At BeLoved, we would not call ourselves the religious left (though we are). We would call each other family because…
The religious left left
United States
The necropolitical law of assassination
With extraterritorial, extrajudicial assassination normalized, and law’s foundational protection of human life selectively discarded, we are witnessing the unfolding of…
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…
Mansplaining religion
While the hot cases [in Malaysia] differ in their details from those in the United States, the structure of the…
Abduction as abduction
Lepselter’s text is a magisterial enactment of the thing that it is ultimately about: American weirdness.
The American romance of the not-so-little black dress
The focus on nuns in Heavenly Bodies highlights the historical oddness—really, the queerness—of nuns in the American imagination. It is…
Patriarchy without fatherhood in the Nation of Islam
In this forum’s considerations of fathers as God-like and God as father-like, the NOI, as well as the Black American…
Global evangelicalism unbound
Defining the boundaries of evangelicalism, always a difficult task, appears even more fraught at a time when (white) evangelicalism has…