The human drama has often been told as a dynamic of thoughts and reasons driving history forward. But this misses…
Donovan Schaefer
Donovan Schaefer is an associate professor in the Department of Religious Studies at the University of Pennsylvania. He is the author of Religious Affects: Animality, Evolution, and Power (Duke University Press, 2015) and the award-winning Wild Experiment: Feeling Science and Secularism after Darwin (Duke University Press, 2022). His research and teaching examine the roles of affect and power in formations of the secular, religion, race, science, and material culture.
Latest posts
Credulity, or Science as an intoxication
February 22, 2019
[Emily] Ogden intends to “accentuate the negative,” so the train of questions I have—questions that view science in a more…
Material mourning in the secular sculpture garden
March 2, 2018
The memorialization of Soviet soldiers in Berlin was not simply a functional political tactic; it was an expression of national…