Field Note from Standing Rock
Evan Simko-Bednarski‘s Field Notes from a reporting trip to the Oceti Sakowin Camp of the Standing Rock Sioux in December of 2016. Continue Reading →
Author: Kali Handelman
The Patient Body: Marina Abramovic and the Efficacy of Performance
“The Patient Body” is a monthly column by Ann Neumann about issues at the intersection of religion and medicine. This month: Marina Abramovic’s performances and pain. Continue Reading →
Private Suffering in Political Circumstances
In the Godforsaken Wilderness is a blog by Patrick Blanchfield
being published in the wake of the 2016 presidential election. Continue Reading →
In the News: Reading & Resisting
A round-up of recent religion news. Continue Reading →
Letter of Support for Muslim Communities
Simran Jeet Singh‘s advice on how to offer support for Muslim neighbors. Continue Reading →
Justification by (Bad) Faith: Evangelical Trump Voters and Public Morality
Ryan T. Woods reflects on why character mattered less than political advantage to many evangelical voters. Continue Reading →
The Patient Body: Our Sick Body Politic
“The Patient Body” is a monthly column by Ann Neumann about issues at the intersection of religion and medicine. This month: Politicizing sick bodies and the body politic’s sickness. Continue Reading →
The American Apocalyptic Sublime and the Twilight of Empire
Ed Simon pulls at the thread of eschatomania linking an apocalypitic puritan poem to today’s news and literature. Continue Reading →
Brokenheartlands: Arlie Russell Hochschild’s Strangers in Their Own Land
Patrick Blanchfield reviews Strangers in Their Own Land: Anger and Mourning on the American Right by Arlie Russell Hochschild. Continue Reading →
“Don’t Leave Me”: Resisting, Reconfiguring, and Representing Identity in Jill Soloway’s “Transparent”
Geoffrey Pollick explores modes and moments of disidentification in season three of “Transparent” Continue Reading →