‘A Pedagogy of Coming to See’
A Q&A with Francis X. Clooney, S.J., about his memoir Hindu and Catholic, Priest and Scholar: A Love Story. By Wendy McDowell
A Q&A with Francis X. Clooney, S.J., about his memoir Hindu and Catholic, Priest and Scholar: A Love Story. By Wendy McDowell
Recent interventions within the field of Islamic studies require a shift in focus to the lives and practices of Muslims, without eschewing attention to texts. By Hussein Rashid And Huma Mohibullah
A selected reading list from Janet Gyatso’s course.
Jeffrey J. Kripal’s The Superhumanities: Historical Precedents, Moral Objections, New Realities calls for a “postcritical” study of religion that embraces more expansive anthropologies, ontologies, and epistemologies. By Charles M. Stang
Many traditional religious denominations are withering, but there can be liberation if we embrace refitting the old systems in new ways. By Sue Phillips
In Blood Theology: Seeing Red in Body- and God-Talk, Eugene F. Rogers, Jr. exposes the toxic allure of blood imagery in Christian art, literature, and practices. By Mark D. Jordan
Womanism founders Katie Cannon and Delores Williams created groundbreaking work that has led to a wide range of scholarship focused on the thriving of Black women. By Gary Dorrien
The digital revolution and globalization have accelerated and redirected profound religious, social, and cultural changes already underway since the 1960s. By David N. Hempton
A reading list from Jon D. Levenson’s course.
To avoid the continuous misassessment of their resilience, African indigenous religions should be studied on their own terms. By Jacob K. Olupona
A Q&A with Stephanie Paulsell on her latest book, Religion Around Virginia Woolf. By Sarah Fleming
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
Understanding contemporary religious life in China requires a religious imagination freed from the preconceptions of monotheism. By Anna Sun
A selected reading list from Cornel West and Jonathan L. Walton’s course
Harvard’s trajectory from Christian Hebraism to modern Jewish Studies and one larger-than-life professor critical to the transition. By Jon D. Levenson
The U.S.-Mexico borderlands are seen through a lens of the sacred vs. the profane by many state actors. By Christopher Montoya
Featured Devotion in the Study of Religion Illustration by Gracia Lam Vocation Summer/Autumn 2014...
Eleven reflections on religious and ethnic conflict, drawing on the author’s formative experience living through the Troubles in Northern Ireland. By David N. Hempton
Privileged members of academia need to go further to challenge the structures that support prejudice and domination. By Elisabeth Schüssler Fiorenza
There is a constantly growing need for religious studies to contribute to the public world of contemporary life and practice. By William A. Graham