An und für sichFrom mid-April to early May we’ll be hosting the next AUFS book event on Rajbir Singh Judge’s recent book Prophetic Maharaja: Loss, Sovereignty and the Sikh Tradition in Colonial South Asia. Rajbir is Assistant Professor in History at California...
Marginalia Review of BooksDANIEL WOOLF | Nostalgia does not deserve its somewhat bad reputation as misguided sentimentality, or as a fetishistic celebration of ...
Du Mez CONNECTIONSMaking sense of things
Ancient Jew Review“In When a Human Gives Birth to a Raven, Neis uncovers a world of reproductive uncertainty, making a convincing case for taking the rabbis’ scenarios and debates at face value – as constitutive of ancient world-making.”
Bible For Normal People BlogIn Episode 2 of All the Buried Women, co-hosts Beth Allison Barr and Savannah Locke uncover the turbulent and hidden history of women in the Southern Baptist Convention. The story... The post Episode 2 – The Invisible Woman appeared first on The...
Arc: Religion, Politics, Et CeteraOur greatest modern poets insisted they were in dialogue with—or even channeling directly—the divine. Would we like what these gods had to say? The post The Ugly and Beautiful Gods first appeared on ARC: Religion, Politics, Et Cetera.
Religion and PoliticsOur greatest modern poets insisted they were in dialogue with—or even channeling directly—the divine. Would we like what these gods had to say? The post The Ugly and Beautiful Gods first appeared on ARC: Religion, Politics, Et Cetera.
Popular Culture And TheologyBy Matthew Brake “I know what it’s like to lose. To feel so desperately that you’re right, yet to fail nonetheless.” Many of us recognize this quote from the peak of the Marvel Cinematic Universe. After ten years of movies, and six years after his...
ReligionProfI received an email today from someone who is losing their faith…in the Bible. They saw me in a YouTube video and was motivated to write because it was clear that I do not believe the Bible is unquestionable divine truth, yet I am a Christian....
Canopy ForumIn and Out of ChurchSteven Tipton The following is an adapted excerpt from Steven Tipton’s new book, “In and Out of Church: The Moral Arc of Spiritual Change in America.” With permission from Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, 2025. Freedom of...
Ken ChitwoodOn March 11, the Department of Homeland Security sent the Episcopal Diocese of the Rio Grande a letter insinuating illegal activities at a diocesan shelter, including human trafficking.The letter, sent by the Federal Emergency Management Agency’s...
Ken ChitwoodWhen my wife and I were about to buy a house on the edge of the Thuringian Forest a couple of years ago, some friends from Hanover expressed concerns. Their objection was not to the home itself. The traditional half-timbered house lying on a...
Wabash Center BlogContinuing on themes from the last blog in this series, another antiracism pro-tip for classroom teaching comes both from a story an early-career mentor of mine told me, and then […]
affecognitiveAn “Open Mesh of Possibilities”: Thinking Queerness with Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick’s Archive,” a recent, day-long event at Duke University was …Continue reading →
Popular Culture And TheologyTheology, Philosophy, and Severance Call for Papers Severance, created by Dan Erickson and Ben Stiller, has captured the imagination of the streaming world. Season 1, developed and filmed during the Covid-19 Pandemic and the backbone of the Apple...
Studying Religion in CultureReligious Studies is thrilled to announce the hiring of Camille Leon Angelo as an Assistant Professor
Popular Culture And TheologyCall for Papers: Theology, Religion and Taylor Swift Edited by: Alexis Bradford and Chris Swann Taylor Swift is a cultural icon. As such, she is often used as a case study and her success has been carefully examined in fields such as business,...
Arc: Religion, Politics, Et CeteraLenten sacrifices aren’t the only kind that matter The post Make Asceticism Great Again? first appeared on ARC: Religion, Politics, Et Cetera.
Religion and PoliticsLenten sacrifices aren’t the only kind that matter The post Make Asceticism Great Again? first appeared on ARC: Religion, Politics, Et Cetera.
Contending ModernitiesThe measure of Christian love is not a set of boundaries around specific kinds of people, but, rather, the gift of God’s crossing all boundaries through the Incarnation. The post On Political Boundaries and Christian Love appeared first on...
The ConversationGraphic artist Victoria Lomasko’s journey highlights how censorship has intensified in Russia.
Political TheologyOne alternative to a disorienting retributive hierarchy … is repentance, offered to the living, not the dead. This is the honest acceptance of one’s own sin that leads to a turning from the destructive habits of assigning greater or lesser guilt to...
The Domination ChroniclesHow Do We Come To "Know" What We Claim to "Know"? And How Do We Verify Whether Information Is True Or Not?
Ancient Jew Review“Rafe’s book invites us to revisit what it meant in the rabbinic world to take care of another being, to rely on and be relied upon, and to be enmeshed with another being physically and psychically.”
Ancient Jew ReviewThis review panel features responses from a range of scholars working in late antiquity, originally shared at the 2024 Society of Biblical Literature Annual Meeting.
Du Mez CONNECTIONSKnow the past, change the future
The ConversationThe empress, like many other rulers at the time, legitimized her reign through Buddhism, portraying herself either as a Buddha or as a patron of Buddhists.
Ken ChitwoodGetty Images, via Foreign Policy. The U.S. government and faith-based organizations have worked together since the dawn of the United States. The same Congress that prevented the...
Bible For Normal People BlogIn this episode of Faith for Normal People, Pete and Jared talk with Erin Hicks Moon about growing up Southern Baptist and how she started rethinking parts of her faith,... The post Episode 54: Erin Hicks Moon – Disentangling Faith appeared first...
NSRNSofia 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...
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Canopy ForumPhoto of Kaifeng North Mosque by Windmemories (CC BY-SA 4.0) 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. See...
Political TheologyThe notion of quality of life, an extended conception of common good, and the solidarity with the victims can move nonviolence from the margins of Catholic Social Teaching to its center. Source
The ConversationJewish American artists were at the heart of the comics industry – and a closer read of beloved characters reflects fears about assimilation and acceptance.
The Domination ChroniclesAnother View-from-the-Shore Commentary
The Domination ChroniclesA View-from-the-Shore Assessment
Reading ReligionDear Reading Religion Subscribers, Celebrate Women’s History Month this March with a curated list of engaging reviews and thought-provoking books. Topics include social media and Jewish gender norms, a recounting of the spiritual journey of the...
Contending ModernitiesThe Heritage Foundation provoked widespread outrage with the publication of their Project 2025, a policy agenda that targets immigrants and... The post Rejecting Project Esther: Understanding Christian and White Nationalism as Racism and...
Ancient Jew Review“Ophir insists that he is not simply claiming the modern sovereign as a “secularized political concept,” but something deeper: a deification of the state itself, as the one concept that we cannot think without, just as the biblical writers could...
Bible For Normal People BlogIn the debut episode of All the Buried Women, co-hosts Beth Allison Barr and Savannah Locke aim to uncover women’s stories hidden in the Southern Baptist Convention’s archives. The story... The post Episode 1 – George Orwell Warned Us About 1984...
Arc: Religion, Politics, Et CeteraDating with intention on Hulu’s new series about the romantic lives of American Muslims The post “Get Married or Chai Trying” first appeared on ARC: Religion, Politics, Et Cetera.
Religion and PoliticsDating with intention on Hulu’s new series about the romantic lives of American Muslims The post “Get Married or Chai Trying” first appeared on ARC: Religion, Politics, Et Cetera.
Canopy ForumMain chamber of Badshahi Mosque by User:Amjad.m (CC BY-SA 3.0) On January 16th, 2025, the government of Punjab, Pakistan’s most populous province, demolished a historic Ahmadi mosque in the city of Daska. This mosque was built by Zafrullah Khan...
Contending ModernitiesWe cannot allow [our] differences to transmutate into subjugation, violence, terror—lest we become monsters ourselves. The post Muslim Mimesis: Almost The Same but Not Quite? appeared first on Contending Modernities.
Wabash Center BlogI spent my first week as an assistant professor contending with what I have deemed the “Dropocalypse.” My Introduction to Judaism class was full before the ink on my contract […]
Barth Notes(Updated post after more sources became available) From the New York Post: New York Post columnist Douglas Murray won a libel claim Tuesday over an article that falsely accused him of “supporting violent racist attacks” during anti-immigration...
Arc: Religion, Politics, Et CeteraThe case for Catholic life beyond Mass The post More Than Sunday first appeared on ARC: Religion, Politics, Et Cetera.
Religion and PoliticsThe case for Catholic life beyond Mass The post More Than Sunday first appeared on ARC: Religion, Politics, Et Cetera.
Reading ReligionBy Kevin Schilbrack About ten years ago, I published Philosophy and the Study of Religions (Wiley-Blackwell, 2014), a manifesto in which I argued that the discipline of philosophy of religion... READ MORE The post Four Books on Philosophy of...