In this conversation, we gather on Women With A Vision’s front porch, hallowed grounds of New Orleans Black feminist struggle,…
Building the world that must be
spirituality
A new American way of death
I can’t think of any scholarly projects, books or otherwise, that begin and end at the author’s grave. And certainly…
Sacred experiments, intimate politics
On walks between writing, when I pass the California poppies, I let them press into my mind, remembering a poem…
Faith in American democracy? Prospects for renewal amid crisis
We are living in a moment of intense anxiety about the fate of democracy around the world. Democratic institutions are…
The corporate nature of “alternative” practices
Ioannis Gaitanidis and Aike P. Rots, scholars of contemporary Asian religion, discuss commercial spirituality and corporate myth-making with examples from…
In the spirit of reconciliation
Pamela Klassen offers her subtle and judicious book to us “in the spirit” of the call issued in the 2015…
Capturing spirituality
The album below brings together some of the "photographs" of spirituality that the medical sciences have produced. Each photograph of…
Holy attention as art
Importantly, Marno reminds us not to confuse holy attention with religious experience, experience in the sense of suddenly experiencing something…
Secularism and the Animist Indigene
In the prompt that we sent to the authors participating in this forum, Vincent Lloyd and I asked a series of questions…
Fluid indigeneity: Indians, Catholicism, and Spanish law in the mutable Americas
In this forum, “indigeneity” faces off against European “settler colonialism.” If the twenty-first century mode of conceptualizing indigenous resistance to…