2026-06-05T09:00:00.000ZMultiple Authorshttps://rs-rss.com/https://rs-rss.com/Religion Unpluggedhttps://religionunplugged.com/2026-06-05T09:00:00.000Zhttps://religionunplugged.com/news/2026/5/21/from-unfinished-icon-to-sacred-landmark-sagrada-famlia-enters-its-final-chapter(ANALYSIS) Once the cranes disappear, the basilica will cease from being an evolving construction project and instead become something more fixed — a monument subject to preservation battles, increased tourism pressures and the inevitable weight...Feminism and Religionhttps://feminismandreligion.com/2026-06-05T07:02:00.000Zhttps://feminismandreligion.com/2026/06/05/nature-and-the-body-were-never-the-enemy/Reflecting on the contradictions of modern life, this essay explores how both wilderness and female embodiment became culturally suspect within Western thought. Drawing on themes of estrangement, relational ontology and kinship, it considers how...Religion Unpluggedhttps://religionunplugged.com/2026-06-05T04:01:00.000Zhttps://religionunplugged.com/news/america-at-250-remember-the-women-and-faith-that-shaped-the-american-revolutionDuring the American Revolution, women like Abigail Adams asserted moral and spiritual authority despite lacking legal rights. Through religion, household leadership and revival movements, they shaped communities and laid groundwork for later...Religion News Servicehttps://religionnews.com/2026-06-04T23:07:02.000Zhttps://religionnews.com/2026/06/04/department-of-defense-drops-more-than-100-recognized-faith-groups/(RNS) — The new list includes 31 recognized faiths, most of them Christian denominations.Religion News Servicehttps://religionnews.com/2026-06-04T23:01:55.000Zhttps://religionnews.com/2026/06/04/the-status-quo-at-jerusalems-al-aqsa-mosque-is-deteriorating/(RNS) — The long-standing practice has been to preserve the site for Muslim worship and allow visitors of other faiths.Religion News Servicehttps://religionnews.com/2026-06-04T21:49:41.000Zhttps://religionnews.com/2026/06/04/pepper-sprayed-yet-undeterred-faith-leaders-keep-ministering-at-delaney-hall/(RNS) — ‘We are called by our faith to put our bodies on the line if that’s the call,’ said the Rev. Robin Tanner, a Unitarian Universalist minister.Religion News Servicehttps://religionnews.com/2026-06-04T20:11:26.000Zhttps://religionnews.com/2026/06/04/as-polyamory-gains-visibility-monogamy-faces-a-vote-in-the-presbyterian-church-usa/(RNS) — A separate proposal calls for a broader theological framework on human relationships.Religion News Servicehttps://religionnews.com/2026-06-04T19:28:50.000Zhttps://religionnews.com/2026/06/04/why-evangelicals-should-oppose-the-new-farm-bills-save-our-bacon-act/(RNS) — Evangelicals have largely forgotten past generations of evangelicals who not only fought against the slave trade and inhumane working conditions but also against animal cruelty.Religion Linkhttps://religionlink.com/2026-06-04T18:59:35.000Zhttps://religionlink.com/source-guides/lowkey-religious-highkey-spiritual-a-guide-to-gen-z-religion/Religion News Servicehttps://religionnews.com/2026-06-04T18:10:21.000Zhttps://religionnews.com/2026/06/04/powerful-iran-backed-militias-in-iraq-say-they-will-start-handing-in-weapons-to-authorities/IRBIL, Iraq (AP) — The war in the Middle East, which the United States and Israel launched on Feb. 28 with strikes on Iran, has exposed the fragility of Iraq’s state institutions and their limited ability to restrain Iran-backed groups.Religion News Servicehttps://religionnews.com/2026-06-04T18:08:47.000Zhttps://religionnews.com/2026/06/04/why-soccer-fandom-in-latin-america-feels-almost-sacred/MEXICO CITY (AP) — Among fans passion is nurtured through a sense of community. The singing of anthems, tears shed after victories or defeats, and the embrace of strangers inside a stadium are experiences that can mirror forms of collective devotion.Religion News Servicehttps://religionnews.com/2026-06-04T17:51:32.000Zhttps://religionnews.com/2026/06/04/draft-of-kings-letter-from-birmingham-jail-found-at-virginia-seminary-archives/ALEXANDRIA, Va. (RNS) — The version housed at Virginia Theological Seminary is not for sale, and archive staffers plan to seek the best ways to make its contents available for the public to view.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.Religion Unpluggedhttps://religionunplugged.com/2026-06-04T16:00:00.000Zhttps://religionunplugged.com/news/2026/6/4/want-to-live-longer-healthier-life-join-a-religious-groupPhysical health and religious practice can help you live longer. Research points to religious involvement being positively correlated with longer life spans. Frequent religious attendance is associated with an average reduction in mortality risk...Religion News Servicehttps://religionnews.com/2026-06-04T13:48:21.000Zhttps://religionnews.com/2026/06/04/the-leadership-development-group-library/The Leadership Development GroupPolitical Theologyhttps://politicaltheology.com/2026-06-04T13:00:00.000Zhttps://politicaltheology.com/in-which-spirituality-gets-a-makeover/This essay is part of the Discourses in Spirituality Round Robin. SourceReligion Unpluggedhttps://religionunplugged.com/2026-06-04T10:06:00.000Zhttps://religionunplugged.com/news/movie-review-speed-demon-is-religious-horror-deconstruction-slopA low-budget movie, cheesy horror that is literally just “The Exorcist” meets “Speed” and whose theology is as thin as a communion wafer. In theory, this can be an opportunity for an actually really fun campy horror experience. Unfortunately,...Good Faith Mediahttps://goodfaithmedia.org/2026-06-04T09:59:49.000Zhttps://goodfaithmedia.org/world-environment-day-is-a-call-to-action/One of the most pressing justice issues of our time is climate change. The post World Environment Day is a Call to Action appeared first on Good Faith Media.PaleoJudaiciahttps://paleojudaica.blogspot.com/2026-06-04T09:58:00.000Zhttp://paleojudaica.blogspot.com/2026/06/the-24-angelic-elders-in-coptic-magical.htmlGood Faith Mediahttps://goodfaithmedia.org/2026-06-04T09:54:03.000Zhttps://goodfaithmedia.org/a-church-lgbtq-pride-guide-10-dos-and-donts-at-festivals-and-parades-2/If your church is planning to support your local Pride parade or festival this year, here are a few things to keep in mind that may help your presence be good news to Pride-goers and a beautiful expression of your church’s ministry of love and...Good Faith Mediahttps://goodfaithmedia.org/2026-06-04T09:50:54.000Zhttps://goodfaithmedia.org/james-talarico-and-adults-in-the-room/If James Talarico has a superpower, it is from his experience as a middle school teacher. The post James Talarico and Adults in the Room appeared first on Good Faith Media.PaleoJudaiciahttps://paleojudaica.blogspot.com/2026-06-04T09:42:00.000Zhttp://paleojudaica.blogspot.com/2026/06/the-mythological-background-of.htmlPaleoJudaiciahttps://paleojudaica.blogspot.com/2026-06-04T09:23:00.000Zhttp://paleojudaica.blogspot.com/2026/06/review-of-bonura-prophecy-of-empire.htmlFeminism and Religionhttps://feminismandreligion.com/2026-06-04T07:05:00.000Zhttps://feminismandreligion.com/2026/06/04/witchcraft-as-spiritual-activism-by-freia-serafina-and-amie-ritchie/“Spiritual activism is spirituality for social change, spirituality that posits a relational worldview and uses this holistic worldview to transform one’s self and one’s worlds.” – AnaLouise Keating Spiritual activism offers vital pathways for...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...Religion Unpluggedhttps://religionunplugged.com/2026-06-04T04:01:00.000Zhttps://religionunplugged.com/news/gk-chesterton-and-the-joyful-subversion-of-faith(ANALYSIS) G.K. Chesterton blended humor and philosophy; he turned belief into something wondrous, culturally alive, and fiercely imaginative. The man made God fun. That sounds like a modest achievement until you consider how desperately the...Religion News Servicehttps://religionnews.com/2026-06-03T21:45:06.000Zhttps://religionnews.com/2026/06/03/beyond-tolerance-we-need-neighbors-not-just-permission/(RNS) — One of the misunderstandings of modern society is the idea that people of different faiths must eventually dilute their differences in order to live together peacefully.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.Religion Unpluggedhttps://religionunplugged.com/2026-06-03T16:00:00.000Zhttps://religionunplugged.com/news/catholic-leaders-embrace-pope-ai-stanceWho is AI for and who is it leaving behind? Those were the central questions of Pope Leo’s first encyclical “Magnifica Humanitas” (“Magnificent Humanity”). By addressing the challenge and comparing it to the Industrial Revolution, the pope...Good Faith Mediahttps://goodfaithmedia.org/2026-06-03T15:28:02.000Zhttps://goodfaithmedia.org/baptist-women-in-ministry-places-billboard-in-orlando-ahead-of-sbc-annual-meeting/Baptist Women in Ministry (BWIM) ensures women called to ministry are greeted at the annual meeting of the Southern Baptist Convention with a message of affirmation. The post Baptist Women in Ministry Places Billboard in Orlando Ahead of SBC Annual...Political Theologyhttps://politicaltheology.com/2026-06-03T13:00:00.000Zhttps://politicaltheology.com/born-again-queer-an-interview-with-william-stell/An interview with William Stell regarding his new book, Born Again Queer: A History of Evangelical Gay Activism and the Making of Antigay Christianity. SourceThe 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...Good Faith Mediahttps://goodfaithmedia.org/2026-06-03T09:59:04.000Zhttps://goodfaithmedia.org/by-the-way-moral-flexibility-at-first-baptist-church-dallas/Jeffress is not the first pastor of First Baptist in Dallas to equivocate on religious and political matters. The post By the Way | Moral Flexibility at First Baptist Church Dallas appeared first on Good Faith Media.Good Faith Mediahttps://goodfaithmedia.org/2026-06-03T09:54:06.000Zhttps://goodfaithmedia.org/pca-pastor-suspended-over-unwholesome-speech/The Rio Grande Presbytery of the Presbyterian Church in America (PCA) has reportedly suspended the Rev. Zachary Garris, a New Mexico pastor, over what it deemed “unwholesome speech.” The post PCA Pastor Suspended Over ‘Unwholesome Speech’ appeared...Good Faith Mediahttps://goodfaithmedia.org/2026-06-03T09:50:51.000Zhttps://goodfaithmedia.org/belief-behind-the-book-the-absence-of-light-radical-accountability-and-a-way-forward/What if the greatest threat to justice isn’t the people fighting against it, but the good people who looked away? The post Belief Behind the Book | ‘The Absence of Light: Radical Accountability and a Way Forward appeared first on Good Faith Media.PaleoJudaiciahttps://paleojudaica.blogspot.com/2026-06-03T09:44:00.000Zhttp://paleojudaica.blogspot.com/2026/06/taxation-and-evasion-in-roman-empire.htmlPaleoJudaiciahttps://paleojudaica.blogspot.com/2026-06-03T09:31:00.000Zhttp://paleojudaica.blogspot.com/2026/06/forthcoming-diodorus-siculus-volume.htmlFeminism and Religionhttps://feminismandreligion.com/2026-06-03T07:03:00.000Zhttps://feminismandreligion.com/2026/06/03/comrades-in-the-struggle-part-ii-by-xochitl-alvizo/This post follows Part I, which you can find here. My journey of “seeing” continued from undergrad, to my first job, and then into grad school. After eight years of satisfying and life-giving work at the family center in Los Angeles (where I...Religion Unpluggedhttps://religionunplugged.com/2026-06-03T06:00:00.000Zhttps://religionunplugged.com/news/2026/6/3/grassroots-push-to-designate-june-as-fidelity-month-expandsA grassroots movement to designate June as “Fidelity Month” is gaining support from faith leaders, public officials and advocates who say it promotes faithfulness to God, family, community and country, encouraging Americans to reclaim values...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...Religion Unpluggedhttps://religionunplugged.com/2026-06-03T04:01:00.000Zhttps://religionunplugged.com/news/what-working-on-a-farm-taught-students-who-embraced-physical-laborLand of Milk and Honey Farms in Deep Gap, North Carolina — nestled in a mountainous region called the High Country — has found a niche: Faith-based agritourism, offering visitors nature, serenity and even cuddle sessions with lambs. The farm’s...Religion Unpluggedhttps://religionunplugged.com/2026-06-02T23:00:00.000Zhttps://religionunplugged.com/news/how-african-churches-are-using-aiMatthew Peterson speaks with reporter Joseph Maina about how African AI developers are using their skills to in church services and how pastors view the rise of artificial intelligence.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.Political Theologyhttps://politicaltheology.com/2026-06-02T13:00:00.000Zhttps://politicaltheology.com/talking-to-god/We invited Winnifred Fallers Sullivan, the author of Making a King: The Political Theology of Joan of Arc, and a prominent scholar of religion, to reflect on the poet Jake Rose’s new book JOAN. Next week, we will run an essay by Rose reflecting on...The Conversationhttps://theconversation.com/us/ethics2026-06-02T12:27:17.000Zhttps://theconversation.com/why-mary-as-the-immaculate-conception-became-the-patron-saint-of-the-us-in-the-1840s-282115Mary, as the Immaculate Conception, became patroness of the United States before the Vatican officially defined that belief as dogma.The Conversationhttps://theconversation.com/us/ethics2026-06-02T12:26:33.000Zhttps://theconversation.com/who-are-hospital-ethics-consultants-and-why-should-you-care-277084Hospitals rely on ethics consultants to help navigate difficult decisions about life support, consent and a patient’s wishes when the path forward is unclear.PaleoJudaiciahttps://paleojudaica.blogspot.com/2026-06-02T10:11:05.000Zhttp://paleojudaica.blogspot.com/2026/06/review-series-on-vidas-rise-of-talmud.htmlGood Faith Mediahttps://goodfaithmedia.org/2026-06-02T09:59:56.000Zhttps://goodfaithmedia.org/the-devil-wears-prada-2-ai-and-becoming-human-again/AI does not replace what you know. It reveals whether you know anything at all. The post ‘The Devil Wears Prada 2,’ AI, and Becoming Human Again appeared first on Good Faith Media.Good Faith Mediahttps://goodfaithmedia.org/2026-06-02T09:54:37.000Zhttps://goodfaithmedia.org/squandering-our-gifts-amid-majestic-beauty/Are we squandering our gifts, diminishing, defacing and destroying Mother Earth, which provides all we need for sustained life? The post Squandering Our Gifts Amid Majestic Beauty appeared first on Good Faith Media.PaleoJudaiciahttps://paleojudaica.blogspot.com/2026-06-02T09:51:36.000Zhttp://paleojudaica.blogspot.com/2026/06/the-latest-on-that-british-museum.htmlPaleoJudaiciahttps://paleojudaica.blogspot.com/2026-06-02T09:31:48.000Zhttp://paleojudaica.blogspot.com/2026/06/was-moses-author-or-writer-of-torah.htmlGood Faith Mediahttps://goodfaithmedia.org/2026-06-02T09:00:19.000Zhttps://goodfaithmedia.org/the-devil-wears-prada-and-the-evangelical-illusion-of-an-unfiltered-faith/I find it comical that modern evangelical Christians think they’ve made theological choices that exempt them from the whole of Christian history and tradition. The post ‘The Devil Wears Prada’ and the Evangelical Illusion of an Unfiltered Faith...Religion Unpluggedhttps://religionunplugged.com/2026-06-02T09:00:00.000Zhttps://religionunplugged.com/news/chatbots-and-the-soul-has-ai-transformed-religion(ANALYSIS) It seemed inevitable that the first encyclical from the first American pope, the forward-looking and worldly-wise Leo XIV, would focus on the growing furor over artificial intelligence. The pope’s encyclical comes as the culmination...Feminism and Religionhttps://feminismandreligion.com/2026-06-02T07:03:00.000Zhttps://feminismandreligion.com/2026/06/02/poems-for-season-by-sara-wright/In late November I first snowshoed our woodland trails to include the little balsam that I lit to honor all evergreens throughout the winter months. Every day when my little dog and I circled the tree I told her I loved her and called her...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 DemocracyAncient Jew Reviewhttps://www.ancientjewreview.com/2026-06-01T13:11:04.000Zhttps://www.ancientjewreview.com/read/2026/6/1/the-rise-of-talmud-review-forumThe Rise of Talmud Review Forum with Sarit Kattan Gribetz, Maren Niehoff, Ishay Rosen-Zvi and response from Moulie Vidas.Ancient Jew Reviewhttps://www.ancientjewreview.com/2026-06-01T13:00:01.000Zhttps://www.ancientjewreview.com/read/2026/6/1/talmud-as-a-new-intellectual-projectThe Bavli might remain the most celebrated rabbinic work, but the Yerushalmi was the first of its kind. The Bavli, in a sense, becomes less unique through Moulie’s reading, and “the Talmud” is re-situated within its late antique Palestinian...The Conversationhttps://theconversation.com/us/ethics2026-06-01T12:26:08.000Zhttps://theconversation.com/for-2-centuries-latter-day-saints-have-revered-religious-freedom-but-their-definition-is-evolving-280782Latter-day Saints have long valued the US Constitution’s promise of religious freedom – but the church has also tested its boundaries.PaleoJudaiciahttps://paleojudaica.blogspot.com/2026-06-01T10:18:22.000Zhttp://paleojudaica.blogspot.com/2026/06/cursed-chorazin-produces-precious-gem.htmlPolitical Theologyhttps://politicaltheology.com/2026-06-01T10:00:00.000Zhttps://politicaltheology.com/hospitals-for-the-healthy/Jesus presents himself as a physician, and offers one of his most programmatic statements of ethics. The sick need a doctor, not the healthy. Why then does church seem designed for the already well? SourcePaleoJudaiciahttps://paleojudaica.blogspot.com/2026-06-01T09:37:01.000Zhttp://paleojudaica.blogspot.com/2026/06/reminder-byblos-eternal-city-paris.htmlFeminism and Religionhttps://feminismandreligion.com/2026-06-01T07:03:00.000Zhttps://feminismandreligion.com/2026/06/01/the-legacy-of-carol-p-christ-a-radical-conclusion-we-are-our-own-authorities/This was originally posted on August 11, 2014 Elisabeth Schussler Fiorenza articulated a widely held tenet of feminist theology when she stated that feminism places a question mark over all inherited texts and traditions. This means that feminists...Feminism and Religionhttps://feminismandreligion.com/2026-05-31T07:03:00.000Zhttps://feminismandreligion.com/2026/05/31/of-duct-tape-and-dementia-by-elizabeth-cunningham/I’ve climbed on a stool (which I swore I wouldn’t do again after having a bad fall while helping a friend paint a bathroom ceiling) and up onto the washing machine. A cabinet door just above has come unhinged (not unlike this author). I have...Du Mez CONNECTIONShttps://kristindumez.substack.com/2026-05-30T13:45:52.000Zhttps://kristindumez.substack.com/p/defining-evangelicalismA historiographical interludePolitical Theologyhttps://politicaltheology.com/2026-05-30T13:00:00.000Zhttps://politicaltheology.com/resistance-receptivity-and-religious-intermingling/This essay is part of a series on Neena Mahadev's Karma and Grace. SourceFeminism and Religionhttps://feminismandreligion.com/2026-05-30T07:03:00.000Zhttps://feminismandreligion.com/2026/05/30/brave-girls-bad-witches-age-agency-and-anxiety-in-c-s-lewiss-chronicles-of-narnia-by-elanur-williams/In the landscape of mid-twentieth-century children’s literature, C.S. Lewis’s The Chronicles of Narnia initially appears remarkably progressive. Long before modern fantasy embraced the trope of the fiercely independent heroine, Lewis gives us the...Sowing 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...Feminism and Religionhttps://feminismandreligion.com/2026-05-29T07:03:00.000Zhttps://feminismandreligion.com/2026/05/29/into-me-i-see-the-sacred-torch-of-feminine-heat-by-jsabel-bilqis/There’s that throbbing again! In the slit center of me. Spreading vehemently, devouring, insatiable, red like blood and warm like body. They say I’m Jezebel because I like it when she purrs. 𖦹 ‘Now you can get pregnant.’ I became a woman but all...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 videoAncient Jew Reviewhttps://www.ancientjewreview.com/2026-05-28T21:23:40.000Zhttps://www.ancientjewreview.com/read/2026/5/13/1ni1jna9iwb09mhqhzwhcdnyvfh4pbWorking with Manuscripts is a fundamentally practical companion, in both form and content.The Conversationhttps://theconversation.com/us/ethics2026-05-28T19:23:37.000Zhttps://theconversation.com/trump-administration-pledges-100m-in-aid-for-cuba-but-only-if-catholic-or-other-faith-based-groups-distribute-it-283451The timing of the offer was thorny because it coincided with the US indictment of former Cuban President Raúl Castro.Canopy 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...Political Theologyhttps://politicaltheology.com/2026-05-28T13:01:00.000Zhttps://politicaltheology.com/spirituality-politics-and-the-other/This essay is part of the Discourses in Spirituality Round Robin. SourceWhite 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.Feminism and Religionhttps://feminismandreligion.com/2026-05-28T07:03:00.000Zhttps://feminismandreligion.com/2026/05/28/creative-resistance-minnesota-style-part-ii-by-beth-bartlett/Part 1 was posted yesterday The Minnesota resistance went far beyond Gene Sharp’s catalog of techniques. Minnesotans kept their resistance up through creativity, celebration, fun, and humor in those dark, cold days. On a cold, clear January...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...Arc: Religion, Politics, Et Ceterahttps://arcmag.org/2026-05-27T15:29:58.000Zhttps://arcmag.org/tikkun-olam-one-prompt-at-a-time/A Jewish vision for AI rejects grand promises in favor of small steps toward a better world The post Tikkun Olam, One Prompt at a Time first appeared on ARC: Religion, Politics, Et Cetera.Religion and Politicshttps://religionandpolitics.org/2026-05-27T15:29:58.000Zhttps://arcmag.org/tikkun-olam-one-prompt-at-a-time/A Jewish vision for AI rejects grand promises in favor of small steps toward a better world The post Tikkun Olam, One Prompt at a Time first appeared on ARC: Religion, Politics, Et Cetera.Feminism and Religionhttps://feminismandreligion.com/2026-05-27T14:06:00.000Zhttps://feminismandreligion.com/2026/05/27/creative-resistance-minnesota-style-part-i-by-beth-bartlett/Mulford would have been proud. Mulford Q. Sibley was Professor of Political Science at the University of Minnesota. He was also my PhD advisor and dear friend. A nationally known scholar of political thought, his particular interest and focus was...Political Theologyhttps://politicaltheology.com/2026-05-27T13:15:00.000Zhttps://politicaltheology.com/political-theologies-of-populism/Scholar, activist, and minister Colin Bossen discusses his new book with Michael McLaughlin, shining light on how inclusive visions of populism can draw on religion to deepen democracy SourceThe Conversationhttps://theconversation.com/us/ethics2026-05-27T12:33:50.000Zhttps://theconversation.com/debate-me-doesnt-work-here-are-better-ways-to-disagree-and-maybe-change-minds-280403Other communication techniques can help move disagreement past attacks and sound bites.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...Ancient Jew Reviewhttps://www.ancientjewreview.com/2026-05-27T05:03:54.000Zhttps://www.ancientjewreview.com/read/2026/5/26/working-with-manuscripts-a-guide-for-textual-scholars“Throughout, the book keeps in focus the materiality of manuscripts and the embodied aspects of the craft of manuscript research. Although subtitled “A Guide for Textual Scholars,” this volume insists that we can neither sever ancient text from...The Conversationhttps://theconversation.com/us/ethics2026-05-26T13:24:00.000Zhttps://theconversation.com/pope-leo-xiv-compares-ai-to-the-industrial-revolution-as-new-alternatives-to-big-ai-firms-take-shape-283249Leo XIV released his first encyclical on the 135th anniversary of Rerum Novarum, the 1891 papal document on the upheavals of the Industrial Revolution.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.The Conversationhttps://theconversation.com/us/ethics2026-05-25T12:31:16.000Zhttps://theconversation.com/beyond-disney-a-1616-portrait-of-pocahontas-shows-how-english-colonizers-saw-indigenous-americans-282221The English assumed people they colonized would convert to their way of life, including Protestant Christianity – an assumption reflected in Pocahontas’ portrait.The Conversationhttps://theconversation.com/us/ethics2026-05-25T12:30:13.000Zhttps://theconversation.com/the-sacred-cloth-at-the-center-of-the-hajj-pilgrimage-281995As millions gather for Hajj, they will circle the Kaaba, which is draped in the black cloth known as the kiswah – a sacred object shaped by centuries of faith, politics and power.Political Theologyhttps://politicaltheology.com/2026-05-25T10:00:00.000Zhttps://politicaltheology.com/the-politics-of-human-dignity/For someone who grew up being told they barely count as human, the idea that God is specifically mindful of them is not a moment of little surprise. It is a life-changing claim. SourcePolitical Theologyhttps://politicaltheology.com/2026-05-24T13:00:00.000Zhttps://politicaltheology.com/remembering-jurgen-habermas-1929-2026/We invited scholars of politics, philosophy, and theology to help us critically remember Habermas SourcePolitical Theologyhttps://politicaltheology.com/2026-05-23T13:00:00.000Zhttps://politicaltheology.com/religious-indifference-and-agonism/This essay is part of a book series on Neena Mahadev's Karma and Grace. SourceStudying 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 conflictArc: Religion, Politics, Et Ceterahttps://arcmag.org/2026-05-21T13:02:00.000Zhttps://arcmag.org/how-purity-culture-became-white/An interview with Sara Moslener, author of "After Purity" The post How Purity Culture Became White first appeared on ARC: Religion, Politics, Et Cetera.Religion and Politicshttps://religionandpolitics.org/2026-05-21T13:02:00.000Zhttps://arcmag.org/how-purity-culture-became-white/An interview with Sara Moslener, author of "After Purity" The post How Purity Culture Became White first appeared on ARC: Religion, Politics, Et Cetera.Contending 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?The Conversationhttps://theconversation.com/us/ethics2026-05-19T22:20:49.000Zhttps://theconversation.com/what-jefferson-and-madison-would-have-thought-about-rededicating-the-us-to-god-283311The ‘Rededicate 250’ rally raised questions about separation of church and state. Jefferson and Madison’s many letters to each other shed light on that much-debated principle.Arc: Religion, Politics, Et Ceterahttps://arcmag.org/2026-05-19T21:41:50.000Zhttps://arcmag.org/preacher-man/Mordecai Kaplan, founder of Reconstructionist Judaism, took his sermons very, very seriously The post Preacher Man first appeared on ARC: Religion, Politics, Et Cetera.Religion and Politicshttps://religionandpolitics.org/2026-05-19T21:41:50.000Zhttps://arcmag.org/preacher-man/Mordecai Kaplan, founder of Reconstructionist Judaism, took his sermons very, very seriously The post Preacher Man first appeared on ARC: Religion, Politics, Et Cetera.The Conversationhttps://theconversation.com/us/ethics2026-05-19T18:30:34.000Zhttps://theconversation.com/san-diego-mosque-shooting-reflects-how-online-rhetoric-media-depictions-and-political-discourse-contribute-to-increased-islamophobia-283267Negative portrayals of Muslims are not without consequence – they lead to increased discrimination, hate crimes and psychological harm, writes a scholar of Islamophobia.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...Ancient Jew Reviewhttps://www.ancientjewreview.com/2026-05-18T11:47:19.000Zhttps://www.ancientjewreview.com/read/2026/5/13/a-memory-of-violence-sixth-century-culture-making-in-a-heretical-empireIn her groundbreaking 2004 book Martyrdom and Memory: Early Christian Culture Making, Elizabeth Castelli memorably shifted our gaze from the martyrs’ torn bodies to their hagiographers, requiring us to consider how these narrators shaped their...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...Arc: Religion, Politics, Et Ceterahttps://arcmag.org/2026-05-14T23:20:20.000Zhttps://arcmag.org/what-holds-america-together/On the eve of America’s 250th, Rabbi Jonathan Sacks’s covenantal politics offer a language for renewing civic life in a time of grievance and fracture The post What Holds America Together? first appeared on ARC: Religion, Politics, Et Cetera.Religion and Politicshttps://religionandpolitics.org/2026-05-14T23:20:20.000Zhttps://arcmag.org/what-holds-america-together/On the eve of America’s 250th, Rabbi Jonathan Sacks’s covenantal politics offer a language for renewing civic life in a time of grievance and fracture The post What Holds America Together? first appeared on ARC: Religion, Politics, Et Cetera.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...Canopy Forumhttps://canopyforum.org/2026-05-13T20:03:09.000Zhttps://canopyforum.org/2026/05/13/the-legal-foundations-of-religious-freedom-human-rights-in-the-united-states-and-europe/The Legal Foundations of Religious Freedom: Human Rights in the United States and EuropeJohn Witte Jr. and Andrea Pin Material excerpted from The Legal Foundations of Religious Freedom: Human Rights in the United States and Europe by John Witte Jr....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.Ancient Jew Reviewhttps://www.ancientjewreview.com/2026-05-13T18:13:50.000Zhttps://www.ancientjewreview.com/read/2026/5/13/memory-and-martyrdom-a-forum-honoring-the-work-of-elizabeth-castelliAt the 2025 Annual Meeting of the Society of Biblical Literature, the Inventing Christianity Unit sponsored a panel honoring the work of Elizabeth Castelli, highlighting her landmark 2004 book, Martyrdom and Memory.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.Ancient Jew Reviewhttps://www.ancientjewreview.com/2026-05-13T16:52:47.000Zhttps://www.ancientjewreview.com/read/2026/4/12/on-being-read-reflections-on-martyrdom-and-memoryIn responding to these papers, I have not followed the order in which they appeared on the program, but I have rearranged them in order to try to highlight and feature their contributions to our broader discussion about martyrdom in early, late...Ancient Jew Reviewhttps://www.ancientjewreview.com/2026-05-13T15:51:09.000Zhttps://www.ancientjewreview.com/read/2026/4/12/do-martyrs-matter-in-martyrdomDo martyrs matter in martyrdom? This may seem like a question with an obvious answer. How could they not? Surely martyrdom is all about the martyrs, and without martyrs, there would be no martyrdom?Ancient Jew Reviewhttps://www.ancientjewreview.com/2026-05-13T15:48:46.000Zhttps://www.ancientjewreview.com/read/2026/2/2/reconceptualizing-martyrdom-in-late-antiquity-a-martyrial-lens-and-living-martyrsImage 1. An ivory plaques with scenes from the Acts of the Apostles Rome; c. 430 CE; Each panel= 4.3 x 9.8cm.; Source: The British Museum, inventory no. 1856,0623.8-12, from the Maskell...Arc: Religion, Politics, Et Ceterahttps://arcmag.org/2026-05-13T12:11:28.000Zhttps://arcmag.org/my-dying-valentine/A Swiss painting from a century ago helps us reflect on love over time The post My Dying Valentine first appeared on ARC: Religion, Politics, Et Cetera.Religion and Politicshttps://religionandpolitics.org/2026-05-13T12:11:28.000Zhttps://arcmag.org/my-dying-valentine/A Swiss painting from a century ago helps us reflect on love over time The post My Dying Valentine first appeared on ARC: Religion, Politics, Et Cetera.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...Canopy Forumhttps://canopyforum.org/2026-05-07T22:24:17.000Zhttps://canopyforum.org/2026/05/07/freedom-of-religion-and-belief-in-afghanistan/Intercultural Conference. Photo by provided by author. The following essay is reprinted and adapted on Canopy Forum in collaboration with the journal Derecho en Sociedad, a biannual electronic publication that is free and open access. Their...Arc: Religion, Politics, Et Ceterahttps://arcmag.org/2026-05-07T16:08:23.000Zhttps://arcmag.org/unorthodox-religion-on-trial-in-konigsberg/Christopher Clark's new book follows a scandal in nineteenth-century Prussia The post Unorthodox Religion, on Trial in Königsberg first appeared on ARC: Religion, Politics, Et Cetera.Religion and Politicshttps://religionandpolitics.org/2026-05-07T16:08:23.000Zhttps://arcmag.org/unorthodox-religion-on-trial-in-konigsberg/Christopher Clark's new book follows a scandal in nineteenth-century Prussia The post Unorthodox Religion, on Trial in Königsberg first appeared on ARC: Religion, Politics, Et Cetera.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.Arc: Religion, Politics, Et Ceterahttps://arcmag.org/2026-05-05T15:02:33.000Zhttps://arcmag.org/a-gubernatorial-mission-from-god/Californian pastor Ché Ahn is bringing evangelical Christianity to the governor’s race The post A Gubernatorial Mission from God first appeared on ARC: Religion, Politics, Et Cetera.Religion and Politicshttps://religionandpolitics.org/2026-05-05T15:02:33.000Zhttps://arcmag.org/a-gubernatorial-mission-from-god/Californian pastor Ché Ahn is bringing evangelical Christianity to the governor’s race The post A Gubernatorial Mission from God first appeared on ARC: Religion, Politics, Et Cetera.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.Canopy Forumhttps://canopyforum.org/2026-04-30T21:15:37.000Zhttps://canopyforum.org/2026/04/30/the-dangerous-religious-framing-of-the-war-with-iran/Pete Hegseth’s confirmation as Secretary of Defense (US-PD). On February 27, 2026, President Donald Trump launched Operation “Epic Fury.” Within a day, the United States had killed Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, 170 people at the...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...Canopy Forumhttps://canopyforum.org/2026-04-29T19:02:29.000Zhttps://canopyforum.org/2026/04/29/theater-of-heteropatriarchy-black-sexuality-in-legal-discourse/Oxford MS Pride parade. Photo by Author. On the evening of her birthday in July 2022, Stephanie Lee called the Oxford, Mississippi Police Department to request a wellness check. Her child, Jimmie “Jay” Lee, a 20-year-old public policy student at...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 13-14Cultural Studies Blogspothttps://cultstud.blogspot.com/2026-04-29T06:06:00.000Zhttps://cultstud.blogspot.com/2026/04/coming-in-gym-with-arnold.htmlIn the 1977 documentary, Pumping Iron, Arnold Schwarzenegger famously said that the pump provided by a good workout was a feeling as good as orgasm. We may find this kind of claim odd or problematic, especially if our thinking is dominated by...Arc: Religion, Politics, Et Ceterahttps://arcmag.org/2026-04-28T15:43:37.000Zhttps://arcmag.org/being-secular-in-trumps-america/Secular Americans have never been more numerous or less stigmatized. They have also never had more reason to worry. The post Being Secular in Trump’s America first appeared on ARC: Religion, Politics, Et Cetera.Religion and Politicshttps://religionandpolitics.org/2026-04-28T15:43:37.000Zhttps://arcmag.org/being-secular-in-trumps-america/Secular Americans have never been more numerous or less stigmatized. They have also never had more reason to worry. The post Being Secular in Trump’s America first appeared on ARC: Religion, Politics, Et Cetera.White 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...Du Mez CONNECTIONShttps://kristindumez.substack.com/2026-04-27T18:03:15.000Zhttps://kristindumez.substack.com/p/backslideAn unflinching look at Christianity in AmericaSowing 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.White Too Longhttps://www.whitetoolong.net/2026-04-26T19:05:45.000Zhttps://www.redeemingdemocracy.net/p/announcing-kristin-du-mezs-live-laughA perfect reading companion to BACKSLIDE.Canopy Forumhttps://canopyforum.org/2026-04-25T19:43:29.000Zhttps://canopyforum.org/2026/04/25/what-kind-of-concept-is-human-dignity-hybridity-conceptual-complexity-and-adjudicative-navigation/Vue de Dimanche by BenFo (CC0 1.0). This article is part of our Book Review Roundtable on Andrea Pin’s book, Dignity in Judgement: Constitutional Adjudication in Comparative Perspective (2025).If you’d like to check out other reviews in this...Du Mez CONNECTIONShttps://kristindumez.substack.com/2026-04-24T22:46:42.000Zhttps://kristindumez.substack.com/p/trump-vs-iran-jesus-the-pope-andWhat a time to be aliveSowing the Seedhttps://sowingtheseed.org/2026-04-24T16:03:39.000Zhttps://sowingtheseed.org/2026/04/24/teaching-the-bible-in-the-age-of-ai-pedagogy-assessment-and-imagination/Checking out Berkeley before an SBL and Wabash workshop on AI and biblical studies. It’s nice to be back in Cali for a bit.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.Sowing the Seedhttps://sowingtheseed.org/2026-04-22T10:31:13.000Zhttps://sowingtheseed.org/2026/04/22/just-uploaded-dr-hannah-jung-on-broadcast-seeding-and-off-script/Now up on Broadcast Seeding, “‘The Law of the Land’: The Hermeneutics of Continued Mormon Polygamy after 1890” with Dr. Hannah Jung (Unviersity of Alabama). Jung recently presented at Off-Script: Conversations on Scriptures, Scholarship, and Our...White Too Longhttps://www.whitetoolong.net/2026-04-21T13:32:04.000Zhttps://www.redeemingdemocracy.net/p/officially-announcing-my-new-bookA call to reclaim a faith and a nation after the Christian turn against democracy.Barth Noteshttps://barthsnotes.com/2026-04-21T06:50:33.000Zhttps://barthsnotes.com/2026/04/21/a-note-on-robert-jenricks-paedo-rhetoric/From Reform UK’s Robert Jenrick, on Twitter/X: We’re told Starmer is “furious”. Well only because he’s trying to save his own skin again over paedo pal, Peter Mandelson… The lack of any article or pronoun before “paedo pal” (“his” or “the”) creates...Cultural Studies Blogspothttps://cultstud.blogspot.com/2026-04-21T05:49:00.000Zhttps://cultstud.blogspot.com/2026/04/somaesthetics-as-style-differences.htmlI am going to pose a question that may to some seem niche or nerdy, but whose answer has implications for how we study physical practices. The question is this: What does it mean to be doing one martial art as opposed to another?In one way, this is...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...White Too Longhttps://www.whitetoolong.net/2026-04-19T18:52:10.000Zhttps://www.redeemingdemocracy.net/p/apostasy-and-blasphemy-episode-5Hi, Redeeming Democracy readers,ReligionProfhttps://www.patheos.com/blogs/religionprof/2026-04-19T11:43:45.000Zhttps://www.patheos.com/blogs/religionprof/2026/04/does-ai-write-better-than-students.htmlDoes AI write better than students? I have been pondering that question from a number of angles over recent days. Here’s why. AI, Writing, and Education Butler University president Jim Danko recently published an opinion piece. Titled “The...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.Cultural Studies Blogspothttps://cultstud.blogspot.com/2026-04-17T15:20:20.000Zhttps://cultstud.blogspot.com/2026/04/exercising-corpo-realities.htmlI am delighted to announce that a stream proposal I put in for the Society for the Study of Affect Conference in October 2026 has been accepted.A ‘stream’ is a series of panels. This means, there will be 2-4 panels of 3 people per panel that are...White Too Longhttps://www.whitetoolong.net/2026-04-17T12:48:45.000Zhttps://www.redeemingdemocracy.net/p/how-trumps-fight-with-pope-leo-xivReminder: Catholics are NOT white evangelicals.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...ReligionProfhttps://www.patheos.com/blogs/religionprof/2026-04-06T18:54:28.000Zhttps://www.patheos.com/blogs/religionprof/2026/04/unscriptural-doctrines-of-scripture.htmlUnscriptural doctrines of scripture are a problem in a variety of ways. Some contradict key biblical teachings. Some are incompatible with the evidence the Bible presents about itself. Some are unscriptural doctrines of scripture in both these...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...ReligionProfhttps://www.patheos.com/blogs/religionprof/2026-04-04T14:36:27.000Zhttps://www.patheos.com/blogs/religionprof/2026/04/reviews-of-beyond-deconstruction-and-an-easter-excerpt.htmlThere are several new reviews of Beyond Deconstruction as well as several new podcasts. I will share those below. But first, here’s a brief excerpt from the book (pp.17-19, going just a bit further than the Google Books preview does) that is...Barth Noteshttps://barthsnotes.com/2026-04-03T18:48:50.000Zhttps://barthsnotes.com/2026/04/03/the-kings-non-speech-populist-resentment-and-loathing-at-easter/An X post from Reform UK Deputy Leader Richard Tice: After his nice messages at Eid and Ramadan, we look forward to a warm Easter message from King Charles III in his role as Defender of the Faith of the Church of England Tice, of course, is here...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 MemoirContending Modernitieshttps://contendingmodernities.nd.edu/2026-03-31T14:44:50.000Zhttps://contendingmodernities.nd.edu/theorizing-modernities/kinds-and-contents-of-hope/Letting differences in content generate a more differentiated account of kinds of hope might bring us closer to Derrida’s desired future of radical democracy and justice. The post Kinds and Contents of Hope appeared first on Contending Modernities.Religion 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.Contending Modernitieshttps://contendingmodernities.nd.edu/2026-03-27T14:38:14.000Zhttps://contendingmodernities.nd.edu/theorizing-modernities/remember-what-amalek-did/The weaponization of religious narratives is a powerful force in shaping perceptions and stimulating political solidarities. But so is a brief humanizing encounter as a bridge to empathy. The post “Remember What Amalek Did to You”: The...ReligionProfhttps://www.patheos.com/blogs/religionprof/2026-03-27T14:08:57.000Zhttps://www.patheos.com/blogs/religionprof/2026/03/nerd-faith.htmlIn her absolutely wonderful book Nerd Faith: 60 Second Sprints of Spiritual Guidance for the Occasionally Uncool, “The Nerdy Priest” offers a devotional for Christian nerds of every variety. The volume isn’t just for fans of science fiction and/or...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.Contending Modernitieshttps://contendingmodernities.nd.edu/2026-03-26T14:54:27.000Zhttps://contendingmodernities.nd.edu/global-currents/kharg-orphan-pearl/Kharg still holds histories waiting to be uncovered—spectral traces that have shaped the island through mourning and devotion, where land and sea were not merely resources but sites of sacred belonging. The post Kharg, the Orphan Pearl: War,...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...Barth Noteshttps://barthsnotes.com/2026-03-25T09:26:41.000Zhttps://barthsnotes.com/2026/03/25/mattgpt-reform-uks-matt-goodwin-under-pressure-over-fake-quotes-and-misinterpretations/Last August, I noticed how Reform ideologue Matt Goodwin has a tendency to present banal but arguable maxims as quotes attributed by him to scholars and Classical figures ranging from Pericles and Cicero to the late Sir Robert Scruton, but that...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 PodcastBarth Noteshttps://barthsnotes.com/2026-03-20T10:43:15.000Zhttps://barthsnotes.com/2026/03/20/nigel-farage-apes-nick-timothy-in-attack-on-muslims/From the Guardian: [Nigel Farage] described as “a wake up call and a warning to everybody” an event in Trafalgar Square earlier this week where hundreds of Muslims and people of other faiths prayed together, before the celebration of Eid. He said...The 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...The Commons by APRIL Onlinehttps://www.aprilonline.org/the-commons/2026-03-13T16:03:02.000Zhttps://www.aprilonline.org/two-versions-of-religious-community-one-battle-after-another/Add excerpt here. The post Two Versions of Religious Community: One Battle After Another appeared first on April Online.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.Ken Chitwoodhttps://www.kenchitwood.com/2026-03-04T14:04:32.000Zhttp://www.kenchitwood.com/blog/2026/3/4/persian-wine-made-with-swedish-spiritWhen the Islamic Revolution swept Iran in 1979, Shahram Soltani’s family was told to stop making wine.For decades, winemakers like the Soltanis enjoyed the support of the Pahlavi monarchy and its head of government Mohammad Reza Pahlavi, who wanted...Barth Noteshttps://barthsnotes.com/2026-03-04T10:01:27.000Zhttps://barthsnotes.com/2026/03/04/snopes-notes-richard-tice-spreading-false-claim-about-minab-school-bombing/Snopes discusses claims that the destruction of a girl’s school in Minab in Iran resulting in great loss of life was due to a misfired Iranian missle rather than the US-Israel bombardment, and that Iran had supposedly admitted as much (urls in...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.ReligionProfhttps://www.patheos.com/blogs/religionprof/2026-02-27T17:16:49.000Zhttps://www.patheos.com/blogs/religionprof/2026/02/john-the-baptist-was-once-more-famous-than-jesus.htmlCandida Moss has a new article out in National Geographic titled “Why John the Baptist Was Once More Famous Than Jesus.” She quotes me in the article, and since I answered some brief questions with very long answers as she was writing it, most of...Ken Chitwoodhttps://www.kenchitwood.com/2026-02-27T11:30:13.000Zhttp://www.kenchitwood.com/blog/2026/2/27/rinse-repeat-ramadanImage courtesy of Mostafameraji, CC BY 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons/Patheos. Every year for the last several years, sometime between the last gray days of winter and the first real hints...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...ReligionProfhttps://www.patheos.com/blogs/religionprof/2026-02-25T18:10:37.000Zhttps://www.patheos.com/blogs/religionprof/2026/02/the-wonderful-wizarding-world-of-artificial-intelligence.htmlAI can seem like magic. I have used the analogy of “showing how the magic trick is done” to refer to what I try to do when I explain the technology. Once you understand the magic trick, it will no longer seem like magic ever again. You can still...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,...The Domination Chronicleshttps://stevennewcomb.substack.com/2026-02-13T14:05:42.000Zhttps://stevennewcomb.substack.com/p/limited-time-offer-join-for-justThank You to all paid Making This PossibleReligion 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. –...ReligionProfhttps://www.patheos.com/blogs/religionprof/2026-02-09T19:59:57.000Zhttps://www.patheos.com/blogs/religionprof/2026/02/make-great-christianity-again.htmlThe title of this post does indeed have the words in the right order – I intentionally wrote “Make great Christianity again.” I’ll explain what I mean by that, but let’s start with what that phrase is echoing and why I’ve changed it as I have....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...Sowing the Seedhttps://sowingtheseed.org/2026-01-29T14:36:57.000Zhttps://sowingtheseed.org/2026/01/29/the-information-drop-in-religious-studies-programs/Are you coming to the REL Strategy Group tomorrow? Friday at Noon Central, Dr. Leslie Dorrough Smith of Avila University compares the state of the field from the view of HigherEd administation and the professorate. Join other program leaders to...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/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...Popular Culture And Theologyhttps://popularcultureandtheology.com/2025-12-22T21:25:17.000Zhttps://popularcultureandtheology.com/2025/12/22/share-your-experience-with-religion-and-works-of-fantasy-lord-of-the-rings-harry-potter/Researchers at the University of Maine and Kingswood University are conducting a brief survey to understand Christians’ experiences with religion and works of fantasy. If you are 18 or older, grew up Christian, and were ever told by an authority...Popular Culture And Theologyhttps://popularcultureandtheology.com/2025-12-22T21:19:01.000Zhttps://popularcultureandtheology.com/2025/12/22/overshadowed-re-examining-consent-in-divine-virgin-birth-narratives-from-luke-to-xena/By Princess O’Nika Auguste The Christmas season centres the story of the Virgin Mary, a narrative of divine mystery and grace. Yet when we examine this sacred trope across scripture and popular culture, a troubling and consistent question emerges:...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...Popular Culture And Theologyhttps://popularcultureandtheology.com/2025-11-01T00:35:29.000Zhttps://popularcultureandtheology.com/2025/10/31/extended-call-for-papers-religion-and-peak-tv/Extended Call for Papers: Religion and Peak TV Volume Editor: George Tsakiridis, PhD Abstract and CV Due: November 30, 2025 Initial Final Paper Due: June 30, 2026 Around the late 1990s/early 2000s a revolution in television began to take place,...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.The Immanent Framehttps://tif.ssrc.org/2025-10-12T04:59:00.000Zhttps://tif.ssrc.org/2025/10/12/introduction-experiments-in-collaborative-thought/If there’s one thing scholars of religion can agree on, it’s this: There is no consensus about what constitutes the […] The post Introduction: Experiments in collaborative thought 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...affecognitivehttps://affecognitive.wordpress.com/2024-11-10T14:57:00.000Zhttps://affecognitive.wordpress.com/2024/11/10/what-is-critique-today-reflections-from-the-2024-society-for-the-study-of-affect-conference-pits/Before the arc of injustice settled resolutely over the US last week, I attended the SSA’s 2024 conference in Lancaster, …Continue reading →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...