Why has public criticism of the German churches for their conduct during the Nazi era been disproportionately directed at the…
The Battle for the Catholic Past in Germany: An introduction
Catholicism
Fluid indigeneity: Indians, Catholicism, and Spanish law in the mutable Americas
In this forum, “indigeneity” faces off against European “settler colonialism.” If the twenty-first century mode of conceptualizing indigenous resistance to…
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…