Resilient Democracy in the Anthropocene
Michael S. Hogue (PhD '05) offers the next contribution to our issue on Enhancing Life with his essay, "Resilient Democracy in the Anthropocene." Hogue's work in the Enhancing Life Project has been organized around two types of questions, hermeneutic/analytic ones and...
Enhancing Racialized Social Life: The Implicit Spiritual Dimension of Critical Race Theory
Andrew Packman (University of Chicago) joins the roundtable with his essay, "Enhancing Racialized Social Life: The Implicit Spiritual Dimension of Critical Race Theory." Packman's post asks what it means to enhance life generally by asking what it means to enhance...
Vitality in Vulnerability: Realistic Anthropology as Humanistic Anthropology
Heike Springhart (University of Heidelberg) contributes the next installment in our new extended issue with her essay, "Vitality in Vulnerability: Realistic Anthropology as Humanistic Anthropology." The November-December issue of the Forum features the Enhancing Life...
“Aliveness” and a Taste of Glory
As we enter a holiday season filled with feasts and festivities, Kristine A. Culp (University of Chicago), in conversation with John Calvin, invites us to consider the relationship between theology and the food we enjoy, the relationship between glory and gastronomy....
Attending to Insects
Anne T. Mocko (PhD '12) contributes the next installment in our new extended issue with her essay, "Attending to Insects." The essay is part of Professor Mocko's current Enhancing Life manuscript, Eco-Karma: What Western environmentalists might learn from India’s...
Enhancing Life and the Forms of Freedom
Professor William Schweiker (U. of Chicago) kicks off a new extended issue of the Forum with his essay, "Enhancing Life and the Forms of Freedom." The November-December issue features the Enhancing Life Project, which takes aim at addressing one of the most basic...
On difficulties and (de-)formation: Modest reflections (questions, really) on the potential uses of theology and theory for religious practice (and vice versa) in light of and after #Charlottesville
The third post in our October issue of the Forum comes from Brandy Daniels (University of Virginia), a religious leader and scholar who participated alongside other clergy and religious leaders in the Charlottesville counter-protests. In this essay, Daniels considers...
Genesis and the Journey from Charlottesville to a New Vision of Community
The second post in our October issue of the Forum comes from Amanda Mbuvi (High Point University), a Hebrew Bible scholar, in which she offers the book of Genesis as a potential resource for rethinking notions of race and identity in light of recent events. For our...
Religious Strategies of White Nationalism at Charlottesville
The October issue of the Forum kicks off with an essay by Damon Berry (St. Lawrence University), a scholar of religion in white nationalism, in which he explores the religious strategy employed by white nationalists at the Charlottesville protests this past August....
To Reimagine Healthcare, We Must Remember Who We Are
Raymond Barfield (Duke University) concludes our roundtable on healthcare and religion with his response to the roundtable, "To Reimagine Healthcare, We Must Remember Who We Are." The September issue of the Forum explores the place of religion and the academic study...
“The seeds of compassion and duty”: An Early Americanist Take on Healthcare
Philippa Koch (PhD '16) joins our scholars' roundtable on healthcare and religion with her essay, "'The seeds of compassion and duty': An Early Americanist Take on Healthcare." The September issue of the Forum explores the place of religion and the academic study of...
Disability Theology and the Healthcare Debate
Courtney Wilder (PhD '08) joins our scholars' roundtable on healthcare and religion with her essay, "Disability Theology and the Healthcare Debate." The September issue of the Forum explores the place of religion and the academic study of religion vis-à-vis the...
