The Bible and “Homosexuality”: An Invitation to Encounter, Risk, and Collective Curiosity By Charlene van der Walt The biblical text is often used in contemporary African faith communities to condemn LGBTIQA+ people as an abomination before God and to label Read more
“No One Does Anything!”: Hegemonic Knowledge and Everyday Oppression By Marcelo Kuna Half the stories of the world are left unwritten, Half the stories of the world are kept unread, And so the people of the world will never notice Read more
The Devil’s Parade By Rudolf von Sinner I confess, I am not a true follower of the Rio carnival—too many people, too late at night until too early in the morning, too loud, and too long. At most, I watch Read more
on SHAME By Insa Verbeck I’ve always wondered how the words SHAME and SHAMAN sound so terribly similar. My name is Insa. I am an academic and a shaman. I read the news, I read scientific papers, and I read Read more
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 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 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 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 Read more
Decolonizing for the Planetary Community A Counterpoint Conversation at the conference of the International Society for the Study of Religion, Nature, and Culture (ISSRNC) Please join us online for a Counterpoint Conversation and panel discussion at this year’s ISSRNC conference! 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 Read more