Jumping across time and space and traversing religious practices, the essays in this forum present glimpses into the diversity and…
Asian American religions: Transforming our religious ecology
American religion
The affective allure of authoritarianism
In late summer 2021, media platforms in the United States were electric with news of right-wing pundit Tucker Carlson’s visit…
The Gods of Indian Country: An introduction
Throughout my research, I encountered many stories like Cûifā́gàui’s, in which Native people struggled as traditional formats for accessing sacred…
At home in the world
McAlister aims for nothing less than a repositioning of the history of American evangelicalism, from an almost entirely domestic context…
Revisited: Sex abuse and the study of religion
In summer 2010, Robert Orsi, Terence McKiernan, and I began a conversation about the sex abuse scandal in the Roman Catholic Church.…
Changing the frame: American evangelicalism in global perspective
Rather than continuing to conjecture about Trump’s most faithful constituency, what if observers of contemporary American Christianity asked a different…
Political myopia and prophetic vision
The hit HBO show Game of Thrones (GoT), for example, is billed as epic fantasy, but at its heart it…
Good troublemakers
Today, as political arrogance, partisan polarization, and information tribalism threaten to engulf our public life, it is crucial that we…
Spiral glimpses
This anniversary forum invites us to think together about epochal entrance, temporal markings, defining frames, and what the forum’s curators…
India in the American imagination: Historicizing the politics of representation
Continuing to reinforce the centrality of white Protestant capitalist culture to American identity sometimes requires Americans to turn their hostile…