Books
Ways of Knowing, Ethics of Care in Piranesi’s Labyrinth
Susanna Clarke’s Piranesi evokes an ethics of care within a mythical landscape haunted by continuous loss. By Courtney Sender
Centering Black Evangelicals and Their Stories
A Q&A with Todne Thomas on her latest book, Kincraft: The Making of Black Evangelical Sociality. By Adam McNeil
Contemplative Prayer in Christianity
A reading list from Stephanie Paulsell’s seminar.
Calvin, Capitalism, and Predestination
Benjamin Friedman’s Religion and the Rise of Capitalism prompts us to consider the conditions under which the idea of divine chosenness might appear in our social landscapes. By Michelle Sanchez
Religion, Economics, and the Stories We Tell
Benjamin Friedman’s Religion and the Rise of Capitalism challenges scholarly truisms by showing how a set of Protestant theological claims influenced economic thought and practice. By Devin Singh
Encounters with the Possible
A Q&A with Charles Hallisey on his new book, Poems of the First Buddhist Women: A Translation of the Therigatha. By Sarah Fleming
The Deliciousness of Truth
Black and Buddhist: In the face of white supremacy, Buddhism reteaches us how to relate to truth and to one another. By Pamela Ayo Yetunde
A Full-Bodied Dharma
Black and Buddhist: Contributors to this volume take refuge in embodied practice and in vibrant community. By Judith Simmer-Brown
Freedom Doesn’t Happen in a Day
Four voices celebrate the publication of Black and Buddhist: What Buddhism Can Teach Us about Race, Resilience, Transformation, and Freedom. Buddhism offers practical tools to work through intergenerational trauma. By Cheryl A. Giles
Black Women, Black Church, and Self-Narratives
A selected reading list of classic and contemporary memoir and autobiography from Nyasha Junior’s course.
Film & Television
Battles of Wills
Stalingrad and Sophie Scholl: The Final Days. By Kevin Madigan
Teflon Televangelists
For true believers, televangelists’ misdeeds just don’t matter. By Mark I. Pinsky
White Hats and Black Hats
A documentary filmmaker who deals with religion searches for humanity behind the symbols. By Alex Kronemer
Peeking over to the Other Side
Children of Men and An Inconvenient Truth. By Brin Stevens
Riding the Seesaw of Faith and Reason
Bill Moyers on Faith and Reason, a series of 12 interviews on PBS. By Will Joyner
Iran’s Invisible Candidates
Mrs. President: Women and Political Leadership in Iran. By Shahla Haeri
The Reader, the Evangelists, and the Wardrobe
Disney’sNarnia. By Mark I. Pinsky
Hollywood’s Take on the Crusades
Ridley Scott’s Kingdom of Heaven. By Harvey Cox
Shylock Re-Shot
Michael Radford’s The Merchant of Venice. By Kevin Madigan
