First Impressions #59: The Study Qur’an
Kristian Petersen talks with Caner Dagli of College of the Holy Cross, Maria Dakake of George Mason University, and Joseph Lumbard of American
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MRBlog | #ParisIsBurning: On Recent Representations of Terror
By Sarah Rollens Whenever a devastating act of terrorism occurs in Europe or America, many scholars of religion cringe, knowing that often it
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First Impressions #58: Father James Martin
Art Remillard talks with Father James Martin about his debut novel, The Abbey: A Story of Discovery. Father Martin is a Jesuit priest and
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Impolite Conversation #5: #BlackLivesMatter and Black Protestant Activism
On this episode, we talk to Melina Abdullah, a scholar of and activist within the #BlackLivesMatter movement about how the movement sees itself
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Directions in the Study of Religion: Ben Brazil
Kristian Petersen talks with Ben Brazil, Assistant Professor at Earlham School of Religion, about Youth Travel and Spiritual Seeking.
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First Impressions #56: Zackery Heern
Kristian Petersen talks with Zackery Heern, Assistant Professor of History at Idaho State University, about his new book The Emergence of Modern Shiʿism:
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First Impressions #55: Heath Carter
Art Remillard talks with Heath Carter about his new book, Union Made: Working People and the Rise of Social Christianity in Chicago. Carter is
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The Theological Questions of Ecological Economics – By Kevin O’Brien
Kevin O’Brien on Alistair Young’s Environment, Economy, and Christian Ethics When we argue about climate change, what are we really arguing about? A
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Christian Sex, Christian Ethics – By Marvin M. Ellison
Marvin M. Ellison on Jung and Stephens’s Professional Sexual Ethics When it comes to sex and sexuality, Christians are often at their worst: fearful
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Architecture, Ascetics, and Agency – By Katherine Kasdorf
Katherine Kasdorf on Tamara Sears’s Worldly Gurus and Spiritual Kings In a village in central India, two medieval buildings stand side by side.
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