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Recently, we identified Jewish Studies scholarship that is sexist, racist, and cisheteronormative, arguing that neoliberal ideologies and metrics reinforce and promote such research. We invited…

When our colleagues in Jewish Studies courageously publicized the systematic and decades-long sexual harassment and assault perpetrated by sociologist Steven M. Cohen, among the many difficult…

When writing as critical scholars of religion about the impacts and role of religion in society we need to broaden our remit, and must do so quickly. Let me explain why. It’s probably best to start…

In case you missed it: Religion has had quite a year. The Muslim Ban celebrated its second (or third) birthday . Reproductive justice once again took a backseat to religious “liberty,” and queer…

It’s a curious fact of history that a statue of John Wesley stands prominently ensconced in the center of downtown Savannah, Georgia. In stark contrast, a nondescript gazebo dedicated to George…

In her now classic paper titled White Fragility , Robin DiAngelo writes about the many ways that white people create a world in their own image. She argues that this world emerges from and reflects a…

In her excellent book Down Girl: The Logic of Misogyny , the philosopher Kate Manne coined the term Himpathy , which she defined as “the excessive sympathy sometimes shown toward male perpetrators of…

On Monday, I and a group of womanist Presidents and Deans, decided that we would not be silent as we witnessed the ongoing murders of and harm to Black people by police officers. We began to write a…

While activists cite the policy change and the opportunity for more discussion and visibility on campus, it isn’t clear how faculty would feel safe openly exploring queer theology while contractually required to oppose same-sex relationships on theological grounds.

As America reels from the exposure of a massive child sexual abuse scandal in the Southern Baptist Convention, we should pause to take stock of the culpability of the broader conservative, mostly white evangelical subculture.