Over the last few years, we have seen what Candace Lukasik has aptly termed “anxious scholarly debate” regarding the rise…
Before Christian nationalism: Syncretic civic moralism, the Supreme Court, and the formation of young Americans
political theology
Conducts of revolt: Refusing a Napoleonic politics of religion
One of the interesting things about religious nationalisms is their interchangeablity. I remember reading Peter van der Veer’s book, Religious…
An American political theology?
One question I have been thinking about is whether contested political theologies can coexist with collective governance, which would have…
The political theology of corona, the virus with a crown
A new sovereign—a virus with a crown—has revealed two contrasting realms of the sacred during its own state of emergency.
At home in the world
McAlister aims for nothing less than a repositioning of the history of American evangelicalism, from an almost entirely domestic context…
Enchanted complicity
Could there be anything more American than flying to a remote and impoverished place with no goal other than a…
Theologies of American exceptionalism: Ali and Khomeini
This is the fourth installment in this series of paired essays. In this post, Noah Salomon reflects on Noble Drew…
Religion, secularism, and Black Lives Matter
In February 2012, 17-year-old Trayvon Martin was fatally shot by George Zimmerman in Sanford, Florida. Zimmerman was initially released on…
The religious roots of ISIS
At Arc of the Universe, Daniel Philpott draws from the recent New York Times article, "ISIS Enshrines a Theology of Rape"…
Minding the other modernities
Let me start with a confession. I am not particularly keen on stories of modernity in which “modernity” figures as…