|author-mask= ——|chaptertitle=Heathen in Our Fair Land: Anti-Polygamy and Protestant Women's Missions to Utah, 1869–1910|publisher=[[Columbia University]]|location=New York|year=2000|series=[PhD Thesis]}}
* {{citation|last1=Bigelow|first1=Christopher Kimball|editor=Jana Riess|title=The Timechart History of Mormonism from Premortality to the Present|publisher=Worth Press|location=Bassingbourne, Hertfordshire, UK|year=2007|isbn=978-1-903025-40-6}}
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==FootnotesReferences==
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==External links==
* {{MormonLit author|2805|Jana Riess}}
* [http://blog.beliefnet.com/flunkingsainthood/ "Flunking Sainthood" blog] on [[Beliefnet]]
* [http://janariess.typepad.com/ The Review Revolution: Improving Culture through Kvetching – Jana Riess' blog]
* [https://twitter.com/janariess @janariess on Twitter]
* [https://archive.istoday/20130102140105/http://www.farmsnewsite.farmsresearch.com/publications/review/?reviewed_author&vol=18&num=1&id=599 ''FARMS Review'' on Riess' abridgment of the Book of Mormon]▼
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▲*[https://archive.is/20130102140105/http://www.farmsnewsite.farmsresearch.com/publications/review/?reviewed_author&vol=18&num=1&id=599 ''FARMS Review'' on Riess' abridgment of the Book of Mormon]
 
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