The Study of Religion on the Other Side of Disgust
Modern Catholic sexuality is a dark and troubled landscape.
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
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.
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
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
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
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.
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.