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PRRIRepublicans Still Have a Long Way To Go To Gain Widespread Hispanic Support
Over the past two election cycles, Hispanic voters have been one of the most important voting blocs, with both Republicans and Democrats attempting to win over this constituency. This once reliably-Democratic demographic has seen Republicans make...
State of FormationMoved 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...
State of FormationThe Willow Tree
My interfaith evolution is a lot like the magnificent willow tree: flowing, flexible, and adaptable. I was around eight years old when I began to grasp the concept of organized religion. The momentous occasion took place in a synagogue in Miami,...
Feminists Studies in ReligionThe Beauty of Liberation: Decolonization as Talking in Poetry
By Oluwatomisin “Tomi” Oredein. “It is a form of struggle and survival, an epistemic existence-based response and practice—most especially by colonial and racialized subjects—against the colonial matrix of power in all of its dimensions, and for...
Original Free NationsRevoke the Papal Bulls
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...
NAASR2023 NAASR Annual Meeting
2023 NAASR Annual Meeting Program Exploring the “Ecologies” of Scholarship in the Study of Religion #naasr2023 ONLINE (PRE-CONFERENCE) Program Saturday, November 11, 2023 (via Zoom link) Register for the online (pre-conference) program here. MEET...
Original Free NationsThe Doctrine Of Discovery: Unmasking The Domination Code
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...
PRRIWho Are “Pro-Choice” Republicans and “Pro-Life” Democrats and How Do They Differ From All Republicans and Democrats?
The U.S. Supreme Court’s opinion in Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization — which overturned the 1973 landmark decision Roe v. Wade — still looms months after its June 2022 announcement. Abortion is generally seen as a partisan issue, as...
State of FormationEmbodying the Dominican Spirit in Interfaith Work: 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 FormationThe Art of Dialogue as 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 FormationBridging 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...
Original Free NationsPagans in the Promised Land Book
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 AotearoaColonial Power, Mana Wāhine and the Doctrine of Christian Discovery
Published December 26, 2022
Te Ture Tāhae Whenua - The Doctrine of Discovery in AotearoaSublimis Deus, Pastorale Officium and Non Indecens Videtur – A Historical Dive Into the Vatican’s Failure to Rescind the Doctrine of Discovery
Published October 24, 2022 at https://doctrineofdiscovery.org/blog/papal-bulls/sublimis-deus-pastorale-officium-indecensvidetur/
Te Ture Tāhae Whenua - The Doctrine of Discovery in AotearoaStone In My Shoe – The Poem
Published September 24, 2022
Te Ture Tāhae Whenua - The Doctrine of Discovery in AotearoaJames Cook and the Doctrine of Discovery - 5 Things to Know
The 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 AotearoaSetting the Scene for Peace Action – Excerpt from Struggles for a Decolonised and Demilitarised Oceania and East Asia
Published September 14, 2022
Te Ture Tāhae Whenua - The Doctrine of Discovery in AotearoaExploring the Reconciliation Lie
Published May 21, 2017
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NAASRNAASR 2023 Annual Meeting CFP Extension
**DEADLINE EXTENDED TO MARCH 13TH** CALL FOR PAPERS Exploring the Transdisciplinary “Ecology” of scholarship in the study of religion The North American Association for the Study of Religion describes itself as an organization committed to “the...
Feminists Studies in ReligionSacred Transgression in Loíza, Puerto Rico
By Alejandro Escalante. A loca (“madwoman”) named Willian danced and sang boisterously as she swept the ground and lead the procession of sacred images of Santiago Apóstol in Loíza, Puerto Rico. As she swept, she blew kisses and twerked...
Culture on EdgeCritical 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 EdgeCritical Religion and the Critical Study of Religion: A Response to Galen Watts and Sharday Mosurinjohn, Part 1
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 InitiativeCall 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...
Craig MartinNorms and Concepts: A Response to Watts and Mosurinjohn
[Note: this could be kinder, longer, more detailed, and better written, but I’m super busy and have to move on to other projects on my summer to-do list. Sorry, Galen, that my response couldn’t have been more constructive.] In “Can … Continue...
Indigenous Values InitiativeThe 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 WorldsWorkshop IV
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 InitiativeRevisiting George Washington’s assault on the Haudenosaunee 240 Years Later, Video with Transcript
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 WorldsThe 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 WorldsConnecting 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...
Indigenous Values InitiativeAct Now to Support Indigenous Schools
Fund the Onondaga Nation School Act Now to Support Indigenous Schools New York State has consistently underfunded the three schools serving Indigenous students on their own nations for decades er=”2px” tcolor=”#ffffff” bcolor=”#8224e3″...
Englanded WorldsSisterliness 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 WorldsIcon 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 WorldsSoil, 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 WorldsExpressions 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 EdgeJust 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...
Indigenous Values InitiativeAcknowledging the Doctrine of Christian Domination
In 2014 Dr. David Wilkins (Lumbee) published an essay titled “Deconstructing the Doctrine of Discovery.” (here) and Steven T. Newcomb responded with a piece titled “Toward Disestablishing the Doctrine of Christian Domination” (here). The...
Original Free NationsThe 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 EdgeFabricating 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 JournalLee Isaac Chung and Jeffrey 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 NationsOak Flat and Pope Alexander VI’s 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...
Indigenous Values InitiativeNative American Religious Freedom after Trump
…maybe the problem with religious freedom is simply that it conceals deeper political controversies—about reproductive justice in Burwell v. Hobby Lobby (2014) or Indigenous sovereignty in Smith. Indeed, when the question of Indigenous sovereignty...
Image JournalUntitled poem by Thomas J. O’Gorman
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 NationsThe 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...
Indigenous Values InitiativeNow Streaming: The Doctrine of Discovery: Unmasking the Domination Code
THe iconic film The Doctrine of Discovery: Unmasking the Domination Code is now streaming. You can rent or purchase the film on vimeo. The film is directed by Sheldon P. Wolfchild and co-produced by Steven T. Newcomb.
Image JournalPinoy 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.
Original Free Nations“Conquest” is Another Word for Domination
War—or the act or state of exerting violence against another—is the context for the word conquest. Another way of understanding “a conquest” is, “having achieved a victory over or triumphed over an enemy.” To triumph or surmount is ‘to gain the...
Culture on EdgeWhen 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 JournalI Love You, Tricia, but I’m 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...