The Study of Religion on the Other Side of Disgust

Modern Catholic sexuality is a dark and troubled landscape.

Spring/Summer 2019

Featured

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.”

Turning Ancestors into Ghosts in Contemporary Urban China

Understanding contemporary religious life in China requires a religious imagination freewd from the preconception of monotheism.

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.

Dialogue

The Interreligious Resilience of Varanasi

Telling and passing down narratives of interreligious amity in cities like Varanasi can demonstrate the counterveiling power of peace.

Reclaiming Egalitarian Jewish Wedding Customs

Reclaiming modern Jewish wedding processional customs to open up a liminal space for women to be seen in between.

Wakanda and Black Queer Moral Imaginariess

Black Panther serves as a moral imaginary pointing to freedom, fugitivity, and black queer ethical action.

Answering the Humble Knock

A grandmother’s confident compassion for drifters models how to nourish others.

in review

Books

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.

Books

A Christian Pilgrim along the Buddhist Way

Francis X. Clooney, S.J. reviews S. Mark Heim’s Crusified Wisdom: Theological Reflection on Christ and the Bodhisattva

Syllabus

Faith in the Fire: Religious Public Intellectuals

Francis X. Clooney, S.J. reviews S. Mark Heim’s Crusified Wisdom: Theological Reflection on Christ and the Bodhisattva

Film & Television

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

Books

How Khmer Buddhists Reconstructed Identity and Community in the U.S.

Carol A. Mortlans’s Cambodian Buddhism ion the United States.

poetry

Two Poems

“Sacrum Convivium” and “The Susquehanna by Moonlight” by Nathan Spoon

Tulip Fever

by Adrie Kusserow

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perspective

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.”

Cities, Climate Change, and Christianity

The Christian practice of “kenosis” (self-emptying) suggests a way of understanding and living that is urgently needed in our time of environmental and financial chaos.

From the archive

Winter/Spring 2010

Cities, Climate Change, and Christianity

The Christian practice of “kenosis” (self-emptying) suggests a way of understanding and living that is urgently needed in our time of environmental and financial chaos.

Winter/Spring 2010

Cities, Climate Change, and Christianity

The Christian practice of “kenosis” (self-emptying) suggests a way of understanding and living that is urgently needed in our time of environmental and financial chaos.

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