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First Impressions # 96: Media, Race, and Sexuality in Transnational Santería

November 8, 2016November 8, 2016

Santería, as a site of analytical inquiry, disrupts many of dominant theoretical approaches to the study of transnational religion. Kristian Petersen talks with ... [Read More]

Religion, Conservatism, and American Public Life: 2016 – by Benjamin Rolsky

November 4, 2016

Is Trump Archie Bunker? With less than a week before the election, political pundits and academic commentators are scrambling for the latest polling ... [Read More]

MRBlog | Is Hillary Clinton a Heretic?

November 4, 2016November 4, 2016

By Thomas J. Whitley Hillary Clinton is a heretic. Or, at least this is what CNN’s Religion Editor Daniel Burke would have ... [Read More]

Omid Safi on American Muslims and the 2016 Election

November 3, 2016November 3, 2016

Professor Omid Safi reflects on the choices facing American Muslims in light of the 2016 Presidential election. Safi is a columnist for On Being and ... [Read More]

Impolite Conversation #17: The “God Gap” and Final 2016 Campaign Thoughts

November 1, 2016November 1, 2016

This month on Impolite Conversation, we talk with a scholar who wants to challenge the conventional wisdom on the “God gap,” and then ... [Read More]

Subtle Censorship? – by Nausikaä El-Mecky

October 26, 2016October 28, 2016

Nausikaä El-Mecky on the censorship of art and a scandal in Slovakia It’s not so easy to get rid of controversial art these days. ... [Read More]

First Impressions # 95: Eva Mroczek on the Literary Imagination in Jewish Antiquity

October 25, 2016October 25, 2016

There was no such thing as the Bible when ancient Jewish literature was composed. With a more expansive view of sources, we can ... [Read More]

MRBlog | Creating Race

October 24, 2016October 24, 2016

By Thomas J. Whitley We can definitely define the race of people. So said North Carolina Governor Pat McCrory back in May in ... [Read More]

First Impressions # 94: Claire Chambers on Britain Through Muslim Literary Representations

October 18, 2016October 18, 2016

What does Britain look like from the perspective of Muslims across the eighteenth century until today? Kristian Petersen talks with Claire Chambers, Lecturer ... [Read More]

MRBlog | Religious Cover for an Aspiring War Criminal

October 13, 2016October 13, 2016

By Charles Halton On July 28, 2016 conservative evangelicalism’s most prominent ethicist threw his support behind a presidential candidate who repudiates practically ... [Read More]

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