The UCSIA Summer School is a one-week mentoring programme that encourages doctoral and postdoctoral students to explore interdisciplinary ways of analysing the relationship between religion, culture and society.
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We the People of the Book
In 2004, four US college students were arrested for stealing a book. A rare first edition of John James Audubon’s Birds of America was stored in special collections at Transylvania University in…
Polarization and world-building
Each of the essays in this forum offers a different theoretical, disciplinary, and intellectual approach to the intersection of anti-Muslim bias and White Christian Nationalism (WCN). All seven essays point to a…
Spatial Islamophobia, conflict democracy, and Muslim cemeteries as place-making for the future
I see several old Southern Baptist and Methodist churches, some with graveyards, as I drive along in a small Southern town right outside of the city of Atlanta in Georgia. This town…
Keeping the faith: Queer religion as a template for political resistance to white Christian nationalism
“Dear Friend, Militant homosexuals are plotting a dangerously different future for America!” began a 1984 letter from Jerry Falwell, cofounder of the Moral Majority.[i] Falwell, a minister at the Thomas Road Baptist…
White Christian nationalism and the racial politics of analogy
What if the crowds who attacked the United States Capitol building on January 6, 2021, were not dominantly white and Christian but rather Black and/or Muslim? Variations of this question appeared across…