by joelabrown | May 10, 2017 | Featured Books, May 2017, Religious Ethics
The May issue of the Forum features Divinity School Professor Richard B. Miller and his most recent book, Friends and Other Strangers: Studies in Religion, Ethics, and Culture (Columbia University Press, 2016). Friends and Other Strangers argues for expanding the...
by joelabrown | Apr 27, 2017 | Uncategorized
Greg Chatterley (University of Chicago) and Andrew Kunze (University of Chicago) respond to Scott C. Alexander’s essay, “Seasons of Our Discontent: Anti-Catholicism, Islamophobia, and Systemic Racism in the United States.” For the April issue of the...
by joelabrown | Apr 14, 2017 | Anti-Catholicism, April 2017, Islamophobia
In this issue of the Forum, Scott C. Alexander offers a comparative historical analysis of two summers in American history of heightened anti-Catholicism (1854) and Islamophobia (2010). He characterizes these summers as “seasons of discontent” (cf....
by joelabrown | Mar 16, 2017 | March 2017, Scholars' Roundtable
For the final installment in this month’s issue of the Forum, Sarah E. Fredericks, Assistant Professor of Environmental Ethics at the Divinity School, offers a response to the previous contributions to the roundtable. For this issue, we invited a small cadre of...
by joelabrown | Mar 8, 2017 | February 2017, Scholars' Roundtable
L. Benjamin Rolsky’s essay, “Taking Conservatism Seriously in the Era of #MAGA,” is the fifth installment in this month’s issue of the Forum. For this issue, we have invited a small cadre of religion scholars to participate in a “scholars’...
by joelabrown | Mar 3, 2017 | February 2017, Scholars' Roundtable
Arlene Sánchez-Walsh’s essay, “Writing Latinxs into the Canon,” is the fourth installment in this month’s issue of the Forum. For this issue, we have invited a small cadre of religion scholars to participate in a “scholars’ roundtable” reflecting on...
by joelabrown | Feb 23, 2017 | February 2017, Scholars' Roundtable
Jawad Anwar Qureshi’s essay, “‘I think Islam hates us’: Teaching Islam in an Islamophobic Era,” is the third installment in this month’s issue of the Forum. For our February issue, we have invited a small cadre of religion scholars to...
by joelabrown | Feb 20, 2017 | February 2017, Scholars' Roundtable
Kent Brintnall’s essay, “It’s Complicated,” is the second post in this month’s issue of the Forum. For the February issue, we have invited a small cadre of religion scholars to participate in a...
by joelabrown | Feb 15, 2017 | February 2017, Scholars' Roundtable
For this month’s issue of the Forum, we have invited a small cadre of religion scholars to participate in a “scholars’ roundtable” reflecting on the implications of a Trump presidency for the academic study (and teaching) of religion....
by joelabrown | Jan 15, 2017 | Uncategorized
This month the Religion & Culture Forum commemorates the retirement of Bruce Lincoln, the Caroline E. Haskell Distinguished Service Professor of the History of Religions at the Divinity School. Lincoln is an alumnus of the Divinity School (PhD, History of...
