#TimesUp and the Myth of Neutral Space | a response
The Issue This year has brought a reawakening and amplification of social awareness on gender-related issues in the public sphere. Inspired by the voices of the #MeToo and #TimesUp movements, the May-June issue of the Forum takes up the question of how scholars whose...
The Will to Ignorance: #MeToo as Pedagogical Crisis
The Issue This year has brought a reawakening and amplification of social awareness on gender-related issues in the public sphere. Inspired by the voices of the #MeToo and #TimesUp movements, the May-June issue of the Forum takes up the question of how scholars whose...
#MeToo and Discourses of Love: A Mormon Case Study
The Issue This year has brought a reawakening and amplification of social awareness on gender-related issues in the public sphere. Inspired by the voices of the #MeToo and #TimesUp movements, the May-June issue of the Forum takes up the question of how scholars whose...
Textual Harassment: Reading Medieval Arabic Love Verse in the Context of Consent
The Issue This year has brought a reawakening and amplification of social awareness on gender-related issues in the public sphere. Inspired by the voices of the #MeToo and #TimesUp movements, the May-June issue of the Forum takes up the question of how scholars whose...
How Black Panther Betrays Dr. King’s Dream
Abstract The April issue of the Forum features John Sianghio's (University of Chicago) essay, "How Black Panther Betrays Dr. King’s Dream." Ryan Coogler’s Black Panther has conquered the world. Beyond being a box office blockbuster, communities of color and colonized...
Religion and Religious Expression in the Academy and Public Life
This month's issue of the Forum features a recent panel discussion co-sponsored by the Martin Marty Center for the Public Understanding of Religion on the theme, "Religion and Religious Expression in the Academy and Public Life." The panel included featured guest...
Don’t Forget Trump’s Pentecostal Fans | a response
In "Don't Forget Trump's Pentecostal Fans," Arlene Sánchez-Walsh (Azusa Pacific University), responds to David Barr's (University of Chicago) essay featured in this month's issue of the Forum, "Evangelical Support for Trump as a Moral Project: Description and...
A War for the Soul of American Evangelicalism | a response
In "A War for the Soul of American Evangelicalism," Samuel Perry (University of Oklahoma) responds to David Barr's (University of Chicago) essay featured in this month's issue of the Forum, "Evangelical Support for Trump as a Moral Project: Description and Critique."...
American Evangelical Support for Donald Trump: Mostly American, and Only Sort-of “Evangelical” | a response
In "American Evangelical Support for Donald Trump: Mostly American, and Only Sort-of 'Evangelical'," John G. Stackhouse, Jr. (Ph.D. ’87), responds to David Barr's (University of Chicago) essay featured in this month's issue of the Forum, "Evangelical Support for Trump...
On Political Theology and Religious Nationalism | a response
In "On Political Theology and Religious Nationalism," Benjamin Lynerd (Christopher Newport University) responds to David Barr's (University of Chicago) essay featured in this month's issue of the Forum, "Evangelical Support for Trump as a Moral Project: Description...
Evangelical Support for Trump as a Moral Project: Description and Critique
The January issue of the Forum features David Barr's (University of Chicago) essay, "Evangelical Support for Trump as a Moral Project: Description and Critique." The rise of Donald J. Trump to the presidency has caused a crisis of misunderstanding in American...
Envisioning a Fragile Justice
Darryl Dale-Ferguson (University of Chicago) brings our series on Enhancing Life to a close with his essay, "Envisioning a Fragile Justice." He argues that human life is fragile and precarious, our knowledge and capacities limited and fallible. This is perhaps nowhere...
