In this exchange, Mayanthi Fernando and Susan Harding reflect on the norms and taboos of the secular academy and on what scholars can and cannot do with uncanny experiences.
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Figurative publics: Crowds, protest, and democratic anxieties
“Sing Hallelujah to the Lord”: Secular Christianities on Hong Kong’s Civic Square
April 15, 2020
Situated at what is arguably the founding moment of these 2019 protests, the popularity of “Sing Hallelujah to the Lord” unveils, I claim, the possibility that the relation between “populism” and the…
April 15, 2020
Essays
“Citizen science,” environmental action, and religious pluralism
April 10, 2020
I joined Restoring Eden as a participant observer in 2016, soon after they carried out a series of citizen science projects in the rural, white coalfields of Central Appalachia. As a religion…
April 10, 2020
Practices of relation
Practices of relation: Gorski and Perry
April 2, 2020
Sociologists Philip Gorski and Samuel Perry engage one another in critical dialogue around White Christian Nationalism in the United States.
April 2, 2020
Figurative publics: Crowds, protest, and democratic anxieties
Figurations of menace
April 1, 2020
This essay is about fear, menace, violence, and the question of “the people.”
April 1, 2020
Figurative publics: Crowds, protest, and democratic anxieties
Channeling populism
March 18, 2020
The first step toward a rigorous analysis of media and populism is to provincialize the influence of charismatic leaders like Hugo Chávez.
March 18, 2020
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