American Afterlives documents rapidly changing death practices in the United States while asking what this change tells us about American…
Archaeology of a book/film
United States
US Indo-Caribbeans becoming visible through Hinduism
The unique history of Indo-Caribbean migration to the United States allows us to rethink who counts as Asian American and…
Unveiling decisions and narratives in post-9/11 America
“It was never an option for me to take off my hijab and run, and that should never be something…
No olvidados: Unclaimable bodies of the US-Mexico border
US migration policies are not only intentionally deadly but also are designed to produce ambiguous loss across migrant sending communities.…
Racism and sectarianism
My use of Du Bois here is to think through fundamentally coeval, yet different, histories, vocabularies, and trajectories of discrimination…
Time Incorporated and the Pennsylvania Land Company
Kristen Beales and Eden Consenstein discuss religion, economics, and the corporate form with examples from their research on the Pennsylvania…
Nature as protective strategy: The environment and a new normal
In the spirit of the critique of categories in the study of religion as protective strategies, I wonder what nature…
The everyday ecology of antiblack religion
I have been confounded by the similarities between how white Christian reformers understood blackness and how those same assumptions are…
Antiblackness as religion: Black living, Black dying, and Covid-19
This forum explores the white American ritual of Black death. It also ruminates on how scholars of religion reckon with…
“. . . by law established”: A transatlantic dialogue
One aspect of recent developments in the religious clause jurisprudence you describe leaves me puzzled, and I wonder if you…