Under the Radar of Hegemonic Perception: Alternative Spiritualities By Kocku von Stuckrad If you ask people in western Europe and North America if they have confidence in Christianity, economic forecast, astrology, or other providers of meaning, between 20 and 35 Read more
Celebrating Four Years of Counterpoint: Navigating Knowledge By Whitney A. Bauman and Kocku von Stuckrad If we want to address the major challenges of the 21st century—first and foremost climate disasters, human and other-than-human interdependencies on a global scale, as Read more
Hiding in Horror: Feeling and Believing Climate Science By Donovan Schaefer We’ve all heard someone accused of “only believing what they want to believe.” It seems so obvious it’s trivial. But looking at it more closely, we can see that Read more
Independence or Interdependence Day? By Bron Taylor Some Europeans came to North America to gain religious freedom. Those who declared independence from England sought freedom from authoritarian rule. Yet these people participated in the genocidal deracination of the continent’s first Read more
Do We Live in the Same World? Some Reflections on Polarization By Susannah Crockford When the Supreme Court overturned Roe v Wade last week, it seemed like the United States was divided in two once again. Supporters of legal abortion Read more
EmPower: Climate Change and Gender Justice By Vera Pokorny Amidst ever louder calls for urgent action to drastically transform our societies and economies in the face of climate change, there is increasing recognition of climate change as a human rights Read more
Racial Reckoning beyond Reductionism By Krista E. Hughes Like so many, I am in the thick of the United States’ current racial reckoning, frustrated by the ways that white supremacy infects even proactive antiracist work, including my own. Among the Read more
The Climate Crisis Through the Eye of the Needle: Ecology, Economics, and Religion A Counterpoint Conversation with Joerg Rieger, Annika Rieger, and Marcia Pally 5 July 2022, 10:00-12:00 CET | Rosa Luxemburg Foundation Berlin and Zoom Counterpoint and the Rosa Luxemburg Read more
Beyond Gender Categories: The Bissu of Sulawesi By Najiyah Martiam Most academic work on gender in Indonesia shows that many cultures in Indonesia have no strict gender construction of masculinity and femininity. Gender differences are viewed as a continuum rather Read more
Entanglement and Relationality By Whitney A. Bauman At a recent one-day symposium in Berlin on “The Body, Religion and Planetary Imagination in a Time of Environmental Crisis,” I was asked what I meant when I used the word “entanglement” and Read more