Refusal is shorthand for saying, “We’ve seen this before and we don’t want it; and not only don’t we want…
Indigenous refusals and near others
religious studies
Making persons, cultures, and nations
In this exchange, Levi McLaughlin and Deonnie Moodie discuss person-making, culture-making, and nation-making projects in Japan and India.
Corporate missions: Commerce, freedom, and the public good
In this conversation, Chad Seales and Timothy Rainey address what role corporations should assume in achieving the public good. While…
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…
The trouble with “true” environmentalism: Religion, nature, and normativity
While it is tempting to seek solutions to the environmental crisis through scholarship on religion and the environment, religious studies…
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…
Ethical response and the environmental humanities
Gade approaches the question of justice as a scholar of the history of religions and environmental studies. A study of…
On disciplines and non-knowing: A reply to Agnes Callard
In religious studies . . . our students learn non-knowing not by thinking their way to it, but by actually…
The discipline of Radio Mind
Pamela Klassen skillfully leads readers to consider important underlying and interconnected concerns throughout The Story of Radio Mind, including occasions…
Death doulas and diversity: Teaching applied religious studies
In the past few months, I have watched learning in community partnership focus my students: their research has a defined…