Center for Religion & the Human

01/24/2022

Join us virtually on Wednesday, February 9 at 1pm PST / 4pm EST for the Iris Book Award Prize Ceremony celebrating Divine Variations by Terence Keel. The ceremony will feature a discussion with the author as well as guests J Kameron Carter and Myrna Perez Sheldon, moderated by Lisa Sideris.

With author Terence Keel and guests J. Kameron Carter and Myrna Perez Sheldon, moderated by Lisa Sideris.

10/12/2021

Terence Keel receives the 2021 Iris Book Award!

The Center for Religion & the Human announces Terence Keel’s "Divine Variations" as winner of the 2021 Iris Book Award.

09/17/2021

"At its core, this teaching module highlights pedagogical gaps and silences that might occasion the opportunity for professors teaching at the intersection of religion and black popular culture to lean fully into the disturbing, mad and maddening epistemic possibilities found within the architecture of black popular culture."

A teaching module by James Howard Hill (University of Oklahoma)

09/03/2021

A short essay by Anand Venkatkrishnan (University of Chicago).

08/24/2021

Asian Women, Christianity, and American Purity Culture
A Critical Religious Studies Approach
A teaching module by Mihee Kim-Kort

: A Critical Religious Studies Approach. A teaching module by Mihee Kim-Kort (Indiana University).

08/02/2021

"When I fail to make sense of what I see in a historical record, or when I fail to apprehend someone’s response to my question, maybe that means I am asking a failing question." A short essay by Hsiao-wen Cheng (University of Pennsylvania).

A short essay by Hsiao-wen Cheng (University of Pennsylvania).

07/12/2021

"I often observe that while many of us seek wholeness, we struggle to integrate our pain, trauma, shame, and particularly, the memory of our misdeeds." Engaging Religion presents a short essay by Bruce Scavuzzo (University of Toronto).

A short essay by Bruce Scavuzzo (University of Toronto).

06/15/2021

"What is the utility of looking at a small subject, and how can we translate it into the largest possible lessons that will illuminate issues on a global scale?" Read the essay as part of our series Engaging Religion.

A short essay by Jason Lustig (University of Texas at Austin).

05/13/2021

Our new issue is out now! 🥳 American Religion 2:2 (Spring 2021) is a special issue guest edited by J. Kameron Carter: “The Matter of Black Religion: Thinking with Charles H. Long.”

Featuring essays by Victor Anderson, Raymond Carr, J. Kameron Carter, Sherman Jackson, Kathryn Lofton, Carolyn Jones Medine, and twelve book reviews.

Find it here: https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.2979/americanreligion.2.issue-2.

Subscribe (or have your library subscribe) here: https://about.jstor.org/get-jstor/.

05/06/2021

Being Human (Summer) Institute Fellows in conversation with Rebecca Comay

04/08/2021

Enjoy our recording of "Religion Without the State: Can Illiberal Religion Lead to Justice?" Featuring panelists Carlos Manrique, Nadia Marzouki, Spencer Dew, and J. Kameron Carter, moderated by Constance Furey.

Enjoy the recording of our collaboration with the IU Global Gateways Network.

04/02/2021

Engaging Religion: "At the very least, my doula work gives me a concrete example of the phenomena that center so many of the conversations we have in Religious Studies: I have seen authoritative knowledge crystalize in the moment when someone’s claim coheres as truth, and, simultaneously, when another’s claim goes disbelieved, often in the span of a single contraction."

A short essay by Morgan Barbre (Indiana University Bloomington)