“My Homosexuality Is Getting Worse Every Day”: Norman Vincent Peale, Psychiatry, and the Liberal Protestant Response to Same-Sex Desires in Mid-Twentieth Century America
"My Homosexuality Is Getting Worse Every Day": Norman Vincent Peale, Psychiatry, and the Liberal Protestant Response to Same-Sex Desires in Mid-Twentieth Century America by Rebecca Davis (University of Delaware) Read the essay (excerpt) and the related talk. With...
Pussy Riot, the Media, and Church-State Relations in Russia Today
Pussy Riot, the Media, and Church-State Relations in Russia Today by Katja Richters (University of Erfurt) With invited responses by: Bryce E. Rich (University of Chicago); and Catherine Wanner (Penn State University).
“Culture” and “Religion”: Immigration, Islams and Race in 1970s Paris
"Culture" and "Religion": Immigration, Islams and Race in 1970s Paris by Naomi Davidson (University of Ottawa) With invited responses by: M. Christian Green (Emory University); M.J.M. (Marcel) Maussen (University of Amsterdam); and Tara Zahra (University of Chicago)....
Discursive Formation around “Shinto” in Colonial Korea
Discursive Formation around "Shinto" in Colonial Korea by Isomae Jun'ichi (International Research Center for Japanese Studies, Kyoto) With invited responses by Galen Amstutz (Institute of Buddhist Studies); Klaus Antoni (University of Tübingen); Frederick R....
“Give me back my children!” Traumatic Reenactment and Tenuous Democratic Public Spheres
"Give me back my children!" Traumatic Reenactment and Tenuous Democratic Public Spheres by Mark Auslander (Central Washington University) With invited responses by: John Howell (University of Chicago); and Edward Linenthal (Indiana University).
Month without the Gods: Shinto and Authority in Early Modern Japan
Month without the Gods: Shinto and Authority in Early Modern Japan by Yijiang Zhong (Asia Research Institute; National University of Singapore) With invited responses by: Isomae Jun'ichi (International Research Center for Japanese Studies, Kyoto); Trent E....
Up, Over, Through: Rethinking “Conversion” as a Category of Hindu-Christian Studies
Up, Over, Through: Rethinking "Conversion" as a Category of Hindu-Christian Studies by Reid B. Locklin (St. Michael's College, University of Toronto) With invited responses by: Chad Bauman (Butler University); Roselle Gonsalves (University of Calgary); Jeffery...
Three Lights on the Queen’s Face: On Mixing, Muddle, and Mêlée
Three Lights on the Queen’s Face: On Mixing, Muddle, and Mêlée by Larisa Jasarevic (University of Chicago) With invited responses by: Azra Hromadzic (Syracuse University); Ivana Maček (Uppsala University, Sweden); Adeline Masquelier (Tulane University); and Peter J....
“How Could Their Food Not Be Impure?” Jewish Food and the Definition of Christianity
"How Could Their Food Not Be Impure?" Jewish Food and the Definition of Christianity by David M. Freidenreich (Colby College) With invited responses by: Anna Sapir Abulafia (Lucy Cavendish College, University of Cambridge); Alexandra Cuffel (Käte Hamburger Kolleg for...
Voices of Despair and Gestures of Grief in Rituals of Mourning and Italian Marian Laments in the late Middle Ages
Voices of Despair and Gestures of Grief in Rituals of Mourning and Italian Marian Laments in the late Middle Ages by Emanuela Zanotti Carney (University of Illinois—Chicago) With invited responses by: Gail Holst-Warhaft (Cornell University, Comparative Literature);...
Drought: Confronting Vulnerability
Drought: Confronting Vulnerability Jonathan Wyn Schofer (Harvard Divinity School, Comparative Ethics) With invited responses by: Julia Watts Belser (Missouri State University; Harvard Divinity School, Religious Studies and Jewish Studies); Diana Cates (University of...
2011 Issues
December 2011 Whose Lion Is It, Anyway? Rescuing the Chronicles of Narnia from the Christian Academy by Emanuelle Burton (University of Chicago; Martin Marty Center Dissertation Fellow) With invited responses by: Robert Boenig (Texas A&M University, English);...
