The implications of Dawn for the study of religion are vast. We could consider the evidence that Graeber and Wengrow…
Back to basics, or how to tell a new origin story
Ecologies of the dead and living: Mourning out of place
This forum initiates a conversation on the meaning and consequences of death across societies and time periods, drawing together scholars…
Translation and the afterlives of Anglophone theory
This forum draws together scholars of religion, state, and society to initiate a conversation around translation and its place within…
The corporate form
This forum responds to a recent call in the Journal of the American Academy of Religion and extends earlier TIF discussions on philanthropy,…
Church State Corporation—An introduction
Following this introduction, five dialogues will be published in which Sullivan was paired with another scholar to discuss Church State…
Creating the Universe
What if we thought differently about the one scholar = total knowledge model? How might scholars advance the academic study…
What are oaths good for?
As American statesmen and a US Supreme Court Justice in the ’90s were figuring out what to do with their…
Hate speech, religious insult, critique: Introduction
Scholars from a variety of disciplinary backgrounds were invited to consider the ways in which the legal distinction between belief…
Crossing and conversion: Introduction
This forum draws on a range of historical and contemporary case studies to show that conversions rarely converge on the…
Out of time
I entered the Old City the same day that I watched Inferno, bookends of roughly a five-hour span. I could…