“Indignation, Empathy, and Solidarity”: How does it play in Corvallis? | a response by Courtney S. Campbell
Courtney S. Campbell (Oregon State University) responds to Divinity School Professor Richard B. Miller's fifth chapter, "Indignation, Empathy, and Solidarity," in Friends and Other Strangers: Studies in Religion, Ethics, and Culture (Columbia University Press, 2016)....
Virtue and Vice in Moral Critique | a response by Cristina L. H. Traina
Cristina L.H. Traina (Northwestern University) responds to Divinity School Professor Richard B. Miller's third chapter, "Moral Authority and Moral Critique in An Age of Ethnocentric Anxiety," in Friends and Other Strangers: Studies in Religion, Ethics, and Culture...
Reflections on Moral Difference | a response by Caroline Anglim
Caroline Anglim (University of Chicago) responds to Divinity School Professor Richard B. Miller's third chapter, "Moral Authority and Moral Critique in An Age of Ethnocentric Anxiety," in Friends and Other Strangers: Studies in Religion, Ethics, and Culture (Columbia...
Thinking Normatively about Culture | a response by Thomas A. Tweed
Thomas A. Tweed (University of Notre Dame) responds to Divinity School Professor Richard B. Miller's second chapter, "On Making a Cultural Turn in Religious Ethics," in Friends and Other Strangers: Studies in Religion, Ethics, and Culture (Columbia University Press,...
Friends and Other Strangers | by Richard B. Miller
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...
Responses to “Seasons of Our Discontent: Anti-Catholicism, Islamophobia, and Systemic Racism in the United States”
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 Forum, Alexander...
Seasons of Our Discontent: Anti-Catholicism, Islamophobia, and Systemic Racism in the United States
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. Shakespeare's...
Studying Religion in the Era of Trump; Scholars’ Roundtable Response | by Sarah E. Fredericks
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...
Studying Religion in the Era of Trump—Part 5 of a Scholars’ Roundtable | by L. Benjamin Rolsky
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’ roundtable” reflecting on...
Studying Religion in the Era of Trump—Part 4 of a Scholars’ Roundtable | by Arlene M. Sánchez-Walsh
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 the implications...
Studying Religion in the Era of Trump—Part 3 of a Scholars’ Roundtable | by Jawad Anwar Qureshi
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 participate in a “scholars’...
Studying Religion in the Era of Trump — Part 2 of a Scholars’ Roundtable | by Kent Brintnall
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 “scholars’ roundtable”...
