Exploring how religious and secular forces interact in the modern world.
This series addresses complex ways in which people become attached to particular understandings of the nation and the role of religion in either supporting or hindering that attachment.
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There are broad zones of ambiguity and aporia in every culture. And it is in those zones that one can find promise and potential.
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Our research in East London shows how citizens in some of the poorest neighborhoods of England harnessed their religious convictions to work together to discern and promote a truly common good.
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The Shabbat massacre is not only a hate crime. It is also the latest expression of racialized Christian construction of boundaries.
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Do particular national experiences and historical locations constrain or broaden one’s ethical commitments?
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Of course, not all religious conservatives feel attracted to the populist message. Which do? Religious nationalists.
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Newly empowered, US white nationalists straddle pre- or a-modern theology and Christianity, re-constructed and re-lived on internet forums and tv-shows of late-modernity. Willard tracks the contentions in the US white nationalist right through the lens of Arendt’s “Origins of Totalitarianism”.
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Brenna Moore points to Catholicism’s legacy of “risky thinkers” and rich theological resources as potential tools for resistance.
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