Political Feelings: Derangement Syndromes
“Political Feelings” is a bi-monthly column by Patrick Blanchfield about stories, scenes and studies of religion in American culture. This month: Derangement Syndromes. Continue Reading →
Category: In the World
Religion & Media Around the World
Refusing to Vanish: Muslim Women’s AIDS Activism
Laura McTighe, along with Waheedah Shabazz-El and Faghmeda Miller, tells the story of how two Muslim women have turned their personal struggles into public lives of meaning. Continue Reading →
Interpretation and Incoherence: Teaching “A Serious Man” and the Book of Job
Todd Berzon on teaching the mysterious opening scene of the Coen Brothers film “A Serious Man” alongside the Book of Job. Continue Reading →
God is Good, Part 2: Field Notes from Nigeria
A series of vignettes from Southern Nigeria by Fortune Onyiorah Continue Reading →
God is Good: Religious Expression in Southern Nigeria
A photo essay from Southern Nigeria by Fortune Onyiorah Continue Reading →
The Prince of This World: Adam Kotsko and Patrick Blanchfield in Conversation
Adam Kotsko discusses his book The Prince of This World with The Revealer‘s Patrick Blanchfield Continue Reading →
Love in the Time of Scholarship
Anand Venkatkrishnans‘s Field Note on the hidden heart of scholarship.
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The New (and Old) Politics of Evangelical Identification
Ryan T. Woods explains why it is so hard to define American evangelicalism. Continue Reading →
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 →
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 →