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Combating Islamophobia

Caleb Elfenbein
Revealer
1 December 2021


 

Jewish-christian dialogue

Alana Vincent
Classical Ideas
30 November 2021


 

CATHOLIC lIBRARY, MUSLIM BOOKS

N.A. Mansour
Classical Ideas
20 November 2021


 

Surcharge on Hindu Wedding

Dheepa Sundaram
Why Should There be a Surchrage for having a Hindu Wedding?
17 November 2021


 

Religious PlurALISM

Lee Scharnick-Udemans
Classical Ideas
13 November 2021


 

Muslim Religious Spaces

Krista Riley
Classical Ideas
9 November 2021


 

Working Beyond the Academy

Shannon Trosper Schorey
Classical Ideas
6 November 2021


 

Digitizing SACRED PLACES

Dheepa Sundaram
Digitizing Sacred Places
28 October 2021


 

Indigenous Religions PART 2

Abel Gomez
Keeping It 101
27 October 2021


 

Religious freedom

Jolyon Thomas
Classical Ideas
24 October 2021


 

research on Religion

Samah Choudhury
Q&A: IC Professor Receives Award for Research on Religion
22 October 2021


 

Consumer & Commercial

Vicki Brennan
NCAT Consumer and Commercial Hearings at Newcastle
19 October 2021


 

Comedy & ISLAM

Samah Choudhury
Classical Ideas
18 October 2021


 

Indigenous Religions Part 1

Jolyon Thomas
Keeping It 101
13 October 2021


 

The Young Lords

Jorge J. Rodriguez V
Classical Ideas
12 October 2021


 

Jewish Farming

Adrienne Krone
Revealer
7 October 2021


 

Weddings, Marriage & Divorce In Islam

Kecia Ali
Interfaith Youth Core
6 October 2021


 

Catholicism & Sexual violence

Annie Selak
National Catholic Reporter
5 October 2021


 

Religion, sCIENCE & the bRAIN

Andrew Ali Aghapour
Classical Ideas
30 September 2021


 

african diasporic religions

Akissi Britton
Keeping It 101: A Killjoy’s Introduction to Religion Podcast
29 September 2021


 

the new religion journalism

Brook Wilensky-Lanford
APRIL
28 September 2021


 

Nepal’s unraveled hindu monarchy

Anne Mocko
Classical Ideas
24 September 2021


 

Desacralized

Alyssa Maldonado-Estrada
DigBoston
23 September 2021



 

Exploring Japan's Way of the Kami

Kaitlyn Ugoretz
Five College Center for East Asian Studies
21 September 2021


 

the WNBA’s fight for freedom

Annie Selak
National Catholic Reporter
18 September 2021


 

shinto online

Kaitlyn Ugoretz
Classical Ideas
18 September 2021


 

maddened Pedagogies

James Howard Hill, Jr.
Center for Religion and the Human
17 September 2021


 

the untidiness of Marie kondo

Kaitlyn Ugoretz
JapanKyo
15 September 2021


 

social media and hinduism

Dheepa Sundaram
Classical Ideas
12 September 2021


 

don’t cover for hindu nationalism

Shreena Gandhi and Dheepa Sundaram
Religion News Service
10 September 2021


 

china’s own false “War on Terror”

Kristian Petersen
Al Jazeera
8 September 2021


 

jewish community farming movement

Adrienne Krone
Classical Ideas
6 September 2021


 

white christianity fuels abortion bans

Sajida Jalalzai
Religion Dispatches
3 September 2021


 

Heaven Narratives

Brook Wilensky Lanford
Classical Ideas
31 August 2021


 

paid family leave and the church

Annie Selak
Classical Ideas
25 August 2021


 
 

Kaitlyn Ugoretz
Eat Pray Anime: Anime Pilgrimage Explained
23 August 2021


 

namaste nationalism

Dheepa Sundaram
Washington Post / Religion News Service
20 August 2021


 

french
anti-separatism

Sahar Ahmed
Classical Ideas
19 August 2021


 

Sparking Joy with Marie Kondo

Kaitlyn Ugoretz
Washington Post
3 August 2021

Kaitlyn Ugoretz
Eat Pray Anime
17 July 2021


 

ISLAM THROUGH OBJECTS

Kristian Petersen
News Books Network
16 July 2021


 

History of yoga

Shreena Niketa Gandhi
Embodied Philosophy
15 July 2021


 

Shreena Niketa Gandhi
SwatTalk, “Religion in America’s Story of Racial Justice”
13 July 2021


 

HINDUtva’s Harassment

Dheepa Sundram
South Asia Scholar Artist Collective
6 July 2021


 

Kaitlyn Uroretz
Eat Pray Anime, “Myth Meets Marvel | DEMON DAYS: MARIKO Breakdown & Details! Who is OGIN?”
3 July 2021


 
 

The Catholic Bishops vs Joe Biden

Annie Selak
Straight White American Jesus
28 June 2021


 

fEMALE Priests

Kori Pacyniak
New Yorker
28 June 2021


 

Memes, jokes and icons

Nadirah Mansour
Middle East Eye
25 June 2021


 

Kristian Petersen
Al Jazeera, “What Will It Take to Boost Muslim Representation in Film?”
24 June 2021


 

masculinity and faith intersect

Alyssa Maldonado-Estrada
U.S. Catholic
22 June 2021


 

worshipping the kami at a distance

Kaitlyn Ugoretz
Deutsches Institut für Japanstudien
17 June 2021


 

islamophobia and the novel

Dr. Kristian Petersen
New Books in Islamic Studies
11 June 2021


 

on tantra, Jain style

Dr. Anne Mocko
The Religious Studies Project
11 June 2021


 

can we celebrate LGBTQ life?

Dr. Brett Krutzsch
Washington Post
11 June 2021


 
 

Dr. Alana Vincent
University of Chester, “Is God Male?”
9 June 2021


 

on white supremacy

Dr. Shreena Niketa Gandhi
Chitheads
8 June 2021


 

San Francisco’s “AIDS Church”

Dr. Lynne Gerber
The Revealer Podcast
3 June 2021


 

aids & the blessings of staying

Dr. Lynne Gerber
The Revealer
3 June 2021


 
 

Dr. Alyssa Maldonado-Estrada
Empire State Engagements: “Lifeblood of the Parish”
1 June 2021


 

half of faith: muslim Marriage & Divorce

Dr. Kecia Ali
Open BU
1 June 2021


 

Quranic SChools in northern nigeria

Dr. Kristian Petersen
New Books in Islamic Studies
28 May 2021


 

because of palestine

N.A. Mansour
Contingent Magazine
28 May 2021


 

body languages of catholicism

Dr. Alyssa Maldonado-Estrada
The Religious Studies Project
24 May 2021


 

islamophobia on facebook & beyond

Dr. Caleb Elfenbein
The Conversation
24 May 2021


 

challenging racism in consumer culture

Dr. Shreena Niketa Gandhi
MSU, “Anti-racism Insight Series”
20 May 2021


 
 

Dr. Lee-Shae Scharnick-Udemans
African Consortium for Law and Religion Studies, “Mediatization of the Family”
17 May 2021


 

I run to feel human

N.A. Mansour
Bon Appetit
12 May 2021


 

religion, art, and technology lab

Dr. Amanda Furiasse
May 2021 - present


 

early christian magic

Dr. Shaily Patel
Classical Ideas
22 April 2021


 

Reflection on Juz’ 9

Dr. Kayla Renée Wheeler
Sapelo Square
21 April 2021


 
 

Dr. Brett Krutzsch
Love Rinse Repeat: “Dying to Be Normal”
18 Apri 2021


 
 

Dr. Tia Noelle Pratt
Fordham University’s Taking Responsibility Initiative: “Black Communities and the Clerical Abuse Crisis”
22 April 2021


 

france’s new ban on the hijab

Sahar Ahmed
Oxford Human Rights Hub
16 April 2021


 

defund the causes of suffering

Dr. Constance Kassor
Lion’s Roar
14 April 2021


 

is magic Immoral?

Dr. Shaily Patel
The Conversation
14 April 2021


 

himalayan histories

Swati Chawla
Classical Ideas
14 April 2021


 

Letter 84

Dr. Shreena Niketa Gandhi
American Values, Religious Voices: 100 Letters
13 April 2021


 

the black church & the Black fantastic

James Howard Hill, Jr.
Berkley Forum: The Black Church in American Public Life
8 April 2021


 

Tibetan Buddhist philosophy

Dr. Constance Kassor
Classical Ideas
7 April 2021


 

was jesus a wizard?

Dr. Shaily Patel
Keeping It 101: A Killjoy’s Introduction to Religion Podcast
7 April 2021


 
 

Dr. Sajida Jalalzai
Duke Islamic Studies Center, “Muslim Community Efforts against Domestic Violence”
12 April 2021


 

early christian deathscapes

Sarah Porter
Classical Ideas
1 April 2021


 

the challenge of
“soul murder”

Dr. Brian Clites
The Religious Studies Project
26 March 2021


 

Trafficking Hadassah

Dr. Ericka Shawndricka Dunbar
Classical Ideas
26 March 2021


 
 

Dr. Kayla Renée Wheeler
Programa Universitario de Estudios Sobre Asia Y África, “African Muslims in the Americas”
24 March 2021


 

buddhist studies has a whiteness problem

Dr. Constance Kassor
Contending Modernities
23 March 2021


 

Protestant
Sex Scandals

Dr. Suzanna Krivulskaya
Classical Ideas
20 March 2021


 

We Who Must Die Demand a Miracle

Dr. Lynne Gerber
Classical Ideas Podcast
14 March 2021


 

Tibetan National uprising day

Dr. Swati Chawla
RFA Tibetan
11 March 2021


 

Post-apocalyptic Communities

Tribal and Religious Organizations Respond to COVID-19

Abel Gomez
The Revealer
9 March 2021


 

Sacred Sites, Indigenous History, and Colonialism

Abel Gomez
Classical Ideas
8 March 2021


 

Black religion, Music, & Friendship

Ambre Dromgoole
Classical Ideas Podcast
2 March 2021


 

more of India in Tibetology

Dr. Swati Chawla
The Hindu
24 February 2021


 

Pastor Mary Cosby

Arranged Pentecostal Marriages and the Real Housewives of
Salt Lake City

Ambre Dromgoole
The Revealer
4 February 2021


 

HEROES’ GARDEN?

The National Garden does the same bad work as the 1776 Commission report, only visually and spatially.

Sarah Porter
Religion News Service
20 January 2021


 

Remote Control

Distance Learning Isn’t a Last Resort—It’s an Opportunity

Dr. Rebecca Epstein Levi
Bitch Media
13 January 2021


 

Biden must prioritize anti-racism work

Dr. Tia Noelle Pratt
National Catholic Reporter
8 January 2021


 

crisis Ministry

For clergy who ministered through the AIDS crisis, COVID is both eerily familiar and puzzlingly different

Dr. Lynne Gerber
Religion Dispatches
21 December 2020


 

Religious Lessons

From Asia to the World

Dr. Constance Kassor
Audible: Great Courses
16 December 2020


 

To fandom With Love

Fanfic Lets Us Imagine a Better World, Together

Dr. Rebecca Epstein-Levi
Bitch Media
9 December 2020


 
 

Dr. Constance Kassor
International Buddhist Academy, “Chödung Karmo Translation Group
7 December 2020


 

Patience isn’t Passive

Dr. Constance Kassor
Lion’s Roar
27 November 2020


 
 

Dr. Alison Melnick Dyer
Ho Centre for Buddhist Studies, “Maintaining a Consistent Writing Practice
24 November 2020


 

Lucifer: between faith and reason

Dr. Tia Noelle Pratt
Commonweal
21 November 2020


 

Ill Will

The Problem with Individualizing COVID Risk

Dr. Rebecca Epstein-Levi
Bitch Media
18 November 2020


 

Breaking Our Silence

A Primer for Research on Clergy Sexual Abuse

Dr. Brian Clites
American Catholic Studies Newsletter
16 November 2020


 

BLACK WOMEN
AND FRIENDSHIP

Ambre Dromgoole
The Revealer
12 November 2020


 

“I Bring Myself,
My Black Self”

Sr. Thea Bowman’s Challenge to the Catholic Church

Dr. Tia Noelle Pratt
Commonweal
3 November 2020


 

Was Jesus a Wizard?

It’s Actually a Serious Scholarly Question

Dr. Shaily Patel
The Daily Beast
1 November 2020


 

the religious vote

Dr. Rebecca Epstein-Levi
Dr. Shreena Niketa Gandhi
The Revealer Podcast
26 October 2020


 

Chinese cultural policies in Tibet

A Perspective from India

Dr. Swati Chawla
The Asan Forum
23 October 2020


 

PAUSING THE
PANIC BUTTON

Can Religious Scholarship Teach Media Literacy?

Dr. Rebecca Epstein-Levi
Bitch Media
21 October 2020


 

#LandBack

Indigenous Peoples Day Comes amid a Reckoning over Colonialism and Calls for Return of Native Land

Abel Gomez
The Conversation
12 October 2020


 

The Sweetness of modesty

A Brief History of the Sealed Nectar Fashion Show

Dr. Kayla Renée Wheeler
Sapelo Square
22 September 2020


 

Bowties, Beards,
and Boubous

Black Muslim Men’s Fashion in the United States

Dr. Kayla Renée Wheeler
The Revealer
3 September 2020


 

Black Muslim Men’s Fashion

Dr. Kayla Renée Wheeler
The Revealer Podcast
26 August 2020


 
 

 

TIBET: Between India and China

Dr. Swati Chawla
Students for a Free Tibet UK
3 August 2020


 

statues topple

And a Catholic Church Burns as California Reckons with its Spanish Colonial Past

Abel Gomez
The Conversation
24 July 2020


 

The path of
Liberal Arts

Dr. Swati Chawla
Lights | Camera | Azadi
18 July 2020


 

Religion and Sound

Dr. Vicki Brennan
Keeping It 101: A Killjoy’s Introduction to Religion Podcast
8 July 2020


 

Tibetan Buddhism
& gender

Dr. Alison Melnick Dyer
Classical Ideas Podcast
3 July 2020


 

jewish sexual ethics

Dr. Rebecca Epstein-Levi
Classical Ideas Podcast
27 June 2020


 
 

Dr. Shreena Niketa Gandhi
Living Yoga: The Cultural Appropriation of Yoga
23 June 2020


 

On the History of Black Muslims

Dr. Kayla Renée Wheeler
Middle East Eye
23 June 2020


 

dying to be normal

Dr. Brett Krutzsch
Classical Ideas Podcast
23 June 2020


 

American Muslims & the 2020 election

Dr. Sajida Jalalzai
Classical Ideas Podcast
16 June 2020


 

The Black Catholic Syllabus

curated by Dr. Tia Noelle Pratt
10 June 2020


 

the black Islam syllabus

Dr. Kayla Renée Wheeler
Classical Ideas Podcast
9 June 2020


 

Yoga, Racism, and Appropriation

Dr. Shreena Niketa Gandhi
Classical Ideas Podcast
3 June 2020


 

Gay Martyrdom

Interview with Dr. Brett Krutzsch
Bay Area Reporter
3 June 2020


 

yoruba christianity and music

Dr. Vicki Brennan
Classical Ideas Podcast
27 May 2020


 

catholic sex abuse

Dr. Brian Clites
Classical Ideas Podcast
21 May 2020


 

african American catholic identity

Dr. Tia Noelle Pratt
Classical Ideas Podcast
15 May 2020


 

yoga &
emotional wellbeing

Dr. Shreena Niketa Gandhi
The Revealer Podcast
28 April 2020


 

goat yoga & other isolation trends

Dr. Shreena Niketa Gandhi
The Revealer
7 April 2020


 

who is above
the law?

Dr. Rebecca Epstein-Levi
The Revealer
7 April 2020


 

BLACK CATHOLIC LITURGY & IDENTITY

Dr. Tia Noelle Pratt
Commonweal
1 April 2020


 

confronting abuse beyond spotlights

Dr. Brian Clites
The Revealer Podcast
31 March 2020


 

valuing disabled lives in a pandemic

Dr. Rebecca Epstein-Levi
Disability Acts
26 March 2020


 

why Muslims are feeling the bern

Dr. Sajida Jalalzai
Religion News Service / AP / Washington Post
10 March 2020


 

black catholics & the sex abuse crisis

Dr. Tia Noelle Pratt
The Revealer
2 March 2020


 

the problem with spotlights

Dr. Brian Clites
The Revealer
2 March 2020


 

she speaks

Dr. Kayla Renée Wheeler
Academic Muslimahs
28 February 2020


 

The Revealer podcast

hosted by Dr. Brett Krutzsch
The Revealer
14 February 2020


 

Dr. Kayla Renée Wheeler
WUCF (PBS), “Global Perspectives”
14 February 2020


 

centering black muslim women in critical race theory

Dr. Kayla Renée Wheeler
Sapelo Square/Maydan
5 February 2020


 

catholic investigations still shrouded in secrecy

Dr. Brian Clites
The Conversation
3 February 2020


 

philo-semitism is bad for the jews

Dr. Rebecca Epstein-Levi
Alma
7 January 2020


 

catholic activism holds clergy accountable

Dr. Brian Clites
The Conversation
16 December 2019


 

ending academic silence on abuse

Dr. Brian Clites
Crux: Taking the Catholic Pulse
9 November 2019


 

Yoga & cultural appropriation

Dr. Shreena Gandhi
Naan Stop Chit Chai
5 November 2019


 

supporting
black catholics

Dr. Tia Noelle Pratt
America
18 September 2019


 

dying to be normal

Dr. Brett Krutzsch
Radio Gag: The Gays against Guns Show
10 September 2019


 

surviving
soul murder

Dr. Brian Clites
WNHN, “The Attitude”
5 September 2019

 

 

ancient rabbis v.
sti stigma

Dr. Rebecca Epstein-Levi
Religion Dispatches
25 August 2019


 

Surviving catholic church sex abuse

Dr. Brian Clites
The Conversation
23 August 2019


 

dying to be normal

Dr. Brett Krutzsch with Kali Handelman
The Revealer
9 August 2019


 

Toni Morrison made living in this world more bearable

Dr. Tia Noelle Pratt
America
6 August 2019


 

Black Catholics and White Supremacy

Dr. Tia Noelle Pratt
Faithfully Magazine
22 July 2019


 

Murder convictions ignored the wider threat to Muslims

Dr. Sajida Jalalzai
The News & Observer (Raleigh, NC)
11 July 2019


 

a history of the
“It gets better” campaign

Dr. Brett Krutzsch
Medium
28 June 2019


 

the religious roots of Pride

Dr. Brett Krutzsch
Advocate
27 June 2019


 

School's decision 'nothing short of monumental'

Dr. Brett Krutzsch
Indianapolis Star
25 June 2019