In late summer 2021, media platforms in the United States were electric with news of right-wing pundit Tucker Carlson’s visit…
The affective allure of authoritarianism
Christianity
Time Incorporated and the Pennsylvania Land Company
Kristen Beales and Eden Consenstein discuss religion, economics, and the corporate form with examples from their research on the Pennsylvania…
Neoliberalism and ambient apocalypse
In this dialogue, Courtney Bender and Todne Thomas discuss monumentality, slow violence, and sightlines of neoliberalism and apocalypse; the affective…
Nature as protective strategy: The environment and a new normal
In the spirit of the critique of categories in the study of religion as protective strategies, I wonder what nature…
Social climates beyond belief and doubt
Robin Globus Veldman’s The Gospel of Climate Skepticism is a timely intervention into longstanding debates about the relationship between religious…
Is Europe Christian?—A reply
I thank the contributors for expanding the conversation with enriching perspectives. Of course, my book has its own limitations in…
Be fruitful and multiply
When states support reproductive technologies, they are supporting pronatalism. When access to that reproductive technology in unequal and intentionally directed…
Catholicism and European politics: Two new trends
I want to offer a reflection on two religious developments in contemporary Europe that highlight but also challenge Roy’s account…
Self-inflicted wounds: The Church and dissipation of Christianity in Europe
[I]t bears emphasizing that the Roman Catholic Church itself is complicit in ensuring Christianity’s disappearance in Europe, even more fundamentally…
Is Europe (still) white?
But what does it mean to link Europe’s tarnished soul with an inquiry into the Christian nature of the continent,…