I was so glad for a book that systematically discarded the American “separation of church and state” paradigm, which despite…
Imagining community
United States
Jurisdictions of the church
Can you reflect a bit on how you see the developments you chart against the history of American Christianity? Even…
Placing the pandemic in time: Astrology and Covid-19
Many Americans have turned to astrology, the study of correlations between celestial patterns and temporal events, to make sense of…
Muslims and the American political imaginary during a pandemic
The fact that American Muslims have not been singled out during the current pandemic—particularly when viewed in light of the…
President Trump visits St. John’s Church
The important story here is not about the president’s religion. Indeed, talk of the church is in many ways a…
Pandemics in the post-grid imaginary
A post-grid imaginary is inadequate for dealing with a pandemic. Ultimately Covid-19 tests our fragile, fragmented infrastructures—whether in Lebanon or…
“Citizen science,” environmental action, and religious pluralism
I joined Restoring Eden as a participant observer in 2016, soon after they carried out a series of citizen science…
Practices of relation: Gorski and Perry
Sociologists Philip Gorski and Samuel Perry engage one another in critical dialogue around White Christian Nationalism in the United States.
The religious left left
At BeLoved, we would not call ourselves the religious left (though we are). We would call each other family because…
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…