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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}}

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 "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}}

* {{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=Riess|first1=Jana|author1-mask= ——|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}}

* {{citation|last1=Ogilbee|first1=Mark|last2=Riess|first2=Jana|title=American Pilgrimage: Eleven Sacred Journeys and Spiritual Destinations|publisher=Paraclete Press|location=Brewster, MA|year=2006|isbn=978-1-55725-447-4|url=https://archive.org/details/americanpilgrima0000ogil}}

* {{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|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=https://web.archive.org/web/20081011211715/http://www.findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m1058/is_20_124/ai_n27402872 |archive-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}}

* {{citation|author=Riess, Jana|title=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= ——|title=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}}

* {{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.today/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]