“To have or not have sex,” writes R. Marie Griffith, “is a vital symbolic and discursive arena for [enacting] the relationship…
Rabid for a peace
violence
Thinking about religion and violence
In the past fifty years, the study of religion and violence has grown exponentially. One reason for this is obvious:…
Understanding and undoing the far right: India and beyond
Rather than speak of the “right,” we in this concluding essay urge all to call these projects what they actually…
No olvidados: Unclaimable bodies of the US-Mexico border
US migration policies are not only intentionally deadly but also are designed to produce ambiguous loss across migrant sending communities.…
The everyday ecology of antiblack religion
I have been confounded by the similarities between how white Christian reformers understood blackness and how those same assumptions are…
Bearing witness to testimonies of antiblackness
Social justice movements such as Black Lives Matter highlight the unequal social position afforded Black people and disparities in their…
A theodicy of the unliving, or, Why I won’t teach my Black Lives Matter class anymore
For the past three years, I have taught a course entitled “#BlackLivesMatter and Religion.” [. . .] But after this…
Figurations of menace
This essay is about fear, menace, violence, and the question of “the people.”
What does a son want?
To discuss fathers and their divinization and not mention Sigmund Freud would be surprising, albeit a welcome surprise in some…
Christian theology, feminism, and unmarked fatherhood
For a female theologian of my age, writing a post on divine fatherhood is a strange throwback experience.