Cannon, Williams, and Womanist Survival
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
Category: Study of Religion
Words in the Blood
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
Only Connect: Networked Christianity in the Digital Age
The digital revolution and globalization have accelerated and redirected profound religious, social, and cultural changes already underway since the 1960s. By David N. Hempton
Selected Works of Twentieth-Century Jewish Theology
A reading list from Jon D. Levenson’s course.
Rethinking the Study of African Indigenous Religions
To avoid the continuous misassessment of their resilience, African indigenous religions should be studied on their own terms. By Jacob K. Olupona
‘Literature is Common Ground’: On Reading Virginia Woolf
A Q&A with Stephanie Paulsell on her latest book, Religion Around Virginia Woolf. By Sarah Fleming
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
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
Faith in the Fire: Religious Public Intellectuals
A selected reading list from Cornel West and Jonathan L. Walton’s course
A ‘View Of Judaism in its Own Terms
Harvard’s trajectory from Christian Hebraism to modern Jewish Studies and one larger-than-life professor critical to the transition. By Jon D. Levenson
Between the Sacred and the Profane: The Border as a Contested Space
The U.S.-Mexico borderlands are seen through a lens of the sacred vs. the profane by many state actors. By Christopher Montoya
Devotion in the Study of Religion
Featured Devotion in the Study of Religion Illustration by Gracia Lam Vocation Summer/Autumn 2014...
The Fog of Religious Conflict
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
Diversity Troubles
Privileged members of academia need to go further to challenge the structures that support prejudice and domination. By Elisabeth Schüssler Fiorenza
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
Christianity Becomes Unfamiliar
As Christianity’s center of gravity shifts, the emerging field of world Christianity is changing the study of world religions. By Devaka Premawardhana
Patterns from Particularities
Jean DeBernardi’s The Way That Lives in the Heart: Chinese Popular Religion and Spirit Mediums in Penang, Malaysia and Leor Halevi’s Muhammad’s Grave: Death Rites and the Making of Islamic Society. by Steven P. Hopkins
New Bridges across Old Divides
Ann Taves’s Religious Experience Reconsidered: A Building-Block Approach to the Study of Religion and Other Special Things. By Scott Appleby
Acts of Devotion
A writer’s encounter with iconography in Patmos, Greece, challenges commonly accepted ideas about artistic originality and intention. By D. Y. Béchard
Constitutionally Sound, Educationally Innovative
The American Academy of Religion establishes content and skill guidelines to help public school educators teach about religion appropriately. By Diane L. Moore
