The Revealer is an online magazine that explores religion and its many roles in society and people’s lives, with a particular focus on how religion intersects with politics, race, sexuality, and gender. Published ten times a year, The Revealer aims to provide a wider lens, greater context, and more nuanced perspectives on topics of public interest. With more than 3,500 dedicated subscribers, The Revealer attracts roughly 9,000 readers each month, giving our writers the opportunity to reach an educated and engaged public audience. Learn more about The Revealer here.
current media partnership fellows
Dr. Bhakti Mamtora
Bhakti Mamtora is Assistant Professor of South Asian Religions at the College of Wooster. Her work examines the genesis and reception of oral teachings, sacred texts, and digital applications in the Swaminarayan Sampraday. Broadly, her research interests include book history and print culture, religious subjectivity, and community formation in nineteenth-century Gujarat. Follow her on Twitter @mamtorab.
Dr. Jessica Johnson
Jessica Johnson is a Visiting Scholar of Religious Studies at the College of William & Mary. Her ethnographic study of the rise and fall of Mars Hill Church in Seattle, Biblical Porn: Affect, Labor, and Pastor Mark Driscoll's Evangelical Empire, was published by Duke University Press in 2018. She is currently writing a second book on white Christian nationalism, the social media of conspiratorial thinking, processes of radicalization, and acts of political violence tentatively titled, The Big Lie: Assemblages of 21st Century Fascism.
RECENT partnership
Hindu Ritual in India’s HighTech City
A Review of Tulasi Srinivas’s The Cow in the Elevator
22 July 2021
written by Sacred Writes’ media partner
Dr. Deonnie Moodie
Black women
getting free
A conversation with acclaimed author Deesha Philyaw about her award-winning book The Secret Lives of Church Ladies
22 July 2021
written by Sacred Writes’ media partner
Ambre Dromgoole
Malcolm X
Why El-Hajj Malik El-Shabazz Matters
5 April 2021
written by Sacred Writes’ media partner
Dr. Sara Kamali
THE FOURTEEN WORDS
Religion and Racism in White Nationalist Domestic Terrorism
4 February 2021
written by Sacred Writes’ media partner
Dr. Sara Kamali
PASTOR MARY COSBY
Arranged Pentecostal Marriages and the Real Housewives SLC
4 February 2021
written by Sacred Writes’ media partner
Ambre Dromgoole
BLACK WOMEN AND FRIENDSHIP
What Breonna Taylor and Sister Rosetta Tharpe Taught Me
12 November 2020
written by Sacred Writes’ media partner
Ambre Dromgoole
POLITICAL ANTISEMITISM
QAnon, the KKK, and the GOP
6 October 2020
written by Sacred Writes’ media partner
Dr. Sara Kamali
THE INDIAN-AMERICAN VOTE
Race, Religion, and Democracy
6 October 2020
written by Sacred Writes’ media partner
Dr. Deonnie Moodie
a hindu guide to wealth
Finding Success in Neoliberal India
14 July 2020
written by Sacred Writes media partner
Dr. Deonnie Moodie
recent media partnership fellows
Ambre Dromgoole
Ambre Dromgoole is a Ph.D. student in the Departments of Religious Studies and African American Studies at Yale University. She graduated from Oberlin College & Conservatory in 2015 with a B.A. in Musical Studies and Religion, where she received the Jonathon Kneeland Prize for Religion and the Africana Studies Award for Artistic Excellence and Community Service upon graduation. She then obtained an M.A. in Religion from Yale Divinity School and Institute of Sacred Music with a concentration in Black Religion and the Arts, receiving the Hugh Porter Prize of Distinction. Dromgoole is interested in the convergence of Black religion and popular culture, focusing on the emergence of various musical genres from women in the Black Holiness-Pentecostal tradition. Follow her on twitter @ambrelynae.
Dr. Sara Kamali
Sara Kamali, Ph.D., is a scholar on transnational white nationalism and militant Islamism and an anti-oppression activist. Her research encompasses faith, identity, and belonging, examining systemic privilege and minoritization at the intersections of race, religion, gender identity, socioeconomic status, and the environment in order to enact holistic justice for all. Follow her on Twitter @sarakamali and on Instagram @sarakamali.phd.
Dr. Deonnie Moodie
Deonnie Moodie is Assistant Professor of South Asian Religions at the University of Oklahoma. Her work centers on the ways that constructions of Hinduism and modernity co-produce one another, particularly in colonial and contemporary urban India. In her first book, The Making of a Modern Temple and a Hindu City: Kālīghāṭ and Kolkata (Oxford University Press, 2018), she examines the ways that city elites seek to impose modernist notions of history, organizational management, and aesthetics onto the in/famous Kālīghāṭ Temple located at the center of the formal colonial capital of India. In her current book project she considers instead the ways that the same segment of Indian society seeks to infuse their management practices in global corporations with Hindu notions of sacrifice, service, and divine blessings.