Realizing my pandemic amnesia is yet another confirmation of the interpretive power of positionality and the never-ending work of learning…
Mysteries of transmission: Thinking in a pandemic
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Pandemics and the meaning of Black religion
What language and frameworks do we draw upon to name the impact of the violent conflation of global state-sanctioned antiblack…
Distorted mirrors: Toward a clear gaze on Black suffering
Considering that this global pandemic only exacerbates the existing material, psychological, ontological, and metaphysical violence wielded by an anti-Black world,…
Antiblackness as religion: Black living, Black dying, and Covid-19
This forum explores the white American ritual of Black death. It also ruminates on how scholars of religion reckon with…
Presence and contagion
If scholars define Catholicism by its sacramentality, its commitment to an embodied encounter with the divine in real time, what…
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…
Religion in Quarantine: The Future of Religion in a Post-Pandemic World
What would religiosity look like if social distancing became the “new normal”? Would expressions of faith need to become increasingly…
Carrying risk in antiquity and the present
I have been struck by similarities with how Romans managed uncertainty. Using some material from my current project, this essay…
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…
A wedding in a cemetery: Judaism, terror, and pandemic
American Jews have no scapegoats or sacrificial lambs to offer in response to Covid-19 nor desire to hold a shvartze…