In this forum, “indigeneity” faces off against European “settler colonialism.” If the twenty-first century mode of conceptualizing indigenous resistance to…
Fluid indigeneity: Indians, Catholicism, and Spanish law in the mutable Americas
Catholicism
CFP | Converting Spaces: Re-Directing Missions Through Global Encounters
The department of religious studies at the University of California-Santa Barbara, with support from the Cordano Endowment in Catholic Studies,…
Beheading the Saint: An introduction
Beheading the Saint is about the shifting relationship between nationalism, religion, and secularism in a society which was, until the…
An exceptional tradition? The Jesuits in the world
In September of this year, the president of Georgetown University, John DeGioia, issued a formal apology for the 1838 sale…
The breaking-in of the gods
In the early pages of my recently published book, History and Presence (Belknap Harvard 2016), I describe something that happened…
Hobbesian Catholicism on the rise in Poland?
The right-wing Law and Justice Party victory in the 2015 parliamentary and presidential elections has opened a new chapter in…
Christianity and human rights at Religion Dispatches
As part of a joint project, Religion Dispatches contributing editor Austin Dacey has written a series of posts on The Immanent Frame's recent…
Roots and routes of rights
Over the past four decades, a cottage industry of important new scholarship has emerged dedicated to the history of rights…
Catholics, anti-Semitism, and the human rights swerve
In signature style, Sam Moyn is poised to launch another spectacular provocation with his forthcoming Christian Human Rights. Building on…
Is secularism still Christian?
In January 2013, hundreds of thousands of French Catholics marched down the streets of Paris to protest the “Marriage For…