Citizens of Two Realms
During her year as a monk, a millennial discovers reverential awe in the midst of chaos. By Eloise Skinner
Category: Spirituality
On Chanting and Consciousness
Memories of her Jain grandmother’s chanting lead the author to reflect on “how deliriously inside out moments can be.” By Diane Mehta
Making Spirituality Safe for Evangelicals
D. Bruce Hindmarsh’s The Spirit of Early Evangelicalism: True Religion in a Modern World. By Brett Malcolm Grainger
Paths to Abstraction: Spirituality in the Work of Three Women Artists
Exploring the link between spiritual liberation and abstract artistic expression in paintings of Hilma af Klint, Hilla Rebay, and Vicci Sperry. By Ann Braude
‘Every Little Pine Needle’
Thoreau had a deeply religious cast of mind, but he experienced revelation in nature, and trees were his guides. By Richard Higgins
‘Peace, Peace to Him Who is Far Off, and to Him Who is Near’
Conversations with a World War II conscientious objector and a soldier who served in Iraq deepen the author’s understanding of pacifism. By Sarah Sentilles
On Habit
The habit of playing music for church turns out to be the most important healing practice during a difficult year. By Michelle C. Sanchez
Paying Attention to Pain
Leslie Jamison’s The Empahy Exams: Essays. By Sejal H. Patel
Devotion in the Study of Religion
Featured Devotion in the Study of Religion Illustration by Gracia Lam Vocation Summer/Autumn 2014...
Visiting the Void
Many recovery workers periodically return to Ground Zero as a way of reconnecting with the values they experienced there. By Kate Yanina DeConinck
Exotic Ordinary
Action and passion coexist in this portrait of one spirit medium in Madagascar, evoking complex philosophical questions. By Michael Lambek
The Meaning of a Saint
Vrajaprana’s Interpreting Ramakrishna: Kali’s Child Revisited. By Francis X. Clooney, S.J.
Why Study Religion in the Twenty-first Century?
There is a constantly growing need for religious studies to contribute to the public world of contemporary life and practice. By William A. Graham
By Love We Are Led to God
We must embrace the most important engagements God offers us, even though they will happen in unlikely places and with unlikely people. By Christian Wiman
The Rationalization of Suffering
Christianity and psychiatry advance opposite models of suffering, leading to complex negotiations in the lives of patients and in the wider culture. By James Davies
The Dialogue of Socialism
Nineteenth-century Protestant utopian communities and radical political organizations provided a venue for early interfaith dialogue. By Dan McKanan
Spiritual but Not Religious
Many moderns tend to presume practicing religion risks making one less spiritual, but sophisticated writings by medieval monastics suggest that traditions, texts, and rituals provide the very means for engendering a spiritual like. By Amy Hollywood
The Resurgence of Imagination
The traditional Freudian suspicion of the spiritual should not stop psychoanalysts from borrowing from Eastern meditative disciplines. By Sudhir Kakar
