The spirited refusal of conceited and deaf forms of state secularity is on stark display in many contemporary protest movements. This is…
Greg Johnson
Greg Johnson is Associate Professor and Chair of the Department of Religious Studies at the University of Colorado, Boulder. His research focuses upon contemporary indigenous religious traditions, particularly as expressed in episodes of legal struggle. He is the author of Sacred Claims: Repatriation and Living Tradition (UVA Press, 2007), and his current book project, Religion in the Moment: Contemporary Lives of Indigenous Traditions, addresses several unfolding repatriation disputes and theorizes these with reference to significant currents in the postcolonial study of religion. Johnson is currently Chair of the Law, Religion and Culture Group of the American Academy of Religion.
Social eugenics, unintended consequences, and dropped balls
These essays provoked me in a number of ways, especially with their combined penchant for probing raw nerves. Indeed, I…
Crossed signals and grave misunderstandings
In Sunday school I learned that the cross points to the empty tomb. Given how easily theological concepts jump the…