“Giving Godhead”: A Bloody Vision of Religion’s Deepest Influence
Dylan Krieger writes of the prophets who eat scrolls and insist the parchment tastes just like the honey of that many-mansioned heaven in the by-and-by sky.
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“Almost Like Praying”: The Religious Work of “Hamilton” Creator Lin-Manuel Miranda
In the wake of catastrophic destruction in Puerto Rico Lin-Manuel Miranda, the force behind Hamilton, has used…
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Puerto Rico Prays for Truth: Reporter David Begnaud’s Sacred Mission
Even as Trump threatens to withdraw federal aid from storm-devastated Puerto Rico, ranting on twitter…
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Status Updates at the End of the World: The Religious Imagination and Our Latest Apocalypse
Revelations abound. Hurricanes, earthquakes, and wildfires crowd the news, alongside genocide, terrorism, and rogue state…
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Oh Say, Can You See?: 9/11 Flag Displays and the Flag’s Symbolic Power
As the sixteenth anniversary of the 9/11 attacks approaches, communities from Utica, New York to…
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What Happens When An American President Believes He is Above the Law?
Americans like to talk about law as if it something real, something outside the thoughts…
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Public Shrines to Treason: Charlottesville and the Cult of Confederate Memorialization
Just as no American, after Charlottesville, can doubt that the current US president remains deferential to an extremist white supremacist base that rallies in his name, so too no American can pretend Confederate memorials don’t serve as public shrines to a treasonous worldview
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The Lady Vanishes: Trump’s Communications Team Tries to Topple a Monument
The dustup between Stephen Miller and CNN’s Jim Acosta reveals American civil religious ideals in a colossal clash with administration policy.
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Unmasking the “Veiled Prophet” Behind a 135-Year-Old St. Louis Tradition
The Arch City Religion Project is one of the latest digital means of mapping (and remapping) American Christianities and American religions more broadly.
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How Trump’s Assertion of “Power to Pardon” Tramples the American Sacred
Only a tyrant pardons himself.
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