I argue here that regulations that were set up to prevent the spread of the highly contagious coronavirus have entered…
Covid-19, death, and repatriation in Southern Africa
Covid-19
Dust to dust: A religion of return migration
Below I recount [a] story of death and repatriation in times of Covid-19, not in the voyeuristic manner of mainstream…
Death interrupted: Mourning across borders in the wake of Covid-19
Acknowledging the vast diversity of migratory trajectories around the world, I see important commonalities in the experience of what I…
Ecologies of the dead and living: Mourning out of place
This forum initiates a conversation on the meaning and consequences of death across societies and time periods, drawing together scholars…
Mysteries of transmission: Thinking in a pandemic
Realizing my pandemic amnesia is yet another confirmation of the interpretive power of positionality and the never-ending work of learning…
Pandemics and the meaning of Black religion
What language and frameworks do we draw upon to name the impact of the violent conflation of global state-sanctioned antiblack…
Distorted mirrors: Toward a clear gaze on Black suffering
Considering that this global pandemic only exacerbates the existing material, psychological, ontological, and metaphysical violence wielded by an anti-Black world,…
A theodicy of the unliving, or, Why I won’t teach my Black Lives Matter class anymore
For the past three years, I have taught a course entitled “#BlackLivesMatter and Religion.” [. . .] But after this…
Antiblackness as religion: Black living, Black dying, and Covid-19
This forum explores the white American ritual of Black death. It also ruminates on how scholars of religion reckon with…
Presence and contagion
If scholars define Catholicism by its sacramentality, its commitment to an embodied encounter with the divine in real time, what…