The RevealerHer Body, Their Papers
The legal labor system that allows for the exploitation and trafficking of female domestic workers to several Middle Eastern countries
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The Revealer The RevealerPalestinians 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 left
The RevealerEditor’s Letter: Narratives, Myths, and Lies
The Editor reflects on the White House’s “Rededicate 250” event and the power behind false myths
Ancient Jew ReviewIntellectual Profiles in both Talmud and Midrash
I will argue that in the Amoraic period, the Jerusalem Talmud may not have been quite so unique and innovative in a way that differs from all other rabbinic compilations. Rather the Talmud and the Amoraic Midrash may rather have participated in...
Cultural Studies BlogspotBicep Curls are for Arses
No 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...
Cultural Studies BlogspotThe Right Bag
MorningThe 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 WhiteheadWhat’s Driving Americans' Discontent around Democracy?
How Age, Politics, and Religion Shape Americans’ Views of Democracy
Sowing the SeedFriday 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 HistoryCall For Submissions: The American Religion Dissertation Prize
LINK 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...
Contending ModernitiesThe Missing Link: Religious and Moral Transformation After Civil Conflict
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...
An und für sichRuled by Wolves
Su Fang Ng makes (I think) a pretty compelling case that that Hobbes ‘rejects the story of Lucretia’s rape as the foundational myth of Rome in favour of the wolf suckling Remus and Romulus, which represents a more monarchical aetiological myth of...
The Domination Chronicles“Tribal Sovereignty” 101: Why Words Matter
Domination Chronicles Episode 21: “Tribal Sovereignty” 101: Limited Sovereignty, Federal Domination, and the Language Trap
The Commons by APRIL OnlineBetween Two Worlds: “Iran does not need to be saved by bombs”
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Studying Religion in CultureUnexpected 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...
Contending ModernitiesThe Iran War and the Afterlife of Liberal Modernity: A Critical Tribute to Jürgen Habermas
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 CultureResourcing 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 TheologyCall 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 FrameUnbundled 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.
Barth NotesA 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 SeedOn Criticism
Why is some criticism vital and other, deadly?
Ken ChitwoodMigrants Fill the Gap Caring for Germany’s Aging Population
Getty Image (NurPhoto), via Christianity Today. At the Immanuel Senior Care Center in Elstal, about 18 miles outside Berlin in the German state of Brandenburg, 26-year-old Sharoon...
Sowing the SeedLast 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 BooksThe Post-Classical Turn: How Islamic Thought Reinvented Itself After the Philosophers’ Crisis
What is our motivating force today, and can we still hold on to a unified view of the history of philosophy?
Marginalia Review of BooksPoems as Children of the Moment: Jane Zwart Interviewed by Amit Majmudar
JANE ZWART | Sometimes I find myself almost unable to write poems because I’m not in the right rooms in my mind. . .
Sowing the SeedRemember 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 BooksWhy Do We Torture Ourselves? Ice-baths, Fasting, and the Allure of Discomfort
YONAH 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...
Ken ChitwoodRevival, but only with state permission: In Belarus, Franklin Graham's Festival of Hope raises questions about religious freedom
Photo by Alex Wong/Getty via Christianity Today. For three nights starting Friday, the Chizhovka Arena in Minsk will hold the largest gathering of evangelicals ever in Belarus’s...
The Commons by APRIL OnlineA Temple for Trees
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The Commons by APRIL OnlineFour Animal Guides on the Met Façade: A Conversation with Jeffrey Gibson
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Popular Culture And TheologyCall 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,...
NAASRNAASR Conversation Series
Contending ModernitiesHope 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.
Sowing the SeedBroadcast 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 ChitwoodThe DOJ’s report on anti-Christian bias mistakes policy for persecution, advocates say
Image 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 ChitwoodAre we talking too much about Christian nationalism?
Photo 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...
Religion in United States HistoryPublication Announcement – Touchstone speeches in Latter-day Saint history, 1820-2020
Mormon Rhetoric from Across the Belief Spectrum, Covering Two Centuries
Marginalia Review of BooksDid al-Ghazālī End Islamic Philosophy? An Oxford Professor’s Revisionist Perspective
Frank 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 CultureAn Elevating Publication on the Field
Remember when Academic Twitter was a thing? Years ago a tweet popped up in my thread that really harshed my mellow. It was from a snarky account that took shots at the idiosyncracies of scholarly publications across disciplines. One day the...
Ken ChitwoodWho Speaks for Britain’s Muslims?
Photo 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 FrameViewing 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 RevealerThe Revealer Podcast Episode 69: Vaccine Hesitancy and Religion
How a vaccine-skeptical alliance formed between wellness culture devotees, mothers, and religious conservatives
The RevealerWho Speaks for Britain’s Muslims?
Is the current political climate about the failure of Muslim representation—or the impossibility of it given the state of UK politics?
The RevealerPalestinians 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 Palestinians
Religion in United States HistoryBook Editor Position: Journal of Africana Religions
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Religion LinkAmerican religion at 250: 50 sources to cover 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 WhiteheadReligion and the State of Democracy in the U.S.
Findings 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 OnlineBeing Modern Hindus
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Contending ModernitiesThe Limits of Hope: Rethinking Ethics and Politics from the Ground Up
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 OnlineBurqa Bans and the Production of Public Concern
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Marginalia Review of BooksRhymes and Reincarnations: On India’s Epic Poems
AMIT 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...