Anthropologists Rudi Colloredo-Mansfeld and Taylor C. Nelms set their discussion of neoliberalism and apocalypse in Ecuador during the turn of…
Apocalypse when? Andean world-turnings in an era of neoliberalism, and after
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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…
Overlapping senses of salvation
With a Guatemala’s history of social and political instability, the place of religion in public life is often fraught with…
A changing papacy?
On December 11, Time Magazine named Pope Francis its 2013 “Person of the Year.” The award, according to Time, seeks to honor the…
The Vatican Spring?
Does the election of Francis I signal a major shift in Vatican policy, structure, or doctrine? How significant is Francis’…
Habemus Papam: Pope Francis Roundup
On March 13, 2013, after five rounds of voting, Cardinal Jorge Bergoglio of Argentina was selected as pope, making him…
Is Latin America losing its religion?
Writing in the Christian Century, Philip Jenkins suggests that there are signs of an early stage European style "secularization" at…
Brazil’s religious right
In the Guardian, Tom Phillips profiles Jean Wyllys, Brazil's first openly gay MP---and explores the growing political voice of the…
The Vatican and the Bolivarian revolution
Last month, Wikileaks released a confidential 2005 U.S. embassy cable that provides an inside perspective on the Vatican's views of…
Religions and rights: An interview with Richard Amesbury
Though currently on sabbatical at the University of Zürich, Richard Amesbury teaches religious and philosophical ethics at the Claremont School…