When states support reproductive technologies, they are supporting pronatalism. When access to that reproductive technology in unequal and intentionally directed at some and not others, then that pronatalism becomes a form of…
Latest posts
Pandemic, religion, and public life
Overlooking official responses: Thai Buddhist institutions and Covid-19
September 3, 2020
It is striking to me that most of the discussions of Buddhist responses to Covid particularly in Southeast Asia . . . have ignored institutions, as well as how these institutions have…
September 3, 2020
Religion and reproductive science
Fight over the technological future of motherhood
August 28, 2020
OBOS, first published in 1970 as Women and Their Bodies, A Course, was one of the central texts of the US women’s health movement. Its view of reproductive technologies offers an important…
August 28, 2020
Religion and reproductive science
How religion made modern sex ed
August 21, 2020
Beware the dominant narratives about religion and sex. Things are usually more complicated.
August 21, 2020
Is Europe Christian?
Catholicism and European politics: Two new trends
August 18, 2020
I want to offer a reflection on two religious developments in contemporary Europe that highlight but also challenge Roy’s account and indicate diverging scenarios for the future of Catholic politics in Europe.
August 18, 2020
Religion and reproductive science
Reproductive choice and disability stigma
August 14, 2020
Implicit in the development and implementation of prenatal screenings is the idea that preventing the births of children with disabilities is good, or at least desirable for many women. Disability theorists question…
August 14, 2020
Load more












