Together, Sex and Secularism and In the Name of Women’s Rights considerably deepen and extend the conversation into which I…
Tracy Fessenden
Tracy Fessenden is the Steve and Margaret Forster Professor in the School of Historical, Philosophical, and Religious Studies at Arizona State University. She is the author of Culture and Redemption: Religion, the Secular, and American Literature (Princeton UP, 2007) and Religion Around Billie Holiday (Penn State UP, 2018).
The lady is unvanquished
Taylor hears Peggy Lee sing “Is That All There Is?” and hears disappointment, ennui, the champagne of life gone flat.…
America’s music
On December 4, 1987 both chambers of the 100th United States Congress passed a “resolution expressing the sense of Congress…
Reflections on summer reading
As the summer months draw to a close, we've turned again to a handful of our contributors, asking: What are…
O tedious selfhood, O aftertaste of splinters
It’s striking to me how often, with what little resistance, the many scholarly forums this book has now generated have…
Reflections on summer reading
As the start of the fall semester inches closer, we’ve invited a handful of our contributors to reflect on what…
Sex and the subject of religion
The current campaign within the Archdiocese of New York to canonize the radical activist Dorothy Day (1897-1980) offers a good…