Scholarship
I present regularly at academic conferences in Europe and North America.
I am a member of the American Anthropological Association and the American Academy of Religion. I’m active in the Society for the Anthropology of Religion, the Society for the Anthropology of Europe, and the Anthropology of Religion Group (AAR) where I served on the board for two terms.
I actively publish in Anthropology and Religious Studies journals. My book Hungarian Catholic Intellectuals in Contemporary Romania: Reforming Apostles has just been published in the Contemporary Anthropology of Religion series from Palgrave MacMillan.
For a comprehensive list of my publications, see my Curriculum Vitae.
MY BOOK
Hungarian Catholic Intellectuals in Contemporary Romania: Reforming Apostles
Contemporary Anthropology of Religion. Palgrave Macmillan, 2022.
Video: Author Meets Critics
Marc Roscoe Loustau discusses his new book Hungarian Catholic Intellectuals in Contemporary Romania: Reforming Apostles (Palgrave MacMillan, 2022) with Mary N. Taylor, Assistant Director of the Center for Place, Culture, and Politics at CUNY Graduate Center; Sarah Riccardi-Swartz, Assistant Professor of Religion and Anthropology at Northeastern University; Peter Fritz, Associate Professor of Religious Studies at the College of the Holy Cross; and moderator Mathew N. Schmalz, Professor of Religious Studies at the College of the Holy Cross and Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Global Catholicism. (“Author Meets Critics,” December 14, 2022)
Podcast interview
Featured on “New Books in Religion” with Diana Dukhanova (New Books Network), August 17, 2022.
SELECTED PUBLICATIONS
"The Hungarian State’s Good Catholic Pastor: Reading Foucault’s Provocations on Christian Institutions and Governmentality." Anthropological Forum. April 2024. Early online edition. https://doi-org.holycross.idm.oclc.org/10.1080/00664677.2024.2335150.
“Putting the Critique of Christian Nationalism Back in the Praxis of Ethnographic Research.” Religion in Praxis. September 21, 2022. https://religioninpraxis.com/putting-the-critique-of-christian-nationalism-back-in-the-praxis-of-ethnographic-research-2/
Hungarian Catholic Intellectuals in Romania: Reforming Apostles. Contemporary Anthropology of Religion. Palgrave Macmillan, 2022.
“‘This station only runs on love’: Post-Bureaucratic Evangelism in a Transylvanian Catholic Media Organization.” In Mediating Catholicism: Religion and Media in Global Catholic Imaginaries, edited by Eric Hoenes del Pinal, Marc Roscoe Loustau and Kristin Norget, 79–96. London: Bloomsbury Academic, 2022.
“Introduction Mediating Catholicism: Global Catholic Media as a Field of Anthropological Inquiry.” In Mediating Catholicism: Religion and Media in Global Catholic Imaginaries, edited by Eric Hoenes del Pinal, Marc Roscoe Loustau and Kristin Norget, 1–28. London: Bloomsbury Academic, 2022.
“Politics of the Blessed Lady: Catholic Art in the Contemporary Hungarian Culture Industry.” Religions 12, no. 8: 577–606. July 2022. https://doi.org/10.3390/rel12080577
“Belief Beyond the Bugbear: Negotiating Theological Authority in a Transylvanian Catholic Ethnographic Memoir.” Ethnos 86.3: 492–509. July 2021.
“Transgressing the Right to the City: Urban Mining and Ecotourism in Post-Industrial Romania.” Anthropological Quarterly 93.1. Winter 2020.
“The Labor of and Labor in Post-Medjugorje Slideshows.” Journeys: The International Journal of Travel and Travel Writing. 20.1. June 2019.
“Introduction: Mediating Catholicisms: Studies in Aesthetics, Authority, and Identity.” (With Kristin Norget and Eric Hoenes). Journal of Global Catholicism 3.2. Spring 2019.
“Radio Maria Transylvania: National Representation, Prayer, and Intersubjectivity in a Growing Catholic Media Network.” Journal of Global Catholicism 3.2. Spring 2019.
“Special Issue Introduction: Pilgrimage Palimpsests: Storytelling and Intersubjectivity Across Multiple Shrines, Sites, and Routes.” Journal of Global Catholicism 3.1. Winter 2019.
“Substituting Stories: Narrative Arcs and Pilgrimage Material Culture Between Lourdes and Csíksomlyó.” Journal of Global Catholicism 3.1. Winter 2019.
“The Uncanny Self in Love: Divorced Catholic Women Remember Abortion in Romania.” Journal of Religious Ethics 46.1: 64–84. March 2018.
“Risking a Miracle: Transcendentally-Oriented Improvisation and Catholic Charismatics’ Involvement in a Transylvanian Canonization.” Journal of Contemporary Religion 31.3: 335–50. August 2016.