I very much appreciate the scholarship of Jonathon Kahn and Mary Keller, so am particularly grateful for this opportunity to…
Religious naturalism, myriad nature, and justice: A reply to Kahn and Keller
Book blog
Scholars from varying disciplines engage in critical discussions of recent books. Additionally, scholars introduce their books with an original essay or, occasionally, an original essay reviews an important new book, connecting it to other threads of conversation in the academy and beyond.
You can read our very first book forum, on Charles Taylor’s A Secular Age and the continued discussion around Varieties of Secularism in a Secular Age here.
Black Lives: Triangulations with the natural world
In Black Lives and Sacred Humanity Carol Wayne White accomplishes two important things with regard to querying normativity and the…
A natural vision of justice amidst the pandemic
Reading Carol Wayne White’s Black Lives and Sacred Humanity: Toward an African American Religious Naturalism during summer 2020 was an…
Nature and normativity: New inquiries into the natural world
The books selected for this forum traverse the fields of environmental studies, Islamic studies, and the philosophy of religion. They…
“. . . by law established”: A transatlantic dialogue
One aspect of recent developments in the religious clause jurisprudence you describe leaves me puzzled, and I wonder if you…
Why not just abolish the religion clauses?
“What is a church in the mind of a secular American today?” “How does US law imagine religion?” and “Where…
Imagining community
I was so glad for a book that systematically discarded the American “separation of church and state” paradigm, which despite…
Jurisdictions of the church
Can you reflect a bit on how you see the developments you chart against the history of American Christianity? Even…
An American political theology?
One question I have been thinking about is whether contested political theologies can coexist with collective governance, which would have…
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…