The Study of Religion on the Other Side of Disgust
Modern Catholic sexuality is a dark and troubled landscape. By Robert A. Orsi
Featured
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. By Linda Dittmar
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.” By Celene Ibrahim, Taymullah Abdur-Rahman, Matthew Blair Holt, Lauren Seganos Cohen, and Nora Zaki
Turning Ancestors into Ghosts in Contemporary Urban China
Understanding contemporary religious life in China requires a religious imagination freed from the preconception of monotheism. By Anna Sun
Dialogue
The Interreligious Resilience of Varanasi
Telling and passing down narratives of interreligious amity in cities like Varanasi can demonstrate the countervailing power of peace. By Kalpana Jain
Wakanda and Black Queer Moral Imaginaries
Black Panther serves as a moral imaginary pointing to freedom, fugitivity, and black queer ethical action. By Thelathia Nikki Young
Reclaiming Egalitarian Jewish Wedding Customs
Reclaiming modern Jewish wedding processional customs to open up a liminal space for women to be seen in between. By Jessica Rosenberg
Answering the Humble Knock
A grandmother’s confident compassion for drifters models how to nourish others. By John Gifford
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. By Ingrid Norton
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. By LeRhonda S. Manigault-Bryant
Syllabus
Faith in the Fire: Religious Public Intellectuals
A selected reading list from Cornel West and Jonathan L. Walton’s course
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
Books
How Khmer Buddhists Reconstructed Identity and Community in the U.S.
Chipamong Chowdhury reviews Carol A. Mortlans’s Cambodian Buddhism in the United States
poetry
Tulip Fever
By Adrie Kusserow
Two Poems
Sacrum convivium
The Susquehanna by Moonlight
by Nathan Spoon
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. By Wendy McDowell
