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on SHAME By Insa Verbeck I’ve always wondered how the words SHAME and SHAMAN sound so terribly similar. My name is Insa. I am an academic and a shaman. I read the news, I read Read more…
on SHAME By Insa Verbeck I’ve always wondered how the words SHAME and SHAMAN sound so terribly similar. My name is Insa. I am an academic and a shaman. I read the news, I read Read more…
Afrikanerdom and Its Lessons for Other Religious Nationalists By Retief Müller Is religion a blessing or a curse when it comes to political identities and their underpinning belief systems? The answer to this depends in Read more…
Muslims and Christians in Community: Pluralism in the Philosophies of Bela and Tara Miti Tomi Nuku By Jear N D K Nenohai Kampung Ilawe is a small village located between the hillside and shore of Read more…
Florida Is Burning: A Call for Connective Knowledge Systems By Whitney A. Bauman During the post-civil war era, there was a struggle to begin to define an “American” history. As you might imagine, those in Read more…
The City Myth: Barad’s Agential Realism on Urban-Rural Division By Rezza P. Setiawan Our understandings of our own environments are broken. We separate where we should not, and we join together where we should not Read more…
Decolonizing for the Planetary Community A Counterpoint Conversation at the conference of the International Society for the Study of Religion, Nature, and Culture (ISSRNC) Please join us online for a Counterpoint Conversation and panel discussion Read more…
The Role of Fictional Thinking in Climate Grief By Tamar Brandsma Climate change is one of the biggest problems of our era. We are facing natural losses at an accelerating pace: extraordinary species are under Read more…
Starving the Flame of Hate Speech: The Obligations of Ethical and Religious Communities By John Thatamanil Kanye West likes Hitler. Now we know. We also know that hate speech flourishes when it is given free Read more…
The Indecency of the World Cup in Qatar—Making a F-ing Difference? By Dion Forster I love Berlin! It is an amazing city. I have been here many times in the last decade. As I write Read more…
Rosemary Radford Ruether: A Prophet of the Planetary By Whitney A. Bauman At a recent meeting of the American Academy of Religion, there was much sharing of memories about prominent scholars in religious studies who Read more…