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The Journal for Cultural and Religious Theory itself is a peer-reviewed journal devoted to both disciplinary and interdisciplinary scholarship of a cutting-edge nature that deals broadly with the phenomenon of religion and cultural theory. It is supported by the University of Denver, Syracuse University.
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A Whitestone Publication - Issue 25.2 Summer 2026
Challenging the Justifications of Domination through Law: Indigenous Resistance and the Undoing of Christian Empire
The following issue has resulted from a conference in the winter of 2023. The conference was sponsored by The Henry Luce Foundation, Syracuse University Departments of Religion and Biology, Indigenous Values Initiative, American Indian Law Alliance, American Indian Community House, Good Faith Media (GFM), Neighbors of Onondaga Nation (NOON), Syracuse Peace Council, Syracuse Cultural Workers, Tonatierra, Toward Our Common Public Life, Unitarian Universalist Association.
Challenging the Justifications of Domination Through Religion: “We Were Planting Corn and They Were Planting Crosses” Part 1 - Table of Contents
The following issue has resulted from a conference in the winter of 2023. The conference was sponsored by The Henry Luce Foundation, Syracuse University Departments of Religion and Biology, Indigenous Values Initiative, American Indian Law Alliance, American Indian Community House, Good Faith Media (GFM), Neighbors of Onondaga Nation (NOON), Syracuse Peace Council, Syracuse Cultural Workers, Tonatierra, Toward Our Common Public Life, Unitarian Universalist Association.
Special Issue on Religion and Bioethics - Table of Contents
The following issue has resulted from a conference in the fall of 2024. The conference was sponsored by the journal in collaboration with the University of Denver.
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By editors • Vol 24.1
Author Bios NISHA DAGA and GEORGE KODIMATTAM JOSEPH Nisha Daga is currently pursuing her Ph.D. at the School of Liberal Arts, Indian Institute of Technology Jodhpur,...
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By Nisha Daga; George Kodimattam Joseph • Vol 24.1
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Kev Grane reviews Philip Jenkins’s American Empire, American Faith, which reframes U.S. empire as a religious and moral order in which Christianity authorized, normalized, and contested imperial power.
All 829 articles in the numbered JCRT archive, from volume 1 in 1999 through volume 25 in 2026, now carry a Digital Object Identifier and are deposited in Knowledge Commons Works as 67 public issue collections.
JCRT Volume 25, Issue 2 brings ten essays into conversation around political theology, materiality, ecology, consciousness, performance, Sufism, and re-enchantment.
Read: JCRT Announces Volume 25, Issue 2: Interruption, Interdependence, and Re-Enchantment
Kev Grane reviews Yascha Mounk’s The Identity Trap, whose sharpest contribution is showing how the identity synthesis undercuts its own egalitarian aims.
Read: BOOK REVIEW: YASCHA MOUNK, THE IDENTITY TRAP: A STORY OF IDEAS AND POWER IN OUR TIME.
Registration is now open for the online JCRT conference Religion, Politics, and Cognitive Warfare: Information, Interpretation, Conspiracy, and the Struggle for Reality, taking place October 1-3, 2026.
Read: Registration Now Open: Religion, Politics, and Cognitive Warfare
JCRT Relaunches Its Book Review Section, Inviting Graduate Students, Independent Scholars, and Faculty to Contribute