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Call for Applications | Research and Working Group Grants through the Asian Pacific American Religions Research Initiative
by The Editors...functions: building and diversifying scholarship, strengthening the academic pipeline, and promoting public engagement. Research Grants The Asia Pacific American Religions Research Initiative (APARRI) Research Grant supports scholarship that advances the...
October 7, 2022
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Islamic law as “code”: Language, system, power
April 24, 2018
...what seems like the majority of Muslims are preoccupied with pretty mundane questions, that they are quite comfortable with patching, hacking, and reinterpreting texts for new problems, and that there...
April 24, 2018
Ruinations: Violence in these times
Objects, trauma, violence, and loss: Telling stories, doing justice
August 14, 2024
...what I find even more haunting right now is how she described what it is that survivors mourn, what the Holocaust meant to them. She begins with der khurbn, the...
August 14, 2024
Religion, spirituality, and democratic renewal: Essays from our grantees
When does Christian nationalism promote anti-democratic attitudes?
November 15, 2023
...recently associated with the ReAwaken America Tour, a far-right Christian nationalist movement that promotes conspiracies ranging from election fraud to QAnon. Other presidential candidates have also used threat-laced Christian nationalist...
November 15, 2023
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George Lakoff on The Obama Code
by Ruth Braunstein...education, energy, health care. But beyond policy, there will be a vision of America—a moral vision and a view of unity that the pundits often miss. What they miss is...
February 24, 2009
Out there: Perspectives on the study of Black metaphysical religion
Prophetic blackness: The legendary tale of Alexander Bedward, “the flying preacher”
April 22, 2022
...on the year) in St. Andrew Parish, Jamaica, the future prophet endured a childhood of frequent illness that caused him to relocate to Panama, where he eventually gained enough strength...
April 22, 2022
Sex and the Catholic Church: What does law have to do with it?
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March 5, 2019
...instead, is that those tasked with enforcing those codes might be even more lax than the civil police because that code does not have the backing of the state. It...
March 5, 2019
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CFP | UCSIA Summer School – God on Our Side?
by The Editors...in the topic of the summer school. Papers may address, but are not limited to the following questions: What is theological or religious nationalism? What accounts for its rise...
March 4, 2024
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Skyping secularism: Religion and multiple modernities
by Thomas Alberts...over what the boundaries of the community are, what constitutes membership and authority within that community, and then, in the end, what ethical principles should guide policy on issues like...
August 9, 2010