A View From the Minaret
A day trip to Caesarea spurs memories of a childhood visit and reflections on how a disastrous past can go unseen even when it is in full view. By Linda Dittmar
Category: Spring/Summer 2019
Two Poems by Nathan Spoon
“Sacrum convivium” and “The Susquehanna by Moonlight” by Nathan Spoon
Tulip Fever
Poetry by Adrie Kusserow
The Study of Religion on the Other Side of Disgust
Disgust directs us toward the painful truth of religion in human life beyond the bourgeois pieties of “religion” as it is defined and policed in the modern era. By Robert A. Orsi
Fully Fleshed Out: Religion, Womanhood, and Blackness in Contemporary Media
Positive, complex representations of black women’s religious experience in Queen Sugar and Being Serena. By LeRhonda S. Manigault-Bryant
Wakanda and Black Queer Moral Imaginaries
Black Panther serves as a moral imaginary pointing to freedom, fugitivity, and black queer ethical action. By Thelathia Nikki Young
Turning Ghosts into Ancestors in Contemporary Urban China
Understanding contemporary religious life in China requires a religious imagination freed from the preconceptions of monotheism. By Anna Sun
The Interreligious Resilience of Varanasi
Telling and passing down narratives of interreligious amity in cities like Varanasi can demonstrate the countervailing power of peace. By Kalpana Jain
Answering the Humble Knock
A grandmother’s confident compassion for drifters models how to nourish others. By John Gifford
Faith in the Fire: Religious Public Intellectuals
A selected reading list from Cornel West and Jonathan L. Walton’s course
The Urgency of Now
Excerpts from the introduction and four essays in One Nation, Indivisible exemplify that “in order to build together, govern together, live together, we must make the effort to know one another.” By Celene Ibrahim, Taymullah Abdur-Rahman, Matthew Blair Holt, Lauren Seganos Cohen, and Nora Zaki
A Christian Pilgrim Along the Buddhist Way
S. Mark Heim’s Crucified Wisdom: Theological Reflection on Christ and the Bodhisattva. By Francis X. Clooney, S.J.
How Khmer Buddhists Reconstructed Identity and Community in the U.S.
Carol A. Mortland’s Cambodian Buddhism in the United States. By Chipamong Chowdhury
C. E. Morgan Takes the Reins
The Sport of Kings, by C. E. Morgan, is an ambitious interracial saga obsessed with the power of stories. By Ingrid Norton
Flipping the Script
In this issue are models of courageous practices, scholarship, and creative work grounded in communities already practiced in the art of script-flipping. By Wendy McDowell
Reclaiming Egalitarian Jewish Wedding Customs
Reclaiming medieval Jewish wedding processional customs to open up a liminal space for a woman to be seen in between her attachments to men. By Jessica Rosenberg
