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NAASR NAASRNAASR 2024 Annual Meeting
Interlocutions Interlocutions About our program: The 2024 NAASR Annual Meeting will provide a space to explore contemporary theoretical gains that have a bearing on and/or implications for academic studies of religion. Doing so will not only...
State of FormationPodcast: What do Cats Have to do with Interfaith Work?
From Grace Boyd, Dr. Robin Mitchell Stroud, and the University of Southern California (USC) Office of Religious and Spiritual Life — a conversation about cats, conflict transformation, and lessons learned from campus interfaith engagement. Robin...
State of FormationPodcast: Finding Faith in Interfaith Work
In the summer of 2023, Alina Wilson attended the Interfaith America Summit, despite feeling increasingly distant from institutionalized religion. Returning to a campus rife with politically charged religious divisions and struggling with the impact...
Te Ture Tāhae Whenua - The Doctrine of Discovery in AotearoaNew Resources: Talking to Christians about the Doctrine of Discovery.
The Christians made me do it.
NAASRNew Research Roundup: The Follow Up
On March 16th, NAASR members gathered virtually to talk about their new research and the scholarship from outside of Religious Studies that was inspiring them. Dr. Lauren Horn Griffin (Louisiana State University) and Dr. Vaia Touna (University of...
Te Ture Tāhae Whenua - The Doctrine of Discovery in AotearoaIndigenous Sacredness, Christendom and the Doctrine of Discovery.
Reconciling ones faith with the harms of religious colonialism
Sacred Matters7 Questions with Ethan Doyle White
Welcome to 7 Questions, our series where we highlight exciting scholars in the field of religion and get to know the person behind the book. For this article, we interviewed Ethan Doyle White, whose book, The New Witches of the West, was recently...
Digital ReligionBook presentation - Unruly Souls
7th May 2024 | H 4-5.30 pm |AULA CIASCA Facoltà di Lettere e Filosofia Sapienza Università di Roma Discussants Alberta Giorgi |Università...
Sacred Matters7 Questions with Joseph Laycock
Welcome to 7 Questions, our series where we highlight exciting scholars in the field of religion and get to know the person behind the book. For this article, we interviewed Joseph Laycock, whose co-authored book, The Exorcist Effect: Horror,...
Digital ReligionCall for papers - NEW Special Issue of Poligrafi
We are pleased to invite you to contribute to the new Special Issue of Poligrafi dedicated to the material dimension of online religious...
NAASRMTSR Special Issue: Indigenous Epistemologies and the Study of Religion
In recent years, critical Indigenous studies has challenged the Western European and colonial episteme that has shaped academic disciplines and fields such as anthropology, history, philosophy, and religious studies. Indigenous studies scholars and...
Sacred MattersExcellent Excerpts: Nursing the Spirit by Don Grant
Welcome to our series, “Excellent Excerpts,” where we share selections from recently or soon-to-be published books we think you should check out! In this post we are featuring Nursing the Spirit: Care, Public Life, and the Dignity of Vulnerable...
Indigenous Values InitiativeDoctrine of Christian Discovery Podcast
We re excited to announce or collaborative limited edition series podcast with Good Faith Media. This podcast was produced at our conference: The Religious Origins of White Supremacy: Johnson v. M’Intosh and the Doctrine of Christian Discovery....
Digital ReligionDigital Religion Studies featured in new series of "Four Books," on Reading Religion
Reading Religion , an online review journal of new books by the American Academy of Religion, has launched a new feature called “Four...
Digital ReligionAnnual Digital Religion Award Lecture Now Available Online
For those who missed the annual lecture for the NMRDC’s 2023 Digital Religion Research Award, it is now available online at:...
Digital ReligionThe Digital Religion Yearbook 2023 now out!
The Digital Religion Yearbook was envisioned by the NMRDC to highlight important research and scholarship being produced in the...
Sacred Matters7 Questions with Don Grant
Welcome to 7 Questions, our series where we highlight exciting scholars in the field of religion and get to know the person behind the book. For this article, we interviewed Don Grant, whose book Nursing the Spirit: Care, Public Life, and the...
Digital ReligionCALL FOR SUBMISSIONS FOR THE 2024 DIGITAL RELIGION RESEARCH AWARD
The Network for New Media, Religion and Digital Culture Studies (NMRDC); http://digrel.com) is pleased to announce the call for published...
Sacred MattersExcellent Excerpts: The Gut by Elizabeth Perez
Welcome to our series, “Excellent Excerpts,” where we share selections from recently or soon-to-be published books we think you should check out! In this post we are featuring The Gut: A Black Atlantic Alimentary Tract by Elizabeth Perez, published...
Original Free NationsFree Online Film Screening Of The Doctrine of Discovery Unmasking the Domination Code
Featured Epic Events & Life-Changing Courses with Shawna Bluestar and Steven T. Newcomb. Wisdom for the New Paradigm Series Film Screening The Doctrine of Discovery: Unmasking the Domination Code Q & A with Shawna Bluestar & Steven Newcomb Join us...
Sacred MattersExcellent Excerpts: An Ethos of Blackness by Vivaldi Jean-Marie
Welcome to our series, “Excellent Excerpts,” where we share selections from recently or soon-to-be published books we think you should check out! In this post we are featuring An Ethos of Blackness: Rastafari Cosmology, Culture, and...
Digital Religion2023 Digital Religion Research Award winner is Dr. Sana Patel
2023 Digital Religion Research Award winner is Dr. Sana Patel for her article: Hybrid Imams: Young Muslims and Religious Authority on...
Sacred Matters7 Questions with Vivaldi Jean-Marie
Welcome to 7 Questions, our series where we highlight exciting scholars in the field of religion and get to know the person behind the book. For this article, we interviewed Vivaldi Jean-Marie, whose book An Ethos of Blackness: Rastafari Cosmology,...
Digital ReligionMERGE- Media, religion, and gender. NEW PROJECT launched December 1, 2023
On the 1st of December, Giulia Evolvi, NMRDC assistant director and board member, launched the project MERGE- Media, religion, and...
Sacred Matters7 Questions with Daniel Shank Cruz
Welcome to 7 Questions, our series where we highlight exciting scholars in the field of religion and get to know the person behind the book. For this article, we interviewed Daniel Shank Cruz, whose book Ethics for Apocalyptic Times: Theapoetics,...
Sacred MattersExcellent Excerpts: Rebuilding Community by Shenila Khoja-Moolji
Welcome to our series, “Excellent Excerpts,” where we share selections from recently or soon-to-be published books we think you should check out! In this post we are featuring Rebuilding Community: Rebuilding Community: Displaced Women and the...
Digital ReligionCall for Papers on "Digital Religion Meets Politics"
Special Issue in the journal “Frontiers in Political Science”, October 2023. CALL FOR PAPERS: Digital religion meets politics: pushing...
Indigenous Values InitiativeSyracuse University to Host Conference that Addresses Legal and Theological Theory of the Doctrine of Christian Discovery
“The Religious Origins of White Supremacy: Johnson v. M’lntosh and the Doctrine of Christian Discovery” will take place on the Syracuse University campus Dec. 8-10. Its main sponsor is the Henry Luce Foundation, which awarded the University...
Sacred Matters7 Questions With Zeynep K. Korkman
Welcome to 7 Questions, our series where we highlight exciting scholars in the field of religion and get to know the person behind the book. For this article, we interviewed Zeynep Korkman, whose book Gendered Fortunes: Divination, Precarity, and...
State of FormationInterfaith and Me: the Guru Granth Sahib and Religious Pluralism
My concept of Interfaith began to develop long before I joined the BILI Fellowship. Indeed, a diverse range of perspectives and backgrounds has always been at the center of my Sikh faith, our religion’s history, and our holy scriptures. To begin...
Original Free NationsAn Original Nations’ Examination of “Freedom,” “Human” and “Human Rights”
In our view, the claim of a right of domination, and the behaviors that follow from that claim, are the main cause of the global problems we all face. This is why opposition to that claim is a potentially unifying theme for homo sapiens. The post...
Original Free NationsConflicting Perspectives Regarding the Holy Mountain Called “San Francisco Peaks,” and Other Sacred and Significant Places of Original Nations and Traditional Healers
Our original nation ancestors understood mountains and other geographical areas as living beings imbued with spiritual energy. Our spiritual people knew and still know how to spiritually attune and align themselves with that energy in a ceremonial...
State of FormationMy Interfaith Travels: A Sikh Perspective
Nanakacharya, Nanak Rishi, Guru Rimpochiya, Vali Hind, Nanak Peer, Baba Nanak are all names of Guru Nanak Sahib Ji around the world. When it comes to interfaith, the clearest example I can think of is Guru Nanak Sahib Ji’s udasiaa. He traveled on...
Te Ture Tāhae Whenua - The Doctrine of Discovery in AotearoaThe Doctrine of Discovery in Aotearoa
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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...
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...
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...
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...
State of FormationStory-telling and Story-listening: my Interfaith Journey
Maybe it’s just my struggle to socialize, but every time I meet someone new I’ve always wanted to have a story ready. For a few years it was describing the time I get held up in airport security for scanning as a potential threat, then maybe it was...
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
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...