I have been confounded by the similarities between how white Christian reformers understood blackness and how those same assumptions are…
The everyday ecology of antiblack religion
new religious movements
Subjects, spirituality, and smoking: An interview with Hubert Knoblauch
After discussing the general contours of the sociology of religion in Germany today (see part 1), I had a chance…
Mexico’s Saint Death
In the Washington Post, William Booth reports on the growing popularity of Santa Muerte.
A progressive evangelical movement?
When people hear the words "progressive" and "evangelical" together, a sort of cognitive dissonance occurs. Meshing the notions of Jerry…