Freedom does not keep well. It spoils if left unattended. Someone has to notice before it curdles, before it slips away.
Freedom is best served daily
United States
Revisited: Political religion and crises of legitimacy
In 2017, I argued that the concepts of civil and political religions help explain contemporary sociopolitical developments in Russia and…
Archaeology of a book/film
American Afterlives documents rapidly changing death practices in the United States while asking what this change tells us about American…
US Indo-Caribbeans becoming visible through Hinduism
The unique history of Indo-Caribbean migration to the United States allows us to rethink who counts as Asian American and…
Unveiling decisions and narratives in post-9/11 America
“It was never an option for me to take off my hijab and run, and that should never be something…
No olvidados: Unclaimable bodies of the US-Mexico border
US migration policies are not only intentionally deadly but also are designed to produce ambiguous loss across migrant sending communities.…
Racism and sectarianism
My use of Du Bois here is to think through fundamentally coeval, yet different, histories, vocabularies, and trajectories of discrimination…
Time Incorporated and the Pennsylvania Land Company
Kristen Beales and Eden Consenstein discuss religion, economics, and the corporate form with examples from their research on the Pennsylvania…
Nature as protective strategy: The environment and a new normal
In the spirit of the critique of categories in the study of religion as protective strategies, I wonder what nature…
The everyday ecology of antiblack religion
I have been confounded by the similarities between how white Christian reformers understood blackness and how those same assumptions are…