Considering that this global pandemic only exacerbates the existing material, psychological, ontological, and metaphysical violence wielded by an anti-Black world,…
Distorted mirrors: Toward a clear gaze on Black suffering
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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…
Is Europe (still) white?
But what does it mean to link Europe’s tarnished soul with an inquiry into the Christian nature of the continent,…
Social activism and rooted liberationist religion in Brazil
Religious leftists in Brazil—of all faiths, with Catholics most prominent among them—already lean on established institutions in combination with the…
Complicit scholarship
As participants in the academic project, we must ask: How are we complicit in maintaining the whiteness and maleness of…
In defense of “crazy fatherhood,” or Parenting ain’t easy
Conscious, intentional fatherhood has limited celebration in these parts, especially that which refuses to center the father in ways the…
United States religion in a transnational frame
How does McAlister’s account of religion and politics square with the prominent themes of contemporary developments?
Solidarity as the undoing of white supremacy
Solidarity is, in fact, the modus operandus of her entire project. Solidarity is made for Bouteldja through connections that transgress…
Making a scene
Bouteldja speaks to us like one of those books we need, one of these books that wake us up with…
Conversion and race in colonial slavery
Why was black conversion so controversial? Or to put it differently, why did the baptism of enslaved and free black…