December 2009
‘Something Deeper than Reason’: Violence and Nonviolence in the Plowshares Nuclear Disarmament Movement
by Kristen J. Tobey (University of Chicago)
With invited responses by Sharon Erickson Nepstad (University of New Mexico), Jon Pahl (Lutheran Theological Seminary at Philadelphia), and Scott Appleby (University of Notre Dame).
November 2009
Theorizing Theodicy in the Study of Religion
by Mark S. M. Scott
With invited responses by Kevin Taylor (Boston University), Sally Stamper (University of Chicago Divinity School), Charles Long (University of California, Santa Barbara, emeritus), and Bryan L. Wagoner (Harvard University).
October 2009
Recent Work in Pragmatism that Takes Religion Seriously: Making Room for Radical Impermanence and Existential Issues
by Andre C. Willis
With an invited response by Corey D. B. Walker (Brown University).
September 2009
Eating, Feeding, and Flesh: Food in Victorian Spiritualsim
by Marlene Tromp
With invited responses by Gail Turley Houston (University of New Mexico) and Daniel Sack (University of Chicago).
July 2009
Flowers in the Dark: African American Consciousness, Laughter, and Resistance in Toni Morrison’s Beloved
by Jacqueline Bussie
With invited responses by John Howell (University of Chicago), Cooper Harriss (University of Chicago),Joseph Winters (Princeton University), and Zhange Ni (Virginia Tech).
June 2009
Sacred Property: Searching for Value in the 9/11 Rubble
by Mateo Taussig-Rubbo
With invited responses by Winnifred Fallers Sullivan (University at Buffalo), Kathryn Lofton (Visiting Fellow, Princeton University), Kristen Tobey (PhD candidate, University of Chicago), and Jeremy Biles(School of the Art Institute of Chicago).
May 2009
Religion, Media, and Cultural Studies
by Richard Fox (University of Chicago)
With invited responses by Stewart Hoover (University of Colorado), Ghada Hashem Talhami (Lake Forest College), Mark Hobart (University of London), and Kathleen Moore (University of California, Santa Barbara).
April 2009
Oprah: Gospel of an Icon
by Kathryn Lofton (Yale University)
With invited responses by Daniel Sack (University of Chicago), Kerry Ferris (Northern Illinois University), Gary Laderman (Emory University), Aaron Jaffe (University of Louisville), and Jane Iwamura (University of Southern California).
March 2009
Theological Cartography and the Arboreal Imagination in Israel-Palestine
by Alain Epp Weaver (University of Chicago)
With invited responses by David Blakewell Burrell, S.C.S. (Notre Dame University), Amahl Bishara(Tufts University), and Loren Lybarger (Ohio University).
February 2009
The Virtual Rebbe
by Jeffrey Shandler
With invited responses by Sarah Imhoff (University of Chicago), Ellen Koskoff (University of Rochester), and Faye Ginsburg (New York University).
January 2009
The Capability of Play
by Jeffrey Irving Israel
With invited responses by Sarah Hammerschlag (Williams College), Barbra Barnett (PhD candidate, University of Chicago Divinity School), and Jal Mehta (Harvard Graduate School of Education).