Exploring how religious and secular forces interact in the modern world.
Not only does this book present a much-needed decolonial interruption, but it also affirms the necessity of repentance and reconciliation in ensuring a peaceful and just future.
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Although more studies of religion are reproducing resilience as an empirical category, there is little debate about what it means and how it is being used.
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What does it mean for Jesus to be materially and physically supported by land soaked in the blood of enslavement and genocide?
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This piece is co-published with the Critical Investigations into Humanitarianism in Africa blog Pope Francis’s long-awaited trip to the Democratic…
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Christian identity is not a static essence, spiritual or otherwise. Rather, it is an invitation to a journey with a definite direction and telos.
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Katongole listens not only to the stories people tell, but listens for the patterns enfolded within them, and the larger tapestry those patterns make up.
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Rather than disinterested studies of “other people” who might do theology, unlike those of us in the social sciences or humanities, we might imagine those whom we study as fellow travelers with whom we share a world.
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The arts have an ability to explore the potential of religion to contribute to a progressive, critical, and innovative vision for society, and thus to inspire social transformation.
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Van Klinken’s major contribution to the debate is indeed his focus on the use of religiously inspired arguments to challenge homophobia.
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Van Klinken’s book is an astounding ero-ethnography in which the author grapples with the question of the research field as a site of desire and vulnerability.
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