One question I have been thinking about is whether contested political theologies can coexist with collective governance, which would have…
An American political theology?
Judaism
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…
Practices of relation: Baer and Imhoff
Marc David Baer and Sarah Imhoff discuss each other’s works and the ways they intersect.
A wedding in a cemetery: Judaism, terror, and pandemic
American Jews have no scapegoats or sacrificial lambs to offer in response to Covid-19 nor desire to hold a shvartze…
Being mother/being God
In Jewish theology, an aura of heresy still clings to the metaphor of God as mother.
The myth of secular law as savior
Like the good religion/bad religion dichotomy familiar to religious studies scholars, the good law/bad law dichotomy structures implicit judgments of…
Who needs conversion? Jewish conversion in a time of shattered boundaries
The idea that Jewish conversion might be unessential seems both provocative and counterintuitive. . . . Yet, in this short…
Secular, sacred, Yiddish, Jewish
In considering immanentism, it is difficult not to imagine it in religious terms. This is all the more so when…
Muslim fears and Muslim rights
Muslims played a crucial role in determining the full extent of religious liberty in the early history of the United…
Theologies of American exceptionalism: Cohen and Kahn
This is the fifth and final installment in the "Theologies of American exceptionalism" series. In this final post, Shaul Magid…