Marginalia Review of BooksThe Long Arc of Capitalism: Coercion, Resistance, and Innovation
MATT McMANUS | Many of capitalism’s most partisan defenders have assumed not only its immortality, but also its eternity.
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Barth NotesChurch Fires Fuel Anti-Muslim Conspiracism
From France 3: Un feu de végétation a provoqué l’incendie de l’église de Montenach en Moselle à la frontière Luxembourgeoise ce jeudi 30 avril 2026. Une partie du clocher s’est effondrée, la charpente a été entièrement brûlée, 60 pompiers et 40...
Sowing the SeedAfrofuturism in San Francisco Airport
San Francisco Airport has an amazing museum that made me pause in the hustle and bustle of travel. Currently up is an exhibit, “Women of Afrofuturism.” It kicks off with Nettice Gaskins’ piece, “mOTHERboard.” I could not have thought of a better...
Marginalia Review of BooksIn the Translator's Workshop: Featuring Aaron Poochigian on Wang Wei’s “In a Retreat Among Bamboo”
AARON POOCHIGIAN | I like the double meaning because the moon is both the celestial body and Wang’s pal and playmate.
Reviews of Biblical and Early Christian StudiesEarly Christian Widows
2026.05.05 | Yurong Zhao. Early Christian Widows and their Social-economic Situation, Support, and Contribution to the Church. Library of New Testament Studies 687. London: T&T Clark, 2025. pp. xvii + 242. ISBN: 9780567721365. Review by Aogu...
An und für sichThe God Question and the Problem of Evil syllabus
This year I designed and taught a number of new modules in my new job and I’ll be posting my syllabi for them over the summer while I finally get time to catch my breath and think about how to rework the modules from this year that I’ll be teaching...
Popular Culture And TheologyCall for Papers: Esotericism in the Comics of Alan Moore
CFP Title: Esotericism in the Comics of Alan Moore deadline for submissions: July 1, 2026 full name / name of organization: Matthew Brake and Nick Katsiadas / Northern Virginia Community College and Slippery Rock University Many notable comic book...
Sowing the SeedTemporary Office
Waiting for the reddest of eyes. It’s not Presidents Hall, but it’ll have to do. The semester is almost a wrap, and I’m working on video scripts for my Sociology of Religion course. Looking forward to taking out my new camera for a spin too.
Contending ModernitiesCultivating Disruption: On Hope in a Secular Age
I wonder if it is precisely the cultivated desire to persist (in a certain manner) that forecloses the possibility of rupture, abolition, and dissolution. The post Cultivating Disruption: On Hope in a Secular Age appeared first on Contending...
The Immanent FrameReassembling the sacred
In 1955, a young Dutch Reformed Church minister named Robert H. Schuller climbed onto the roof of a drive-in movie […] The post Reassembling the sacred appeared first on The Immanent Frame.
The Domination ChroniclesHow Students are Directed Away from Insights about Domination
Equal "Justice" Under Government's Claim of a Right of Domination
An und für sich“I couldn’t encounter my loss face to face”
Last week I gave a keynote address at the Society for the Study of Theology annual conference, which was on the theme “Theology: A Discipline of Failure?” Below is the text of my paper. “I couldn’t encounter my loss face to face”[1][2] As I write...
The Commons by APRIL OnlineÍsieni — Love: Learning to See Sacred Art in the Black Atlantic
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NAASRNAASR Conversations Series
The Immanent FrameReligious and spiritual innovation: defining an emerging field
It seems odd, at first glance, to talk about “innovation” in religion and spirituality. Religion is often imagined as a […] The post Religious and spiritual innovation: defining an emerging field appeared first on The Immanent Frame.
The Domination ChroniclesLORETTA AFRAID OF BEAR-COOK: LIVING IN OGLALA LAKOTA COMMUNITY
Episode 19 of the Domination Chronicles Podcast
Studying Religion in CultureOutstanding Students and Faculty in REL: Honors Day 2026
If you missed Honors Day 2026 or want to review its festivities, check out our photos and details
An und für sichWas Hobbes gay?
Thomas Hobbes’ biographer Arnold Rogow writes that, “Hobbes … may never have loved a woman, but no one has ever hinted that he was homosexual” (Radical in the Service of Reaction, 66). Even if that was true at the time Rogow was writing (1986), I’m...
Studying Religion in CultureDriving Our Units Forward
Dr. Cara Burnidge impressed upon the REL Strategy Group the importance of proactively assessing one’s own program to help get them MOVING. Sometimes academic programs gets stuck in the mud. They do good work—teaching students, producing research,...
Feminists Studies in ReligionThe Repeated Violations of Ahlaya and the Perpetuation of Hegemonic Revisionism
By Lavjay Butani Some stories are never told. Others are told countless times, across generations, across languages, and across traditions, and in the retelling, they change. Sometimes imperceptibly, sometimes dramatically. Sometimes in ways that...
Religion MattersSeeing Jerusalem Is Not Understanding Jerusalem
Most approaches to religious literacy focus on beliefs, practices, and traditions. This work matters, but it is incomplete. Drawing on Calvary, this piece explores what happens when religion is encountered as lived experience—shaped by trust,...
The Commons by APRIL OnlineMaking Tables Out of Crosses: For Maundy Thursday
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Feminists Studies in ReligionFrom Ancient Gleaning to Modern Hunger: Ruth, SNAP Cuts, and a TikTok Test of Faith
By Olivia Marr Robinson As religious studies scholar Dr. Margaret D. Kamitsuka observes, “no theology can go forward that does not recognize its rootedness in experience” (2007, 7). Whilst feminist theologians do not all share the same methods or...
The Domination ChroniclesA Promised Land
A Brief Commentary on the Title and Preface of Barack Obama's Memoir
Religion MattersWhat We Leave Out: Lived Religion and the Limits of Religious Literacy
Most approaches to religious literacy focus on beliefs, practices, and traditions. This work matters, but it is incomplete. Drawing on Calvary, this piece explores what happens when religion is encountered as lived experience—shaped by trust,...
The Commons by APRIL OnlineResearch as Ceremony: Methodological Meditations of a Scholar-Priestess of Northern Haitian Vodou
Add excerpt here. The post Research as Ceremony: Methodological Meditations of a Scholar-Priestess of Northern Haitian Vodou appeared first on April Online.
The Immanent FrameDiscovering a not-so feminist history
I decided to write my third book, God Bless the Pill, about the mid-twentieth-century history of birth control in 2011. […] The post Discovering a not-so feminist history appeared first on The Immanent Frame.
Reviews of Biblical and Early Christian Studies1 Enoch: An Ethiopic Reader’s Edition
2026.03.04 | Vladimir Olivero. 1 Enoch: An Ethiopic Reader’s Edition. Resources for Biblical Study 110. Atlanta: SBL Press, 2025. pp. viii + 359. ISBN: 9781628377606. Review by Kai Akagi, Rikkyo University. While 1 Enoch is among the scriptures of...
NSRNBABEL/NSRN 2026 International Conference
Call for papers BABEL/NSRN 2026 international conferenceKU Leuven, 3-4 December 2026Conference title:Entangled Lives: Religion, Nonreligion, and the Spaces In-Between This two-day interdisciplinary conference invites critical and creative...
The Domination ChroniclesThe Fiction of Plenary Power a Conversation with Mark Savage
Episode 18 of the Domination Chronicles Podcast
Reviews of Biblical and Early Christian StudiesUnderstanding the New Testament Use of the Old Testament
2026.03.03 | Douglas S. Huffman. Understanding the New Testament Use of the Old Testament: Forms, Features, Framings, and Functions. Grand Rapids: Baker Academic, 2024. pp. xix + 268. ISBN: 9781540966407. Review by Kai Akagi, Rikkyo University. The...
Andrew WhiteheadDenial and discrimination: How Christian Nationalism’s ideology harms families and undermines public education
On public funding for private school vouchers, Christian nationalism, and services for disabled students
NSRNWho are the Non-Seculars? A (Tongue-in-Cheek) Call for the Study of a Strange Group
Nathan G. Alexander is a lecturer in history at the University of Ottawa, Canada, and project manager of the Nonreligion in a Complex Future Project. He is also the author of Race in a Godless World: Atheism, Race, and Civilization, 1850-1914 (NYU...
Religion LinkWar in Iran: Covering the conflict’s religious contours
In this guide, we offer background, resources, relevant stories and expert sources to help you better cover the religion angle on the current conflict and what it might mean in the wake of the latest war in the Middle East.
Studying Religion in CultureOrganizing at the Water Cooler
The REL Strategy Group is becoming a vital meeting space for colleagues to share what they they’re seeing in their instiutional contexts. Its monthly consultation meetings are also a space to ask questions about how things are being done elsewhere....
NAASRNAASR Annual Meeting 2026 CFP
Challenges and Futures in Religious Studies #naasr2026 IAHR Regional Conference In 1995, our journal Method and Theory in the Study of Religion devoted a special issue to “pathologies” in study of religion in North American universities. The guest...
Religion LinkCovering claims of religious persecution
This guide offers reporters the tools to navigate the topic of religious persecution at home and abroad, offering background, resources, tips, suggestions and expert sources for your next story.
The Domination ChroniclesLegalized Lawlessness: Bruce McIvor on Colonial Power, the Doctrine of Discovery, and the Fraud of Reconciliation
Episode 17 of the Domination Chronicles Podcast
Reviews of Biblical and Early Christian StudiesTheodore of Mopsuestia’s Biblical Exegesis in His Catechetical Homilies
2026.03.02 | Sofia Puchkova. Re-envisioning Theodore: Theodore of Mopsuestia’s Biblical Exegesis in His Catechetical Homilies. SVC 185. Brill, Leiden-Boston: 2024. Review by Marius Portaru, Pontificium Institutum Patristicum Augustinianum, Rome....
Religion MattersBeyond Compliance: Supporting Religious Expression in Public Schools
Post: Tim Hall, Ph.D., Executive Director, Religion Matters When the Law Speaks, Educators Still Must Teach Last month, the U.S. Department of Education released updated guidance on constitutionally protected prayer and...
Andrew WhiteheadWould Jesus Condone "Death and Destruction from the Sky All Day Long"?
I guess this is a question we are being forced to ask in the current context.
Religion in United States HistoryApplications Open for the 2026 Fein and Lapidus Fellowship (Due March 31)
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Religion in United States History2026 Graduate Research Fellowship in Mormon Studies (University of Utah)
The Tanner Humanities Center at the University of Utah continues to support emerging scholarship in the field of Mormon Studies through its Graduate Research Fellowship in Mormon Studies.
RSN PodcastThe Roots of Reproductive Injustice: A conversation with Elizabeth O'Brien
Elizabeth O'Brien, associate professor of history at UCLA and winner of the 2024 AAR Best First Book in the History of Religions Award, speaks to Kristian Petersen about her book, Surgery and Salvation: The Roots of Reproductive Injustice in...
The Domination ChroniclesColonists, Settlers, Invaders, Expansionists, Immigrants — why the words matter
Domination Chronicles Episode 16
Studying Religion in CultureVisualizing Decoding Diaspora in 3-D
Dr. Newton’s digital project, Decoding Diaspora, has thus far been a collaborative effort, both with the digitization of J.A. Rogers’ newspaper serial, and with projects based on that data. Maggie Weatherwax, a second year M.A. student, is one of...
Studying Religion in CultureWhat’s Our Success Story?
Scholars can find success in building a strong research portfolio. A professor's work is about contributing to the success of students, colleagues, administrators, and institutions. Leslie Dorrough Smith visited the REL Strategy Group to realign...
The Domination ChroniclesBillie Eilish Repeats a Meme at the Grammys: “No One Is Illegal on Stolen Land”
The meme Ms. Eilish repeated does not account for the fact that massive immigration is what has resulted in Native lands being regarded as “stolen.”
Religion MattersReligious Literacy & the Stories Students Carry
As a Muslim, Pakistani-American student growing up on the East Coast, I experienced school with multiple identities that were often ignored, misunderstood, or altogether invisible. I had not yet developed the language to articulate the impact of...
Popular Culture And TheologyGadflies, the Golden Rule, and Getting Justice “Right”—The Animating and Cautionary Features of Daredevil: Born Again
By Justin Martin I was raised to believe in grace. That we can be touched by the divine and transformed into a better person….But you should also know that I was raised to believe in retribution. So if you step out of line, I will be there. –...