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 part on whether your think religion should underpin your preferred political identity or not. That 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 Mutiara bay, one of district Alor’s in East Nusa Tenggara most popular tourist spots. A 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 the former confederate states and those in the former union states had differences about what 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 be joined. The scapes of our land, even here in Indonesia, are marred by what 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 threat and land is disappearing because of rising sea levels and global warming. Climate change 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 reign. If a thing can be said by celebrities or from high offices, surely it 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 this, I am sitting in my office in the Theology Faculty at the Humboldt University 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 passed away in 2021 and 2022, including my mentor, Rosemary Radford Ruether. Ruether was an Read more
Thinking Past the Anthropocene By Whitney A. Bauman As Sylvia Wynter, Aph Ko, and many other decolonial theorists argue (not to mention post-humanists, indigenous scholars, queer theorists, and other critical theorists of race, gender, sex, and ableness), the “human” of “the humanities” in modern western educational institutions was based upon Read more
Seeds Planting Art By Sara Michieletto Is it possible to imagine a society in which we humans cooperate following the plants’ modalities for thriving in life, in a logic of sharing competences and inspirations, in a free, non-hierarchical, and voluntary way? With the 2022 Call, “Seeds Planting Art,” our international network Read more