2026-06-26T07:03:00.000ZMultiple Authorshttps://rs-rss.com/https://rs-rss.com/Feminism and Religionhttps://feminismandreligion.com/2026-06-26T07:03:00.000Zhttps://feminismandreligion.com/2026/06/26/from-the-archives-a-poem-for-our-abortion-rights-by-marie-cartier/This was originally posted on June 24, 2022 * Fecundity: the ability to produce an abundance of new growth, but also the ability to produce new ideas And now in the hour of our discontent, we are asked to worry about fecundity. I suppose we can...Religion Unpluggedhttps://religionunplugged.com/2026-06-26T06:00:00.000Zhttps://religionunplugged.com/news/2026/6/26/crossroads-podcast-bethany-christian-services-drops-its-pro-gay-marriage-stanceBethany Christian Services has reversed its 2021 policy allowing LGBTQ couples to foster and adopt, reaffirming a traditional Christian definition of marriage. The decision raises questions about religious liberty, employment and legal...Religion Unpluggedhttps://religionunplugged.com/2026-06-26T04:01:00.000Zhttps://religionunplugged.com/news/just-one-more-struggles-to-tell-dark-stories(REVIEW) “Just One More” has its heart in the right place. But it is held back by a preachy Christian filmmaking culture that leans on telling, not showing.Canopy Forumhttps://canopyforum.org/2026-06-25T23:04:15.000Zhttps://canopyforum.org/2026/06/25/a-moral-history-of-how-the-u-s-legislated-belonging-by-denying-access-to-home/Twentieth-Century Redlining Map from the National Archives. In the United States, the narrative of belonging has long been told through access to housing and home. Although the over-regulation of physical residences, presence of racial...Religion News Servicehttps://religionnews.com/2026-06-25T22:18:15.000Zhttps://religionnews.com/2026/06/25/asbury-theological-seminary-cut-by-united-methodist-church-umc-over-same-sex-marriage-issue/(RNS) — The decision was attributed to Asbury’s objections to the new version of the denomination’s social principles that no longer solely affirm heterosexual marriage.Religion News Servicehttps://religionnews.com/2026-06-25T20:17:28.000Zhttps://religionnews.com/2026/06/25/pope-leo-to-convene-cardinals-to-rethink-war-and-peace-in-the-age-of-ai/VATICAN CITY (RNS) — At a gathering in Rome, Pope Leo XIV will place war and peace at the center of his young pontificate, pressing cardinals to imagine how the church can respond to a world shaped by violence, fear and technological power.Religion News Servicehttps://religionnews.com/2026-06-25T19:31:05.000Zhttps://religionnews.com/2026/06/25/as-supreme-court-clears-way-to-deport-haitians-and-syrians-faith-leaders-grieve-prepare-for-whats-next/(RNS) — The Supreme Court ruled that the Trump administration can end temporary protected status for Haiti and Syria, leaving hundreds of thousands vulnerable to deportation.Religion News Servicehttps://religionnews.com/2026-06-25T17:24:05.000Zhttps://religionnews.com/2026/06/25/the-us-founders-other-revolutionary-choice-separating-religion-and-government/(The Conversation) — European colonial powers linked church and state. But the founders of the United States broke from that idea as surely as they broke from Britain.Religion News Servicehttps://religionnews.com/2026-06-25T17:22:17.000Zhttps://religionnews.com/2026/06/25/philippine-devotees-honor-st-john-the-baptist-with-a-mud-covered-display-of-faith/BIBICLAT, Philippines (AP) — The Taong Putik, or Mud People, festival is held annually in this village in Asia’s largest Catholic nation as devotees thank the local patron saint for miracles and fulfill vows made in prayer.Religion News Servicehttps://religionnews.com/2026-06-25T17:17:13.000Zhttps://religionnews.com/2026/06/25/these-traditionalist-catholics-are-defying-pope-leo-xiv-and-embracing-their-outsider-status/The group, which celebrates the traditional Latin Mass and rejects the modernizing reforms of the Catholic Church, is planning a highly organized, four-day, livestreamed extravaganza for the consecrations at its Swiss seminary — complete with a...Religion News Servicehttps://religionnews.com/2026-06-25T17:07:22.000Zhttps://religionnews.com/2026/06/25/how-a-mothers-love-and-sikh-wisdom-are-tackling-a-rare-childhood-disease/(RNS) — Riaan, now 6 years old, is the first child in history to be treated with the gene therapy that Jo Kaur’s organization, Riaan Research Initiative, fundraised for and helped develop.Sowing the Seedhttps://sowingtheseed.org/2026-06-25T15:14:40.000Zhttps://sowingtheseed.org/2026/06/25/the-culture-of-award-talk/One of the things I love about the Department of Religious Studies at the University of Alabama is our culture of student research. I have the pleasure of advising Sierra Ruden in our Religion in Culture MA program. Sierra has been using discourse...Religion News Servicehttps://religionnews.com/2026-06-25T14:38:03.000Zhttps://religionnews.com/2026/06/25/looking-for-the-ruler-trump-most-resembles/(RNS) — Try this Caesar.Political Theologyhttps://politicaltheology.com/2026-06-25T13:00:00.000Zhttps://politicaltheology.com/a-letter-from-just-war-theory-love-can-let-go/With Pope Leo's recent declaration of just war being "outdated," Eli McCarthy pens a letter from just war theory, asking to be let go. SourceReligion Unpluggedhttps://religionunplugged.com/2026-06-25T10:25:45.000Zhttps://religionunplugged.com/news/2026/6/25/can-genesis-rainbow-share-a-baseball-cap-with-the-pride-night-rainbow(ANALYSIS) Clashing rainbow symbols recently created a storm in Major League Baseball when powers wielded by team owners clashed with the religious beliefs of players. The big question: Can the biblical rainbow coexist on the same Pride Night...Religion News Servicehttps://religionnews.com/2026-06-25T10:00:43.000Zhttps://religionnews.com/2026/06/25/rabbis-reject-texas-judeo-christian-proposed-reading-list/AUSTIN, Texas (RNS) — The phrase ‘Judeo-Christian’ was frequently heard this week in support of Texas’ revised public school curriculum, even as many Jewish testifiers distanced themselves from the term and the curriculum.Good Faith Mediahttps://goodfaithmedia.org/2026-06-25T09:59:42.000Zhttps://goodfaithmedia.org/no-rainbow-ai-creative-destruction-and-the-theology-silicon-valley-forgot/We are being asked to trust innovation without receiving any corresponding covenant from those who profit most from it. The post No Rainbow: AI, Creative Destruction, and the Theology Silicon Valley Forgot appeared first on Good Faith Media.Good Faith Mediahttps://goodfaithmedia.org/2026-06-25T09:50:21.000Zhttps://goodfaithmedia.org/chinese-officials-continue-latest-wave-of-religious-repression/The Chinese government has detained two leaders of a Christian congregation that has long been the target of the country’s communist regime. The post Chinese Officials Continue Latest Wave of Religious Repression appeared first on Good Faith Media.PaleoJudaiciahttps://paleojudaica.blogspot.com/2026-06-25T09:45:17.000Zhttp://paleojudaica.blogspot.com/2026/06/stoic-scroll-recovered-from-herculaneum.htmlPaleoJudaiciahttps://paleojudaica.blogspot.com/2026-06-25T09:31:17.000Zhttp://paleojudaica.blogspot.com/2026/06/was-jesus-son-of-panthera-christian.htmlPaleoJudaiciahttps://paleojudaica.blogspot.com/2026-06-25T09:15:05.000Zhttp://paleojudaica.blogspot.com/2026/06/review-of-reopened-bardo-museum.htmlFeminism and Religionhttps://feminismandreligion.com/2026-06-25T07:03:00.000Zhttps://feminismandreligion.com/2026/06/25/from-the-archives-hagar-and-intersectionality-by-marilyn-batchelor/This was originally posted on May 15, 2020 I began to follow Kimberlé Crenshaw a little more than five years ago when I first learned of her theory of intersectionality as a more concise description of oppressions stemming from race, age, gender,...Religion Unpluggedhttps://religionunplugged.com/2026-06-25T04:01:00.000Zhttps://religionunplugged.com/news/spielbergs-disclosure-day-should-have-listened-to-religious-people-more(REVIEW) Steven Spielberg’s latest film “Disclosure Day” asks how people of faith would deal with finding out aliens are real. Sadly, one gets the distinct impression that Spielberg didn’t talk to any religious people when deciding his...Religion Unpluggedhttps://religionunplugged.com/2026-06-24T23:53:19.000Zhttps://religionunplugged.com/news/2026/6/24/gateway-church-wins-tithing-lawsuit-dismissal-as-judge-cites-first-amendmentA federal judge dismissed a class-action lawsuit accusing Texas megachurch Gateway Church and former senior pastor Robert Morris of misrepresenting tithing expenditures, marking a significant legal victory for the scandal-plagued congregation.Religion News Servicehttps://religionnews.com/2026-06-24T22:11:53.000Zhttps://religionnews.com/2026/06/24/on-pride-day-dr-helmut-love-links-ai-to-spiritual-promises-through-georgia-initiative/Citizens for LoveWhite Too Longhttps://www.whitetoolong.net/2026-06-24T17:47:15.000Zhttps://www.redeemingdemocracy.net/p/bracing-and-a-potent-reckoning-thePlus two 25% discount offers for the book and paid annual subscriptions to RDContending Modernitieshttps://contendingmodernities.nd.edu/2026-06-24T14:35:09.000Zhttps://contendingmodernities.nd.edu/theorizing-modernities/narrating-historyamerican-anti-zionist-jewish-left-part-1/What does the history of American Jewish anti-Zionism look like if one puts left-wing social movements at the center of that story? The post Narrating the History of the American Anti-Zionist Jewish Left (Part 1) appeared first on Contending...Religion Unpluggedhttps://religionunplugged.com/2026-06-24T14:04:10.000Zhttps://religionunplugged.com/news/2026/6/24/supreme-court-justices-block-suit-against-prison-guards-who-breached-religious-freedomA Rastafarian lost his challenge before the U.S. Supreme Court to seek monetary damages against Louisiana prison guards who forcibly shaved his head, in a case that saw the trio of liberal justices upholding religious liberty.Arc: Religion, Politics, Et Ceterahttps://arcmag.org/2026-06-24T13:56:52.000Zhttps://arcmag.org/how-babel-thrives/A study of religious life in Queens suggests that pluralism works not by erasing difference but by letting communities live side by side The post How Babel Thrives first appeared on ARC: Religion, Politics, Et Cetera.Religion and Politicshttps://religionandpolitics.org/2026-06-24T13:56:52.000Zhttps://arcmag.org/how-babel-thrives/A study of religious life in Queens suggests that pluralism works not by erasing difference but by letting communities live side by side The post How Babel Thrives first appeared on ARC: Religion, Politics, Et Cetera.ReligionProfhttps://www.patheos.com/blogs/religionprof/2026-06-24T13:28:14.000Zhttps://www.patheos.com/blogs/religionprof/2026/06/the-murder-of-the-beloved-son.htmlA Suggestion about the Parable of the Tenants What did the parable of the tenants mean when Jesus uttered it? I found myself sharing thoughts about this as I made a guest appearance in James Tabor’s book club. They are a wonderful group,...The Conversationhttps://theconversation.com/us/ethics2026-06-24T12:32:01.000Zhttps://theconversation.com/the-us-founders-other-revolutionary-choice-separating-religion-and-government-284509European colonial powers linked church and state. But the founders of the United States broke from that idea as surely as they broke from Britain.Religion Unpluggedhttps://religionunplugged.com/2026-06-24T11:49:18.000Zhttps://religionunplugged.com/news/2026/6/24/gen-z-churchgoers-attend-more-but-often-lag-in-applicationThe faith of Generation Z frequently draws them to church on Sunday but often fails to shape their lives during the week.Good Faith Mediahttps://goodfaithmedia.org/2026-06-24T09:59:21.000Zhttps://goodfaithmedia.org/faithful-pride-isnt-pride-a-sin/There are many contexts in our lives where pride is considered a good thing, perhaps even virtuous. The post Faithful Pride | Isn’t Pride a Sin? appeared first on Good Faith Media.PaleoJudaiciahttps://paleojudaica.blogspot.com/2026-06-24T09:57:56.000Zhttp://paleojudaica.blogspot.com/2026/06/archaeomagnetometry-geomagnetic.htmlGood Faith Mediahttps://goodfaithmedia.org/2026-06-24T09:54:01.000Zhttps://goodfaithmedia.org/scotus-denies-louisiana-prisoner-financial-damages-for-religious-rights-violations/The Supreme Court ruled against Damon Landor, a Rastafari, whose religious rights were violated when guards shaved his head. The post SCOTUS Denies Louisiana Prisoner Financial Damages for Religious Rights Violations appeared first on Good Faith...PaleoJudaiciahttps://paleojudaica.blogspot.com/2026-06-24T09:40:19.000Zhttp://paleojudaica.blogspot.com/2026/06/secret-markthree-times-bogus.htmlPaleoJudaiciahttps://paleojudaica.blogspot.com/2026-06-24T09:28:36.000Zhttp://paleojudaica.blogspot.com/2026/06/king-tarhaqa-and-sennacheribs-siege-of.htmlReligion Unpluggedhttps://religionunplugged.com/2026-06-24T09:00:00.000Zhttps://religionunplugged.com/news/backrooms-faith-purgatory-limbo-and-being-lost-between-worlds(ANALYSIS) The Kane Parsons film “Backrooms” has captivated audiences since it hit theaters in May. The movie — a horror film about liminal spaces based on internet mythology — also taps into a series of religious ideas that have existed for...Feminism and Religionhttps://feminismandreligion.com/2026-06-24T07:03:00.000Zhttps://feminismandreligion.com/2026/06/24/from-the-archives-creating-space-mosques-affirming-all-bodies-minds-and-hearts-by-laury-silvers/This was originally posted on December 31, 2013 In my first blog for Feminism and Religion, I discussed the cognitive and embodied dissonance that some Muslims experience as a result of historically (not eternally) gendered ritual forms. I ended...Religion Unpluggedhttps://religionunplugged.com/2026-06-24T04:01:00.000Zhttps://religionunplugged.com/news/2026/5/26/spains-historic-church-sexual-abuse-compensation-a-first-step-toward-reparationAfter decades of silence, Spain and the Catholic Church have agreed on a compensation deal for victims of clergy sexual abuse. For survivors, it is a long-awaited recognition—but also a reminder that justice remains incomplete.Religion Unpluggedhttps://religionunplugged.com/2026-06-23T20:00:00.000Zhttps://religionunplugged.com/news/2026/6/23/prayer-in-public-schools-has-always-been-there(ANALYSIS) For decades after Supreme Court rulings barred school-sponsored prayer and Bible reading, faith remained present in public schools through student-led religious expression and community culture. Now, a series of new state laws...Ancient Jew Reviewhttps://www.ancientjewreview.com/2026-06-23T14:49:33.000Zhttps://www.ancientjewreview.com/read/2026/6/23/death-of-the-desert-forum-the-authors-responseAJR is honored to host this review panel for Christine Luckritz Marquis’s Death of the Desert: Monastic Memory and the Loss of Egypt’s Golden Age (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2022). You may find all the responses and the...Ancient Jew Reviewhttps://www.ancientjewreview.com/2026-06-23T14:01:11.000Zhttps://www.ancientjewreview.com/read/2026/3/30/teachings-from-a-lost-worldA key feature of Luckritz Marquis’s work in the book is her choice to discuss the violent acts, imagery, and discourse in early Christian monastic culture without varnish.Ancient Jew Reviewhttps://www.ancientjewreview.com/2026-06-23T13:58:46.000Zhttps://www.ancientjewreview.com/read/2026/3/24/death-of-the-desert-review-forumThis AJR Forum, organized and guest edited by Candace Buckner, features responses from Ellen Muehlberger, Rebecca Stephens Falcasantos, and Ciara Mulcahy to Christine Luckritz Marquis’s book, Death of the Desert: Monastic Memory and the Loss of...Ancient Jew Reviewhttps://www.ancientjewreview.com/2026-06-23T13:56:46.000Zhttps://www.ancientjewreview.com/read/2026/3/30/monastic-memory-and-the-loss-of-egypts-golden-ageLuckritz Marquis masterfully weaves together multi-layered narratives while simultaneously engaging with the lenses of memory, nostalgia, and race.PaleoJudaiciahttps://paleojudaica.blogspot.com/2026-06-23T13:43:42.000Zhttp://paleojudaica.blogspot.com/2026/06/on-writing-magi.htmlArc: Religion, Politics, Et Ceterahttps://arcmag.org/2026-06-23T13:34:27.000Zhttps://arcmag.org/islam-iphones-and-soul-rot/Can religious education save us from ourselves? The post Islam, iPhones, and Soul Rot first appeared on ARC: Religion, Politics, Et Cetera.Religion and Politicshttps://religionandpolitics.org/2026-06-23T13:34:27.000Zhttps://arcmag.org/islam-iphones-and-soul-rot/Can religious education save us from ourselves? The post Islam, iPhones, and Soul Rot first appeared on ARC: Religion, Politics, Et Cetera.Political Theologyhttps://politicaltheology.com/2026-06-23T13:02:00.000Zhttps://politicaltheology.com/afropessimism-meets-edward-said/Benjamin Davis reviews Zahi Zalloua's new book, To Exist as a Problem: Being Black, Being Palestinian (2026). SourceAncient Jew Reviewhttps://www.ancientjewreview.com/2026-06-23T12:42:26.000Zhttps://www.ancientjewreview.com/read/2026/3/30/remembering-broken-promises-and-shattered-voicesIn the wake of collective trauma, memory practices can be protective strategies that channel grief while also shielding the community from continuing harm.The Conversationhttps://theconversation.com/us/ethics2026-06-23T12:29:10.000Zhttps://theconversation.com/why-its-ok-to-say-namaste-in-yoga-class-281992In a polarized world, the greeting may be an acknowledgment of our interconnectedness.Good Faith Mediahttps://goodfaithmedia.org/2026-06-23T09:59:21.000Zhttps://goodfaithmedia.org/the-unexpected-grace-of-american-football-in-france/Unexpectedly, some of the things that have helped me hold onto both community and hope here, in France, have been unmistakably American. The post The Unexpected Grace of American Football in France appeared first on Good Faith Media.Good Faith Mediahttps://goodfaithmedia.org/2026-06-23T09:54:22.000Zhttps://goodfaithmedia.org/a-deficit-of-curiosity/The person who stops learning, stops being curious, and stops exploring their world ultimately settles for less. The post A Deficit of Curiosity appeared first on Good Faith Media.Good Faith Mediahttps://goodfaithmedia.org/2026-06-23T09:50:58.000Zhttps://goodfaithmedia.org/telling-the-truth-the-world-tried-to-colonize-my-mind/The world tried to colonize my mind so thoroughly that feeling trapped meant feeling voiceless inside my own body. The post Telling the Truth | The World Tried to Colonize My Mind appeared first on Good Faith Media.Feminism and Religionhttps://feminismandreligion.com/2026-06-23T07:03:00.000Zhttps://feminismandreligion.com/2026/06/23/reflections-on-betrayal-by-sara-wright/Recently I read an essay on FAR about how Ruth Ginsberg’s Jewish roots influenced her life in a positive way. When her mother died, she was excluded from mourning because she was a woman. This important exclusion a fundamental form of woman...affecognitivehttps://affecognitive.wordpress.com/2026-06-23T02:27:31.000Zhttps://affecognitive.wordpress.com/2026/06/23/don-thomas-deeres-the-invention-of-order-on-the-coloniality-of-space/Don Deere’s The Invention of Order (Duke University Press, 2025) is a slim but crucial intervention in decolonial theory. Similar …Continue reading →Political Theologyhttps://politicaltheology.com/2026-06-22T13:36:07.000Zhttps://politicaltheology.com/moral-imagination-as-a-bridge/Moral imagination, standing up even when afraid, is required to provide empathetic welcome to prophets, righteous people, and “these little ones.” SourceGood Faith Mediahttps://goodfaithmedia.org/2026-06-22T09:59:28.000Zhttps://goodfaithmedia.org/the-politics-of-white-body-supremacy-on-white-ignorance/Systemic racism is often reinforced through a structural, learned ignorance that allows dominant groups to misunderstand the world they inhabit. The post The Politics of White-Body Supremacy: On White Ignorance appeared first on Good Faith Media.Good Faith Mediahttps://goodfaithmedia.org/2026-06-22T09:54:09.000Zhttps://goodfaithmedia.org/u-s-adults-have-mixed-views-of-ai-pew-study-finds/Views on the negative impacts of AI are split along generational lines, with younger survey participants being more leery of its impact than older ones. The post U.S. Adults Have Mixed Views of AI, Pew Study Finds appeared first on Good Faith Media.Good Faith Mediahttps://goodfaithmedia.org/2026-06-22T09:50:23.000Zhttps://goodfaithmedia.org/courage-beyond-fear/May you have the ear to hear the next act that will be required, not without fear, but with courage beyond fear. The post Courage Beyond Fear appeared first on Good Faith Media.Feminism and Religionhttps://feminismandreligion.com/2026-06-22T07:01:00.000Zhttps://feminismandreligion.com/2026/06/22/june-25th-or-june-unteenth-a-sad-day-for-all-americans/This was originally posted on July 1st, 2013. It was also posted in June 2022. Moderator’s Note: Sadly, the VRA has been further decimated taking us yet further backwards in the history of equality. A new, perhaps more vicious “June Unteenth” is...Political Theologyhttps://politicaltheology.com/2026-06-21T20:10:56.000Zhttps://politicaltheology.com/disinterest-is-not-a-virtue/By what authority an institution, neither elected nor sovereign, may judge the common good. SourcePaleoJudaiciahttps://paleojudaica.blogspot.com/2026-06-21T09:21:00.000Zhttp://paleojudaica.blogspot.com/2026/06/obeid-le-langage-metaphorique-dans-le.htmlFeminism and Religionhttps://feminismandreligion.com/2026-06-21T07:03:00.000Zhttps://feminismandreligion.com/2026/06/21/from-the-archives-epona-goddess-of-the-land-by-deanne-quarrie/This was originally posted on June 29, 2016 This week I bought a pendant that caught my attention. It is Celtic knot work of horses, meant to represent Epona. This triggered my interest in Epona and off I went to learn more. Epona is a goddess...Canopy Forumhttps://canopyforum.org/2026-06-20T13:00:00.000Zhttps://canopyforum.org/2026/06/20/puccinis-suor-angelica-and-the-question-of-suicide-between-catholic-theology-and-the-law/The world premiere of Puccini’s “Suor Angelica”, Metropolitan Opera, New York City, 1918 by White Photo Studio. This paper summarizes and translates into English the chapter Suor Angelica: il suicidio tra teologia e diritto, from the book Puccini...ReligionProfhttps://www.patheos.com/blogs/religionprof/2026-06-20T12:49:18.000Zhttps://www.patheos.com/blogs/religionprof/2026/06/faith-that-lasts-colossians-19-1424-29.htmlFaith that Lasts (Colossians 1:9-14,24-29) The third in my series of Faith for Living talks at Lakeside Chautauqua, June 2026 For this reason, since the day we heard it, we have not ceased praying for you and asking that you may be filled with...PaleoJudaiciahttps://paleojudaica.blogspot.com/2026-06-20T10:01:00.000Zhttp://paleojudaica.blogspot.com/2026/06/porter-laird-eds-new-testament-canon-in.htmlBarth Noteshttps://barthsnotes.com/2026-06-20T08:40:30.000Zhttps://barthsnotes.com/2026/06/20/old-hurst-zoo-incident-police-confirm-white-british-suspect-due-to-misinformation/From BBC News: A three-year-old boy critically injured in a zoo enclosure was attacked by a crocodile, the BBC understands. Cambridgeshire Police said a 30-year-old man arrested on suspicion of attempted murder had been bailed and was “unfit for...Feminism and Religionhttps://feminismandreligion.com/2026-06-20T07:03:00.000Zhttps://feminismandreligion.com/2026/06/20/from-the-archives-gods-womb-by-joyce-zonana/The first time I came across the phrase, I thought I must be making a mistake. “Que Dieu l’enveloppe dans sa matrice,” the passage read in French, “May God’s womb enfold her.” or possibly, "May God enfold her in His womb." His womb?Du Mez CONNECTIONShttps://kristindumez.substack.com/2026-06-19T19:42:50.000Zhttps://kristindumez.substack.com/p/look-for-americaRemember who we are and who we can beSowing the Seedhttps://sowingtheseed.org/2026-06-19T18:51:44.000Zhttps://sowingtheseed.org/2026/06/19/curiosity-meets-the-past-podcast/it was a real treat to be on Dr. Smiti Nathan's amazing anthropology YouTube show, Curiosity Meets the Past. This is a go-to spot to learn about currents in anthropology and archaeology. Dr. Nathan interviewed me about my work and my latest...White Too Longhttps://www.whitetoolong.net/2026-06-19T13:48:48.000Zhttps://www.redeemingdemocracy.net/p/lets-tell-a-new-story-juneteenthThe 15 days that span the space between Juneteenth and Independence Day could function as an enduring season of critical patriotism for our time.PaleoJudaiciahttps://paleojudaica.blogspot.com/2026-06-19T10:05:35.000Zhttp://paleojudaica.blogspot.com/2026/06/fraenkel-on-confrontation-stories-among.htmlFeminism and Religionhttps://feminismandreligion.com/2026-06-19T07:03:00.000Zhttps://feminismandreligion.com/2026/06/19/from-the-archives-the-story-of-juneteenth-by-kelly-brown-douglas-2/This blog has been posted twice before. June 18,2013 and June 19, 2022. Today is Juneteenth in the USA. Tomorrow is a special day for me. It is Juneteenth. On June 19, 1865, news finally reached Galveston, Texas that slavery had been abolished....Cultural Studies Blogspothttps://cultstud.blogspot.com/2026-06-19T05:39:30.000Zhttps://cultstud.blogspot.com/2026/06/sticks-and-handles.htmlRecently, I noticed Facebook was feeding me an advert for a stick. Yes. A stick. This was pitched as being some kind of miracle cure for bodily stiffness and aches. A medium to long-ish stick. You lean on it, twist, things like that. Magic.A while...ReligionProfhttps://www.patheos.com/blogs/religionprof/2026-06-18T21:45:42.000Zhttps://www.patheos.com/blogs/religionprof/2026/06/faith-that-learns.htmlFaith that Learns (Mark 7:24-31; Luke 16:19-31) Syrophoenician woman; Rich man and Lazarus Lakeside Chautauqua Faith for Living talk June 2026 This talk is about two texts that, until relatively recently, it never occurred to me to connect....Barth Noteshttps://barthsnotes.com/2026-06-18T11:14:32.000Zhttps://barthsnotes.com/2026/06/18/media-addresses-the-keir-starmer-rent-boys-smear/The i Paper has a useful overview by Lizzie Dearden of how the Keir Starmer “rent boy” conspiracy theory spread on social media following acts of arson at properties linked to the prime minister: Less than 15 minutes after [Roman] Lavrynovych was...Feminism and Religionhttps://feminismandreligion.com/2026-06-18T07:03:00.000Zhttps://feminismandreligion.com/2026/06/18/from-the-archives-peace-weaving-a-task-for-our-time-by-carolyn-lee-boyd/This was originally posted on April 21, 2023 Throughout centuries and across continents, women peace weavers have intertwined the threads of diplomacy and connection to make of their societies a harmonious whole amid war, violence, and seemingly...Canopy Forumhttps://canopyforum.org/2026-06-17T19:57:53.000Zhttps://canopyforum.org/2026/06/17/the-war-on-drugs-and-violence-against-catholic-priests-in-mexico/Image of Padre Filiberto Velázquez Florencio created by Leonardo Hernández Arrendondo for Dr. Solís’ project. The following essay is reprinted and adapted on Canopy Forum in collaboration with the journal Derecho en Sociedad, a biannual electronic...White Too Longhttps://www.whitetoolong.net/2026-06-17T19:46:53.000Zhttps://www.redeemingdemocracy.net/p/new-prri-poll-at-250-americans-arePlus, get 25% off annual subscriptions between now and July 4th.The Conversationhttps://theconversation.com/us/ethics2026-06-17T19:10:02.000Zhttps://theconversation.com/bonfires-maypoles-and-a-saints-day-how-europe-celebrates-the-longest-day-of-the-year-285196Midsummer celebrations throughout Europe coincide with the solstice. Many blend pre-Christian and Christian traditions.The Immanent Framehttps://tif.ssrc.org/2026-06-17T19:03:45.000Zhttps://tif.ssrc.org/2026/06/17/what-do-we-talk-about-when-we-talk-about-innovation-in-religion-and-spirituality/Innovation in religion and spirituality is a concept often used but rather under-analyzed. In what follows, I focus on four […] The post What do we talk about when we talk about innovation in religion and spirituality? appeared first on The...Contending Modernitieshttps://contendingmodernities.nd.edu/2026-06-17T13:02:47.000Zhttps://contendingmodernities.nd.edu/global-currents/church-lost-its-cry-ethiopia/Teddy Afro’s song, for all its theological limitations, expresses what Ethiopia’s churches have too often lost: the capacity to grieve publicly, truthfully, and across ethnic lines. The post The Church That Lost Its Cry: Public Lament and Ecclesial...Political Theologyhttps://politicaltheology.com/2026-06-17T13:00:00.000Zhttps://politicaltheology.com/the-spirits-of-extraction-an-interview-with-claire-blencowe/We interviewed Claire Blencowe on her new book, Spirits of Extraction: Christianity, Settler Colonialism, and the Geology of Race. SourceThe Conversationhttps://theconversation.com/us/ethics2026-06-17T12:11:19.000Zhttps://theconversation.com/40-years-on-maradonas-hand-of-god-goal-is-still-celebrated-but-should-it-be-284724A philosopher of sport guides readers through the ethics of Diego Maradona’s most celebrated goal – and his most controversial.The Conversationhttps://theconversation.com/us/ethics2026-06-17T12:10:43.000Zhttps://theconversation.com/how-enslaved-african-muslims-resisted-bondage-through-their-faith-and-writing-276967As the US approaches the 250th anniversary of the signing of the Declaration of Independence, two scholars revisit the rich legacy of American Muslims.ReligionProfhttps://www.patheos.com/blogs/religionprof/2026-06-17T08:53:03.000Zhttps://www.patheos.com/blogs/religionprof/2026/06/faith-that-lives.htmlFaith that Lives (Matthew 7:12-29): Wise and foolish builders Faith for Living talk, Lakeside Chautauqua, June 16th, 2026 “Everyone, then, who hears these words of mine and acts on them will be like a wise man who built his house on rock. The rain...Feminism and Religionhttps://feminismandreligion.com/2026-06-17T07:03:00.000Zhttps://feminismandreligion.com/2026/06/17/zahra-tabari-by-wncri/Women’s National Council of Resistance of Iran (info below) In a continuation of the escalating crackdown on political dissent in Iran, Zahra Shahbaz Tabari, a 67-year-old political prisoner, was sentenced to death by Branch 1 of the Revolutionary...Popular Culture And Theologyhttps://popularcultureandtheology.com/2026-06-16T20:38:45.000Zhttps://popularcultureandtheology.com/2026/06/16/extended-call-for-papers-theology-religion-and-margaret-atwood-2/Theological and Spiritual Musings in the Works of Margaret Atwood: The Handmaid’s Tale and Other Worlds ***At this time, the editors are not seeking anymore proposals for The Handmaid’s tale, but invite proposals about other works by Atwood....Cultural Studies Blogspothttps://cultstud.blogspot.com/2026-06-16T19:10:13.000Zhttps://cultstud.blogspot.com/2026/06/uplifting-strength-training-through.html- International Conference - Cardiff University - 8-10 June 2027 -This conference seeks to explore new understandings of contemporary, historical and cross-cultural practices of strength training.Many cultures and societies around the world and...Arc: Religion, Politics, Et Ceterahttps://arcmag.org/2026-06-16T13:27:37.000Zhttps://arcmag.org/religion-american-style/A massive new history of American religion is short on Quakers, doesn’t forget the Shakers, and has so much more The post Religion, American Style first appeared on ARC: Religion, Politics, Et Cetera.Religion and Politicshttps://religionandpolitics.org/2026-06-16T13:27:37.000Zhttps://arcmag.org/religion-american-style/A massive new history of American religion is short on Quakers, doesn’t forget the Shakers, and has so much more The post Religion, American Style first appeared on ARC: Religion, Politics, Et Cetera.Political Theologyhttps://politicaltheology.com/2026-06-16T13:00:00.000Zhttps://politicaltheology.com/another-humanity-or-a-plea-for-the-death-drive/Zahi Zalloua reviews Benjamin Davis's new book, Another Humanity: Decolonial Ethics from Du Bois to Arendt (2025). SourceAncient Jew Reviewhttps://www.ancientjewreview.com/2026-06-16T12:11:49.000Zhttps://www.ancientjewreview.com/read/2026/6/16/reading-conflict-in-the-babylonian-talmud-behind-the-fragility-of-the-mindRather than portraying the sage as a mere conduit for divine truth, these stories present Torah as emerging from the sage’s individual identity and as deeply bound up with his personality. Consequently, an injury to a sage’s honor is not merely...The Conversationhttps://theconversation.com/us/ethics2026-06-15T12:42:13.000Zhttps://theconversation.com/a-shared-mourning-ritual-helped-an-american-soldier-and-an-iraqi-interpreter-find-common-ground-279761Research on social bonding suggests that common traditions can foster connection not only within communities but also across cultural and religious boundaries.ReligionProfhttps://www.patheos.com/blogs/religionprof/2026-06-15T11:59:15.000Zhttps://www.patheos.com/blogs/religionprof/2026/06/generosity-and-justice-mark-1238-44.htmlGenerosity and Justice: Mark 12:38-44 Sermon delivered at the Hoover Service, Lakeside Chautauqua, Sunday June 14th, 2026 As he taught, he said, “Beware of the scribes, who like to walk around in long robes and to be greeted with respect in the...Political Theologyhttps://politicaltheology.com/2026-06-15T10:00:00.000Zhttps://politicaltheology.com/an-indigenous-womans-reading-of-hagar/To be faithful to God’s promised covenant for communal flourishing, faith communities must reject the recycled rhetoric of “blood and soil” that is rapidly turning white supremacy into normalized governmental policy and practice. SourceAncient Jew Reviewhttps://www.ancientjewreview.com/2026-06-15T03:15:14.000Zhttps://www.ancientjewreview.com/read/2025/12/12/lessons-learned-from-the-magiThe twelve verses about the Magi in Matthew do not invite final answers; they invite attention, patience, and the persistence to keep digging.Barth Noteshttps://barthsnotes.com/2026-06-14T09:47:34.000Zhttps://barthsnotes.com/2026/06/14/mystery-of-the-daily-mail-exclusive-interview-with-bulgarian-after-dundee-incident/Amended – see comments From BBC News: A man has been found guilty of making sexual remarks to a group of girls aged between 12 and 14 in Dundee before grabbing and pushing one of them to the ground. Ilia Belov, 22, claimed he confronted the girls...Canopy Forumhttps://canopyforum.org/2026-06-12T23:37:01.000Zhttps://canopyforum.org/2026/06/12/from-crime-to-covenant-what-koreas-decriminalization-of-adultery-asks-of-the-church/Constitutional Court of South Korea by Wei-Te Wong (CC BY-SA 2.0) Within five years, three of Asia’s major democracies stopped treating adultery as a crime. South Korea’s Constitutional Court struck it down in February 2015 in 2009 Hun-Ba 17; India...Ken Chitwoodhttps://www.kenchitwood.com/2026-06-12T14:12:37.000Zhttp://www.kenchitwood.com/blog/2026/6/12/one-building-three-faiths-lessons-from-londons-brick-lane-mosqueBrick Lane in London, with the Brick Lane Masjid in the background. Photo: Ken Chitwood "Brother, where are you from?"Clarifying I was not Muslim, just visiting, the henna-bearded...Canopy Forumhttps://canopyforum.org/2026-06-11T22:00:12.000Zhttps://canopyforum.org/2026/06/11/the-governed-dance-floor-religion-law-and-the-global-transformation-of-rave-culture/AI Image of a rave created by author. From its emergence in the underground electronic dance scenes of the 1980’s and 1990’s, rave culture has occupied an uneasy space between liberation and disorder. Secret gatherings in abandoned warehouses,...The Conversationhttps://theconversation.com/us/ethics2026-06-11T18:45:51.000Zhttps://theconversation.com/why-corporate-inclusion-policies-are-moral-decisions-not-just-business-ones-279160Before asking whether inclusion is good for business, we should ask whether it is the right thing to do, two scholars argue.Popular Culture And Theologyhttps://popularcultureandtheology.com/2026-06-11T16:47:46.000Zhttps://popularcultureandtheology.com/2026/06/11/call-for-papers-spielbergs-alien-imaginary-and-american-spirituality/Call for Papers From Close Encounters to Disclosure: Spielberg’s Alien Imaginary and American Spirituality Proposed Edited Volume for the Pop Culture and Theology Series Since the release of Close Encounters of the Third Kind in 1977, Steven...Popular Culture And Theologyhttps://popularcultureandtheology.com/2026-06-11T16:43:03.000Zhttps://popularcultureandtheology.com/2026/06/11/call-for-papers-theology-and-religion-in-the-works-of-stephen-king/Theology and Religion in the Works of Stephen King Call for Papers Stephen King has aptly been labeled ‘The King of Horror’ and is one of the most prolific and successful authors in history. With a literary career spanning over 50 years, King has...The Commons by APRIL Onlinehttps://www.aprilonline.org/the-commons/2026-06-11T16:05:26.000Zhttps://www.aprilonline.org/why-is-it-easier-to-establish-womens-centers-than-durable-womens-mosques/Add excerpt here. The post Why Is It Easier to Establish Women’s Centers than Durable Women’s Mosques? appeared first on April Online.Sowing the Seedhttps://sowingtheseed.org/2026-06-11T14:47:43.000Zhttps://sowingtheseed.org/2026/06/11/lets-talk-teaching/This Monday, June 15 from Noon EST/11am Central, I’m talking about teaching tactics, pedagogical challenges, and more with the good folks of NAASR. It’s going down on here on Zoom for free courtesy of the North American Association for the Study of...Arc: Religion, Politics, Et Ceterahttps://arcmag.org/2026-06-11T14:24:19.000Zhttps://arcmag.org/pilgrims-and-holy-wars-at-the-world-cup/Soccer’s corrupt governing body may discover that the faithful still believe in the game—but not in its priests The post Pilgrims and Holy Wars at the World Cup first appeared on ARC: Religion, Politics, Et Cetera.Religion and Politicshttps://religionandpolitics.org/2026-06-11T14:24:19.000Zhttps://arcmag.org/pilgrims-and-holy-wars-at-the-world-cup/Soccer’s corrupt governing body may discover that the faithful still believe in the game—but not in its priests The post Pilgrims and Holy Wars at the World Cup first appeared on ARC: Religion, Politics, Et Cetera.Political Theologyhttps://politicaltheology.com/2026-06-11T13:00:00.000Zhttps://politicaltheology.com/breathing-otherwise-spiritual-critique-ethical-realignment-and-vegetal-life/This essay is part of the Discourses in Spirituality Round Robin. SourceBarth Noteshttps://barthsnotes.com/2026-06-11T09:10:44.000Zhttps://barthsnotes.com/2026/06/11/ant-middleton-meets-reform-uk-in-makerfield/Although it hasn’t so far made the mainstream news, Ant Middleton has been welcomed by Reform UK at the Makerfield by-election campaign: images on social media show the former soldier and SAS: Who Dares Wins TV presenter posing with local...Arc: Religion, Politics, Et Ceterahttps://arcmag.org/2026-06-10T20:37:10.000Zhttps://arcmag.org/love-and-art-in-the-age-of-artificial-intelligence/I mourn the old, pre-Claude world, but maybe I can vibe-code my way to a better one The post Love and Art in the Age of Artificial Intelligence first appeared on ARC: Religion, Politics, Et Cetera.Religion and Politicshttps://religionandpolitics.org/2026-06-10T20:37:10.000Zhttps://arcmag.org/love-and-art-in-the-age-of-artificial-intelligence/I mourn the old, pre-Claude world, but maybe I can vibe-code my way to a better one The post Love and Art in the Age of Artificial Intelligence first appeared on ARC: Religion, Politics, Et Cetera.White Too Longhttps://www.whitetoolong.net/2026-06-10T20:23:29.000Zhttps://www.redeemingdemocracy.net/p/trumps-favorability-free-fall-inPlus, a conversation with Diana Butler Bass and an invitation to support the production of rigorous, independent research that is the backbone of democracy.Ancient Jew Reviewhttps://www.ancientjewreview.com/2026-06-10T13:43:29.000Zhttps://www.ancientjewreview.com/read/2026/5/28/author-response-moulie-vidas-on-the-rise-of-talmud“The Rise of Talmud concludes with the argument that Talmud was distinctive because it centered humans reading other humans, as opposed to humans reading God; let this piece conclude with an argument for humans reading other humans as opposed to...The Conversationhttps://theconversation.com/us/ethics2026-06-10T12:31:48.000Zhttps://theconversation.com/everyone-wants-to-think-theyre-open-minded-heres-why-most-people-arent-282807Practicing existential humility means learning to live with the natural tension between our desires for certainty and curiosity.Du Mez CONNECTIONShttps://kristindumez.substack.com/2026-06-09T16:35:24.000Zhttps://kristindumez.substack.com/p/how-to-promote-a-bookA step-by-step guide to getting your work out into the worldContending Modernitieshttps://contendingmodernities.nd.edu/2026-06-09T13:34:53.000Zhttps://contendingmodernities.nd.edu/global-currents/a-tale-of-two-cities/The same hubris that animates Trumpism’s uncritical embrace of AI is evident in the administration’s apparent conviction that it has the right to intervene militarily in any country that fails to do its bidding. The post A Tale of Two Cities: The...Arc: Religion, Politics, Et Ceterahttps://arcmag.org/2026-06-09T13:05:40.000Zhttps://arcmag.org/against-climate-grief/Christian societies like to predict the end times. It’s not helpful. The post Against Climate Grief first appeared on ARC: Religion, Politics, Et Cetera.Religion and Politicshttps://religionandpolitics.org/2026-06-09T13:05:40.000Zhttps://arcmag.org/against-climate-grief/Christian societies like to predict the end times. It’s not helpful. The post Against Climate Grief first appeared on ARC: Religion, Politics, Et Cetera.Political Theologyhttps://politicaltheology.com/2026-06-09T13:00:00.000Zhttps://politicaltheology.com/making-a-king/We invited Jake Rose, the author of JOAN, to reflect on Winnifred Sullivan’s Making a King: The Political Theology of Joan of Arc. Last week, we ran an essay by Sullivan reflecting on Rose’s book of poems. Travelling through contested Burgundian...Arc: Religion, Politics, Et Ceterahttps://arcmag.org/2026-06-09T12:59:43.000Zhttps://arcmag.org/the-beautiful-games-crisis-of-faith/Soccer has become more global, more Muslim, and more open. But FIFA’s embrace of Qatar and Saudi Arabia has corrupted the game’s new pluralism. The post The Beautiful Game’s Crisis of Faith first appeared on ARC: Religion, Politics, Et Cetera.Religion and Politicshttps://religionandpolitics.org/2026-06-09T12:59:43.000Zhttps://arcmag.org/the-beautiful-games-crisis-of-faith/Soccer has become more global, more Muslim, and more open. But FIFA’s embrace of Qatar and Saudi Arabia has corrupted the game’s new pluralism. The post The Beautiful Game’s Crisis of Faith first appeared on ARC: Religion, Politics, Et Cetera.ReligionProfhttps://www.patheos.com/blogs/religionprof/2026-06-09T11:40:19.000Zhttps://www.patheos.com/blogs/religionprof/2026/06/from-close-encounters-to-disclosure-call-for-papers.htmlFrom Close Encounters to Disclosure: Spielberg’s Alien Imaginary and American Spirituality Proposed Edited Volume for the Pop Culture and Theology Series Since the release of Close Encounters of the Third Kind in 1977, Steven Spielberg has played a...Ken Chitwoodhttps://www.kenchitwood.com/2026-06-08T17:53:15.000Zhttp://www.kenchitwood.com/blog/2026/6/8/lowkey-religious-highkey-spiritual-a-guide-to-gen-z-religionPhoto by BOAM PRODUCTION on Unsplash. Gen Z is often assumed to be the least religious generation in American history. More likely to claim no affiliation, less likely to attend...The Domination Chronicleshttps://stevennewcomb.substack.com/2026-06-08T17:17:37.000Zhttps://stevennewcomb.substack.com/p/where-are-we-now-why-domination-isEpisode 22 of the Domination Chronicles PodcastPolitical Theologyhttps://politicaltheology.com/2026-06-08T15:49:16.000Zhttps://politicaltheology.com/movements-grow-slow-and-steady/Insiders and those most similar are invited into the movement first, and then, if meaningful and urgent enough to others expands to those beyond the insiders. The expansion of God’s Realm in Matthew is built slow and steady, an example we have much...Arc: Religion, Politics, Et Ceterahttps://arcmag.org/2026-06-08T12:50:57.000Zhttps://arcmag.org/my-club/For twenty years, the Park Slope Food Coop gave me groceries, community, and a place to belong. Then came the boycott vote. The post My Club first appeared on ARC: Religion, Politics, Et Cetera.Religion and Politicshttps://religionandpolitics.org/2026-06-08T12:50:57.000Zhttps://arcmag.org/my-club/For twenty years, the Park Slope Food Coop gave me groceries, community, and a place to belong. Then came the boycott vote. The post My Club first appeared on ARC: Religion, Politics, Et Cetera.Ancient Jew Reviewhttps://www.ancientjewreview.com/2026-06-08T12:32:50.000Zhttps://www.ancientjewreview.com/read/2026/6/1/vidas-yerushalmi-and-the-reputation-of-the-tannaim“Moulie uncovers a new world of distinctions between the Yerushalmi and the Tannaitic literature. “The Conversationhttps://theconversation.com/us/ethics2026-06-08T12:30:42.000Zhttps://theconversation.com/what-the-tattoos-of-world-cup-players-say-about-their-love-life-and-religious-beliefs-284282As millions watch the 2026 FIFA World Cup, players’ tattoos will be on display – offering a glimpse into the inner lives of soccer’s biggest stars.The Conversationhttps://theconversation.com/us/ethics2026-06-08T12:30:22.000Zhttps://theconversation.com/cincinnati-where-vance-converted-gives-a-glimpse-of-catholicisms-history-in-americas-heartland-282310For more than a century, anti-Catholicism was a powerful force in the region’s culture and politics. But religious pluralism ultimately triumphed in the ‘Queen City.’Cultural Studies Blogspothttps://cultstud.blogspot.com/2026-06-08T07:20:48.000Zhttps://cultstud.blogspot.com/2026/06/tai-chi-touch-amplifier.htmlEven more immediately than other perceptual systems, it seems, the sense of touch makes nonsense out of any dualistic understanding of agency and passivity; to touch is always already to reach out, to fondle, to heft, to tap, or to enfold, and...ReligionProfhttps://www.patheos.com/blogs/religionprof/2026-06-07T22:59:58.000Zhttps://www.patheos.com/blogs/religionprof/2026/06/rome-recommendations.htmlRome recommendations are everywhere. Maybe you’ve been thinking about going to Rome. Perhaps you’re already planning a trip. Either way, social media algorithms will have begun showing you short videos. Some of those are extremely helpful. Some are...Barth Noteshttps://barthsnotes.com/2026-06-07T09:44:01.000Zhttps://barthsnotes.com/2026/06/07/uk-populist-right-appropriate-taking-a-knee/From the International Business Times: Protesters across parts of the United Kingdom have begun reviving the ‘take the knee’ gesture following the murder of Southampton student Henry Nowak and the release of police body-worn camera footage showing...Religion Linkhttps://religionlink.com/2026-06-04T18:59:35.000Zhttps://religionlink.com/source-guides/lowkey-religious-highkey-spiritual-a-guide-to-gen-z-religion/Arc: Religion, Politics, Et Ceterahttps://arcmag.org/2026-06-04T16:27:22.000Zhttps://arcmag.org/how-christian-should-america-be/New Pew data shows that support for a Christian culture is far from universal—and that evangelicals remain the major outlier. The post How Christian Should America Be? first appeared on ARC: Religion, Politics, Et Cetera.Religion and Politicshttps://religionandpolitics.org/2026-06-04T16:27:22.000Zhttps://arcmag.org/how-christian-should-america-be/New Pew data shows that support for a Christian culture is far from universal—and that evangelicals remain the major outlier. The post How Christian Should America Be? first appeared on ARC: Religion, Politics, Et Cetera.Cultural Studies Blogspothttps://cultstud.blogspot.com/2026-06-04T06:17:37.000Zhttps://cultstud.blogspot.com/2026/06/touching-feeling-noting-on-eve-kosofsky.htmlDis/ConnectionIf I take notes, I only take ‘feel notes’. This is because I mainly note feelings – from the tangible feel of material objects, substances or surfaces, to noting the emotions elicited by learning new things; thoughts precipitated by...Du Mez CONNECTIONShttps://kristindumez.substack.com/2026-06-03T21:36:56.000Zhttps://kristindumez.substack.com/p/standing-firmResisting authoritarianism: lessons from the twentieth centuryCanopy Forumhttps://canopyforum.org/2026-06-03T18:07:30.000Zhttps://canopyforum.org/2026/06/03/state-of-religious-freedom-in-nicaragua-an-analysis-of-the-violent-incidents-database/Colonial-era Church in the Granada, Nicaragua by Monge Najera (CC BY-SA3.0) Freedom of religion or belief is formally recognized in Nicaragua’s legal framework. The former Constitution of Nicaragua established that the State had no official...affecognitivehttps://affecognitive.wordpress.com/2026-06-03T17:41:25.000Zhttps://affecognitive.wordpress.com/2026/06/03/dukes-2026-feminist-theory-workshop/Oh, the tardiness wrought by retirement! The FTW was nearly 3 months ago, but it still percolates through my thinking …Continue reading →The Immanent Framehttps://tif.ssrc.org/2026-06-03T17:03:33.000Zhttps://tif.ssrc.org/2026/06/03/the-future-of-the-religious-past/In his 2016 global bestseller, Homo Deus: A Brief History of Tomorrow, the historian and philosopher Yuval Noah Harari argues […] The post The future of the religious past appeared first on The Immanent Frame.The Revealerhttps://therevealer.org/2026-06-03T12:39:18.000Zhttps://therevealer.org/the-revealer-podcast-episode-70-evangelicals-and-queer-activism/The history of evangelical gay activism, the opposition it faced, and evangelical queer activism todayThe Revealerhttps://therevealer.org/2026-06-03T12:38:36.000Zhttps://therevealer.org/the-religion-behind-wellness-trends/An excerpt from “Beyond Wellness: How Restoring the Religious Roots of Spiritual Practices Can Heal Us”The Revealerhttps://therevealer.org/2026-06-03T12:38:05.000Zhttps://therevealer.org/trailblazing-gay-evangelical-activists/An excerpt from “Born Again Queer: A History of Evangelical Gay Activism and the Making of Antigay Christianity”The Revealerhttps://therevealer.org/2026-06-03T12:37:42.000Zhttps://therevealer.org/gods-divided-country/A review of the book “A God-Shaped Nation: Five Hundred Years of Religion in America”The Revealerhttps://therevealer.org/2026-06-03T12:37:13.000Zhttps://therevealer.org/her-body-their-papers/The legal labor system that allows for the exploitation and trafficking of female domestic workers to several Middle Eastern countriesThe Revealerhttps://therevealer.org/2026-06-03T12:36:39.000Zhttps://therevealer.org/palestinians-and-zionist-identity/While Zionist claims to nationhood are often structured around the delegitimization of Palestinians, pro-Palestinian solidarity has become central to the Jewish identity of many on the leftThe Revealerhttps://therevealer.org/2026-06-03T12:36:12.000Zhttps://therevealer.org/editors-letter-narratives-myths-and-lies/The Editor reflects on the White House’s “Rededicate 250” event and the power behind false mythsAncient Jew Reviewhttps://www.ancientjewreview.com/2026-06-03T12:20:18.000Zhttps://www.ancientjewreview.com/read/2026/6/1/intellectual-profiles-in-both-talmud-and-midrashI will argue that in the Amoraic period, the Jerusalem Talmud may not have been quite so unique and innovative in a way that differs from all other rabbinic compilations. Rather the Talmud and the Amoraic Midrash may rather have participated in...Cultural Studies Blogspothttps://cultstud.blogspot.com/2026-06-03T05:44:00.000Zhttps://cultstud.blogspot.com/2026/06/bicep-curls-are-for-arses.htmlNo Biceps, Please: We’re FunctionalIs there a more maligned resistance exercise than the poor old biceps curl? It is held up as the very exemplar of so many frowned-upon things: it’s a vanity exercise, they say; an isolation exercise; an...Arc: Religion, Politics, Et Ceterahttps://arcmag.org/2026-06-02T14:52:11.000Zhttps://arcmag.org/fertility-treatments-should-not-be-a-luxury-good/Where’s the government support for people who need help having babies? The post Fertility Treatments Should Not Be a Luxury Good first appeared on ARC: Religion, Politics, Et Cetera.Religion and Politicshttps://religionandpolitics.org/2026-06-02T14:52:11.000Zhttps://arcmag.org/fertility-treatments-should-not-be-a-luxury-good/Where’s the government support for people who need help having babies? The post Fertility Treatments Should Not Be a Luxury Good first appeared on ARC: Religion, Politics, Et Cetera.Cultural Studies Blogspothttps://cultstud.blogspot.com/2026-06-02T06:05:03.000Zhttps://cultstud.blogspot.com/2026/06/the-right-bag.htmlMorningThe lengthening days, the fresh morning air and growing sense of firmness to the drying ground called me into my garden much more often in May. Life spills outside more in summer. This year, the puppy intensified all this – needing to be up...Andrew Whiteheadhttps://andrewwhitehead.substack.com/2026-06-01T14:26:51.000Zhttps://andrewwhitehead.substack.com/p/whats-driving-americans-discontentHow Age, Politics, and Religion Shape Americans’ Views of DemocracyDu Mez CONNECTIONShttps://kristindumez.substack.com/2026-05-30T13:45:52.000Zhttps://kristindumez.substack.com/p/defining-evangelicalismA historiographical interludeSowing the Seedhttps://sowingtheseed.org/2026-05-29T12:12:07.000Zhttps://sowingtheseed.org/2026/05/29/friday-coffee-reading/Going into the new month with some not-so-light reading. One of my students asked me how I read, and this picture encapsulates my process pretty well. I scan a work, its arguments and its structure. Then I write in the margins questions of...Religion in United States Historyhttps://usreligion.substack.com/2026-05-29T10:36:48.000Zhttps://usreligion.substack.com/p/call-for-submissions-the-americanLINK The American Religion Dissertation Prize, awarded by the journal American Religion and sponsored by Indiana University’s Center for Religion and the Human, recognizes outstanding dissertation writing in the field broadly understood as...Cultural Studies Blogspothttps://cultstud.blogspot.com/2026-05-29T05:55:23.000Zhttps://cultstud.blogspot.com/2026/05/the-wrong-t-shirt.htmlWe probably would not know what a wrong statement would be if we did not know what a pair of ill-fitting pants felt like. (Peter Sloterdijk)BagginessI’m in the gym. The workout is going ok. The weights feel … ohhhhh-kayyyy… ish. But something feels...White Too Longhttps://www.whitetoolong.net/2026-05-28T23:59:34.000Zhttps://www.redeemingdemocracy.net/p/sneak-preview-my-first-public-conversationA recording from Robert P. Jones's live videoCanopy Forumhttps://canopyforum.org/2026-05-28T19:17:09.000Zhttps://canopyforum.org/2026/05/28/iran-learns-locke-the-hard-way-integralism-postliberalism-and-religious-compulsion/Otes Manor House where John Locke spent the last fourteen years of his life via Wellcome Library, London (CC BY 4.0). John Locke insisted that toleration and a secular approach to politics would be good for religion. He argued that coerced belief...Contending Modernitieshttps://contendingmodernities.nd.edu/2026-05-28T14:54:04.000Zhttps://contendingmodernities.nd.edu/theorizing-modernities/the-missing-link/The ethnocultural empathic turn names a pattern of transformation in which religious actors, institutions, and narratives shift away from the ethnoreligious production of boundaries and toward practices of public responsibility. The post The...White Too Longhttps://www.whitetoolong.net/2026-05-28T12:32:37.000Zhttps://www.redeemingdemocracy.net/p/youre-invited-today-at-1pm-substackliveJoin us for my public in-depth conversation about BACKSLIDE.Cultural Studies Blogspothttps://cultstud.blogspot.com/2026-05-28T06:27:59.000Zhttps://cultstud.blogspot.com/2026/05/youtubes-noble-savages-functional.html… all the sexual, psychic, somatic recycling institutes, which proliferate in California, belong to the same order. People no longer look at each other, but there are institutes for that. They no longer touch each other, but there is...An und für sichhttps://itself.blog/2026-05-27T12:25:11.000Zhttps://itself.blog/2026/05/27/ruled-by-wolves/Su Fang Ng makes (I think) a pretty compelling case that that Hobbes ‘rejects the story of Lucretia’s rape as the foundational myth of Rome in favour of the wolf suckling Remus and Romulus, which represents a more monarchical aetiological myth of...The Domination Chronicleshttps://stevennewcomb.substack.com/2026-05-25T22:57:54.000Zhttps://stevennewcomb.substack.com/p/tribal-sovereignty-101-why-wordsDomination Chronicles Episode 21: “Tribal Sovereignty” 101: Limited Sovereignty, Federal Domination, and the Language TrapThe Commons by APRIL Onlinehttps://www.aprilonline.org/the-commons/2026-05-25T16:00:43.000Zhttps://www.aprilonline.org/between-two-worlds-iran-does-not-need-to-be-saved-by-bombs/Add excerpt here. The post Between Two Worlds: “Iran does not need to be saved by bombs” appeared first on April Online.Studying Religion in Culturehttps://religion.ua.edu/blog/2026-05-22T15:30:28.000Zhttps://religion.ua.edu/blog/2026/05/22/unexpected-developments/Life can be full of surprises. Most students in Religious Studies did not expect to major in REL, and often majors don’t expect the ways the major helps them pursue careers that are not related to religion. That is the experience of Caity Bell, who...Canopy Forumhttps://canopyforum.org/2026-05-22T13:00:00.000Zhttps://canopyforum.org/2026/05/22/for-the-word-of-god-is-posted-and-passive/An SB 10 compliant Poster. Photo by author. The Ten Commandments are almost certainly headed back to the Supreme Court. Over the past couple of years, Louisiana, Arkansas, and Texas have all passed statutes requiring the Decalogue to be posted in...Cultural Studies Blogspothttps://cultstud.blogspot.com/2026-05-22T10:15:24.000Zhttps://cultstud.blogspot.com/2026/05/affect-is-ordinary-there-is-nothing.htmlAffect is ordinary, that is the first fact. The vape smells. The tobacco smells. Each smell oozes from clothes differently. The whisky burns. The base and beat of the music can be felt as much as heard thumping through the walls and floors of the...Canopy Forumhttps://canopyforum.org/2026-05-21T20:19:40.000Zhttps://canopyforum.org/2026/05/21/nathan-v-alamo-heights-independent-school-district/Moses and Aaron with the 10 Commandments by Aron de Chaves (PD-Art). This piece was originally published on Divided Argument, a legal blog on April 22nd, 2026. Sometimes a case is meta. Nathan v. Alamo Heights Independent School District, the Fifth...Du Mez CONNECTIONShttps://kristindumez.substack.com/2026-05-21T16:57:17.000Zhttps://kristindumez.substack.com/p/are-political-debates-even-worthA theological ethicist weighs in on how to persuade one's neighbor in times of moral conflictContending Modernitieshttps://contendingmodernities.nd.edu/2026-05-21T12:42:01.000Zhttps://contendingmodernities.nd.edu/global-currents/habermas-iran-war/Habermas’s liberal idealism may now linger as a kind of story most visible at the edge of disappearance, where loss and transmission drift together under the shadow of perpetual war. The post The Iran War and the Afterlife of Liberal Modernity: A...Studying Religion in Culturehttps://religion.ua.edu/blog/2026-05-21T10:44:05.000Zhttps://religion.ua.edu/blog/2026/05/21/resourcing-the-field-and-the-rel-strategy-group/The REL Strategy Group started with the observation that academic units in the study of religion would benefit from a more nimble approach to higher ed challenges. The issues we are facing—corporatization, ideological affronts, and seismic...Popular Culture And Theologyhttps://popularcultureandtheology.com/2026-05-20T20:49:51.000Zhttps://popularcultureandtheology.com/2026/05/20/call-for-papers-gaming-worlds-and-the-human/Call for Papers: Gaming Worlds and the Human What kinds of worlds do video games create, and what theological and religious questions emerge from within them? As video games have developed into complex narrative and experiential forms, they have...The Immanent Framehttps://tif.ssrc.org/2026-05-20T18:02:12.000Zhttps://tif.ssrc.org/2026/05/20/unbundled-religious-and-spiritual-innovation/When I started studying how meditators were moving Buddhist meditation into their workplaces nearly twenty years ago, some sociologists wondered […] The post Unbundled religious and spiritual innovation appeared first on The Immanent Frame.Du Mez CONNECTIONShttps://kristindumez.substack.com/2026-05-20T12:39:25.000Zhttps://kristindumez.substack.com/p/live-laugh-love-buzzWhat are people saying?Barth Noteshttps://barthsnotes.com/2026-05-19T15:24:10.000Zhttps://barthsnotes.com/2026/05/19/a-brief-tommy-robinson-rally-round-up/From CBS: Police estimated that around 60,000 people attended the “Unite the Kingdom” march, making it one of the largest right-wing mobilizations seen in Britain in recent years, though smaller than a similar Robinson-led rally last September…...Sowing the Seedhttps://sowingtheseed.org/2026-05-19T12:54:28.000Zhttps://sowingtheseed.org/2026/05/19/on-criticism/Why is some criticism vital and other, deadly?White Too Longhttps://www.whitetoolong.net/2026-05-18T21:00:25.000Zhttps://www.redeemingdemocracy.net/p/postcards-from-the-rededicate250My take on CNN and NPR: Trump's vision for a white Christian America takes the stage in DC.Cultural Studies Blogspothttps://cultstud.blogspot.com/2026-05-18T16:53:59.000Zhttps://cultstud.blogspot.com/2026/05/exercising-corpo-realities-vancouver.htmlI am organising a panel stream at the October 2026 conference of the Society for the Study of Affect. The stream is called ‘Exercising Corpo-Realities’, listed at number 10 here:https://affectsociety.com/make/#themesI would love to invite you to...Ken Chitwoodhttps://www.kenchitwood.com/2026-05-18T14:00:11.000Zhttp://www.kenchitwood.com/blog/2026/5/18/migrants-fill-the-gap-caring-for-germanys-aging-populationGetty Image (NurPhoto), via Christianity Today. At the Immanuel Senior Care Center in Elstal, about 18 miles outside Berlin in the German state of Brandenburg, 26-year-old Sharoon...Sowing the Seedhttps://sowingtheseed.org/2026-05-18T01:12:59.000Zhttps://sowingtheseed.org/2026/05/17/last-week-in-review/“Last Week In Review.” Quick hits on what I wrote, read, and listened to over the last few days or so.Marginalia Review of Bookshttps://www.marginaliareviewofbooks.com/2026-05-17T22:48:38.000Zhttps://www.marginaliareviewofbooks.com/post/the-post-classical-turn-how-islamic-thought-reinvented-itself-after-the-philosophers-crisisWhat is our motivating force today, and can we still hold on to a unified view of the history of philosophy?Marginalia Review of Bookshttps://www.marginaliareviewofbooks.com/2026-05-17T22:45:32.000Zhttps://www.marginaliareviewofbooks.com/post/poems-as-children-of-the-moment-jane-zwart-interviewed-by-amit-majmudarJANE ZWART | Sometimes I find myself almost unable to write poems because I’m not in the right rooms in my mind. . .Du Mez CONNECTIONShttps://kristindumez.substack.com/2026-05-16T23:33:17.000Zhttps://kristindumez.substack.com/p/a-liturgy-of-rededicationThere's more than one way to pray for your countryCanopy Forumhttps://canopyforum.org/2026-05-15T20:57:50.000Zhttps://canopyforum.org/2026/05/15/pakistan-from-diplomatic-win-to-national-strategy/Margalla Hills in Pakistan by Zach Khan (CC BY-SA 4.0). In early April 2026, Pakistan accomplished what few states in the contemporary international system have managed: it brought the United States and Iran, two nations defined by decades of...White Too Longhttps://www.whitetoolong.net/2026-05-15T18:43:30.000Zhttps://www.redeemingdemocracy.net/p/invitation-countering-the-bad-faithThis Sunday: Join me, Bishop William Barber II, Jonathan Wilson-Hartgrove, and Lisa Sharon Harper for an affirmation of our nation's rich religious diversity.Sowing the Seedhttps://sowingtheseed.org/2026-05-15T16:51:41.000Zhttps://sowingtheseed.org/2026/05/15/remember-the-time-on-michael-and-horror/I haven't seen Michael yet, but I have spent some time thinking with James Howard Hill Jr. insightful words on the film. It sounds like this film is most eventful when it asks much of the audience. As Hill said, how exactly does one watch horror?Marginalia Review of Bookshttps://www.marginaliareviewofbooks.com/2026-05-15T13:35:41.000Zhttps://www.marginaliareviewofbooks.com/post/why-do-we-torture-ourselves-ice-baths-fasting-and-the-allure-of-discomfortYONAH LAVERY-YISRAELI | Like the modern skeptic, Rambam Rambam (more widely known as Maimonides) is wary of trends and is alive to the slipperiness of motivation. In his work Shemoneh Peraqim, he raises the spectres of misunderstanding and...ReligionProfhttps://www.patheos.com/blogs/religionprof/2026-05-14T12:44:16.000Zhttps://www.patheos.com/blogs/religionprof/2026/05/paul-mark-and-revelation-within-judaism-enoch-seminar.htmlReading The New Testament Within Judaism? (June 10-12, 2025) The Enoch Seminar puts on wonderful conferences and this one on “The New Testament Within Judaism” was no exception. I took extensive notes on the days that I attended, and will share...Ken Chitwoodhttps://www.kenchitwood.com/2026-05-14T08:34:55.000Zhttp://www.kenchitwood.com/blog/2026/5/14/revival-but-only-with-state-permission-in-belarus-franklin-grahams-festival-of-hope-raises-questions-about-religious-freedomPhoto by Alex Wong/Getty via Christianity Today. For three nights starting Friday, the Chizhovka Arena in Minsk will hold the largest gathering of evangelicals ever in Belarus’s...The Commons by APRIL Onlinehttps://www.aprilonline.org/the-commons/2026-05-13T18:43:34.000Zhttps://www.aprilonline.org/planets-and-stars-on-a-farm/Add excerpt here. The post A Temple for Trees appeared first on April Online.The Commons by APRIL Onlinehttps://www.aprilonline.org/the-commons/2026-05-13T17:28:14.000Zhttps://www.aprilonline.org/four-animal-guides-on-the-met-facade-a-conversation-with-jeffrey-gibson/Add excerpt here. The post Four Animal Guides on the Met Façade: A Conversation with Jeffrey Gibson appeared first on April Online.Popular Culture And Theologyhttps://popularcultureandtheology.com/2026-05-13T02:00:37.000Zhttps://popularcultureandtheology.com/2026/05/12/call-for-papers-fascism-in-comics/Journal of Comics and Culture Volume 12 Call for Papers: Fascism The word “fascism” is a term frequently thrown around in politics, particularly at the present moment in the U.S. Political opponents are quick to throw this label at each other,...NAASRhttps://naasr.com/2026-05-12T18:02:22.000Zhttps://naasr.com/2026/05/12/naasr-conversation-series/Contending Modernitieshttps://contendingmodernities.nd.edu/2026-05-12T15:19:53.000Zhttps://contendingmodernities.nd.edu/theorizing-modernities/hope-as-a-political-practice/By sustaining affirmation while facing uncertainty, hope sustains social movements that resist authoritarianism with creativity and courage. The post Hope as a Political Practice appeared first on Contending Modernities.ReligionProfhttps://www.patheos.com/blogs/religionprof/2026-05-12T13:52:04.000Zhttps://www.patheos.com/blogs/religionprof/2026/05/queer-and-christian-review-of-brandan-robertsons-new-book.htmlI am long overdue to offer a review of Brandan Robertson’s powerful book Queer and Christian: Reclaiming the Bible, Our Faith, and Our Place at the Table. The book came out in May, and I have been reading and making notes. It is a testament to the...Sowing the Seedhttps://sowingtheseed.org/2026-05-12T10:45:00.000Zhttps://sowingtheseed.org/2026/05/12/broadcast-seeding-is-up-with-david-dault/David Dault (Loyola University Chicago) spoke about his new book at Off-Script. We bring his presentation to you on the podcast, Broadcast Seeding.Ken Chitwoodhttps://www.kenchitwood.com/2026-05-11T10:37:34.000Zhttp://www.kenchitwood.com/blog/2026/5/11/the-dojs-report-on-anti-christian-bias-mistakes-policy-for-persecution-advocates-sayImage via Sojo.net. When the U.S. Department of Justice released its report on “eradicating anti-Christian bias” last week, the argument it sought to settle had long hardened along...Ken Chitwoodhttps://www.kenchitwood.com/2026-05-11T10:32:48.000Zhttp://www.kenchitwood.com/blog/2026/5/11/are-we-talking-too-much-about-christian-nationalismPhoto via Pexels. Maybe you’re here because you read “Christian Nationalism” in the title.That is, in part, my point.Over my last 15 years in religion media, I’ve learned that in the...Du Mez CONNECTIONShttps://kristindumez.substack.com/2026-05-09T15:34:51.000Zhttps://kristindumez.substack.com/p/give-a-personalized-gift-of-liveAnd...get a sneak peak into some of the book's "secrets"Religion in United States Historyhttps://usreligion.substack.com/2026-05-09T10:35:58.000Zhttps://usreligion.substack.com/p/publication-announcement-touchstoneMormon Rhetoric from Across the Belief Spectrum, Covering Two CenturiesMarginalia Review of Bookshttps://www.marginaliareviewofbooks.com/2026-05-08T14:55:30.000Zhttps://www.marginaliareviewofbooks.com/post/did-al-ghaz%C4%81l%C4%AB-end-islamic-philosophy-an-oxford-professor-s-revisionist-perspectiveFrank Griffel is the Professor in the Study of Abrahamic Religions at the Faculty of Theology and Religion at Oxford University and Fellow at Lady Margaret Hall. This is a forum on his book, The Formation of Post-classical Philosophy in Islam...Studying Religion in Culturehttps://religion.ua.edu/blog/2026-05-08T13:14:26.000Zhttps://religion.ua.edu/blog/2026/05/08/an-elevating-publication-on-the-field/Remember when Academic Twitter was a thing? Years ago a tweet popped up in my thread that really harshed my mellow. It was from a snarky account that took shots at the idiosyncracies of scholarly publications across disciplines. One day the...Ken Chitwoodhttps://www.kenchitwood.com/2026-05-07T09:33:45.000Zhttp://www.kenchitwood.com/blog/2026/5/7/who-speaks-for-britains-muslimsPhoto by Ken Chitwood. Is the current political climate about the failure of Muslim representation—or the impossibility of it given the state of UK politics?On a cold, breezy February...The Immanent Framehttps://tif.ssrc.org/2026-05-06T19:42:24.000Zhttps://tif.ssrc.org/2026/05/06/viewing-american-history-through-the-lens-of-religious-innovation/Gobsmacked barely describes my first encounter with religious innovation. I was a young teen seeking a spiritual home, and the […] The post Viewing American history through the lens of religious innovation appeared first on The Immanent Frame.The Revealerhttps://therevealer.org/2026-05-06T12:43:28.000Zhttps://therevealer.org/the-revealer-podcast-episode-69-vaccine-hesitancy-and-religion/How a vaccine-skeptical alliance formed between wellness culture devotees, mothers, and religious conservativesThe Revealerhttps://therevealer.org/2026-05-06T12:42:36.000Zhttps://therevealer.org/who-speaks-for-britains-muslims/Is the current political climate about the failure of Muslim representation—or the impossibility of it given the state of UK politics?The Revealerhttps://therevealer.org/2026-05-06T12:42:04.000Zhttps://therevealer.org/palestinians-on-screen-and-the-ethics-of-witnessing/How films by Palestinian directors combined with social media videos from Gaza inspire people to demand justice for PalestiniansKen Chitwoodhttps://www.kenchitwood.com/2026-05-06T10:49:08.000Zhttp://www.kenchitwood.com/blog/2026/5/6/american-religion-at-250Photo by Brad Dodson. As the United States approaches its 250th anniversary in July 2026, journalists have a rare opportunity to revisit the nation’s story through one of its most...Ken Chitwoodhttps://www.kenchitwood.com/2026-05-06T10:45:13.000Zhttp://www.kenchitwood.com/blog/2026/5/6/war-in-iran-the-conflicts-religious-contoursPhoto by Moslem Daneshzadeh. Reporting on the war in Iran requires not only bringing a keen eye to its geopolitical realities and ramifications but also a nuanced understanding of how...Religion in United States Historyhttps://usreligion.substack.com/2026-05-06T10:17:01.000Zhttps://usreligion.substack.com/p/book-editor-position-journal-of-africanaPOSITION OVERVIEWWhite Too Longhttps://www.whitetoolong.net/2026-05-05T20:44:20.000Zhttps://www.redeemingdemocracy.net/p/theatre-of-the-absurd-the-trump-administrationsPlus: An invitation to join The Convocation Unscripted + Live event this Thursday.Religion Linkhttps://religionlink.com/2026-05-05T10:35:50.000Zhttps://religionlink.com/source-guides/american-religion-at-250-50-sources-for-covering-the-semiquincentennial/This guide is designed to help reporters uncover fresh, compelling and nuanced religion stories in advance of the United States Semiquincentennial celebrations in July 2026.Andrew Whiteheadhttps://andrewwhitehead.substack.com/2026-05-04T18:00:43.000Zhttps://andrewwhitehead.substack.com/p/religion-and-the-state-of-democracyFindings from a new national survey from the Charles F. Kettering Foundation and Gallup shows the role religion continues to play in Americans’ views and commitment to democracy.The Commons by APRIL Onlinehttps://www.aprilonline.org/the-commons/2026-05-04T16:41:18.000Zhttps://www.aprilonline.org/being-modern-hindus/Add excerpt here. The post Being Modern Hindus appeared first on April Online.Contending Modernitieshttps://contendingmodernities.nd.edu/2026-05-04T15:03:20.000Zhttps://contendingmodernities.nd.edu/theorizing-modernities/limits-of-hope/where people’s hopelessness is often also expressed in their hunger and marginalization, hope against despair means survival within, rather than transcendence of, the institutions and power structures shaping their predicaments of insecurity. The...The Commons by APRIL Onlinehttps://www.aprilonline.org/the-commons/2026-05-03T23:35:40.000Zhttps://www.aprilonline.org/burqa-bans-and-the-production-of-public-concern/Add excerpt here. The post Burqa Bans and the Production of Public Concern appeared first on April Online.ReligionProfhttps://www.patheos.com/blogs/religionprof/2026-05-03T00:09:43.000Zhttps://www.patheos.com/blogs/religionprof/2026/05/insights-from-project-hail-mary.htmlIntroduction: Project Hail Mary and the Future of Schools and Churches A former student of mine recommended the novel Project Hail Mary to me several years ago, and I have been eager to read it. When the movie came out, I was determined to read the...Marginalia Review of Bookshttps://www.marginaliareviewofbooks.com/2026-05-02T15:15:55.000Zhttps://www.marginaliareviewofbooks.com/post/rhymes-and-reincarnations-on-india-s-epic-poemsAMIT MAJMUDAR | As a modern Indian, you might also hear about the epics in the news. That movie version you were eager to go see in the theater might have set off a controversy over whether the main characters were portrayed reverently enough; the...Marginalia Review of Bookshttps://www.marginaliareviewofbooks.com/2026-05-02T12:33:08.000Zhttps://www.marginaliareviewofbooks.com/post/the-long-arc-of-capitalism-coercion-resistance-and-innovationMATT McMANUS | Many of capitalism’s most partisan defenders have assumed not only its immortality, but also its eternity.Barth Noteshttps://barthsnotes.com/2026-05-02T09:05:32.000Zhttps://barthsnotes.com/2026/05/02/church-fires-fuel-anti-muslim-conspiracism/From France 3: Un feu de végétation a provoqué l’incendie de l’église de Montenach en Moselle à la frontière Luxembourgeoise ce jeudi 30 avril 2026. Une partie du clocher s’est effondrée, la charpente a été entièrement brûlée, 60 pompiers et 40...Sowing the Seedhttps://sowingtheseed.org/2026-05-01T21:07:02.000Zhttps://sowingtheseed.org/2026/05/01/afrofuturism-in-san-francisco-airport/San Francisco Airport has an amazing museum that made me pause in the hustle and bustle of travel. Currently up is an exhibit, “Women of Afrofuturism.” It kicks off with Nettice Gaskins’ piece, “mOTHERboard.” I could not have thought of a better...Marginalia Review of Bookshttps://www.marginaliareviewofbooks.com/2026-05-01T17:33:17.000Zhttps://www.marginaliareviewofbooks.com/post/in-the-translator-s-workshop-featuring-aaron-poochigian-on-wang-wei-s-in-a-retreat-among-bambooAARON POOCHIGIAN | I like the double meaning because the moon is both the celestial body and Wang’s pal and playmate.Reviews of Biblical and Early Christian Studieshttps://rbecs.org/2026-05-01T08:15:45.000Zhttps://rbecs.org/2026/05/01/early-christian-widows/2026.05.05 | Yurong Zhao. Early Christian Widows and their Social-economic Situation, Support, and Contribution to the Church. Library of New Testament Studies 687. London: T&T Clark, 2025. pp. xvii + 242. ISBN: 9780567721365. Review by Aogu...Du Mez CONNECTIONShttps://kristindumez.substack.com/2026-05-01T00:21:26.000Zhttps://kristindumez.substack.com/p/join-the-live-laugh-love-launch-teamAs promised, I am pleased to announce the official Live Laugh Love launch team.Barth Noteshttps://barthsnotes.com/2026-04-30T20:50:04.000Zhttps://barthsnotes.com/2026/04/30/conspiracists-misinterpret-gb-news-reporters-posts-about-arson-trial/Although undoubtedly accidental, posts on Twitter/X posted by GB News “National Reporter” Charlie Peters yesterday have had the effect of breathing new life into conspiracist interpretations of the arson trial in which three young men are accused...An und für sichhttps://itself.blog/2026-04-30T12:37:14.000Zhttps://itself.blog/2026/04/30/the-god-question-and-the-problem-of-evil-syllabus/This year I designed and taught a number of new modules in my new job and I’ll be posting my syllabi for them over the summer while I finally get time to catch my breath and think about how to rework the modules from this year that I’ll be teaching...Barth Noteshttps://barthsnotes.com/2026-04-29T19:34:57.000Zhttps://barthsnotes.com/2026/04/29/ukrainian-rent-boy-conspiracy-theory-collapses/From BBC News: A Russian speaker recruited and offered money to Ukrainian men to carry out arson attacks on properties connected to Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer, a court has heard. …The prosecutor said analysis of messages from phones recovered...Du Mez CONNECTIONShttps://kristindumez.substack.com/2026-04-29T15:54:14.000Zhttps://kristindumez.substack.com/p/courageous-faith-in-a-time-of-fearJoin us in Toronto, May 13-14White Too Longhttps://www.whitetoolong.net/2026-04-28T14:39:08.000Zhttps://www.redeemingdemocracy.net/p/the-real-third-rail-of-politics-ssPlus, how you can pre-order your copy of my new book, BACKSLIDEPopular Culture And Theologyhttps://popularcultureandtheology.com/2026-04-28T01:17:45.000Zhttps://popularcultureandtheology.com/2026/04/27/call-for-papers-esotericism-in-the-comics-of-alan-moore/CFP Title: Esotericism in the Comics of Alan Moore deadline for submissions: July 1, 2026 full name / name of organization: Matthew Brake and Nick Katsiadas / Northern Virginia Community College and Slippery Rock University Many notable comic book...Sowing the Seedhttps://sowingtheseed.org/2026-04-26T23:55:05.000Zhttps://sowingtheseed.org/2026/04/26/temporary-office/Waiting for the reddest of eyes. It’s not Presidents Hall, but it’ll have to do. The semester is almost a wrap, and I’m working on video scripts for my Sociology of Religion course. Looking forward to taking out my new camera for a spin too.Barth Noteshttps://barthsnotes.com/2026-04-24T11:42:59.000Zhttps://barthsnotes.com/2026/04/24/notes-on-the-epsom-rape-claim/From BBC News, 15 April: Police are yet to identify a group of men who raped a woman outside a church in Surrey, four days after the incident. The woman, in her 20s, was followed after leaving Labyrinth Epsom nightclub and attacked by several men...Contending Modernitieshttps://contendingmodernities.nd.edu/2026-04-22T19:39:21.000Zhttps://contendingmodernities.nd.edu/theorizing-modernities/cultivating-disruption/I wonder if it is precisely the cultivated desire to persist (in a certain manner) that forecloses the possibility of rupture, abolition, and dissolution. The post Cultivating Disruption: On Hope in a Secular Age appeared first on Contending...The Immanent Framehttps://tif.ssrc.org/2026-04-22T14:33:02.000Zhttps://tif.ssrc.org/2026/04/22/reassembling-the-sacred/In 1955, a young Dutch Reformed Church minister named Robert H. Schuller climbed onto the roof of a drive-in movie […] The post Reassembling the sacred appeared first on The Immanent Frame.The Domination Chronicleshttps://stevennewcomb.substack.com/2026-04-20T18:44:06.000Zhttps://stevennewcomb.substack.com/p/how-students-are-directed-away-fromEqual "Justice" Under Government's Claim of a Right of DominationAn und für sichhttps://itself.blog/2026-04-20T13:10:14.000Zhttps://itself.blog/2026/04/20/i-could-not-encounter-my-loss-face-to-face/Last week I gave a keynote address at the Society for the Study of Theology annual conference, which was on the theme “Theology: A Discipline of Failure?” Below is the text of my paper. “I couldn’t encounter my loss face to face”[1][2] As I write...The Commons by APRIL Onlinehttps://www.aprilonline.org/the-commons/2026-04-18T16:26:13.000Zhttps://www.aprilonline.org/isieni-love-learning-to-see-sacred-art-in-the-black-atlantic/Add excerpt here. The post Ísieni — Love: Learning to See Sacred Art in the Black Atlantic appeared first on April Online.NAASRhttps://naasr.com/2026-04-14T14:35:59.000Zhttps://naasr.com/2026/04/14/2870/Contending Modernitieshttps://contendingmodernities.nd.edu/2026-04-10T14:58:45.000Zhttps://contendingmodernities.nd.edu/global-currents/first-we-take-manhattan/A political victory can show that Islamophobia is not inevitable or invincible. It can spark the recognition that Islamophobia connects the local and the global, the metropolitan and the periphery, the racial and the colonial. The post First We...The Immanent Framehttps://tif.ssrc.org/2026-04-09T19:13:29.000Zhttps://tif.ssrc.org/2026/04/09/religious-and-spiritual-innovation-defining-an-emerging-field/It seems odd, at first glance, to talk about “innovation” in religion and spirituality. Religion is often imagined as a […] The post Religious and spiritual innovation: defining an emerging field appeared first on The Immanent Frame.Contending Modernitieshttps://contendingmodernities.nd.edu/2026-04-08T15:06:41.000Zhttps://contendingmodernities.nd.edu/theorizing-modernities/witnessing-without-redemption/Witnessing, then, is not about closure but interruption. It is an ethical practice oriented toward what remains unresolved in the present. The post Witnessing Without Redemption: The Remnant and the Refusal of Closure appeared first on Contending...The Domination Chronicleshttps://stevennewcomb.substack.com/2026-04-07T17:33:27.000Zhttps://stevennewcomb.substack.com/p/loretta-afraid-of-bear-cook-livingEpisode 19 of the Domination Chronicles PodcastStudying Religion in Culturehttps://religion.ua.edu/blog/2026-04-07T13:41:00.000Zhttps://religion.ua.edu/blog/2026/04/07/outstanding-students-and-faculty-in-rel-honors-day-2026/If you missed Honors Day 2026 or want to review its festivities, check out our photos and detailsAn und für sichhttps://itself.blog/2026-04-07T11:36:57.000Zhttps://itself.blog/2026/04/07/was-hobbes-gay/Thomas Hobbes’ biographer Arnold Rogow writes that, “Hobbes … may never have loved a woman, but no one has ever hinted that he was homosexual” (Radical in the Service of Reaction, 66). Even if that was true at the time Rogow was writing (1986), I’m...Studying Religion in Culturehttps://religion.ua.edu/blog/2026-04-06T15:31:50.000Zhttps://religion.ua.edu/blog/2026/04/06/driving-our-units-forward/Dr. Cara Burnidge impressed upon the REL Strategy Group the importance of proactively assessing one’s own program to help get them MOVING. Sometimes academic programs gets stuck in the mud. They do good work—teaching students, producing research,...Feminists Studies in Religionhttps://www.fsrinc.org/blog/2026-04-04T15:41:51.000Zhttps://www.fsrinc.org/the-repeated-violations-of-ahlaya-and-the-perpetuation-of-hegemonic-revisionism/By Lavjay Butani Some stories are never told. Others are told countless times, across generations, across languages, and across traditions, and in the retelling, they change. Sometimes imperceptibly, sometimes dramatically. Sometimes in ways that...Religion Mattershttps://religionmatters.org/blog-2/2026-04-03T10:16:05.000Zhttps://religionmatters.org/2026/04/03/seeing-jerusalem-is-not-understanding-jerusalem/Most approaches to religious literacy focus on beliefs, practices, and traditions. This work matters, but it is incomplete. Drawing on Calvary, this piece explores what happens when religion is encountered as lived experience—shaped by trust,...The Commons by APRIL Onlinehttps://www.aprilonline.org/the-commons/2026-04-02T13:17:56.000Zhttps://www.aprilonline.org/making-tables-out-of-crosses-for-maundy-thursday/Add excerpt here. The post Making Tables Out of Crosses: For Maundy Thursday appeared first on April Online.Feminists Studies in Religionhttps://www.fsrinc.org/blog/2026-04-01T15:39:22.000Zhttps://www.fsrinc.org/from-ancient-gleaning-to-modern-hunger-ruth-snap-cuts-and-a-tiktok-test-of-faith-revised-version/By Olivia Marr Robinson As religious studies scholar Dr. Margaret D. Kamitsuka observes, “no theology can go forward that does not recognize its rootedness in experience” (2007, 7). Whilst feminist theologians do not all share the same methods or...The Domination Chronicleshttps://stevennewcomb.substack.com/2026-03-31T20:44:29.000Zhttps://stevennewcomb.substack.com/p/a-promised-landA Brief Commentary on the Title and Preface of Barack Obama's MemoirReligion Mattershttps://religionmatters.org/blog-2/2026-03-27T22:11:11.000Zhttps://religionmatters.org/2026/03/27/what-we-leave-out-lived-religion-and-the-limits-of-religious-literacy/Most approaches to religious literacy focus on beliefs, practices, and traditions. This work matters, but it is incomplete. Drawing on Calvary, this piece explores what happens when religion is encountered as lived experience—shaped by trust,...The Commons by APRIL Onlinehttps://www.aprilonline.org/the-commons/2026-03-27T19:16:13.000Zhttps://www.aprilonline.org/research-as-ceremony-methodological-meditations-of-a-scholar-priestess-of-northern-haitian-vodou/Add excerpt here. The post Research as Ceremony: Methodological Meditations of a Scholar-Priestess of Northern Haitian Vodou appeared first on April Online.The Commons by APRIL Onlinehttps://www.aprilonline.org/the-commons/2026-03-27T14:00:59.000Zhttps://www.aprilonline.org/syrias-new-oligarchic-islamist-minority/Add excerpt here. The post Syria’s New Oligarchic Islamist Minority appeared first on April Online.The Immanent Framehttps://tif.ssrc.org/2026-03-26T20:11:05.000Zhttps://tif.ssrc.org/2026/03/26/discovering-a-not-so-feminist-history/I decided to write my third book, God Bless the Pill, about the mid-twentieth-century history of birth control in 2011. […] The post Discovering a not-so feminist history appeared first on The Immanent Frame.Reviews of Biblical and Early Christian Studieshttps://rbecs.org/2026-03-25T17:00:00.000Zhttps://rbecs.org/2026/03/25/1-enoch-an-ethiopic-readers-edition/2026.03.04 | Vladimir Olivero. 1 Enoch: An Ethiopic Reader’s Edition. Resources for Biblical Study 110. Atlanta: SBL Press, 2025. pp. viii + 359. ISBN: 9781628377606. Review by Kai Akagi, Rikkyo University. While 1 Enoch is among the scriptures of...NSRNhttps://thensrn.org/2026-03-23T22:18:51.000Zhttps://thensrn.org/2026/03/23/babel-nsrn-2026-international-conference/Call for papers BABEL/NSRN 2026 international conferenceKU Leuven, 3-4 December 2026Conference title:Entangled Lives: Religion, Nonreligion, and the Spaces In-Between This two-day interdisciplinary conference invites critical and creative...The Domination Chronicleshttps://stevennewcomb.substack.com/2026-03-21T01:49:10.000Zhttps://stevennewcomb.substack.com/p/the-fiction-of-plenary-power-a-conversationEpisode 18 of the Domination Chronicles PodcastThe Immanent Framehttps://tif.ssrc.org/2026-03-18T14:15:16.000Zhttps://tif.ssrc.org/2026/03/18/reintroducing-the-immanent-frame/The Immanent Frame, published by the Social Science Research Council, has long served as a central site for debate, discussion, […] The post Reintroducing The Immanent Frame appeared first on The Immanent Frame.Reviews of Biblical and Early Christian Studieshttps://rbecs.org/2026-03-18T12:58:25.000Zhttps://rbecs.org/2026/03/18/understanding-the-new-testament-use-of-the-old-testament/2026.03.03 | Douglas S. Huffman. Understanding the New Testament Use of the Old Testament: Forms, Features, Framings, and Functions. Grand Rapids: Baker Academic, 2024. pp. xix + 268. ISBN: 9781540966407. Review by Kai Akagi, Rikkyo University. The...Andrew Whiteheadhttps://andrewwhitehead.substack.com/2026-03-17T14:31:00.000Zhttps://andrewwhitehead.substack.com/p/denial-and-discrimination-how-christianOn public funding for private school vouchers, Christian nationalism, and services for disabled studentsNSRNhttps://thensrn.org/2026-03-17T04:23:39.000Zhttps://thensrn.org/2026/03/17/who-are-the-non-seculars-a-tongue-in-cheek-call-for-the-study-of-a-strange-group/Nathan G. Alexander is a lecturer in history at the University of Ottawa, Canada, and project manager of the Nonreligion in a Complex Future Project. He is also the author of Race in a Godless World: Atheism, Race, and Civilization, 1850-1914 (NYU...Religion Linkhttps://religionlink.com/2026-03-13T10:24:42.000Zhttps://religionlink.com/source-guides/war-in-iran-covering-the-conflicts-religious-contours/In this guide, we offer background, resources, relevant stories and expert sources to help you better cover the religion angle on the current conflict and what it might mean in the wake of the latest war in the Middle East.Marginalia Review of Bookshttps://www.marginaliareviewofbooks.com/2026-03-12T21:38:11.000Zhttps://www.marginaliareviewofbooks.com/post/the-german-philosophy-that-emancipated-americaKELLY M.S. SWOPE | Lives like his were proof that the German philosophy of freedom planted real roots in American institutions before and after the War over Slavery.Marginalia Review of Bookshttps://www.marginaliareviewofbooks.com/2026-03-12T21:29:58.000Zhttps://www.marginaliareviewofbooks.com/post/in-the-translator-s-workshop-featuring-michael-bazzett-on-the-poetry-of-k-iche-maya-poet-humbertoMICHAEL BAZZETT | Translating the poetry of K’iche’ Maya poet Humberto Ak’abal can sometimes feel like trying to grab a beam of sunlight.Ken Chitwoodhttps://www.kenchitwood.com/2026-03-11T11:14:55.000Zhttp://www.kenchitwood.com/blog/2026/3/11/claims-of-religious-persecution-in-the-mediaPresident Donald J. Trump meets with survivors of religious persecution from 17 countries Wednesday, July 17, 2019, in the Oval Office of the White House. (Official White House Photo by Shealah...Studying Religion in Culturehttps://religion.ua.edu/blog/2026-03-11T10:18:43.000Zhttps://religion.ua.edu/blog/2026/03/11/organizing-at-the-water-cooler/The REL Strategy Group is becoming a vital meeting space for colleagues to share what they they’re seeing in their instiutional contexts. Its monthly consultation meetings are also a space to ask questions about how things are being done elsewhere....Marginalia Review of Bookshttps://www.marginaliareviewofbooks.com/2026-03-11T04:00:00.000Zhttps://www.marginaliareviewofbooks.com/post/rabbi-david-wolpe-on-global-challenges-judaism-and-our-existential-crisisRabbi David Wolpe is the Max Webb Emeritus Rabbi of Sinai Temple and one of the most influential rabbis in AmericaNAASRhttps://naasr.com/2026-03-10T13:40:51.000Zhttps://naasr.com/2026/03/10/naasr-annual-meeting-2026-cfp/Challenges and Futures in Religious Studies #naasr2026 IAHR Regional Conference In 1995, our journal Method and Theory in the Study of Religion devoted a special issue to “pathologies” in study of religion in North American universities. The guest...Religion Linkhttps://religionlink.com/2026-03-10T11:57:26.000Zhttps://religionlink.com/source-guides/covering-claims-of-religious-persecution/This guide offers reporters the tools to navigate the topic of religious persecution at home and abroad, offering background, resources, tips, suggestions and expert sources for your next story.The Domination Chronicleshttps://stevennewcomb.substack.com/2026-03-09T21:31:01.000Zhttps://stevennewcomb.substack.com/p/legalized-lawlessness-bruce-mcivorEpisode 17 of the Domination Chronicles PodcastReviews of Biblical and Early Christian Studieshttps://rbecs.org/2026-03-09T20:54:02.000Zhttps://rbecs.org/2026/03/09/puchkova/2026.03.02 | Sofia Puchkova. Re-envisioning Theodore: Theodore of Mopsuestia’s Biblical Exegesis in His Catechetical Homilies. SVC 185. Brill, Leiden-Boston: 2024. Review by Marius Portaru, Pontificium Institutum Patristicum Augustinianum, Rome....Religion Mattershttps://religionmatters.org/blog-2/2026-03-08T01:40:35.000Zhttps://religionmatters.org/2026/03/07/beyond-compliance-supporting-religious-expression-in-public-schools/Post: Tim Hall, Ph.D., Executive Director, Religion Matters When the Law Speaks, Educators Still Must Teach Last month, the U.S. Department of Education released updated guidance on constitutionally protected prayer and...Andrew Whiteheadhttps://andrewwhitehead.substack.com/2026-03-06T19:03:03.000Zhttps://andrewwhitehead.substack.com/p/would-jesus-condone-death-and-destructionI guess this is a question we are being forced to ask in the current context.Religion in United States Historyhttps://usreligion.substack.com/2026-03-03T11:44:15.000Zhttps://usreligion.substack.com/p/applications-open-for-the-2026-feinApply HERE!Religion in United States Historyhttps://usreligion.substack.com/2026-03-02T18:54:10.000Zhttps://usreligion.substack.com/p/2026-graduate-research-fellowshipThe Tanner Humanities Center at the University of Utah continues to support emerging scholarship in the field of Mormon Studies through its Graduate Research Fellowship in Mormon Studies.RSN Podcasthttps://rsn.aarweb.org/2026-02-26T17:16:30.000Zhttps://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/american-academy-of-relig9/episodes/The-Roots-of-Reproductive-Injustice-A-conversation-with-Elizabeth-OBrien-e3flfioElizabeth O'Brien, associate professor of history at UCLA and winner of the 2024 AAR Best First Book in the History of Religions Award, speaks to Kristian Petersen about her book, ⁠⁠Surgery and Salvation: The Roots of Reproductive Injustice in...The Domination Chronicleshttps://stevennewcomb.substack.com/2026-02-24T18:49:48.000Zhttps://stevennewcomb.substack.com/p/colonists-settlers-invaders-expansionistsDomination Chronicles Episode 16Studying Religion in Culturehttps://religion.ua.edu/blog/2026-02-24T10:25:00.000Zhttps://religion.ua.edu/blog/2026/02/24/visualizing-decoding-diaspora-in-3-d/Dr. Newton’s digital project, Decoding Diaspora, has thus far been a collaborative effort, both with the digitization of J.A. Rogers’ newspaper serial, and with projects based on that data. Maggie Weatherwax, a second year M.A. student, is one of...Studying Religion in Culturehttps://religion.ua.edu/blog/2026-02-23T13:00:00.000Zhttps://religion.ua.edu/blog/2026/02/23/whats-our-success-story/Scholars can find success in building a strong research portfolio. A professor's work is about contributing to the success of students, colleagues, administrators, and institutions. Leslie Dorrough Smith visited the REL Strategy Group to realign...The Domination Chronicleshttps://stevennewcomb.substack.com/2026-02-20T16:44:13.000Zhttps://stevennewcomb.substack.com/p/billie-eilish-repeats-a-meme-at-theThe meme Ms. Eilish repeated does not account for the fact that massive immigration is what has resulted in Native lands being regarded as “stolen.”The Domination Chronicleshttps://stevennewcomb.substack.com/2026-02-19T21:00:01.000Zhttps://stevennewcomb.substack.com/p/stolen-land-the-danger-and-limitationEpisode 15 of the Domination Chronicles PodcastReligion in United States Historyhttps://usreligion.substack.com/2026-02-18T21:18:00.000Zhttps://usreligion.substack.com/p/presbyterian-historical-societysFor over 20 years, the Presbyterian Historical Society’s Research Fellowship Program has awarded annual research and travel grants to eligible scholars, students, and independent researchers in a broad range of fields including mission history,...Religion Mattershttps://religionmatters.org/blog-2/2026-02-13T05:01:19.000Zhttps://religionmatters.org/2026/02/13/religious-literacy-the-stories-students-carry/As a Muslim, Pakistani-American student growing up on the East Coast, I experienced school with multiple identities that were often ignored, misunderstood, or altogether invisible. I had not yet developed the language to articulate the impact of...Popular Culture And Theologyhttps://popularcultureandtheology.com/2026-02-12T01:56:03.000Zhttps://popularcultureandtheology.com/2026/02/11/gadflies-the-golden-rule-and-getting-justice-right-the-animating-and-cautionary-features-of-daredevil-born-again/By Justin Martin I was raised to believe in grace. That we can be touched by the divine and transformed into a better person….But you should also know that I was raised to believe in retribution. So if you step out of line, I will be there. –...Andrew Whiteheadhttps://andrewwhitehead.substack.com/2026-02-05T21:25:04.000Zhttps://andrewwhitehead.substack.com/p/racial-equality-in-a-christian-nationHistory and social science demonstrate how racial equality is not considered a moral issue for many white American Christians.Studying Religion in Culturehttps://religion.ua.edu/blog/2026-02-05T14:41:00.000Zhttps://religion.ua.edu/blog/2026/02/05/decoding-diaspora-and-the-use-of-digital-tools-in-religious-studies/The REL Digital Lab is a space where the department brings social theory and computational methods together for innovative results. Our faculty are modeling and mentoring students in an innovative approach to the academic study of religion. Our...Religion Linkhttps://religionlink.com/2026-02-02T11:37:17.000Zhttps://religionlink.com/source-guides/24-religion-sources-for-black-history-month/In this guide, we offer background, resources, expert sources and related content to help you better report on the religious life of Black Americans.Popular Culture And Theologyhttps://popularcultureandtheology.com/2026-02-01T03:09:37.000Zhttps://popularcultureandtheology.com/2026/01/31/call-for-papers-religion-x-men-and-krakoa/Call for Papers: Edited Volume on Religion and the X-Men’s Krakoan Age Editors: Gregory Jones and Daniel Ambord Beginning with Jonathan Hickman’s House of X/Powers of X limited series, the Krakoan Age X-Men stories occur against the backdrop of the...Popular Culture And Theologyhttps://popularcultureandtheology.com/2026-02-01T02:13:08.000Zhttps://popularcultureandtheology.com/2026/01/31/extended-call-for-papers-theology-religion-and-margaret-atwood/Theological and Spiritual Musings in the Works of Margaret Atwood: The Handmaid’s Tale and Other Worlds Abstracts are being accepted for an edited volume (under contract) on the theology/ spirituality as is seen and engage with through the works of...Religion in United States Historyhttps://usreligion.substack.com/2026-01-27T17:51:16.000Zhttps://usreligion.substack.com/p/call-for-papers-a-vision-for-liberatingFrom friend of the stack Adam BrettStudying Religion in Culturehttps://religion.ua.edu/blog/2026-01-26T19:00:17.000Zhttps://religion.ua.edu/blog/2026/01/26/rel411-lets-talk-information/If you’ve been in HigherEd for any length of time, then you’ve probably shaken your fist about the wrongness of an impactful decision made somewhere above your pay grade. Be frustrated! You know your experience... But how do we take that...Reviews of Biblical and Early Christian Studieshttps://rbecs.org/2026-01-22T15:00:00.000Zhttps://rbecs.org/2026/01/22/the-fourth-synoptic-gospel/2026.01.01 | Mark Goodacre. The Fourth Synoptic Gospel: John’s Knowledge of Matthew, Mark, and Luke. Eerdmans, 2025. 191 pp. Review by Ched Spellman, Cedarville University. Goodacre advances a straightforward thesis: John’s Gospel was written with...Religion Linkhttps://religionlink.com/2026-01-21T15:44:38.000Zhttps://religionlink.com/source-guides/religion-in-a-big-power-world-religionlinks-2026-predictions/As we do every year, this edition looks ahead to the religion stories we think are likely to shape coverage in 2026, offering context, reporting angles and expert perspectives to help journalists anticipate how faith trends will continue to enter...Andrew Whiteheadhttps://andrewwhitehead.substack.com/2026-01-19T15:12:30.000Zhttps://andrewwhitehead.substack.com/p/leveraging-data-resources-for-civicPluralistic, democratic ideals are under direct threat from disinformation, authoritarianism, and polarization. While the scale of these challenges is global, thinking locally remains vital.NSRNhttps://thensrn.org/2026-01-17T17:26:23.000Zhttps://thensrn.org/2026/01/17/secular-religious-education-brief-reflections-based-on-a-brazilian-case/Guilherme Borges is a postdoctoral researcher at the Brazilian Center for Analysis and Planning and at the Nonreligion in a Complex Future project, based at the University of Ottawa. Drawing on these dual affiliations, he conducts comparative...Religion in United States Historyhttps://usreligion.substack.com/2026-01-16T18:27:31.000Zhttps://usreligion.substack.com/p/call-for-papers-anthropology-at-theDue February 23, 2026Religion in United States Historyhttps://usreligion.substack.com/2026-01-15T11:27:19.000Zhttps://usreligion.substack.com/p/graduate-student-prize-walter-rundellThe Western History Association invites applications for the Walter Rundell Graduate Student Award, honoring the late Walter Rundell, Jr.’s dedication to graduate education in Western History.Religion in United States Historyhttps://usreligion.substack.com/2026-01-14T18:29:11.000Zhttps://usreligion.substack.com/p/religion-and-the-american-foundingOnline and in-person at BYU (National Museum of American Religion)Popular Culture And Theologyhttps://popularcultureandtheology.com/2026-01-07T01:42:43.000Zhttps://popularcultureandtheology.com/2026/01/06/a-nostalgic-journey-and-a-guiding-star-revisiting-hercules-xena-and-the-magi/By Princess O’Nika Auguste During the holiday season, the pull of childhood nostalgia often leads me back to the familiar landscapes of my past. This means I return to the adventures of the mythological universe of Xena: The Warrior Princess and...Religion Mattershttps://religionmatters.org/blog-2/2025-12-31T11:43:38.000Zhttps://religionmatters.org/2025/12/31/time-lost-what-the-time-machine-reveals-about-disciplinary-literacy-and-public-education/Post: Tim Hall, Ph.D., Executive Director, Religion Matters There is no intelligence where there is no change and no need of change. —H.G. Wells, The Time Machine When I first read The Time Machine years ago, I was...affecognitivehttps://affecognitive.wordpress.com/2025-12-20T00:57:33.000Zhttps://affecognitive.wordpress.com/2025/12/20/tomba-berlant-and-the-inconvenience-of-revolution/Last weekend I joined a group of delightful young scholars to discuss Massimiliano Tomba’s recent book, Revolution and Restoration: The …Continue reading →Religion Linkhttps://religionlink.com/2025-12-18T11:12:17.000Zhttps://religionlink.com/source-guides/the-deeper-story-a-systems-approach-to-religion-reporting/In this edition of ReligionLink, we invite you to consider how applying a systems-thinking approach to religion news might offer new depth and resonance to your reporting in the year to come.Feminists Studies in Religionhttps://www.fsrinc.org/blog/2025-12-15T15:32:49.000Zhttps://www.fsrinc.org/the-spiritual-ecology-of-indian-himalayan-women-ritual-resistance-and-relationality/By Gurmeet Kaur Himalayan region is known for its untouched lands, difficult terrains and limited access. While these features have attracted many (Sages, travellers and traders) for eons, the region is now actively acknowledged as living...RSN Podcasthttps://rsn.aarweb.org/2025-12-11T16:18:17.000Zhttps://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/american-academy-of-relig9/episodes/The-Sovereignty-of-Hope-Scholarship--Precarity--and-the-Future-of-Academic-Freedom-e3c7ftvA recording of one of Leela Prasad's presidential plenaries, held at the 2025 AAR Annual Meeting in Boston. Leela Prasad, Brown University, presidingSpeakers (in order of appearance):James BowleyLarissa CarneiroKoritha Mitchell, Boston...affecognitivehttps://affecognitive.wordpress.com/2025-12-08T21:02:44.000Zhttps://affecognitive.wordpress.com/2025/12/08/frederic-gros-shame/“Though terror speaks to life and death and distress makes of the world a vale of tears, yet shame strikes …Continue reading →Andrew Whiteheadhttps://andrewwhitehead.substack.com/2025-12-06T14:00:42.000Zhttps://andrewwhitehead.substack.com/p/christian-nationalism-and-ableismWhen disability is treated as an individual problem instead of a shared responsibility, communities lose the support systems that help people thrive.Religion Mattershttps://religionmatters.org/blog-2/2025-11-22T20:44:44.000Zhttps://religionmatters.org/2025/11/22/%e2%9c%8d%ef%b8%8f-a-resolution-for-dialogue-centering-religious-literacy-in-civic-education/Post: Tim Hall, Ph.D., Executive Director, Religion Matters When religion enters the classroom, fear often follows. But it doesn’t have to. For many educators, religion feels like a boundary line they’d rather not cross: too controversial, too...Andrew Whiteheadhttps://andrewwhitehead.substack.com/2025-11-21T20:31:32.000Zhttps://andrewwhitehead.substack.com/p/courage-is-contagiousReflections on the importance of recognizing the courageous ones, allowing art to feed our souls, and that we the people can build the country we deserve.Religion Mattershttps://religionmatters.org/blog-2/2025-11-16T11:25:56.000Zhttps://religionmatters.org/2025/11/16/%f0%9f%8c%8d-global-competence-starts-with-understanding-difference/Post: Tim Hall, Ph.D., Executive Director, Religion Matters When I talk with teachers about global competence, the conversation often turns to what we want our students to take with them when they leave our classrooms. We hope they can navigate an...NSRNhttps://thensrn.org/2025-11-13T22:56:34.000Zhttps://thensrn.org/2025/11/13/nonbelieving-clergy/Alexandr Zamușinski is a scholar of religion specializing in secularism, nonreligion, and religious change. He holds a PhD from the University of California, Riverside and is currently Instructor at the Defense Language Institute, Monterey, CA....Indigenous Values Initiativehttps://indigenousvalues.org/2025-11-13T18:20:36.000Zhttps://indigenousvalues.org/find-us-at-the-aar/Arts of Interpretation (Session ID: M21-201) Date: Friday Location: Tozzer Room #203, 21 Divinity Ave. Cambridge, MA 02138 1:30-2:30 pm: The Legacy of Charles H. Long Presenters: Davíd Carrasco & Raymond Carr Contact: Philip P....Religion Linkhttps://religionlink.com/2025-11-12T10:30:34.000Zhttps://religionlink.com/source-guides/faith-politics-and-the-first-amendment-reporting-the-flash-points/In this source guide, ReligionLink provides background, tips, suggestions, related stories and relevant sources to help you report the fault lines in the U.S.’s current debate around the limits and liabilities of the First Amendment.Religion Mattershttps://religionmatters.org/blog-2/2025-11-09T12:10:58.000Zhttps://religionmatters.org/2025/11/09/%f0%9f%8f%9b%ef%b8%8f-from-classroom-conversations-to-civic-action-bringing-inquiry-to-the-ncss-house-of-delegates/Post: Tim Hall, Ph.D., Executive Director, Religion Matters In social studies, we teach students that democracy depends on voice agency. We teach that civic life thrives when people not only ask good questions but take action on their answers. This...Religion Mattershttps://religionmatters.org/blog-2/2025-11-08T21:38:09.000Zhttps://religionmatters.org/2025/11/08/7119/Post: Tim Hall, Ph.D., Executive Director, Religion Matters When students first meet the creature in Frankenstein, they often see a monster—grotesque, ugly, and violent. But Mary Shelley invites us to look deeper. Her creature begins...RSN Podcasthttps://rsn.aarweb.org/2025-11-06T17:23:21.000Zhttps://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/american-academy-of-relig9/episodes/The-Role-of-Religion-in-Todays-Democratic-Crises-e3ajq46“Jesus saves” banners at the January 6th insurrection. Evangelical elevation of President Trump as God’s elect. Claims of religious freedom used to justify discrimination. Scriptural “prooftexts” wielded to strip individuals of civil rights....Religion Mattershttps://religionmatters.org/blog-2/2025-11-02T14:47:36.000Zhttps://religionmatters.org/2025/11/02/why-religious-literacy-belongs-in-every-social-studies-classroom/Post: Tim Hall, Ph.D., Executive Director, Religion Matters A few years ago, I observed a middle school lesson on the Reformation. When the teacher mentioned Martin Luther’s “95 Theses,” a student raised her hand and asked, “Wait—was he Catholic or...Religion Linkhttps://religionlink.com/2025-10-28T11:52:19.000Zhttps://religionlink.com/source-guides/from-ice-caps-to-islands-reporting-on-religion-in-the-extremes/In this edition of ReligionLink, we offer resources, relevant stories and expert sources for reporting on religion and climate change in the extremes.Feminists Studies in Religionhttps://www.fsrinc.org/blog/2025-10-24T17:50:46.000Zhttps://www.fsrinc.org/thresholds-of-becoming-a-reflection-on-pedagogy-poetic-theology-and-what-comes-next/By Jill Y. Crainshaw Yearning for light, we wander. Someone has lit a lamp. A flame dances obligato, bedazzles aching eyes, choreographs bone-tired feet. Over the past two and a half decades, theological education has undergone profound...The Immanent Framehttps://tif.ssrc.org/2025-10-24T17:16:39.000Zhttps://tif.ssrc.org/2025/10/24/karma-history-and-the-humanities/The “Karmic historiography” essay forum represents a convergence of two vital currents in contemporary humanities scholarship: first, an interest in […] The post Karma, history, and the humanities appeared first on The Immanent Frame.Andrew Whiteheadhttps://andrewwhitehead.substack.com/2025-10-22T14:04:44.000Zhttps://andrewwhitehead.substack.com/p/how-do-religious-americans-view-theHighlighting some findings from the 16th annual American Values Survey from the Public Religion Research Institute (PRRI).Feminists Studies in Religionhttps://www.fsrinc.org/blog/2025-10-17T15:03:31.000Zhttps://www.fsrinc.org/siembra-mark-43-8-markseries-thetable/By Arlene Markowski My mother, Ydalba, was a farmer, born in Mérida, Venezuela. This terraced plateau of the Andes Mountains birthed my mother to María, who was conceived by Flor, all peasant farmers. This matriarchal lineage of experiential...Religion Linkhttps://religionlink.com/2025-10-16T10:58:58.000Zhttps://religionlink.com/source-guides/martyrs-myths-mayhem-reporting-on-religion-and-political-violence/In this edition of ReligionLink, we provide background, tips, stories, sources and other resources for reporters to better cover the confluence of religion and political violence in the months and years ahead.RSN Podcasthttps://rsn.aarweb.org/2025-10-15T19:31:10.000Zhttps://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/american-academy-of-relig9/episodes/Androgynes-and-Eunuchs-in-Rabbinic-Literature-with-Max-K--Strassfeld-e39j357Max K. Strassfeld, associate professor of religion at the University of Southern California and winner of the ⁠2023 AAR Book Award for Excellence in the Study of Religion: Textual Studies⁠, speaks to Kristian Petersen about their book, ⁠Trans...The Immanent Framehttps://tif.ssrc.org/2025-10-15T13:16:10.000Zhttps://tif.ssrc.org/2025/10/15/karmic-psychopolitics-may-the-friendliest-thrive/Life is precarious, more so for those who live in a neoliberal world. Byung-Chul Han names this lifeworld “the achievement […] The post Karmic psychopolitics: May the friendliest thrive appeared first on The Immanent Frame.Feminists Studies in Religionhttps://www.fsrinc.org/blog/2025-10-10T14:37:15.000Zhttps://www.fsrinc.org/care-for-every-body-gender-affirming-healthcare-and-the-woman-who-touched-jesus-cloak-mark-524-34-markseries-atthetable/By Catherine Montgomery At The Lighthouse, a safe space for LGBTQIA+ youth and their parents, I have had the privilege of knowing trans minors and adults for whom gender-affirming healthcare has been critically important to their wellness. I have...Feminists Studies in Religionhttps://www.fsrinc.org/blog/2025-10-03T14:31:00.000Zhttps://www.fsrinc.org/the-invisible-labor-of-women-mark-631-44-mark-series-at-the-table/By Emily Rutledge During a time when Romans ruled, and many Jewish leaders straddled the empire and the Torah-it was Jesus who came to turn the establishment upside down and extend the love of God wide. Jesus taught that the outsider was in, that...Feminists Studies in Religionhttps://www.fsrinc.org/blog/2025-09-26T14:57:08.000Zhttps://www.fsrinc.org/the-power-of-voice-learning-from-the-syrophoenician-womans-sass-mark-series-mark-724-30-at-the-table/By Julia Madden In the Gospel of Mark 7:24-30, we find an unexpected encounter between Jesus and a Syrophoenician woman. It is a story in which Jesus, who often holds the role of teacher and healer, is challenged and ultimately “schooled” by a...An und für sichhttps://itself.blog/2025-09-16T16:32:43.000Zhttps://itself.blog/2025/09/16/new-blogging-venture/I have decided to start a new solo blog entitled That Blog You Like Is Going to Come Back in Style. My first post is an attempt to set an appropriate tone. My reason for doing this is a sense that I need a change. It may be permanent or it may...Andrew Whiteheadhttps://andrewwhitehead.substack.com/2025-09-13T18:30:42.000Zhttps://andrewwhitehead.substack.com/p/five-elements-of-christian-nationalismChristian nationalism is not just "loving Jesus" and "loving America." The Christianity of Christian nationalism refers to a whole lot more.An und für sichhttps://itself.blog/2025-09-06T16:35:47.000Zhttps://itself.blog/2025/09/06/im-not-sick-but-im-not-well/Yesterday, a friend I’d not seen in person in a while asked me how my back pain was doing. He asked because he follows me on Facebook, which I use as a personal diary, and I had mentioned back problems there frequently for the last several week....NSRNhttps://thensrn.org/2025-08-26T21:36:18.000Zhttps://thensrn.org/2025/08/26/euthanasia-and-the-right-to-die-as-a-nonreligious-project-the-belgian-case-entangled-with-global-dynamics/Niels De Nutte is affiliated with the history department and the Secular Studies Association Brussels research group at Vrije Universiteit Brussel as a guest professor and postdoctoral researcher. He serves as an associate director to the...RSN Podcasthttps://rsn.aarweb.org/2025-08-21T17:57:03.000Zhttps://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/american-academy-of-relig9/episodes/The-RSN-Podcast-In-Conversation-with-AAR-Book-Award-Winner-Karen-V--Guth-e3756avKaren V. Guth, associate professor of religious studies at the College of the Holy Cross and winner of the ⁠2023 AAR Book Award for Excellence in the Study of Religion: Constructive-Reflective Studies, speaks to Kristian Petersen about her...Reviews of Biblical and Early Christian Studieshttps://rbecs.org/2025-08-12T15:06:15.000Zhttps://rbecs.org/2025/08/12/covenant-concepts-of-berit-diatheke-and-testamentum/2025.08.04 | Christian A. Eberhart and Wolfgang Kraus, eds. Covenant—Concepts of Berit, Diatheke, and Testamentum. WUNT 506. Tübingen: Mohr Siebeck, 2023. Review by Levi Baker, William Tennent School of Theology. Arising from a 2019...affecognitivehttps://affecognitive.wordpress.com/2025-08-10T14:44:43.000Zhttps://affecognitive.wordpress.com/2025/08/10/unaccountably-queer-differences-v-353-december-2024/“Unaccountably Queer,” v. 35:3 (December 2024) of differences: a journal of feminist cultural studies, sets out to honor and reflect …Continue reading →An und für sichhttps://itself.blog/2025-08-02T16:10:55.000Zhttps://itself.blog/2025/08/02/alone-and-the-neoliberal-sublime/No matter how well-matched a couple is, every relationship brings with it some kind of compromise. In our household, one such compromise has resulted in me being a near scholar of the survival reality show Alone. I’ve hated camping for as long as I...An und für sichhttps://itself.blog/2025-07-27T14:53:18.000Zhttps://itself.blog/2025/07/27/chatgpt-is-going-to-kill-god/I hate generative AI. I hate how it’s destroying writing pedagogy and giving students even more excuses not to read (because they can just read a “summary”). I hate how whiny and defensive AI users are about the pathetic little ways they’ve...An und für sichhttps://itself.blog/2025-07-25T14:26:20.000Zhttps://itself.blog/2025/07/25/agamben-between-pauline-messianism-and-institutional-christianity/[This paper was presented at the European Academy of Religion conference in Vienna on July 11, 2025, in a session entitled “Agamben’s Theological-Political Horizons: Reimaging Judaism, Christianity, and Messianic Potentiality,” organized by Libera...NAASRhttps://naasr.com/2025-07-19T21:20:06.000Zhttps://naasr.com/2025/07/19/naasr-2025-annual-meeting/Interlocutions II “Crisis is not exceptional to history or consciousness but a process embedded in the ordinary that unfolds in stories about navigating what’s overwhelming.” (Lauren Berlant, Cruel Optimism, 2011) “There is nothing more difficult...affecognitivehttps://affecognitive.wordpress.com/2025-07-10T17:53:14.000Zhttps://affecognitive.wordpress.com/2025/07/10/the-order-of-things-the-difference-of-the-analysis-of-wealth/In chapter six of The Order of Things/Les mots et les choses, Michel Foucault marks, twice, a difference between the …Continue reading →Indigenous Values Initiativehttps://indigenousvalues.org/2025-07-07T20:21:27.000Zhttps://indigenousvalues.org/save-the-date-arts-of-interpretation/Arts of Interpretation November 21, 1:30-4:30PM Tozzer Room #203, 21 Divinity Ave. Cambridge, MA 02138 Open to all AAR & SBL members The phenomenon of religion is exerting a critical role in the world. Our times require more robust religion … Read...Feminists Studies in Religionhttps://www.fsrinc.org/blog/2025-07-05T18:12:25.000Zhttps://www.fsrinc.org/celebrating-the-scholarship-of-dr-kate-ott/Over the years, Dr. Kate Ott has helped shape the voices, questions, and commitments of feminist studies in religion. As she steps back from her role, we honor her legacy by revisiting some of her most impactful contributions. Thanks to a special...Indigenous Values Initiativehttps://indigenousvalues.org/2025-06-30T17:55:21.000Zhttps://indigenousvalues.org/crosscurrents-volume-74-number-4-december-2024/We are excited to be collaborating with CrossCurrents on this special edited volume as we believe it will provide support to this global, inter/intra-religious movement to: (1) dismantle existing knowledge paradigms about DoCD; (2) increase the...RSN Podcasthttps://rsn.aarweb.org/2025-06-17T16:01:23.000Zhttps://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/american-academy-of-relig9/episodes/The-RSN-Podcast-In-Conversation-with-AAR-Book-Award-Winner-William-Robert-e34ch0tWilliam Robert, professor of religion at Syracuse University and winner of the 2023 AAR Book Award in Religion and the Arts, speaks to Kristian Petersen about his book, Unbridled: Studying Religion in Performance (The University of Chicago Press,...NSRNhttps://thensrn.org/2025-06-16T19:42:29.000Zhttps://thensrn.org/2025/06/16/beyond-smudge-and-creator-recognizing-indigenous-nonbelievers-in-canada/Jonathan Simmons is a sociologist specializing in nonreligion, atheism, and religious change. He holds a PhD from the University of Alberta and is currently on staff at the University of Alberta. Email: jssimmon@ualberta.ca Keywords: Indigenous...An und für sichhttps://itself.blog/2025-06-13T15:36:35.000Zhttps://itself.blog/2025/06/13/accurate-current-and-relevant-prophetic-maharaja-book-event/This post is by Rajbir Singh Judge. As I wrote Prophetic Maharaja, I often recalled that libraries cull their collections. This common practice is called ‘weeding,’ which, as the American Library Association has it, “is critical to collection...The Other Journalhttps://theotherjournal.com/2025-06-09T11:20:21.000Zhttps://theotherjournal.com/2025/06/leonardo-da-vincis-reflection-on-death/Leonardo da Vinci’s painting Saint John the Baptist was the last portrait he created. Stylistically, it fits well within the canon of his work. John’s mysterious smile pairs seamlessly with that of the Mona Lisa. His oval-eyed gaze matches that of...The Other Journalhttps://theotherjournal.com/2025-06-09T11:17:32.000Zhttps://theotherjournal.com/2025/06/a-morbid-mosaic/“Love ya, Dad!” These were the last words I spoke to my father as I gave him a side hug inside my mother’s car. He was fiddling with his oxygen tanks, and we didn’t get an opportunity to have a full embrace. His anxiety was spiking as he prepared...The Other Journalhttps://theotherjournal.com/2025-06-09T11:13:58.000Zhttps://theotherjournal.com/2025/06/the-passion-of-humanity/Everything encounters death. There’s no way around that: every life, be it human or flora or fauna, will perish. Every culture crumbles; every sensation fades; every memory is at some point forgotten. In the same vein every teleology, every...The Other Journalhttps://theotherjournal.com/2025-06-09T11:10:11.000Zhttps://theotherjournal.com/2025/06/dalia-in-america/The night Yitzhak flew out the window, Dalia had been having a beautiful dream. In the dream, she was in the home of her mother and father, in Haifa, looking out the window at the perfect Mediterranean blue of the sky. That was it—the whole dream....The Other Journalhttps://theotherjournal.com/2025-06-09T11:07:13.000Zhttps://theotherjournal.com/2025/06/these-cold-still-hands/The first time I touched a dead man, my hands shook. On an otherwise ordinary day in the hospital, his heart had stopped. Despite the best efforts of the nurses surrounding him, his body wouldn’t take its cues from the hands pressing on his chest...The Other Journalhttps://theotherjournal.com/2025-06-09T11:03:45.000Zhttps://theotherjournal.com/2025/06/the-harrowing-of-hell/Several years ago, my closest friend took her own life. Her death catapulted me into an abyss of unanswerable questions. Especially: Does suicide destroy or illuminate soul friendship? Our relationship as poets, soul friends and sister elders was...The Other Journalhttps://theotherjournal.com/2025-06-09T10:59:19.000Zhttps://theotherjournal.com/2025/06/sometimes-these-collisions-are-final/The human instinct to make lessons out of living is built around one constant: our bodies cling to life, even when that life is being lived by others. The need to live tears muscle from bone as certainly as it rips a metaphoric heart in two....The Other Journalhttps://theotherjournal.com/2025-06-09T10:54:02.000Zhttps://theotherjournal.com/2025/06/the-place-i-go-to-die/Over and over. I don’t need a map anymore, haven’t for years. My body knows the way, like an experienced lover’s hand becomes accustomed to the curve of a hip or the sweep of a thigh around torso. But not in a good way, the anticipation flows in...The Other Journalhttps://theotherjournal.com/2025-06-09T10:48:45.000Zhttps://theotherjournal.com/2025/06/like-jonah-i-swallowed-down/July 19th, 2018 was a Thursday. That morning at work, I settled into the week’s downhill slide with a warm mug of coffee and a covert scroll through Facebook. The blow fell with a whisper, as I almost scrolled past an old picture of Libby wearing...The Other Journalhttps://theotherjournal.com/2025-06-09T10:44:42.000Zhttps://theotherjournal.com/2025/06/the-soul-and-ground-of-motherhood/Raindrops flecked the windows beside my booth at Nighthawks Diner and Bar. I ordered the walleye and an old-fashioned. Petunias, purple and blousy, bloomed in flower boxes on the windowsills. I wrote a few lines in my journal and relished the spice...Te Ture Tāhae Whenua - The Doctrine of Discovery in Aotearoahttps://tinangata.substack.com/2025-06-06T01:32:48.000Zhttps://tinangata.substack.com/p/brief-of-evidence-to-the-waitangiThe Doctrine of Discovery and its impact on Mana WāhineIndigenous Values Initiativehttps://indigenousvalues.org/2025-06-05T23:40:35.000Zhttps://indigenousvalues.org/event-the-doctrine-of-christian-discovery-the-jesuits-and-laudato-si-defending-mother-earth/SKA·NONH-GREAT LAW OF PEACE CENTER 6680 ONONDAGA LAKE PKWY LIVERPOOL, NY Saturday, JUNE 14, 1:00-4:00PM FREE AND OPEN TO THE PUBLIC! The Doctrine of Christian Discovery, The Jesuits, and Laudato si: Defending Mother Earth A light lunch of...Feminists Studies in Religionhttps://www.fsrinc.org/blog/2025-05-27T18:37:10.000Zhttps://www.fsrinc.org/octavia-butlers-critique-of-religious-patriarchy-and-sexual-violence-in-dawn/By Courtney O’Banion Smith. In her book Dawn, Octavia E. Butler scrutinizes issues of patriarchy and gender through the protagonist, Lilith. The Oankali—a terrifying, biotechnologically superior alien species—all but force this African American...PRRIhttps://prri.org2025-05-20T19:22:50.000Zhttps://prri.org/new-affiliated-scholars-2025/This month, PRRI welcomed five new experts joining the organization as Affiliated Scholars. In addition to political scientist Paul A. Djupe, Ph.D., PRRI Affiliated Scholars now include: sociologists Kelsy Burke, Ph.D. and Samuel Perry, Ph.D.;...RSN Podcasthttps://rsn.aarweb.org/2025-05-16T13:59:05.000Zhttps://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/american-academy-of-relig9/episodes/The-RSN-Podcast-In-Conversation-with-William-Calvo-Quirs-e32uejcWilliam Calvo-Quirós, associate professor of American culture at the University of Michigan and winner of the 2023 Best First Book in the History of Religions Award from AAR speaks to Kristian Petersen about his book, Undocumented Saints: The...Original Free Nationshttps://originalfreenations.com/2025-05-03T21:36:13.000Zhttps://originalfreenations.com/ojai-valley-film-screening/Join us for a screening of The Doctrine of Discovery: Unmasking the Domination Code in Ojai, Wednesday May 21, at 6:00PM. The cost is $20 and will help support the filmmakers travels to Rome for high level meetings and research. The post Ojai...Te Ture Tāhae Whenua - The Doctrine of Discovery in Aotearoahttps://tinangata.substack.com/2025-04-23T06:10:24.000Zhttps://tinangata.substack.com/p/introducing-the-good-ancestor-gameWe turned Dismantling the Doctrine into a game!RSN Podcasthttps://rsn.aarweb.org/2025-04-09T19:00:58.000Zhttps://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/american-academy-of-relig9/episodes/The-RSN-Podcast-In-Conversation-with-AAR-Book-Award-Winner-Mary-Dunn-e31j5asMary Dunn — professor of Modern Christianity in the department of theological studies at Saint Louis University, director of the Center for Research on Global Catholicism, and winner of the 2023 AAR Book Award for Excellence in the Study of...PRRIhttps://prri.org2025-04-04T18:16:55.000Zhttps://prri.org/scholars-gather-in-dc-for-2025-prri-public-fellows-convening/From April 2-4, PRRI welcomed the 2024-2025 cohort of Public Fellows to Washington, D.C. for a dynamic convening designed to equip scholars with tools to effectively leverage their expertise in shaping informed, impactful public dialogue on...Canadian Society for the Study of Religionhttps://cssrscer.ca/2025-03-24T01:32:56.000Zhttps://cssrscer.ca/2025/03/24/test/In light of the recent announcement by York University suspending admissions to its Religious Studies program, the President of Canadian Society for the Study of Religion/La Société Canadienne pour l’Étude de la Religion (CSSR/SCÉR), Dr. Alison...affecognitivehttps://affecognitive.wordpress.com/2025-03-18T20:19:40.000Zhttps://affecognitive.wordpress.com/2025/03/18/archiving-eve/An “Open Mesh of Possibilities”: Thinking Queerness with Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick’s Archive,” a recent, day-long event at Duke University was …Continue reading →NSRNhttps://thensrn.org/2025-03-16T16:19:06.000Zhttps://thensrn.org/2025/03/16/nonreligious-recollections-of-religious-educations-in-flanders-greece-and-norway/Sofia Nikitaki, KU Leuven Faculty of Theology and Religious Studies Keywords: nonreligion, religious education, cross-cultural research, qualitative research, Belgium, Greece, Norway While literature regarding the inclusion of nonreligious...Indigenous Values Initiativehttps://indigenousvalues.org/2025-02-18T22:59:26.000Zhttps://indigenousvalues.org/onondaga-land-rights-our-common-future-the-quest-for-justice/Onondaga Land Rights and Our Common Future: The Quest for Justice Monday, March 10, 6:30 pm Syracuse Stage, 820 E Genesee St, Syracuse Come commemorate the 20th anniversary of the historic filing of the Onondaga Land Rights Action. Onondaga...NAASRhttps://naasr.com/2025-02-10T02:15:24.000Zhttps://naasr.com/2025/02/09/naasr-cfp-2025/Interlocutions II: The Extra/Ordinary “There is nothing more difficult to convey than reality in all its ordinariness.” (Pierre Bourdieu, On Television, 1998) “Crisis is not exceptional to history or consciousness but a process embedded in the...NAASRhttps://naasr.com/2025-02-10T00:42:57.000Zhttps://naasr.com/2025/02/09/method-and-theory-cfp/CALL FOR PAPERS – FEBRUARY 2025 – METHOD AND THEORY IN THE STUDY OF RELIGION See the full CFP here. The editors of Method and Theory in the Study of Religion (MTSR) would like to announce calls forpapers on four special topics: 1) On Money, 2) The...affecognitivehttps://affecognitive.wordpress.com/2025-02-02T20:53:00.000Zhttps://affecognitive.wordpress.com/2025/02/02/kornbluhs-immediacy-or-the-style-of-too-late-capitalism/Verso Press listed Anna Kornbluh’s 2024 text as one of its must-read publications of 2024, and I heartily concur. To …Continue reading →affecognitivehttps://affecognitive.wordpress.com/2025-01-24T18:00:59.000Zhttps://affecognitive.wordpress.com/2025/01/24/why-is-sloth-bad-but-leisure-good/Historically, laziness, or sloth (as my Puritan ancestors might call it) counts as one of the “seven deadly sins,” meaning …Continue reading →Reviews of Biblical and Early Christian Studieshttps://rbecs.org/2025-01-14T13:48:24.000Zhttps://rbecs.org/2025/01/14/the-apologists-and-paul/2025.01.03 | Todd D. Still and David E. Wilhite. The Apologists and Paul. Pauline and Patristic Scholars in Debate. London: T&T Clark, 2024. Pp. xiv + 346. ISBN: 9780567715456. Review by Jonathon Lookadoo, Presbyterian University and Theological...affecognitivehttps://affecognitive.wordpress.com/2025-01-12T15:09:26.000Zhttps://affecognitive.wordpress.com/2025/01/12/fine-china-and-the-future-of-thought/On this past New Year’s Eve (2024), The New York Times published Rukmini Callimachi’s article, “One Set of China. Five …Continue reading →Reviews of Biblical and Early Christian Studieshttps://rbecs.org/2025-01-03T13:19:13.000Zhttps://rbecs.org/2025/01/03/gomelauri/2025.01.02 | Thea Gomelauri (with a contribution by Joseph Ginsberg). The Lailashi Codex: The Crown of Georgian Jewry (Oxford, UK: Taylor Institution Library, 2023). Review by Teófilo Correa, Adventist International Institute of Advance Studies...Reviews of Biblical and Early Christian Studieshttps://rbecs.org/2025-01-01T15:05:20.000Zhttps://rbecs.org/2025/01/01/antioch-nicaea-and-the-synthesis-of-constantinople/2025.01.01 | Dragos Andrei Giulea. Antioch, Nicaea, and the Synthesis of Constantinople: Revisiting Trajectories in the Fourth-Century Christological Debates. Studies in the History of Christian Traditions, 200. Brill, 2024. 309 pp. Review by Ched...RSN Podcasthttps://rsn.aarweb.org/2024-12-18T00:00:00.000Zhttps://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/american-academy-of-relig9/episodes/American-Secularism-and-Its-Believers-with-Charles-McCrary-e31j5aoAmerican Secularism and Its Believers with Charles McCrary by American Academy of ReligionReligious Studies Projecthttps://www.religiousstudiesproject.com/2024-12-11T09:00:00.000Zhttps://www.religiousstudiesproject.com/opportunities/religious-studies-project-opportunities-digest-december-9-2024/Welcome to the Religious Studies Project Opportunities Digest! This week, you will find 21 new job opportunities, 3 fellowships, 2 grants, and 4 calls for papers. Everyone at RSP says thank you to all who have generously supported the RSP through...Religious Studies Projecthttps://www.religiousstudiesproject.com/2024-12-04T09:00:00.000Zhttps://www.religiousstudiesproject.com/opportunities/religious-studies-project-opportunities-digest-december-4-2024/Welcome to the Religious Studies Project Opportunities Digest! This week, you will find 11 new job opportunities, 3 fellowships, 3 calls for papers, and 1 conference/speaker. Everyone at RSP says thank you to all who have generously supported the...Religious Studies Projecthttps://www.religiousstudiesproject.com/2024-11-27T09:00:00.000Zhttps://www.religiousstudiesproject.com/opportunities/religious-studies-project-opportunities-digest-november-27-2024/Welcome to the Religious Studies Project Opportunities Digest! This week, you will find 17 new job opportunities and 3 other opportunities. Everyone at RSP says thank you to all who have generously supported the RSP through our Patreon and PayPal...Religious Studies Projecthttps://www.religiousstudiesproject.com/2024-11-20T09:00:00.000Zhttps://www.religiousstudiesproject.com/opportunities/religious-studies-project-opportunities-digest-november-18-2024/Welcome to the Religious Studies Project Opportunities Digest! This week, you will find 36 new job opportunities, 12 fellowships, 1 grant, 7 calls for papers, 3 conferences/speakers, and 3 other opportunities. Everyone at RSP says thank you to all...NSRNhttps://thensrn.org/2024-11-19T15:59:51.000Zhttps://thensrn.org/2024/11/19/atheist-spirituality-reflections-on-andre-compte-sponvilles-lesprit-de-latheisme-introduction-a-une-spiritualite-sans-dieu/Ehsan Sheikholharam, Kennesaw State University Keywords: atheist spirituality, laïcité, pluralist ethics, post-Christian Europe It’s not surprising to hear that someone identifies as Jewish, while not believing in a transcendental God. Likewise,...Religious Studies Projecthttps://www.religiousstudiesproject.com/2024-11-13T09:00:00.000Zhttps://www.religiousstudiesproject.com/opportunities/religious-studies-project-opportunities-digest-november-13-2024/Welcome to the Religious Studies Project Opportunities Digest! This week, you will find 13 new job opportunities, 6 fellowships, 3 grants, 4 calls for papers, 4 conferences/speakers, and 1 other submission. Everyone at RSP says thank you to all who...Culture on Edgehttps://edge.ua.edu/identity/2024-11-13T08:08:40.000Zhttps://edge.ua.edu/nota-bene/fabricating-authenticity/A new Culture on the Edge volume has landed! Fabricating Authenticity, co-edited by Edge members Jason W. M. Ellsworth and Andie Alexander, is now available from Equinox! Fabricating Authenticity is the 4th volume in Working with Culture on the...Religious Studies Projecthttps://www.religiousstudiesproject.com/2024-11-06T09:00:00.000Zhttps://www.religiousstudiesproject.com/opportunities/religious-studies-project-opportunities-digest-november-6-2024/Welcome to the Religious Studies Project Opportunities Digest! This week, you will find 23 new job opportunities, 2 call for papers, and 2 conferences/speakers. Everyone at RSP says thank you to all who have generously supported the RSP through our...Canadian Society for the Study of Religionhttps://cssrscer.ca/2024-11-05T17:34:05.000Zhttps://cssrscer.ca/2024/11/05/job-posting-assistant-professor-jewish-studies/Assistant Professor – Jewish Studies Closing Date – December 16, 2024 Date Posted: 11/01/2024 Closing Date: 12/16/2024, 11:59PM ET Req ID: 39983 Job Category: Faculty – Tenure Stream (continuing) Faculty/Division: Faculty of Arts & Science...State of Formationhttps://stateofformation.org/2024-10-31T14:54:45.000Zhttps://stateofformation.org/2024/10/hospitality-transcending-language-and-faith-celebrating-the-easter-feast-at-abbaye-sainte-marie-de-la-resurrection-abu-ghosh-israel/This essay originally appeared in Stained Glass Travel in April 2022. It is shared with permission. I have had the privilege of spending the two Easters I have lived in Israel at the French Benedictine monastery at Abu Gosh, in the hills outside of...Religious Studies Projecthttps://www.religiousstudiesproject.com/2024-10-30T09:00:00.000Zhttps://www.religiousstudiesproject.com/opportunities/religious-studies-opportunities-digest-october-30-2024/Welcome to the Religious Studies Project Opportunities Digest! This week, you will find 35 new job opportunities, 1 fellowship, 1 grant, 8 call for papers, and 11 conferences/speakers. Everyone at RSP says thank you to all who have generously...NSRNhttps://thensrn.org/2024-10-29T18:00:08.000Zhttps://thensrn.org/2024/10/29/christianity-showed-its-face-the-role-of-power-in-the-process-of-christian-exiting-and-formation-as-a-religious-none/Tess Starman, Howard University Keywords: secularization, politicized religion, deconstruction, deconversion U.S. Christianity has seen a sharp decline in affiliation over the last 20 years. Scholars have often associated this decline with the...Religious Studies Projecthttps://www.religiousstudiesproject.com/2024-10-23T09:00:00.000Zhttps://www.religiousstudiesproject.com/opportunities/religious-studies-project-opportunities-digest-october-23-2024/Welcome to the Religious Studies Project Opportunities Digest! This week, you will find 13 new job opportunities, 2 fellowships, 2 call for papers, and 4 conferences/speakers. Everyone at RSP says thank you to all who have generously supported the...Reviews of Biblical and Early Christian Studieshttps://rbecs.org/2024-10-18T12:00:00.000Zhttps://rbecs.org/2024/10/18/the-apostle-to-the-foreskin/2024.10.07 | Ryan D. Collman. The Apostle to the Foreskin: Circumcision in the Letters of Paul. BZNW 259. Berlin: de Gruyter, 2023. Review article by Paul T. Sloan, Houston Christian University. “Foreskin” stretches across Paul’s letters as a part...Religious Studies Projecthttps://www.religiousstudiesproject.com/2024-10-16T09:00:00.000Zhttps://www.religiousstudiesproject.com/opportunities/religious-studies-project-opportunites-digest-october-16-2024/Welcome to the Religious Studies Project Opportunities Digest! This week, you will find 38 new job opportunities, 5 fellowships, 3 grants, 5 call for papers, 12 conferences/speakers, and 1 other opportunity. Everyone at RSP says thank you to all...Religious Studies Projecthttps://www.religiousstudiesproject.com/2024-10-09T09:00:00.000Zhttps://www.religiousstudiesproject.com/opportunities/religious-studies-project-opportunities-digest-october-9-2024/Welcome to the Religious Studies Project Opportunities Digest! This week, you will find 28 new job opportunities, 3 fellowships, 2 grants, 5 call for papers, and 3 conferences/speakers. Everyone at RSP says thank you to all who have generously...RSN Podcasthttps://rsn.aarweb.org/2024-10-03T15:04:38.000Zhttps://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/american-academy-of-relig9/episodes/The-Role-of-Western-Universities-in-Modern-Islamic-Thought-with-Megan-Brankley-Abbas-e31j5emThe Role of Western Universities in Modern Islamic Thought with Megan Brankley Abbas by American Academy of ReligionDigital Religionhttps://www.digrel.com/2024-09-30T18:30:28.000Zhttps://www.digrel.com/post/religion-book-editors-and-ai-theoretical-and-empirical-approaches-call-for-book-chapter-contributWe are inviting book chapter proposals for the edited collection entitled Religion Book Editors and AI: Theoretical and empirical...NSRNhttps://thensrn.org/2024-09-30T18:10:19.000Zhttps://thensrn.org/2024/09/30/the-soul-in-a-secular-world-investigating-a-discrepancy-in-beliefs/Dani Gaudette, The University of Tampa Keywords: soul belief, afterlife, Norway, Finland, nonreligion, secularism Developing countries are experiencing secularization, leading to a noticeable decline in religious beliefs. Since this change is still...PRRIhttps://prri.org2024-09-10T11:13:00.000Zhttps://prri.org/new-book-by-prri-ceo-examines-shifts-in-gen-z-politics/This week, The Politics of Gen Z: How Young Voters Will Shape Our Democracy, written by PRRI CEO Melissa Deckman, Ph.D., was released by Columbia University Press. This marks the first book-length examination of how gender and sexuality influence...NAASRhttps://naasr.com/2024-08-19T23:44:23.000Zhttps://naasr.com/2024/08/19/naasr-conversations-series/Register HERE! Check out In Defense of Sex!NAASRhttps://naasr.com/2024-08-04T16:41:13.000Zhttps://naasr.com/2024/08/04/naasr-2024-annual-meeting-2/Interlocutions Interlocutions About our program: The 2024 NAASR Annual Meeting will provide a space to explore contemporary theoretical gains that have a bearing on and/or implications for academic studies of religion. Doing so will not only...Canadian Society for the Study of Religionhttps://cssrscer.ca/2024-07-24T21:39:45.000Zhttps://cssrscer.ca/2024/07/24/2022-book-prize-winner/Congratulations to the winner of the 2022 CSSR Book Prize, Abdolmohammad Kazemipur, for his book entitled Sacred as Secular: Secularization under Theocracy in Iran (McGill-Queen’s University Press, 2022). The post 2022 Book Prize Winner appeared...State of Formationhttps://stateofformation.org/2024-07-15T21:17:53.000Zhttps://stateofformation.org/2024/07/podcast-what-do-cats-have-to-do-with-interfaith-work/From Grace Boyd, Dr. Robin Mitchell Stroud, and the University of Southern California (USC) Office of Religious and Spiritual Life — a conversation about cats, conflict transformation, and lessons learned from campus interfaith engagement. Robin...State of Formationhttps://stateofformation.org/2024-07-12T18:33:23.000Zhttps://stateofformation.org/2024/07/podcast-finding-faith-in-interfaith-work/In the summer of 2023, Alina Wilson attended the Interfaith America Summit, despite feeling increasingly distant from institutionalized religion. Returning to a campus rife with politically charged religious divisions and struggling with the impact...Te Ture Tāhae Whenua - The Doctrine of Discovery in Aotearoahttps://tinangata.substack.com/2024-07-05T08:35:14.000Zhttps://tinangata.substack.com/p/new-resources-talking-to-christiansThe Christians made me do it.NAASRhttps://naasr.com/2024-05-10T21:47:45.000Zhttps://naasr.com/2024/05/10/new-research-roundup-the-follow-up/On March 16th, NAASR members gathered virtually to talk about their new research and the scholarship from outside of Religious Studies that was inspiring them. Dr. Lauren Horn Griffin (Louisiana State University) and Dr. Vaia Touna (University of...Te Ture Tāhae Whenua - The Doctrine of Discovery in Aotearoahttps://tinangata.substack.com/2024-05-03T02:55:00.000Zhttps://tinangata.substack.com/p/the-doctrine-of-discovery-christendomReconciling ones faith with the harms of religious colonialismCanadian Society for the Study of Religionhttps://cssrscer.ca/2024-04-30T19:19:07.000Zhttps://cssrscer.ca/2024/04/30/job-posting-academic-teaching-staff-limited-term-appointment-religious-studies/Academic Teaching Staff – Religious Studies ART History/Classics/Religion Closing Date – May 31, 2024 While this position welcomes applications from individuals external to the university, current Academic Teaching Staff are first notified of...Sacred Mattershttps://sacredmattersmagazine.com/2024-04-16T18:30:20.000Zhttps://sacredmattersmagazine.com/7-questions-with-ethan-doyle-white/Welcome to 7 Questions, our series where we highlight exciting scholars in the field of religion and get to know the person behind the book. For this article, we interviewed Ethan Doyle White, whose book, The New Witches of the West, was recently...Digital Religionhttps://www.digrel.com/2024-04-16T16:10:33.000Zhttps://www.digrel.com/post/book-presentation-unruly-souls7th May 2024 | H 4-5.30 pm |AULA CIASCA Facoltà di Lettere e Filosofia Sapienza Università di Roma Discussants Alberta Giorgi |Università...Canadian Society for the Study of Religionhttps://cssrscer.ca/2024-04-15T20:55:42.000Zhttps://cssrscer.ca/2024/04/15/april-2024-zoom-webinar/Webinar CSSR Webinar Registration /Inscription pour le webinaire de la SCÉR Amarnath Amarasingam will give a presentation titled “‘Shoot the Traitors to the Nation!’: Hindu Nationalism, Past and Present” as part of the Canadian Society for the...Sacred Mattershttps://sacredmattersmagazine.com/2024-04-04T13:22:47.000Zhttps://sacredmattersmagazine.com/7-questions-with-joseph-laycock/Welcome to 7 Questions, our series where we highlight exciting scholars in the field of religion and get to know the person behind the book. For this article, we interviewed Joseph Laycock, whose co-authored book, The Exorcist Effect: Horror,...Digital Religionhttps://www.digrel.com/2024-03-26T20:03:02.000Zhttps://www.digrel.com/post/call-for-papers-new-special-issue-of-poligrafiWe are pleased to invite you to contribute to the new Special Issue of Poligrafi dedicated to the material dimension of online religious...NAASRhttps://naasr.com/2024-03-24T22:14:12.000Zhttps://naasr.com/2024/03/24/mtsr-special-issue-indigenous-epistemologies-and-the-study-of-religion/In recent years, critical Indigenous studies has challenged the Western European and colonial episteme that has shaped academic disciplines and fields such as anthropology, history, philosophy, and religious studies. Indigenous studies scholars and...Canadian Society for the Study of Religionhttps://cssrscer.ca/2024-03-14T17:33:23.000Zhttps://cssrscer.ca/2024/03/14/winter-2024-zoom-webinar-series/Webinar 1 La fin de la culture religieuse: chronique d’une disparition annoncée CSSR Webinar Registration /Inscription pour le webinaire de la SCÉR Mireille Estivalèzes presents her book La fin de la culture religieuse: chronique d’une disparition...Canadian Society for the Study of Religionhttps://cssrscer.ca/2024-03-14T17:25:03.000Zhttps://cssrscer.ca/2024/03/14/cssr-webinar-la-fin-de-la-culture-religieuse-chronique-dune-disparition-annoncee/La fin de la culture religieuse: chronique d’une disparition annoncée CSSR Webinar Registration /Inscription pour le webinaire de la SCÉR Mireille Estivalèzes presents her book La fin de la culture religieuse: chronique d’une disparition annoncée...Sacred Mattershttps://sacredmattersmagazine.com/2024-03-05T16:00:47.000Zhttps://sacredmattersmagazine.com/excellent-excerpts-nursing-the-spirit-by-don-grant/Welcome to our series, “Excellent Excerpts,” where we share selections from recently or soon-to-be published books we think you should check out! In this post we are featuring Nursing the Spirit: Care, Public Life, and the Dignity of Vulnerable...Indigenous Values Initiativehttps://indigenousvalues.org/2024-02-27T15:54:31.000Zhttps://indigenousvalues.org/doctrine-of-christian-discovery-podcast/We re excited to announce or collaborative limited edition series podcast with Good Faith Media. This podcast was produced at our conference: The Religious Origins of White Supremacy: Johnson v. M’Intosh and the Doctrine of Christian Discovery....Digital Religionhttps://www.digrel.com/2024-02-19T20:37:22.000Zhttps://www.digrel.com/post/digital-religion-studies-featured-in-new-series-of-four-books-on-reading-religionReading Religion , an online review journal of new books by the American Academy of Religion, has launched a new feature called “Four...Digital Religionhttps://www.digrel.com/2024-02-19T20:33:50.000Zhttps://www.digrel.com/post/annual-digital-religion-award-lecture-now-available-onlineFor those who missed the annual lecture for the NMRDC’s 2023 Digital Religion Research Award, it is now available online at:...Digital Religionhttps://www.digrel.com/2024-02-19T20:27:08.000Zhttps://www.digrel.com/post/the-digital-religion-yearbook-2023-now-outThe Digital Religion Yearbook was envisioned by the NMRDC to highlight important research and scholarship being produced in the...Sacred Mattershttps://sacredmattersmagazine.com/2024-02-17T19:29:50.000Zhttps://sacredmattersmagazine.com/7-questions-with-don-grant/Welcome to 7 Questions, our series where we highlight exciting scholars in the field of religion and get to know the person behind the book. For this article, we interviewed Don Grant, whose book Nursing the Spirit: Care, Public Life, and the...Canadian Society for the Study of Religionhttps://cssrscer.ca/2024-02-09T19:36:40.000Zhttps://cssrscer.ca/2024/02/09/panel-gradute-student-prize-winners/You are invited to the Canadian Society for the Study of Religion’s (CSSR) Webinar featuring presentations by our Graduate Student Essay Contest Prize Winners from 2022-2023. Delicate Instruments And The Challenges Of Empirical Observation In...Digital Religionhttps://www.digrel.com/2024-02-08T15:47:42.000Zhttps://www.digrel.com/post/call-for-submissions-for-the-2024-digital-religion-research-awardThe Network for New Media, Religion and Digital Culture Studies (NMRDC); http://digrel.com) is pleased to announce the call for published...Sacred Mattershttps://sacredmattersmagazine.com/2024-01-30T13:51:52.000Zhttps://sacredmattersmagazine.com/excellent-excerpts-the-gut-by-elizabeth-perez/Welcome to our series, “Excellent Excerpts,” where we share selections from recently or soon-to-be published books we think you should check out! In this post we are featuring The Gut: A Black Atlantic Alimentary Tract by Elizabeth Perez, published...Original Free Nationshttps://originalfreenations.com/2024-01-25T16:34:10.000Zhttps://originalfreenations.com/free-online-film-screening-of-the-doctrine-of-discovery-unmasking-the-domination-code/Featured Epic Events & Life-Changing Courses with Shawna Bluestar and Steven T. Newcomb. Wisdom for the New Paradigm Series Film Screening The Doctrine of Discovery: Unmasking the Domination Code Q & A with Shawna Bluestar & Steven Newcomb Join us...Sacred Mattershttps://sacredmattersmagazine.com/2024-01-23T20:32:26.000Zhttps://sacredmattersmagazine.com/excellent-excerpts-an-ethos-of-blackness-by-vivaldi-jean-marie/Welcome to our series, “Excellent Excerpts,” where we share selections from recently or soon-to-be published books we think you should check out! In this post we are featuring An Ethos of Blackness: Rastafari Cosmology, Culture, and...Digital Religionhttps://www.digrel.com/2024-01-18T20:34:46.000Zhttps://www.digrel.com/post/2023-digital-religion-research-award-winner-is-dr-sana-patel2023 Digital Religion Research Award winner is Dr. Sana Patel for her article: Hybrid Imams: Young Muslims and Religious Authority on...Sacred Mattershttps://sacredmattersmagazine.com/2024-01-16T17:13:37.000Zhttps://sacredmattersmagazine.com/7-questions-with-vivaldi-jean-marie/Welcome to 7 Questions, our series where we highlight exciting scholars in the field of religion and get to know the person behind the book. For this article, we interviewed Vivaldi Jean-Marie, whose book An Ethos of Blackness: Rastafari Cosmology,...Canadian Society for the Study of Religionhttps://cssrscer.ca/2023-12-21T19:53:51.000Zhttps://cssrscer.ca/2023/12/21/assistant-professor-contractually-limited-term-appointment-religion-in-transnational-east-asia/Date Posted: 12/15/2023 Closing Date: 02/01/2024, 11:59PM ET Req ID: 35253 Job Category: Faculty – Contractually Limited Term Appointment Faculty/Division: Faculty of Arts & Science Department: Department for the Study of Religion Campus: St....Digital Religionhttps://www.digrel.com/2023-12-14T16:11:07.000Zhttps://www.digrel.com/post/merge-media-religion-and-gender-new-project-launched-december-1-2023On the 1st of December, Giulia Evolvi, NMRDC assistant director and board member, launched the project MERGE- Media, religion, and...Sacred Mattershttps://sacredmattersmagazine.com/2023-12-11T14:52:26.000Zhttps://sacredmattersmagazine.com/7-questions-with-daniel-shank-cruz/Welcome to 7 Questions, our series where we highlight exciting scholars in the field of religion and get to know the person behind the book. For this article, we interviewed Daniel Shank Cruz, whose book Ethics for Apocalyptic Times: Theapoetics,...Sacred Mattershttps://sacredmattersmagazine.com/2023-12-04T14:22:15.000Zhttps://sacredmattersmagazine.com/excellent-excerpts-rebuilding-community-by-shenila-khoja-moolji/Welcome to our series, “Excellent Excerpts,” where we share selections from recently or soon-to-be published books we think you should check out! In this post we are featuring Rebuilding Community: Rebuilding Community: Displaced Women and the...Digital Religionhttps://www.digrel.com/2023-11-30T17:18:04.000Zhttps://www.digrel.com/post/call-for-papers-on-digital-religion-meets-politicsSpecial Issue in the journal “Frontiers in Political Science”, October 2023. CALL FOR PAPERS: Digital religion meets politics: pushing...Indigenous Values Initiativehttps://indigenousvalues.org/2023-10-01T01:51:38.000Zhttps://indigenousvalues.org/syracuse-university-to-host-conference-that-addresses-legal-and-theological-theory-of-the-doctrine-of-christian-discovery/“The Religious Origins of White Supremacy: Johnson v. M’lntosh and the Doctrine of Christian Discovery” will take place on the Syracuse University campus Dec. 8-10. Its main sponsor is the Henry Luce Foundation, which awarded the University...Sacred Mattershttps://sacredmattersmagazine.com/2023-09-14T15:03:55.000Zhttps://sacredmattersmagazine.com/7-questions-with-zeynep-k-korkman/Welcome to 7 Questions, our series where we highlight exciting scholars in the field of religion and get to know the person behind the book. For this article, we interviewed Zeynep Korkman, whose book Gendered Fortunes: Divination, Precarity, and...State of Formationhttps://stateofformation.org/2023-09-11T19:32:41.000Zhttps://stateofformation.org/2023/09/interfaith-and-me-the-guru-granth-sahib-and-religious-pluralism/My concept of Interfaith began to develop long before I joined the BILI Fellowship. Indeed, a diverse range of perspectives and backgrounds has always been at the center of my Sikh faith, our religion’s history, and our holy scriptures. To begin...Original Free Nationshttps://originalfreenations.com/2023-08-14T17:42:58.000Zhttps://originalfreenations.com/an-original-nations-examination-of-freedom-human-and-human-rights/In our view, the claim of a right of domination, and the behaviors that follow from that claim, are the main cause of the global problems we all face. This is why opposition to that claim is a potentially unifying theme for homo sapiens. The post...Original Free Nationshttps://originalfreenations.com/2023-08-12T01:12:45.000Zhttps://originalfreenations.com/conflicting-perspectives-regarding-the-holy-mountain-called-san-francisco-peaks-and-other-sacred-and-significant-places-of-original-nations-and-traditional-healers/Our original nation ancestors understood mountains and other geographical areas as living beings imbued with spiritual energy. Our spiritual people knew and still know how to spiritually attune and align themselves with that energy in a ceremonial...State of Formationhttps://stateofformation.org/2023-08-08T18:35:07.000Zhttps://stateofformation.org/2023/08/my-interfaith-travels-a-sikh-perspective/Nanakacharya, Nanak Rishi, Guru Rimpochiya, Vali Hind, Nanak Peer, Baba Nanak are all names of Guru Nanak Sahib Ji around the world. When it comes to interfaith, the clearest example I can think of is Guru Nanak Sahib Ji’s udasiaa. He traveled on...Canadian Society for the Study of Religionhttps://cssrscer.ca/2023-06-25T23:39:27.000Zhttps://cssrscer.ca/2023/06/25/new-certificate-in-christian-studies-fall-2023-admission-now-open/Greetings, Certificate of Christian Studies – Fall 2023 Admission Now Open The Certificate in Christian Studies will be offered through Continuing Education as a partnership among the three affiliated/federated Colleges Assumption University,...Te Ture Tāhae Whenua - The Doctrine of Discovery in Aotearoahttps://tinangata.substack.com/2023-06-15T11:47:23.000Zhttps://tinangata.substack.com/p/the-doctrine-of-discovery-in-aotearoaA Quick FactsheetState of Formationhttps://stateofformation.org/2023-05-23T17:55:58.000Zhttps://stateofformation.org/2023/05/moved-toward-hope-translating-values-into-action/Over the past few months, the BILI (Building Interfaith Leadership Initiative) fellowship and my campus community at Tufts University have guided me to a new definition of interfaith work. I have learned that the richness of interfaith work emerges...Original Free Nationshttps://originalfreenations.com/2023-05-03T14:05:02.000Zhttps://originalfreenations.com/revoke-the-papal-bulls-our-response-to-the-vaticans-march-30-statement-on-the-doctrine-of-discovery/The context begins with the free existence of our Native nations and peoples, extending back to the beginning of our time through our oral histories and traditions, contrasted with the system of domination that was carried by ship across the ocean...Original Free Nationshttps://originalfreenations.com/2023-04-30T22:58:02.000Zhttps://originalfreenations.com/the-doctrine-of-discovery-unmasking-the-domination-code-2/The Doctrine of Discovery: Unmasking the Domination Code The film directed by Sheldon Wolfchild, (Dakota) and co-produced by Steven T. Newcomb (Shawnee, Lenape), The Doctrine of Discovery: Unmasking The Domination Code is a compelling presentation...State of Formationhttps://stateofformation.org/2023-04-24T22:42:41.000Zhttps://stateofformation.org/2023/04/interfaith-dialogue-and-the-pillars-of-dominican-spirituality-community-prayer-service-and-study/Growing up in a western suburb of Chicago, in a primarily Catholic household, I have always had a deep appreciation and love for my Guatemalan roots and a desire to help the people in my community. My upbringing and culture serve as means of...State of Formationhttps://stateofformation.org/2023-04-22T18:50:03.000Zhttps://stateofformation.org/2023/04/the-art-of-dialogue-as-a-dance-authenticity-generosity-and-spontaneity/When one thinks of art, it is easy to think of one of the greats – Jean-Michel Basquiat, Nina Simone, or Pablo Picasso. Conversation, however, is also an art through which we exchange our ideas, feelings, and beliefs. Whether great conversations...State of Formationhttps://stateofformation.org/2023-04-19T23:58:58.000Zhttps://stateofformation.org/2023/04/bridging-differences-by-remembering-common-humanity/During the 2016 presidential election, as the socio-political climate of the entire nation changed, I observed polarization and the creeping normalization of xenophobia in my own high school. This was the moment when I realized that something...State of Formationhttps://stateofformation.org/2023-04-19T23:30:44.000Zhttps://stateofformation.org/2023/04/story-telling-and-story-listening-my-interfaith-journey/Maybe it’s just my struggle to socialize, but every time I meet someone new I’ve always wanted to have a story ready. For a few years it was describing the time I get held up in airport security for scanning as a potential threat, then maybe it was...Original Free Nationshttps://originalfreenations.com/2023-04-10T23:40:37.000Zhttps://originalfreenations.com/pagans-in-the-promised-land-book-by-steven-t-newcomb/Pagans explains how Christendom's system of domination continues to be used by the United States government against Original ("Indigenous") Nations and Peoples. The post Pagans in the Promised Land Book appeared first on ORIGINAL FREE NATIONS.Te Ture Tāhae Whenua - The Doctrine of Discovery in Aotearoahttps://tinangata.substack.com/2023-04-07T04:51:18.000Zhttps://tinangata.substack.com/p/colonial-power-mana-wahine-and-thePublished December 26, 2022Te Ture Tāhae Whenua - The Doctrine of Discovery in Aotearoahttps://tinangata.substack.com/2023-04-07T04:44:23.000Zhttps://tinangata.substack.com/p/sublimis-deus-pastorale-officiumPublished October 24, 2022 at https://doctrineofdiscovery.org/blog/papal-bulls/sublimis-deus-pastorale-officium-indecensvidetur/Te Ture Tāhae Whenua - The Doctrine of Discovery in Aotearoahttps://tinangata.substack.com/2023-04-07T04:23:35.000Zhttps://tinangata.substack.com/p/stone-in-my-shoe-the-poemPublished September 24, 2022Te Ture Tāhae Whenua - The Doctrine of Discovery in Aotearoahttps://tinangata.substack.com/2023-04-06T22:39:12.000Zhttps://tinangata.substack.com/p/james-cook-and-the-doctrine-of-discoveryThe Doctrine of Discovery (also known as the Doctrine of Christian Discovery) is an international legal concept and Christian principle, that is borne out a number of catholic laws (called "papal bulls") originating out of the Vatican in the 15th...Te Ture Tāhae Whenua - The Doctrine of Discovery in Aotearoahttps://tinangata.substack.com/2023-04-06T22:15:29.000Zhttps://tinangata.substack.com/p/setting-the-scene-for-peace-actionPublished September 14, 2022Culture on Edgehttps://edge.ua.edu/identity/2022-08-24T11:00:26.000Zhttps://edge.ua.edu/chapter-3/critical-religion-and-the-critical-study-of-religion-a-response-to-galen-watts-and-sharday-mosurinjohn-part-2/By Matt Sheedy This is part-two of a two-part response to Watts and Mosurinjohn’s essay “Can Critical Religion Play by Its Own Rules? Why There Must Be More Ways to Be ‘Critical’ in the Study of Religion,” which recently appeared in the Journal of...Culture on Edgehttps://edge.ua.edu/identity/2022-08-22T11:00:12.000Zhttps://edge.ua.edu/chapter-3/critical-religion-and-the-critical-study-of-religion-a-response-to-galen-watts-and-sharday-mosuringjohn/By Matt Sheedy This is part-one of a two-part response to Watts and Mosurinjohn’s essay “Can Critical Religion Play by Its Own Rules? Why There Must Be More Ways to Be ‘Critical’ in the Study of Religion,” which recently appeared in the Journal of...Indigenous Values Initiativehttps://indigenousvalues.org/2022-08-09T19:40:27.000Zhttps://indigenousvalues.org/call-for-authors-on-the-doctrine-of-discovery/We are now accepting applications for partnership and collaboration with The Doctrine of Discovery Project. We are interested in publishing original essays roughly 1,000-3,000 words in length for doctrineofdiscovery.org. Applicants must have...Indigenous Values Initiativehttps://indigenousvalues.org/2022-03-24T16:56:09.000Zhttps://indigenousvalues.org/the-healing-power-of-lacrosse-event/The Healing Power of Lacrosse // March 24th 7-8PM Haudenosaunee Nationals Lacrosse Women’s Team A conversation with Cassandra Minerd, Claudia Jimerson, Leo Nolan, and Rex Lyons. 8-9PM Haudenosaunee Nationals Lacrosse & Team Ireland Rex Lyons, and...Englanded Worldshttps://entangledworlds.utoronto.ca/2022-03-14T08:05:54.000Zhttps://entangledworlds.utoronto.ca/index.php/2022/03/14/opposed-or-allied-magisteria/Opposed or Allied Magisteria? : Theologies, Social Sciences, Natural Sciences Entangled Worlds: Sovereignty, Sanctities and Soil, Recipient of the Connaught Global Challenge Initiative, aims to address issues relating to new populisms, sanctity and...Indigenous Values Initiativehttps://indigenousvalues.org/2022-02-28T18:15:27.000Zhttps://indigenousvalues.org/revisiting-george-washingtons-assault-on-the-haudenosaunee-240-years-later-2/Transcript of Jake Edwards portion of the talk 1:34:35-closing. Thank you to Andrea L. Smith for the transcript. (Download as PDF)Englanded Worldshttps://entangledworlds.utoronto.ca/2022-01-22T11:47:46.000Zhttps://entangledworlds.utoronto.ca/index.php/2022/01/22/the-charismatic-gymnasium/InThe Charismatic Gymnasium, Maria José de Abreu examines how Charismatic Catholicism in contemporary Brazil produces a new form of total power through a concatenation of the breathing body, theology, and electronic mass media. De Abreu documents a...Englanded Worldshttps://entangledworlds.utoronto.ca/2022-01-22T10:56:20.000Zhttps://entangledworlds.utoronto.ca/index.php/2022/01/22/connecting-the-books-2022/The Privilege of Being Banal January 20th 2022, 12 – 2pm Register The Charismatic Gymnasium February 28th, 2022; 12 – 2pm Register The Connaught Global Challenge Initiative, Entangled Worlds: Sovereignty, Sanctities and Soil is pleased to present...Englanded Worldshttps://entangledworlds.utoronto.ca/2021-12-13T17:11:07.000Zhttps://entangledworlds.utoronto.ca/index.php/2021/12/13/sisterliness-and-coloniality/by Samuel Huard As an enterprise for which universality is a fundamental and continuous project, the Catholic Church has continuously expanded its presence across the world. Religious orders played – and still play – an active role in this...Englanded Worldshttps://entangledworlds.utoronto.ca/2021-12-13T16:49:50.000Zhttps://entangledworlds.utoronto.ca/index.php/2021/12/13/icon-and-fetish-at-the-intersection-of-imperial-economies/by Valeria Vergani On October 30th, 2020, the Holy Infrastructures Reading Group met to discuss the interplay of two theoretical essays framed around issues of economy, sovereignty, and sociality through the nexus of material religion. The first...Englanded Worldshttps://entangledworlds.utoronto.ca/2021-12-13T15:10:28.000Zhttps://entangledworlds.utoronto.ca/index.php/2021/12/13/soil-space-and-place-sacralizing-new-nationalisms-and-sense-of-belonging/by Valeria Vergani Munk School of Global Affairs and Public Policy, University of Toronto, September 19th & September 20th, 2019 This two-day workshop, titled “Soil, Space and Place: Sacralizing New Nationalisms and Sense of Belonging” brought...Englanded Worldshttps://entangledworlds.utoronto.ca/2021-12-13T14:32:36.000Zhttps://entangledworlds.utoronto.ca/index.php/2021/12/13/expressions-of-sacred-legitimacy-and-their-political-implications/by Sophia Jaworski Alumni Hall, Victoria College, University of Toronto, January 17th & 18th, 2019 The Connaught Initiative, Entangled Worlds: Sovereignty, Sanctities and Soil emerged from an ethnographic moment, an emplacement in Toronto’s...Culture on Edgehttps://edge.ua.edu/identity/2021-07-29T12:00:11.000Zhttps://edge.ua.edu/nota-bene/just-published-owning-the-secular-religious-symbols-culture-wars-western-fragility/Exciting news from Edge member Matt Sheedy: his new book Owning the Secular: Religious Symbols, Culture Wars, Western Fragility (Routledge, 2021) has just been published! From the Routledge site: Drawing on theories of discourse analysis and...Original Free Nationshttps://originalfreenations.com/2021-04-07T21:31:23.000Zhttps://originalfreenations.com/the-doctrine-of-christian-domination-the-apache-people-and-oak-flat/By Steven Newcomb (Shawnee/Lenape) The Apache Stronghold case, regarding the Apache Sacred Site (Chi’ Chil Bildagoteel) called “Oak Flat,” is now before the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals. The case has created global publicity, and a number of...Culture on Edgehttps://edge.ua.edu/identity/2021-03-16T12:00:42.000Zhttps://edge.ua.edu/andie-alexander/fabricating-genres/Recently, when I was searching books on Amazon, the site recommended Fabricating Identities — the 3rd volume in the Working with Culture on the Edge book series, edited by Vaia Touna — as a “book of interest” for me. When the Amazon page for the...Image Journalhttps://imagejournal.org/2021-02-24T18:55:24.000Zhttps://imagejournal.org/2021/02/24/chung-overstreet/Filmmaker Lee Isaac Chung and critic Jeffrey Overstreet in Conversation This conversation was recorded at the 2018 Glen Workshop where Lee Isaac Chung served as our screenwriting faculty. This winding discussion covers much of Chung’s filmography...Original Free Nationshttps://originalfreenations.com/2021-02-03T01:55:34.000Zhttps://originalfreenations.com/oak-flat-and-pope-alexander-vis-papal-decree-of-domination-in-u-s-law/Prior to the invasion of this continent by representatives of the monarchs of Western Christendom, the original nations and peoples of the continent, such as the Apache, were living their own free and independent way of life. The post Oak Flat and...Image Journalhttps://imagejournal.org/2020-12-13T17:41:27.000Zhttps://imagejournal.org/2020/12/13/untitled-poem-by-thomas-j-ogorman/Face to face with our limits, Blinking before the frightful Stare of our frailty, Promise rises Like a posse of clever maids Who do not fear the dark Because their readiness Lights the search. Their oil Becomes the measure of their love, Their...Original Free Nationshttps://originalfreenations.com/2020-12-11T07:07:34.000Zhttps://originalfreenations.com/the-oceti-sakowin-great-sioux-nation-territory/What “#LandBack” Leaves Out of Focus “A return to an earlier or normal condition” is one definition of the word “back.” In relation to land and Native nations or peoples, the word “back” is often expressed as, “they should give the land back to the...Image Journalhttps://imagejournal.org/2020-12-02T16:02:19.000Zhttps://imagejournal.org/2020/12/02/pinoy-belem-with-red-horse-wayne-forte/Pinoy Belem, 2013, Wayne Forte, Acrylic on linen, 36 x 24 inches The post Pinoy Belem with Red Horse, Wayne Forte appeared first on Image Journal.Culture on Edgehttps://edge.ua.edu/identity/2020-10-02T12:00:20.000Zhttps://edge.ua.edu/ellsworth/when-bread-is-not-bread/What exactly is “bread,” and who gets to decide? Seems like a rather silly question, right? But the Irish Supreme Court has ruled that the US sandwich food chain Subway does not make their sandwiches with bread — which might be rather strange for...Image Journalhttps://imagejournal.org/2020-09-01T17:32:47.000Zhttps://imagejournal.org/2020/09/01/i-love-you-tricia-but-im-not-a-believer/But by the time my father had lost his skunk-patterned hair and his fingernails yellowed, I had already found more trappings of eternity in poetry than in personified abstraction. It seemed to me that the only correct response was a slow-burning...Culture on Edgehttps://edge.ua.edu/identity/2020-08-27T12:00:35.000Zhttps://edge.ua.edu/russell-mccutcheon/hot-off-the-presses-hijacked/Just published: Hijacked: A Critical Treatment of the Public Rhetoric of Good and Bad Religion, edited by Leslie Dorrough Smith, Steffen Führding, and Adrian Hermann (Equinox, 2020). This volume is not only co-edited by our own Leslie Dorrough...Culture on Edgehttps://edge.ua.edu/identity/2020-08-26T12:00:46.000Zhttps://edge.ua.edu/nota-bene/talking-the-critical-study-of-non-religion-with-the-religious-studies-project/The Religious Studies Project recently interviewed our very own Christopher R. Cotter (who also happens to be one of the co-founders of the RSP) about his recently published The Critical Study of Non-Religion: Discourse, Identification, and...Culture on Edgehttps://edge.ua.edu/identity/2020-08-05T13:18:58.000Zhttps://edge.ua.edu/nota-bene/talking-identifying-roots-with-rendering-unconscious/Rendering Unconscious Podcast, run by Vanessa Sinclair and based in Stockholm, Sweden, recently interviewed our very own Richard Newton about his recently published Identifying Roots: Alex Haley and the Anthropology of Scriptures (Equinox, 2020)....Culture on Edgehttps://edge.ua.edu/identity/2020-07-30T13:00:24.000Zhttps://edge.ua.edu/leslie-dorrough-smith/but-can-he-dance-holy-books-hamilton-and-the-production-of-sacred-histories/(Confession: I’m a sucker for musicals [to the degree that I tinkered with the idea of a musical theater major in college]. Having traded my on-stage destiny for a series of religious studies degrees, however, I humbly offer a different sort of...Image Journalhttps://imagejournal.org/2020-07-08T21:03:38.000Zhttps://imagejournal.org/2020/07/08/the-corps-of-christ/Once upon a time I thought belonging just happened, was angry or ashamed when I couldn’t experience it. But togetherness happens with practice and intention. It takes everything: pain, grief, rage, as well as my good intentions. This is even more...Image Journalhttps://imagejournal.org/2020-06-18T17:17:37.000Zhttps://imagejournal.org/2020/06/18/the-spaces-in-between-in-quarantine/But quarantining inside two small rooms in a retirement village has more than the intended, necessary consequence. Quarantine is a muffler, it is a black-out shade. It is the space between a daughter and her father. The singular. The plural. The...Image Journalhttps://imagejournal.org/2020-06-02T15:33:35.000Zhttps://imagejournal.org/2020/06/02/the-breath-of-life-why-art-matters-in-a-pandemic/The post The Breath of Life: Why Art Matters in a Pandemic appeared first on Image Journal.Image Journalhttps://imagejournal.org/2020-05-12T20:22:37.000Zhttps://imagejournal.org/2020/05/12/epic-quiet-tragedy/And then I wonder: is this the quiet that dominates the life of all those people in hiding as well? The smallness, the excessive focus on detail, the mind going around in ever smaller circles? Will deeper thoughts and grand narratives only make...Image Journalhttps://imagejournal.org/2020-05-04T13:00:22.000Zhttps://imagejournal.org/2020/05/04/rebooting-myself/In these days of world pandemic caused by something that can’t be seen by the naked eye, I’m coming around to seeing this song as one of faith in our interconnectedness, our interconnectivity. The songs and drumming drifting down from balconies to...Image Journalhttps://imagejournal.org/2020-04-22T16:37:28.000Zhttps://imagejournal.org/2020/04/22/reading-together-recommendations-for-parents-and-children/Today I share some of our family’s favorites—stories that reflect the power of community, the value of resilience, and the possibilities of hope—all with enough depth to engage even the adults in your family. The post Reading Together:...Religion in American Historyhttps://usreligion.blogspot.com/2019-11-15T11:05:55.350Zhttps://usreligion.blogspot.com/feeds/7301451338631652946/comments/defaultA Doctoral Research Fellowship (SKO 1017) within Twentieth-Century American Studies/American History is available in the Department of Literature, Area Studies and European Languages (ILOS) at the University of Oslo (UiO).The candidate will...Religion in American Historyhttps://usreligion.blogspot.com/2019-08-26T14:21:50.583Zhttps://usreligion.blogspot.com/feeds/2798907508427302356/comments/defaultBy Natalie Gasparowicz Natalie is a 3rd-year PhD student in the History Department at Duke University. Her research interests rest at the intersection of Catholicism, gender, sexuality, surrounding questions of birth control and reproduction in...Religion in American Historyhttps://usreligion.blogspot.com/2019-08-01T19:22:24.181Zhttps://usreligion.blogspot.com/feeds/3542305413098878401/comments/defaultGrace Doerfler is a rising sophomore at the University of Notre Dame and a history major. She is interested in the role of women in the Catholic church & oral histories of women religious. On June 23, historians, archivists, and scholars from...Religion in American Historyhttps://usreligion.blogspot.com/2019-07-28T17:32:51.727Zhttps://usreligion.blogspot.com/feeds/1482988924703262313/comments/defaultLauren Turek The Institute for Religion, Culture and Public Life recently announced a new annual competition. The Claremont Prize for the Study of Religion is dedicated to the publication of first books by early career scholars working in any...Religion in American Historyhttps://usreligion.blogspot.com/2019-07-22T08:15:19.325Zhttps://usreligion.blogspot.com/feeds/7334469639701460256/comments/defaultWe welcome this guest post from Kimberly Hill, an assistant professor at the University of Texas at Dallas, whose forthcoming book on African American Presbyterian missionaries is under contract with the University Press of...Religion in American Historyhttps://usreligion.blogspot.com/2019-06-17T16:48:48.037Zhttps://usreligion.blogspot.com/feeds/6357077814574298606/comments/defaultI recently exchanged emails with Cassie Yacovazzi about her new book, Escaped Nuns: True Womanhood and the Campaign Against Convents in Antebellum America (Oxford, 2018). Cassie Yacovzzi is Assistant Professor of History at the University of South...Religion in American Historyhttps://usreligion.blogspot.com/2019-06-10T16:59:40.738Zhttps://usreligion.blogspot.com/feeds/2808191464594350532/comments/defaultI emailed with Katherine Dugan recently about her new book! Katherine Dugan is an Assistant Professor of Religion at Springfield College in Massachusetts and the author of Millennial Missionaries: How a Group of Young Catholics is Trying to Make...Religion in American Historyhttps://usreligion.blogspot.com/2019-05-10T16:02:53.553Zhttps://usreligion.blogspot.com/feeds/1619023733402516572/comments/defaultToday we welcome Tim Ballard to the blog! Tim Ballard is a historian of twentieth-century evangelicalism at the University of Montana and recently defended his dissertation “The Missionary Enterprise, Racial Conflict, and the Transformation of...Religion in American Historyhttps://usreligion.blogspot.com/2019-05-03T15:47:42.695Zhttps://usreligion.blogspot.com/feeds/5561216057794302481/comments/defaultOn a Chinook helicopter, Michael Herr, a war correspondent for Esquire, encountered a “religious” marine. The grunt, who had etched a cross onto his helmet cover, read the bible during take-off. The meeting prompted Herr to dwell on the dearth of...Religion in American Historyhttps://usreligion.blogspot.com/2019-04-19T00:32:04.017Zhttps://usreligion.blogspot.com/feeds/8169996560026751773/comments/defaultCall for Chapter Proposals: American Patroness: National Shrines to Mary and the Making of US Catholicism Editors: Karen Park, St. Norbert College and Katherine Dugan, Springfield College The virgin mother of Jesus has a mutable role in US...Englanded Worldshttps://entangledworlds.utoronto.ca/2019-03-14T04:50:21.000Zhttps://entangledworlds.utoronto.ca/index.php/2019/03/14/entangled-worlds-through-the-prism-of-the-relic-of-st-francis-xavier-in-toronto/by Connie Gagliardi St. Michael’s Cathedral, Toronto, 2018 A large flock of devotees, many of Philippine and Asian origins, gather together in celebration for the touring relics of one of the founders of the Jesuits, Francis Xavier. Over the course...Religion Race and Democracy Labhttps://religionlab.virginia.edu/2018-10-29T02:13:37.000Zhttps://religionlab.virginia.edu/hello-world/Welcome to WordPress. This is your first post. Edit or delete it, then start writing! The post Hello world! appeared first on UVA Religion Lab.Syndicate Networkhttps://syndicate.network/2016-01-13T19:08:33.000Zhttps://syndicate.network/kara-slade-syndicate-theologys-new-social-media-coordinator/Syndicate Theology is very excited to introduce its new social media coordinator, the Rev. Dr. Kara Slade. Kara is currently a PhD student in theology and ethics in the Graduate Program in Religion at Duke University. Ordained as a priest in the...Syndicate Networkhttps://syndicate.network/2015-12-23T07:36:34.000Zhttps://syndicate.network/encycling-one-feminist-theological-response/Usually a catastrophe has at least the capacity to shake folk into fast action and cooperation. This climate crisis approaches with a more treacherous temporality: it is too fast and too slow. Too fast to prevent irreversible destruction; too slow...Syndicate Networkhttps://syndicate.network/2015-01-12T06:15:26.000Zhttps://syndicate.network/contributor-login/Welcome to Syndicate Theology. We are very pleased to have you as a contributor to our site. In order to post follow up comments to your post or to other posts within your symposium, you will need to login and create a new post. This is a new...