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Fall 2024 Call for Individual Essays – US Politics and Religion
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What is your religion?: Hmong Americans and the category of religion
For many Hmong refugees, it was a difficult question to answer. Hmong people historically had not organized their lives around…
Religious publicity and transnational minority politics
Building on earlier work, I show here that transnational Coptic Christians are remapping indigenous narratives of persecution and martyrdom in…
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.…
Covid-19, death, and repatriation in Southern Africa
I argue here that regulations that were set up to prevent the spread of the highly contagious coronavirus have entered…
Dust to dust: A religion of return migration
Below I recount [a] story of death and repatriation in times of Covid-19, not in the voyeuristic manner of mainstream…
Death interrupted: Mourning across borders in the wake of Covid-19
Acknowledging the vast diversity of migratory trajectories around the world, I see important commonalities in the experience of what I…
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…
Populism without borders
In order to grasp the antagonisms covered up by the discourse on populism we should, I suggest, relate it to…
The refugee crisis and religion: Beyond physical and conceptual boundaries
According to the United Nations Refugee Agency (UNHCR), as of the end of 2015, 65.3 million people were displaced globally…