Political TheologyThe Western inability to recognize Palestinians as fully human is often attributed to Islamophobia, framed as a post-9/11 construct that portrays Muslim violence as a threat to the liberal West. However, this perspective remains superficial. To...
The Domination ChroniclesWhat Happens When "True Believers" Assume that Forcibly Imposed Domination is God's Will?
Barth NotesIn the Radio Times, Stephen Graham talks about writing the much-discussed Netflix television drama Adolescence: “Where it came from, for me,” explains Graham, who co-created and wrote Adolescence with Jack Thorne (The Virtues, Toxic Town), “is...
Arc: Religion, Politics, Et CeteraIf you think we don’t need universities, consider the gecko The post The Lizard Theory of Higher Ed first appeared on ARC: Religion, Politics, Et Cetera.
Religion and PoliticsIf you think we don’t need universities, consider the gecko The post The Lizard Theory of Higher Ed first appeared on ARC: Religion, Politics, Et Cetera.
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...
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...
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,...
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 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.
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...
White Too LongPlus, new book giveaway
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...
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...
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...
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...
Popular Culture And TheologyCFP: Religion, Popular Culture, and the Nineties Edited by Ilaria W. Biano Although initially dismissed as “a holiday from history” (Will), a “frivolous if not decadent decade” (Rich), and a “time of trivial pursuits” (Halberstam) (cf. Chollet and...
Wabash Center BlogI received feedback on the manuscript of my textbook, Studying Religion and Disability. The two peer reviews were generally supportive and also offered important suggestions that will make the book […]
Barth NotesVia the Press Association: A Metropolitan Police spokesman said on Friday: “On Thursday 6 March we received an allegation of verbal threats made by a 67-year-old man on Friday 13 December. “Officers are carrying out an assessment of the allegations...
Doctrine of DiscoveryAbstract Remarks delivered at the forum “Freedom of Religion or Belief for Indigenous Peoples: The 2022 UN Report,” at the Center for Earth Ethics at Union Theological Seminary on October 26, 2022. This forum discussed human rights questions,...
Doctrine of DiscoveryAbstract This succinct essay addresses the issue of freedom of religion for Indigenous cultures. Freedom of belief cannot subsist without justice, i.e. equal recognition. By ignoring the intellectual achievements of Indigenous and other non-Western...
An und für sichThis is the text of an address I (Marika) gave recently as part of the KU Leuven annual Thomas Feast on the theme of theology, art, and decolonisation. For several years now I’ve been haunted by a piece by Étienne Balibar about the relationship...
Doctrine of DiscoveryAbstract In this essay, we will argue that firstly, the international and national legal framings of religion or belief are limited in scope, and one must ask not only religious freedom for whom but also from whom. Secondly, we will underscore the...
Contending ModernitiesMuslims in the West, like others, can maintain and hold on to their theological claims, while beautifying their social presence with and among others. The post Imitatio Imam: Reimagining Imitation as a Bridge to the Other appeared first on...
Ancient Jew ReviewThe exceptional influence and popularity enjoyed by DEH from late antiquity through the Middle Ages, and its critical interface with Jewish historiography as a work both based on and source of major Jewish histories, suggest that this work is...
The RevealerThe organizations, religious communities, and people pushing America to authoritarianism The post The Revealer Podcast Episode 56: The People Destroying Democracy appeared first on The Revealer.
The RevealerTurning to James Hogg to reflect on the liberal Christian response to Christian nationalism The post Are MAGA Christians More or Less Christian than Progressives? appeared first on The Revealer.
The RevealerA reflection on “Fundamentally,” a new novel by Nussaibah Younis that examines the de-radicalizing of ISIS brides through the lens of comedy The post Shining a New Light on Former ISIS Women through Laugh-Out-Loud Literature appeared first on The...
Doctrine of DiscoveryAbstract This article takes as its point of departure the 2022 Interim Report of the United Nations Special Rapporteur on Freedom of Religion or Belief, entitled “Indigenous Peoples and the Right to Freedom of Religion or Belief.” The report...
ReligionProfThat someone who looks more and more like the caricature of the antichrist every day would launch an attack on diversity, equity, and inclusion is not surprising. That’s what antichrists are supposed to do. However, I have seen more and more...