The Immanent FrameI first became aware of Shannon Dawdy’s American Afterlives during the fall of 2019, when her friend and fellow New Orleanian, the literary scholar and Princeton author Bryan Wagner, suggested that she contact Princeton University Press about her...
Religious Studies ProjectWelcome to the Religious Studies Project Opportunities Digest! This week, you will find 23 new job opportunities, 7 fellowships, 1 awards, 2 call for papers, and 1 conference/speaker. Everyone at RSP says thank you to all who have generously...
Feminism and ReligionArtists tend to develop their own visual language over the course of a career, returning again and again to certain motifs. That’s certainly the case for me with trees, women and goddesses, doorways and passages, ancient symbols, flowers, and...
Doctrine of DiscoveryWhy is it important? The Doctrine of Discovery is still an important legal concept in Canada today even though it was written hundreds of years ago. Both French and English colonial powers in what would later be known as Canada used the Doctrine of...
Doctrine of DiscoveryIn 2016 the Vatican, recognizing the need to understand Indigenous religious protocols, invited Indigenous spiritual leaders from around the world to Rome. On May 4, eleven leaders met outside of Rome to prepare for their visit with Pope Francis....
Doctrine of DiscoveryIn North America, it’s often assumed that private land ownership not only existed in colonizing cultures but was also universally accepted. Yet English commoners fought against privatization for centuries, dying by the tens of thousands to defend...
American Indian Law AllianceAlf Jacques was known as a stick maker, but he was also a lacrosse ambassador. He took time to teach the values of the Medicine Game and let the world know that lacrosse is a game of community, friendship and… The post Announcing the Alfie Jacques...
An und für sichWe started Veronica Mars shortly before the pandemic, and in our hands it did not benefit from its status as an unintentional pandemic watch. We knew that this tale of a sassy teenage detective was something special from the first episode and also...
Canopy ForumPhoto on Wikimedia by EOverbey (CC BY-SA 3.0). In 2013, Jane Doe 6 was a residential student at Liberty University, the country’s largest Baptist Christian university. One night, her boyfriend invited her to his house, gave her two glasses of wine,...
Feminism and ReligionI won’t walk in this fog bound soup – the air is so toxic it’s literally not breathable – let’s hope this is not a prelude to the rest of the summer like it was last year. The solstice marks a turning of the wheel in ancient cultures – a process...
Doctrine of DiscoveryNewsflash! Property law in the U.S. is not rooted in the Constitution. America's legal foundation for property law (possession), "anti-Indian law" and the concept of nation-states is religious, not secular. Where did this deep sense of...
Wabash Center BlogI remember dial-up modems and the exhilaration of logging onto AOL.com as a teenager. A few years later, I experienced the novelty of Facebook. Duke Divinity School (DDS) advised all […]
Ken ChitwoodBushfires below Stacks Bluff, Tasmania, Australia. IMAGE: Matt Palmer, Unsplash Climate change is happening.I am not a scientist. Nor do I pretend to be. But drawing on information...
Religion in United States HistoryFrom Sarah Riccardi-Swartz's X Account
ReligionProf: The Blog of James F. McGrathA lot of people are expressing dismay about AI, mainly in relation to how they fear it will impact churches and educational institutions. I think that it is important to highlight and explore precisely those parallels. Let’s look at ChatGPT as...
Political TheologyImagine a world in which we stop at every news of death. Imagine a world in which we do not trivialize or rationalize death. ... Have we over-theologized life after death? Source
Feminism and ReligionThis was originally posted on June 17, 2013 Rape is not something that “just happens” in the military. It is an inevitable product of military training. Unless and until we understand this and change the way soldiers are trained, we will never be...
Bible For Normal People BlogWhat does Nehemiah have to teach us about the challenge of hermeneutics and theology today? In this episode of The Bible for Normal People, Pete ruins the book of Nehemiah... The post Episode 274: Pete Enns – Pete Ruins Nehemiah appeared first on...
Feminism and Religion‘Four thousand years ago, in the ancient Near East, women were poets, drummers, scholars, dancers, healers, prophets and keepers of sacred space.’ In The Hebrew Priestess (2015), Rabbi Jill Hammer argues that as the Israelite cult became more...
ReligionProf: The Blog of James F. McGrathIn “Empire of Death” the Doctor and a host of others take on Sutekh. Yet before long there’s almost no one else left alive in the universe, just the Doctor, Ruby Sunday, and Mel. The obvious question is one that the Doctor poses to Sutekh. Why? Why...
Marginalia Review of BooksSAMUEL LONCAR | Anthropocene antihumanism and transhumanism seek the end of humanity. They are auto-genocidal philosophies. . .
Feminism and ReligionRecently tasked with the co-creation of a film ethics course, I thought extensively about what material would best serve film acting students in a New York City Conservatory. I wanted to include films that would focus on diversity, story...
Political TheologyFor Marx, religion is more than "the opium of the people,” it is the mirror of society turned upside down. This essay examines Marx’s critique of religion as well as his critique of other contemporary critiques of religion. This critique of...
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Religion DispatchesConspiracy theories and their role in popular politics have attracted enormous attention—primarily disparagement—in recent years....