Reading Carol Wayne White’s Black Lives and Sacred Humanity: Toward an African American Religious Naturalism during summer 2020 was an…
A natural vision of justice amidst the pandemic
Covid-19
The pandemic and new Muslim publics
Where Singapore’s Malay-Muslim community has traditionally conceptualized notions of togetherness through the public commemoration of personal events, the hasty digitalization…
Religion in Quarantine: The Future of Religion in a Post-Pandemic World
What would religiosity look like if social distancing became the “new normal”? Would expressions of faith need to become increasingly…
Is Europe Christian?—A reply
I thank the contributors for expanding the conversation with enriching perspectives. Of course, my book has its own limitations in…
Be fruitful and multiply
When states support reproductive technologies, they are supporting pronatalism. When access to that reproductive technology in unequal and intentionally directed…
Overlooking official responses: Thai Buddhist institutions and Covid-19
It is striking to me that most of the discussions of Buddhist responses to Covid particularly in Southeast Asia .…
Placing the pandemic in time: Astrology and Covid-19
Many Americans have turned to astrology, the study of correlations between celestial patterns and temporal events, to make sense of…
Digital media, religious authority, and the Covid-19 pandemic
Though the ultra-Orthodox case is, of course, particular, it calls attention to how digital media may affect religious communities during…
On the night of the Notre-Dame fire
Is Christianity still a foundational element of European identity? How could Christian heritage contribute to revive the European project?
Pandemic security and insecurity in the Gulf
Covid-19 might be just another crisis in the Gulf region from which these societies will rebound to their former cartography…