“Law, religion, and state building” features essays by leading scholars and policy analysts who consider the entanglements of law, religion, and state building across times and places—and the consequences of these entanglements for global politics and social justice.
Asian American religions: Everywhere, all at once
“Asian American religions: Everywhere, all at once” invites readers to the multiverse of religious experiences in Asian America. This set of essays, co-curated by The Immanent Frame and the Asian Pacific American Religions Research Initiative (APARRI), offers a glimpse of the vastness and complexity of Asian American religions.
Out there: Perspectives on the study of Black metaphysical religion
This forum offers “Black metaphysical religion” as an analytical historical frame to bring into view the widespread and varied occult interests and mystical orientations of Black communities in the twentieth century.
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CFP | UCSIA Summer School – God on Our Side?
by The EditorsThe UCSIA Summer School is a one-week mentoring programme that encourages doctoral and postdoctoral students to explore interdisciplinary ways of analysing the relationship between religion, culture and society. Key elements of the programme are expert lectures, paper presentations by the students and individual tutoring by the faculty. The UCSIA Summer School 2024, titled God on Our […]
We the People of the Book
In 2004, four US college students were arrested for stealing a book. A rare first edition of John James Audubon’s Birds of America was stored in special collections at Transylvania University in…
Polarization and world-building
Each of the essays in this forum offers a different theoretical, disciplinary, and intellectual approach to the intersection of anti-Muslim bias and White Christian Nationalism (WCN). All seven essays point to a…
Spatial Islamophobia, conflict democracy, and Muslim cemeteries as place-making for the future
I see several old Southern Baptist and Methodist churches, some with graveyards, as I drive along in a small Southern town right outside of the city of Atlanta in Georgia. This town…
Keeping the faith: Queer religion as a template for political resistance to white Christian nationalism
“Dear Friend, Militant homosexuals are plotting a dangerously different future for America!” began a 1984 letter from Jerry Falwell, cofounder of the Moral Majority.[i] Falwell, a minister at the Thomas Road Baptist…
White Christian nationalism and the racial politics of analogy
What if the crowds who attacked the United States Capitol building on January 6, 2021, were not dominantly white and Christian but rather Black and/or Muslim? Variations of this question appeared across…