The Other Journal“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 JournalEverything 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 JournalThe 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 JournalThe 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 JournalSeveral 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 JournalThe 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 JournalOver 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 JournalJuly 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 JournalRaindrops 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 AotearoaThe Doctrine of Discovery and its impact on Mana Wāhine
Indigenous Values InitiativeSKA·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 ReligionBy 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...
PRRIThis 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 PodcastWilliam 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 NationsJoin 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 AotearoaWe turned Dismantling the Doctrine into a game!
RSN PodcastMary 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...
PRRIFrom 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...
affecognitiveAn “Open Mesh of Possibilities”: Thinking Queerness with Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick’s Archive,” a recent, day-long event at Duke University was …Continue reading →
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...
Indigenous Values InitiativeOnondaga 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...
NAASRInterlocutions 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...
NAASRCALL 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...
affecognitiveVerso Press listed Anna Kornbluh’s 2024 text as one of its must-read publications of 2024, and I heartily concur. To …Continue reading →
affecognitiveHistorically, 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 Studies2025.01.03 | 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...
affecognitiveOn 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 Studies2025.01.02 | 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 Studies2025.01.01 | 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 PodcastAmerican Secularism and Its Believers with Charles McCrary by American Academy of Religion
Religious Studies ProjectWelcome 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 ProjectWelcome 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 ProjectWelcome 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 ProjectWelcome 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...
NSRNEhsan 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 ProjectWelcome 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 EdgeA 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...
affecognitiveBefore the arc of injustice settled resolutely over the US last week, I attended the SSA’s 2024 conference in Lancaster, …Continue reading →
Religious Studies ProjectWelcome 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...
State of FormationThis 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 ProjectWelcome 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...
NSRNTess 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 ProjectWelcome 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 Studies2024.10.07 | 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 ProjectWelcome 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 ProjectWelcome 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 PodcastThe Role of Western Universities in Modern Islamic Thought with Megan Brankley Abbas by American Academy of Religion
Digital ReligionWe are inviting book chapter proposals for the edited collection entitled Religion Book Editors and AI: Theoretical and empirical...
NSRNDani 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...
PRRIThis 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...