by joelabrown | Dec 14, 2016 | Uncategorized
by William Schweiker and Günter Thomas In this issue of the Religion and Culture Web Forum Professors William Schweiker (The University of Chicago Divinity School) and Günter Thomas (Ruhr-University Bochum) offer a report on The Enhancing Life Project. As Professors...
by joelabrown | Nov 15, 2016 | Uncategorized
by Michele Ferris This month the Religion and Culture Web Forum welcomes Divinity School PhD student Michele Ferris. Her piece, “God in the 2015-2016 Presidential Debates: Using American Civil Religion and Public Religion to Win Party Delegates,”...
by joelabrown | Oct 16, 2016 | Uncategorized
by Philip L. Tite At 2 a.m. on Sunday June 12th in the Pulse nightclub in Orlando, Florida gunshots were heard by patrons. The nightmare that they experienced did not end until 5 a.m. when police killed Omar Mateen, the alleged shooter who had been holding hostages...
by joelabrown | Sep 14, 2016 | Uncategorized
by Nancy Frankenberry This month the Religion and Culture Web Forum welcomes Martin Marty Center Senior Fellow Nancy Frankenberry. Her piece, “Believing Scientists in America: Polling from Leuba to Larson to Pew,” offers an exploration of the findings and...
by joelabrown | Aug 15, 2016 | Uncategorized
by Christine Libby This paper proposes to rethink the somatic and affective reverberations of ecstasy, in a celibate religious context, as a way of expanding the horizons of sexuality beyond an acts and identities paradigm. Focusing on the medieval mystic text The...
by joelabrown | Nov 1, 2015 | Uncategorized
with Professor Curtis J. Evans RCWF: How do you understand the term “the black church” as it has been and is being used by both scholars and non-scholars alike? How is it defined? What do people mean when they use it? EVANS: I don’t think most people...
by joelabrown | Oct 1, 2015 | Uncategorized
with Professor David Carrasco As the Divinity School ushers in a new academic year, the Religion and Culture Web Forum is delighted to share an interview with Professor David Carrasco, the Divinity School’s 2014 Alumnus of the Year and the Neil L. Rudenstine...
by joelabrown | Sep 1, 2015 | Uncategorized
by Betty M. Bayer What does it mean to speak of encountering a work published decades ago–especially when that work exceeds the bounds of time, place and disciplinary field? And how might we create an ethnography of these encounters to understand larger...
by joelabrown | Aug 1, 2015 | Uncategorized
by Emily D. Crews In 2010 The Immanent Frame, a website published in conjunction with the Social Science Research Council, released a report entitled, “The New Landscape of the Religion Blogosphere.” The study traced the contours of the changing terrain of writing...
by joelabrown | Jun 1, 2015 | Uncategorized
In this issue the Religion and Culture Web Forum features commentary on Islam in France in the wake of the events that occurred at the French magazine Charlie Hebdo on January 7th, 2015. This issue includes an initial article by Jean-Luc Marion, responses to Marion...
