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Beyoncé Gives Us a Black, Queer, and Spiritual Renaissance
Dr. Darnise C. Martin
The Revealer
7 December 2023
What the Ghost of Madame Lalaurie Teaches Us About Systemic Racism
Dr. Eugenia Rainey
Teen Vogue
4 December 2023
AI and Religion
Dr. Heather Mellquist Lehto
Bloomberg
22 November 2023
Revisiting 'Enter the Wu-Tang (36 Chambers)' 30 years later
Marcus Evans
NPR
5 November 2023
The Listening Post
Dr. Lee Scharnick-Udemans
Al Jazeera
3 November 2023
Episode 41: Sexual Ethics for Today's World
Dr. Rebecca Epstein-Levi
The Revealer
2 November 2023
‘Enter the Wu-Tang (36 Chambers)’ turns 30: How the album pays homage to hip-hop’s mythical and martial arts origins
Marcus Evans
The Conversation
31 October 2023
Our Good Life-New York
Dr. Jorge Rodriguez
Our Good Life Project
11 October 2023
Ironic Progress: The Hindu Right’s Expansion of Abortion Access
Dr. Dheepa Sundaram
The Revealer
4 October 2023
Dr. Samira Mehta
The Revealer
4 October 2023
HOMEGOING: Commemorating Black, Queer Church Musicians Lost to aids
Dr. Lynne Gerber
The Revealer
6 September 2023
Unlearning Academic Writing Tics and Reaching a Broader Audience
Dr Brett Krutzsch
Writing It!
17 July 2023
Pretending to be a gay Haredi man on TikTok does not help queer Orthodox Jews
Dr. Orit Avishai
Forward
23 June 2023
Applied Humanities Podcast
Dr. Amanda Furiasse
10 July 2023
Quarterly Expert Chat with Alana Vincent: Antisemitism Education, Interfaith Dialogue, and Observing Religion in Human Affairs
Dr. Alana Vincent
Chrissy Stroop's Discord Server/Patreon
1 July 2023
Sounds of Religion Poster Exhibition
Co-curator Dr. Vicki Brennan
Smithsonian SITES
1 June 2023
Runaway Robot: An Interactive Adventure
Dr. Andrew Aghapour
National Museum of American History
1 June 2023
Third Eye Wisdom Program
Dr. Andrew Aghapour
Machines In Between
15 May 2023
Tibet: History, Culture, and Religion
Online Course with Dr. Connie Kassor
1 June 2023
Day 88, a sci-fi audio play
Dr. Andrew Aghapour, Dr. Shannon Trosper Schorey
Machines In Between
15 May 2023
Oral History Interview with Clark Sisters
Dr. Ambre Dromgoole
Yale Oral History of American Music repository
12 April 2023
Gay and Orthodox: Book charts the rise of a once unthinkable dual identity in Israel
Interview with Dr. Orit Avishai
Times of Israel
3 April 2023
Why the pronouns used for God matter
Dr. Annie Selak
RNS
7 March 2023
White Women's Bodies and the Dilemma of Purity Culture Recovery
Dr. Sara Moslener
The Revealer
7 February 2023
hitozukuri:How Japanese educators used religion to make ideal humans
Dr. Jolyn Thomas
Aeon
3 February 2023
You Still Don’t Know about Islam, Part 1
E409: You Still Don't Know about Islam
Dr. Kristian Petersen
Keeping It 101
2 February 2022
Why Cal State’s new caste discrimination policy is a critical step
Dr. Dheepa Sundaram
RNS
27 January 2022
Safety at schools must extend to the embrace of symbols of cultural and religious diversity
Dr. Lee Scharnick-Udemans
Daily Maverick
20 January 2023
Descarlized pt.2: “IT’S GOING TO BE HARD TO DRIVE DOWN THAT STREET”
Dr. Alyssa Maldonado-Estrada
DigBoston
6 January 2022
“In the Name Above All Names”:
A Girl Boss Builds Her Empire on Sand
Dr. Samah Choudhury
Uncivil Religion
2 January 2022
Climate Change and Christian Apocalypticism
Dr. Amanda Furiasse
RATLab
12 December 2021
The rise of the muslim sitcom
Dr. Kristian Petersen
The Revealer
9 December 2021
Humanizing American Muslims
Dr. Caleb Elfenbein
The Revealer
9 December 2021
COVID AND THE KING
Dr. Anne Mocko
The Revealer
9 December 2021
what is hinduism? Part 2
Dr. Shreena Niketa Gandhi
Keeping It 101: A Killjoy’s Introduction to Religion
8 December 2021
what is hinduism? part 2
Dr. Dheepa Sundaram
Keeping It 101: A Killjoy’s Introduction to Religion
8 December 2021
combatting islamophobia
in the US
Dr. Caleb Elfenbein
The Revealer Podcast
1 December 2021
Jewish-Christian Dialogue
Dr. Alana Vincent
Classical Ideas
30 November 2021
person shaped holes
Dr. Rebecca Epstein-Levi
JewSchool
29 November 2021
catholic libraries, muslim books
N.A. Mansour
Classical Ideas
20 November 2021
upcharging for hindu weddings?
Dr. Dheepa Sundaram
Religion News Service
17 November 2021
religious pluralism in south africa
Dr. Lee-Shae Scharnick-Udemans
Classical Ideas
13 November 2021
the lives of muslim college students
Dr. Krista Riley
Classical Ideas
9 November 2021
what are indigenous religions? Part 1
Dr. Jolyon Thomas
Keeping It 101: A Killjoy’s Introduction to Religion
13 October 2021
the young lords
Dr. Jorge J. Rodríguez V
Classical Ideas
12 October 2021
Indigenous traditional ecological knowledge
Dr. Abel Gomez
Zero Waste Youth USA
9 October 2021
Jewish farming & the climate crisis
Dr. Adrienne Krone
The Revealer
7 October 2021
weddings, marriage, and divorce in islam
Dr. Kecia Ali
Classical Ideas
6 October 2021
sexual violence on catholic campuses
Dr. Annie Selak
National Catholic Reporter
5 October 2021
religion, science, and the brain
Dr. Andrew Ali Aghapour
Classical Ideas
30 September 2021
african diasporic religions
Dr. Akissi Britton
Keeping It 101: A Killjoy’s Introduction to Religion Podcast
29 September 2021
the new religion journalism
Dr. Brook Wilensky-Lanford
APRIL
28 September 2021
Nepal’s unraveled hindu monarchy
Dr. Anne Mocko
Classical Ideas
24 September 2021
Desacralized
The Church to Luxury Condo Pipeline
Dr. Alyssa Maldonado-Estrada
DigBoston
23 September 2021
Exploring Japan's Way of the Kami
Kaitlyn Ugoretz
Five College Center for East Asian Studies
21 September 2021
the WNBA’s fight for freedom
Dr. Annie Selak
National Catholic Reporter
18 September 2021
shinto online
Kaitlyn Ugoretz
Classical Ideas
18 September 2021
maddened Pedagogies
James Howard Hill, Jr.
Center for Religion and the Human
17 September 2021
the untidiness of Marie kondo
Kaitlyn Ugoretz
JapanKyo
15 September 2021
social media and hinduism
Dr. Dheepa Sundaram
Classical Ideas
12 September 2021
don’t cover for hindu nationalism
Drs. Shreena Gandhi and Dheepa Sundaram
Religion News Service
10 September 2021
china’s own false “War on Terror”
Dr. Kristian Petersen
Al Jazeera
8 September 2021
jewish community farming movement
Dr. Adrienne Krone
Classical Ideas
6 September 2021
white christianity fuels abortion bans
Dr. Sajida Jalalzai
Religion Dispatches
3 September 2021
Heaven Narratives
Dr. Brook Wilensky Lanford
Classical Ideas
31 August 2021
paid family leave and the church
Dr. Annie Selak
Classical Ideas
25 August 2021
Kaitlyn Ugoretz
Eat Pray Anime: “Anime Pilgrimage Explained”
23 August 2021
namaste nationalism
Dr. Dheepa Sundaram
Washington Post / Religion News Service
20 August 2021
french
anti-separatism
Sahar Ahmed
Classical Ideas
19 August 2021
Chicago’s Middle eastern food map
N.A. Mansour
Eater Chicago
11 August 2021
“Pray away” and the ex-gay Movement
Dr. Lynne Gerber
Religion and Politics
10 August 2021
marie Kondo’s Messy Spirituality
Kaitlyn Ugoretz
Washington Post / Religion News Service
3 August 2021
Kaitlyn Ugoretz
Eat Pray Anime: “Google Doodle Champion Island Games Myths & Legends Explained!”
31 July 2021
Gen Z Spirituality
Dr. Brook Wilensky-Lanford
Religion Dispatches
27 July 2021
the rich history of china’s Islam
Dr. Kristian Petersen
New/Lines
27 July 2021
gospel music and spirituality
Ambre Dromgoole
The Metaspiritualist
22 July 2021
Black Women
getting free
Ambre Dromgoole
The Revealer
22 July 2021
US Scholars of India respond to threats
Dr. Dheepa Sundaram
WNYC
19 July 2021
Kaitlyn Ugoretz
Eat Pray Anime: “Kena: Bridge of Spirits”
17 July 2021
Dr. Shreena Niketa Gandhi
SwatTalks Racial Justice Series: “Religion in America’s Story of Racial Justice”
13 July 2021
hindutva’s threat to academic freedom
Dr. Dheepa Sundaram
Washington Post / Religion News Service
8 July 2021
hindutva harassment
field manual
Dr. Dheepa Sundaram
South Asia Scholar Activist Collective
6 July 2021
Kaitlyn Ugoretz
Eat Pray Anime: “Myth Meets Marvel”
3 July 2021
the Catholic Bishops v. Joe Biden
Dr. Annie Selak
Straight White American Jesus
28 June 2021
regendering catholic priesthood
Kori Pacyniak
New Yorker
28 June 2021
joking to resist occupation
N.A. Mansour
Middle East Eye
25 June 2021
Dr. Kristian Petersen
Al Jazeera, “What Will It Take to Boost Muslim Representation in Film?”
24 June 2021
masculinity and faith intersect
Dr. Alyssa Maldonado-Estrada
U.S. Catholic
22 June 2021
worshipping the kami at a distance
Kaitlyn Ugoretz
Deutsches Institut für Japanstudien
17 June 2021
islamophobia and the novel
Dr. Kristian Petersen
New Books in Islamic Studies
11 June 2021
on tantra, Jain style
Dr. Anne Mocko
The Religious Studies Project
11 June 2021
can we celebrate LGBTQ life?
Dr. Brett Krutzsch
Washington Post
11 June 2021
Dr. Alana Vincent
University of Chester, “Is God Male?”
9 June 2021
on white supremacy
Dr. Shreena Niketa Gandhi
Chitheads
8 June 2021
San Francisco’s “AIDS Church”
Dr. Lynne Gerber
The Revealer Podcast
3 June 2021
aids & the blessings of staying
Dr. Lynne Gerber
The Revealer
3 June 2021
Dr. Alyssa Maldonado-Estrada
Empire State Engagements: “Lifeblood of the Parish”
1 June 2021
half of faith: muslim Marriage & Divorce
Dr. Kecia Ali
Open BU
1 June 2021
Quranic SChools in northern nigeria
Dr. Kristian Petersen
New Books in Islamic Studies
28 May 2021
because of palestine
N.A. Mansour
Contingent Magazine
28 May 2021
body languages of catholicism
Dr. Alyssa Maldonado-Estrada
The Religious Studies Project
24 May 2021
islamophobia on facebook & beyond
Dr. Caleb Elfenbein
The Conversation
24 May 2021
challenging racism in consumer culture
Dr. Shreena Niketa Gandhi
MSU, “Anti-racism Insight Series”
20 May 2021
Dr. Lee-Shae Scharnick-Udemans
African Consortium for Law and Religion Studies, “Mediatization of the Family”
17 May 2021
I run to feel human
N.A. Mansour
Bon Appetit
12 May 2021
religion, art, and technology lab
Dr. Amanda Furiasse
May 2021 - present
early christian magic
Dr. Shaily Patel
Classical Ideas
22 April 2021
Reflection on Juz’ 9
Dr. Kayla Renée Wheeler
Sapelo Square
21 April 2021
Dr. Brett Krutzsch
Love Rinse Repeat: “Dying to Be Normal”
18 Apri 2021
Dr. Tia Noelle Pratt
Fordham University’s Taking Responsibility Initiative: “Black Communities and the Clerical Abuse Crisis”
22 April 2021
france’s new ban on the hijab
Sahar Ahmed
Oxford Human Rights Hub
16 April 2021
defund the causes of suffering
Dr. Constance Kassor
Lion’s Roar
14 April 2021
is magic Immoral?
Dr. Shaily Patel
The Conversation
14 April 2021
himalayan histories
Swati Chawla
Classical Ideas
14 April 2021
Letter 84
Dr. Shreena Niketa Gandhi
American Values, Religious Voices: 100 Letters
13 April 2021
the black church & the Black fantastic
James Howard Hill, Jr.
Berkley Forum: The Black Church in American Public Life
8 April 2021
Tibetan Buddhist philosophy
Dr. Constance Kassor
Classical Ideas
7 April 2021
was jesus a wizard?
Dr. Shaily Patel
Keeping It 101: A Killjoy’s Introduction to Religion Podcast
7 April 2021
Dr. Sajida Jalalzai
Duke Islamic Studies Center, “Muslim Community Efforts against Domestic Violence”
12 April 2021
early christian deathscapes
Sarah Porter
Classical Ideas
1 April 2021
the challenge of
“soul murder”
Dr. Brian Clites
The Religious Studies Project
26 March 2021
Trafficking Hadassah
Dr. Ericka Shawndricka Dunbar
Classical Ideas
26 March 2021
Dr. Kayla Renée Wheeler
Programa Universitario de Estudios Sobre Asia Y África, “African Muslims in the Americas”
24 March 2021
buddhist studies has a whiteness problem
Dr. Constance Kassor
Contending Modernities
23 March 2021
Protestant
Sex Scandals
Dr. Suzanna Krivulskaya
Classical Ideas
20 March 2021
We Who Must Die Demand a Miracle
Dr. Lynne Gerber
Classical Ideas Podcast
14 March 2021
Tibetan National uprising day
Dr. Swati Chawla
RFA Tibetan
11 March 2021
Post-apocalyptic Communities
Tribal and Religious Organizations Respond to COVID-19
Abel Gomez
The Revealer
9 March 2021
Sacred Sites, Indigenous History, and Colonialism
Abel Gomez
Classical Ideas
8 March 2021
Black religion, Music, & Friendship
Ambre Dromgoole
Classical Ideas Podcast
2 March 2021
more of India in Tibetology
Dr. Swati Chawla
The Hindu
24 February 2021
Pastor Mary Cosby
Arranged Pentecostal Marriages and the Real Housewives of
Salt Lake City
Ambre Dromgoole
The Revealer
4 February 2021
HEROES’ GARDEN?
The National Garden does the same bad work as the 1776 Commission report, only visually and spatially.
Sarah Porter
Religion News Service
20 January 2021
Remote Control
Distance Learning Isn’t a Last Resort—It’s an Opportunity
Dr. Rebecca Epstein Levi
Bitch Media
13 January 2021
Biden must prioritize anti-racism work
Dr. Tia Noelle Pratt
National Catholic Reporter
8 January 2021
crisis Ministry
For clergy who ministered through the AIDS crisis, COVID is both eerily familiar and puzzlingly different
Dr. Lynne Gerber
Religion Dispatches
21 December 2020
Religious Lessons
From Asia to the World
Dr. Constance Kassor
Audible: Great Courses
16 December 2020
To fandom With Love
Fanfic Lets Us Imagine a Better World, Together
Dr. Rebecca Epstein-Levi
Bitch Media
9 December 2020
Dr. Constance Kassor
International Buddhist Academy, “Chödung Karmo Translation Group”
7 December 2020
Patience isn’t Passive
Dr. Constance Kassor
Lion’s Roar
27 November 2020
Dr. Alison Melnick Dyer
Ho Centre for Buddhist Studies, “Maintaining a Consistent Writing Practice”
24 November 2020
Lucifer: between faith and reason
Dr. Tia Noelle Pratt
Commonweal
21 November 2020
Ill Will
The Problem with Individualizing COVID Risk
Dr. Rebecca Epstein-Levi
Bitch Media
18 November 2020
Breaking Our Silence
A Primer for Research on Clergy Sexual Abuse
Dr. Brian Clites
American Catholic Studies Newsletter
16 November 2020
BLACK WOMEN
AND FRIENDSHIP
Ambre Dromgoole
The Revealer
12 November 2020
“I Bring Myself,
My Black Self”
Sr. Thea Bowman’s Challenge to the Catholic Church
Dr. Tia Noelle Pratt
Commonweal
3 November 2020
Was Jesus a Wizard?
It’s Actually a Serious Scholarly Question
Dr. Shaily Patel
The Daily Beast
1 November 2020
the religious vote
Dr. Rebecca Epstein-Levi
Dr. Shreena Niketa Gandhi
The Revealer Podcast
26 October 2020
Chinese cultural policies in Tibet
A Perspective from India
Dr. Swati Chawla
The Asan Forum
23 October 2020
PAUSING THE
PANIC BUTTON
Can Religious Scholarship Teach Media Literacy?
Dr. Rebecca Epstein-Levi
Bitch Media
21 October 2020
#LandBack
Indigenous Peoples Day Comes amid a Reckoning over Colonialism and Calls for Return of Native Land
Abel Gomez
The Conversation
12 October 2020
The Sweetness of modesty
A Brief History of the Sealed Nectar Fashion Show
Dr. Kayla Renée Wheeler
Sapelo Square
22 September 2020
Bowties, Beards,
and Boubous
Black Muslim Men’s Fashion in the United States
Dr. Kayla Renée Wheeler
The Revealer
3 September 2020
Black Muslim Men’s Fashion
Dr. Kayla Renée Wheeler
The Revealer Podcast
26 August 2020
Abel Gomez
Mother Earth’s Pandemic, “‘Discovery,’ Disease, and Survival in Native California”
14 August 2020
TIBET: Between India and China
Dr. Swati Chawla
Students for a Free Tibet UK
3 August 2020
statues topple
And a Catholic Church Burns as California Reckons with its Spanish Colonial Past
Abel Gomez
The Conversation
24 July 2020
The path of
Liberal Arts
Dr. Swati Chawla
Lights | Camera | Azadi
18 July 2020
Religion and Sound
Dr. Vicki Brennan
Keeping It 101: A Killjoy’s Introduction to Religion Podcast
8 July 2020
Tibetan Buddhism
& gender
Dr. Alison Melnick Dyer
Classical Ideas Podcast
3 July 2020
jewish sexual ethics
Dr. Rebecca Epstein-Levi
Classical Ideas Podcast
27 June 2020
Dr. Shreena Niketa Gandhi
Living Yoga: “The Cultural Appropriation of Yoga”
23 June 2020
On the History of Black Muslims
Dr. Kayla Renée Wheeler
Middle East Eye
23 June 2020
dying to be normal
Dr. Brett Krutzsch
Classical Ideas Podcast
23 June 2020
American Muslims & the 2020 election
Dr. Sajida Jalalzai
Classical Ideas Podcast
16 June 2020
The Black Catholic Syllabus
curated by Dr. Tia Noelle Pratt
10 June 2020
the black Islam syllabus
Dr. Kayla Renée Wheeler
Classical Ideas Podcast
9 June 2020
Yoga, Racism, and Appropriation
Dr. Shreena Niketa Gandhi
Classical Ideas Podcast
3 June 2020
Gay Martyrdom
Interview with Dr. Brett Krutzsch
Bay Area Reporter
3 June 2020
yoruba christianity and music
Dr. Vicki Brennan
Classical Ideas Podcast
27 May 2020
catholic sex abuse
Dr. Brian Clites
Classical Ideas Podcast
21 May 2020
african American catholic identity
Dr. Tia Noelle Pratt
Classical Ideas Podcast
15 May 2020
yoga &
emotional wellbeing
Dr. Shreena Niketa Gandhi
The Revealer Podcast
28 April 2020
goat yoga & other isolation trends
Dr. Shreena Niketa Gandhi
The Revealer
7 April 2020
who is above
the law?
Dr. Rebecca Epstein-Levi
The Revealer
7 April 2020
BLACK CATHOLIC LITURGY & IDENTITY
Dr. Tia Noelle Pratt
Commonweal
1 April 2020
confronting abuse beyond spotlights
Dr. Brian Clites
The Revealer Podcast
31 March 2020
valuing disabled lives in a pandemic
Dr. Rebecca Epstein-Levi
Disability Acts
26 March 2020
why Muslims are feeling the bern
Dr. Sajida Jalalzai
Religion News Service / AP / Washington Post
10 March 2020
black catholics & the sex abuse crisis
Dr. Tia Noelle Pratt
The Revealer
2 March 2020
the problem with spotlights
Dr. Brian Clites
The Revealer
2 March 2020
she speaks
Dr. Kayla Renée Wheeler
Academic Muslimahs
28 February 2020
The Revealer podcast
hosted by Dr. Brett Krutzsch
The Revealer
14 February 2020
Dr. Kayla Renée Wheeler
WUCF (PBS), “Global Perspectives”
14 February 2020
centering black muslim women in critical race theory
Dr. Kayla Renée Wheeler
Sapelo Square/Maydan
5 February 2020
catholic investigations still shrouded in secrecy
Dr. Brian Clites
The Conversation
3 February 2020
philo-semitism is bad for the jews
Dr. Rebecca Epstein-Levi
Alma
7 January 2020
catholic activism holds clergy accountable
Dr. Brian Clites
The Conversation
16 December 2019
ending academic silence on abuse
Dr. Brian Clites
Crux: Taking the Catholic Pulse
9 November 2019
Yoga & cultural appropriation
Dr. Shreena Gandhi
Naan Stop Chit Chai
5 November 2019
supporting
black catholics
Dr. Tia Noelle Pratt
America
18 September 2019
dying to be normal
Dr. Brett Krutzsch
Radio Gag: The Gays against Guns Show
10 September 2019
surviving
soul murder
Dr. Brian Clites
WNHN, “The Attitude”
5 September 2019
ancient rabbis v.
sti stigma
Dr. Rebecca Epstein-Levi
Religion Dispatches
25 August 2019
Surviving catholic church sex abuse
Dr. Brian Clites
The Conversation
23 August 2019
dying to be normal
Dr. Brett Krutzsch with Kali Handelman
The Revealer
9 August 2019
Toni Morrison made living in this world more bearable
Dr. Tia Noelle Pratt
America
6 August 2019
Black Catholics and White Supremacy
Dr. Tia Noelle Pratt
Faithfully Magazine
22 July 2019
Murder convictions ignored the wider threat to Muslims
Dr. Sajida Jalalzai
The News & Observer (Raleigh, NC)
11 July 2019
a history of the
“It gets better” campaign
Dr. Brett Krutzsch
Medium
28 June 2019
the religious roots of Pride
Dr. Brett Krutzsch
Advocate
27 June 2019
School's decision 'nothing short of monumental'
Dr. Brett Krutzsch
Indianapolis Star
25 June 2019