On walks between writing, when I pass the California poppies, I let them press into my mind, remembering a poem…
Sacred experiments, intimate politics
social movements
Apocalypse when? Andean world-turnings in an era of neoliberalism, and after
Anthropologists Rudi Colloredo-Mansfeld and Taylor C. Nelms set their discussion of neoliberalism and apocalypse in Ecuador during the turn of…
Abolition is sacred work
White siblings, the work of today is the work of this year is the work of our lifetimes.
Black Lives: Triangulations with the natural world
In Black Lives and Sacred Humanity Carol Wayne White accomplishes two important things with regard to querying normativity and the…
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…
Gandhi’s birthday and the American religious left
For those of us in the United States, Gandhi’s birthday is also an opportunity to reflect on how lessons from…
Does the United States need a religious left?
Such sudden injunctions to mobilize religion for political gains ignore the fact that progressive and radical religious movements have been…
The religious left: Memory, trajectory, relevance
What is the “religious left” and what are its prospects for responding to the current moment of authoritarian populism? The…
Sharia Compliant—An introduction
Observing and participating in Muslim conversations on Islamic law through a decolonial lens led me to see that debate as…
A crisis of political arrogance
In this series, scholars and practitioners attend to these varied ways in which religious individuals and groups engage in public…