I recently cowrote a grant proposal called “Being Human” and contributed to the creation of a new Center for Religion…
Constance M. Furey
Constance M. Furey, PhD University of Chicago, is professor in the department of religious studies, Indiana University Bloomington, where she writes and teaches on theology, literature, and relationships in early modern European Christianity. Her most recent book is Poetic Relations: Faith and Intimacy in the English Reformation (Chicago, 2017).
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Devout death
November 30, 2017
Marno's argument about the philosophical import of holy attention puts death in a curious position. Death becomes a cognitive problem…
Where I’m going
November 13, 2017
I have, on the whole, avoided studying or teaching about death, intent on showing my students that there is more…
Theologies of American exceptionalism: Winthrop and Cavell
February 13, 2017
"Among the many possible ways of figuring, interpreting, and receiving the problem of American exceptionalism, Cavell pursues a line of…
Calvin’s questions: A response to Jonathan Sheehan
September 21, 2016
In “Teaching Calvin in California,” a recent piece in The New York Times, Jonathan Sheehan argues that students in secular…
Besides
March 15, 2012
I love the story about Shakeela Hassan. I just told it again last night, in fact. In the late 1950s,…