Jumping across time and space and traversing religious practices, the essays in this forum present glimpses into the diversity and…
Asian American religions: Transforming our religious ecology
immigration
Between Mother India and Jim Crow: Yoga in the United States during the interwar decades
The conventional wisdom of scholars over the last several decades has held that yoga became popular in America after the…
Asian American religions: Everywhere, all at once
“Asian American religions: Everywhere, all at once” invites readers to the multiverse of religious experiences in Asian America. This set…
No olvidados: Unclaimable bodies of the US-Mexico border
US migration policies are not only intentionally deadly but also are designed to produce ambiguous loss across migrant sending communities.…
Pandemic security and insecurity in the Gulf
Covid-19 might be just another crisis in the Gulf region from which these societies will rebound to their former cartography…
Borderlands of the sacred
Americans have long sacralized ordinary objects through memory work that reveals the power of the state, that transforms otherwise familiar,…
Bringing fathers more fully into view
Christian theology has seemingly forgotten the Father’s ironic relationship with the Son, lost sight of the Father’s worry and concern…
Bordering the Kingdom
If the Kingdom of God has no borders, then this can be true only for those for whom borders do…
Trafficking as terror
The “war on terror” and the “war on trafficking,” two seemingly separate discourses, have become interwoven in recent years, castigating…
On In the Name of Women’s Rights
Femonationalism is the term I introduce to describe both how nationalist right-wing parties exploit feminist ideas within Islamophobic campaigns, and…