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Lockhart](/authors/aaron-t-lockhart/) (University of Denver / Iliff School of Theology) ### [Spooky Cognition: Quantum Entanglement, Ephaptic Coupling, and the Transcendental Frontiers of Consciousness Studies](/archives/25.2/raschke/) By [Carl A. Raschke](/authors/carl-raschke/) (University of Denver) ### [From Deconstruction to Re-Enchantment: Postmodernism, Metamodernism, and the Re-Emergence of Wonder](/archives/25.2/shane/) By [D.A. Shane](/authors/d-a-shane/) (Independent Scholar) ### [Caught in the Act: Voyeurism and Performance in Augustine’s *Confessions*](/archives/25.2/spencer/) By [Paige Spencer](/authors/paige-spencer/) (Syracuse University) ### [Ibn ʿArabī’s Role in Ibrahim Niasse’s Thinking: From the Unity of Being to Muḥammad’s Names-of-the-Father](/archives/25.2/valentini/) By [Philipp Valentini](/authors/philipp-valentini/) (Independent Scholar) ### [Artfully Dodging a Presidential Endorsement: How Joel Osteen Uses Rhetoric to Build an Audience for Political Gain](/archives/25.2/bell/) By [Reginald Bell, Jr.](/authors/reginald-bell-jr/) (Central Georgia Technical College) ## [25.1 - Spring - Challenging the Justifications of Domination through Law: Indigenous Resistance and the Undoing of Christian Empire](/archives/25.1/) 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. ### [Federal Anti-indian Law: Why a Challenge to “Christian Discovery” Creates a Metaphysical Crisis for the US](/archives/25.1/derrico/) By [Peter d'Errico](/authors/peter-d-errico/) (University of Massachusetts Amherst) ### [Right & Respectful Relations: A Memoir of the Road to the Historic Yakama Nation Amicus Brief Challenging ‘Christian Discovery’ in Washington State V. Cougar Den](/archives/25.1/goudy/) By [JoDe Goudy](/authors/jode-goudy/) (Independent Scholar) ### [The Doctrine of Christian Discovery and Domination: How It Has Been Used by United States Courts to Deny Treaty Rights & Dismiss the Haudenosaunee Land Rights Cases](/archives/25.1/heath/) By [Joseph J. Heath](/authors/joseph-j-heath/) (General Counsel for Onondaga Nation.) ### [The International Law of Colonialism: The Doctrine of Discovery](/archives/25.1/miller/) By [Robert J. Miller](/authors/robert-j-miller/) (Arizona State University) ### [My Decades-long Inquiry Into the Doctrine of Christian Discovery and Domination](/archives/25.1/newcomb/) By [Steven T. Newcomb](/authors/steven-t-newcomb/) (Indigenous Law Institute) ### [An Intergenerational and Perpetual Imperium of Domination and Subjugation of Indigenous Peoples: The Doctrine of Christian Discovery and Royal Supremacy](/archives/25.1/rodgers-falk/) By [Phillip Rodgers-Falk](/authors/phillip-rodgers-falk/) (Macquarie University) ### [An Appeal to the American People—Overturning “Federal Indian Law”](/archives/25.1/schwartzberg/) By [Steven J. Schwartzberg](/authors/steven-j-schwartzberg/) (DePaul University) ### [Conclusion: Dismantling the Doctrine of Christian Discovery Cultivating Right Relations](/archives/25.1/conclusion/) By [Philip P Arnold](/authors/philip-p-arnold/) (Syracuse University) ; [Sandra Bigtree](/authors/sandra-bigtree/) (Indigenous Values Initiative) ; [Adam DJ Brett](/authors/adam-dj-brett/) (American Indian Law Alliance, Syracuse University) ### [A Postscript: Sovereignty is Still the Issue](/archives/25.1/postscript/) By [Adam DJ Brett](/authors/adam-dj-brett/) (American Indian Law Alliance, Syracuse University) ; [Betty Hill (Lyons)](/authors/betty-hill-lyons/) (American Indian Law Alliance) ; [Nethanial Belmont](/authors/nethanial-belmont/) (University of Colorado Boulder) ## [24.2 - Winter - Challenging the Justifications of Domination Through Religion: “We Were Planting Corn and They Were Planting Crosses” Part 1 - Table of Contents](/archives/24.2/) 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. ### [Author Bios](/archives/24.2/author-bios/) ### [A Preface to Challenging the Justifications of Domination Through Religion: “We Were Planting Corn, and They Were Planting Crosses”](/archives/24.2/preface/) By [Philip P Arnold](/authors/philip-p-arnold/) (Syracuse University) ; [Sandra Bigtree](/authors/sandra-bigtree/) (Indigenous Values Initiative) ; [Adam DJ Brett](/authors/adam-dj-brett/) (American Indian Law Alliance, Syracuse University) ### [Introduction](/archives/24.2/introduction/) By [Philip P Arnold](/authors/philip-p-arnold/) (Syracuse University) ; [Sandra Bigtree](/authors/sandra-bigtree/) (Indigenous Values Initiative) ; [Adam DJ Brett](/authors/adam-dj-brett/) (American Indian Law Alliance, Syracuse University) ### [Christian Control of Women and Mother Earth: The Doctrine of Discovery and the Doctrine of Male Domination](/archives/24.2/wagner/) By [Sally Roesch Wagner](/authors/sally-roesch-wagner/) (Matlida Joslyn Gage Center & Syracuse University) ### [Charting the Doctrine in the Colonial Archive: Papal Bulls and the Translation of the ‘Discovery’ Purpose](/archives/24.2/modrow/) By [Sebastian Modrow](/authors/sebastian-modrow/) (Syracuse University) ### [Using the Doctrine of Discovery to Increase Shared Language and Conceptual Frameworks Between Black and Indigenous Feminist Organizing](/archives/24.2/nahar/) By [Sarah Nahar](/authors/sarah-nahar/) (University of Michigan in the Program in the Environment, Syracuse University) ### [The Medieval Origins of Religious White Supremacy: English Imperialism, Crusade Defeats, and the Doctrine of Discovery](/archives/24.2/callan/) By [Maeve Callan](/authors/maeve-callan/) (Simpson College) ### [The Chosen People at Grouse Mountain](/archives/24.2/felese/) By [Wendy Felese](/authors/wendy-felese/) (Regis University, Montana State University Billings) ### [“Engineering Marvel”: Towards Resisting the Affective Politics of Erie Canal Heritage](/archives/24.2/nagle/) By [Danielle S. Nagle](/authors/danielle-s-nagle/) (independant scholar) ### [Deconstructing the Erie Canal: Three Lessons for its Next Century](/archives/24.2/barry/) By [Renée Barry](/authors/renee-barry/) (Matilda Joslyn Gage Foundation) ### [Silencing the Doctrine of Discovery – The Brazilian Process: Accidental Discoveries, Secret Manuscripts, Imaginary Lines and Myths](/archives/24.2/alencar/) By [Telma Alencar](/authors/telma-alencar/) (independant scholar) ### [Baltic Religion: The Sacred Things](/archives/24.2/trinkauskaite/) By [Eglutė Trinkauskaitė](/authors/eglute-trinkauskaite/) (Maryland Institute College of Art) ; [Ellen B. Cutler](/authors/ellen-b-cutler/) (independant scholar) ### [Other Forms of Dwelling: A Dalit – Feminist Perspective](/archives/24.2/lakshmi/) By [Shrutika Lakshmi](/authors/shrutika-lakshmi/) (Syracuse University) ### [Hindu Political Theology: Beyond Hindutva’s Political Monotheism](/archives/24.2/somayajula/) By [Pranay Somayajula](/authors/pranay-somayajula/) (independant scholar) ### [Expecting Excellence in Education: When Content Conditions Class Consciousness](/archives/24.2/chaness/) By [Michael E. Chaness](/authors/michael-e-chaness/) (Assistant Professor at State University of New York (SUNY) Oswego, State University of New York Oswego) ### [Flesh of Words: Confrontation, Navigation, and Integrity in the English Classroom](/archives/24.2/hurtado/) By [Roberta Hurtado](/authors/roberta-hurtado/) (State University of New York Oswego) ### [Schools, Teachers, and Teacher Educators: Education Through the Disruption of White Supremacy](/archives/24.2/radhakrishnan/) By [Ritu Radhakrishnan](/authors/ritu-radhakrishnan/) (State University of New York Oswego) ### [Dismantling White Supremacy in the Classroom and Beyond](/archives/24.2/jimenez/) By [Celinet Duran Jimenez](/authors/celinet-duran-jimenez/) (State University of New York Oswego) ### [Unselling the Classroom: Confronting History and Ourselves](/archives/24.2/berlin/) By [Elaina Berlin](/authors/elaina-berlin/) (The University at Albany) ## [24.1 - summer - Special Issue on Religion and Bioethics - Table of Contents](/archives/24.1/) 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. ### [Abstracts](/archives/24.1/abstracts/) By [Editorial Board of JCRT](/authors/editors/) ### [Author Bios](/archives/24.1/bios/) By [Editorial Board of JCRT](/authors/editors/) ### [The Sacred End: Exploring the Ethical Practice of Sallekhanā in Jaina Tradition](/archives/24.1/daga/) By [Nisha Daga](/authors/nisha-daga/) (Indian Institute of Technology) ; [George Kodimattam Joseph](/authors/george-kodimattam-joseph/) (Indian Institute of Technology) ### [Religion’s Relationship with Public Bioethics: a Critical Historical Assessment and Pragmatic Method for Inclusive Discourse](/archives/24.1/durante/) By [Christopher Durante](/authors/christopher-durante/) ### [A ‘Social Constructionist’ Approach to ‘Muslim Biomedical Ethics’: Examining ‘Muslim’ Opposition to Physician-Assisted Suicide](/archives/24.1/godazgar/) By [Hossein Godazgar](/authors/hossein-godazgar/) (University of Warwick) ### [Suffering and Dying in Modern Pandemics: a Parallel Reading of Ivan Illich, Giorgio Agamben and Byung-Chul Han](/archives/24.1/grammenou/) By [Iria Grammenou](/authors/iria-grammenou/) (National and Kapodistrian University of Athens) ### [Faith and Transitions: Religious Notions of Accountability and Gender Affirming Care for Youth](/archives/24.1/grane/) By [Kev Grane](/authors/kev-grane/) (University of Denver/Iliff School of Theology) ### [Reconsidering the Significance of Biogenetic Ties](/archives/24.1/harwood/) By [Karey Harwood](/authors/karey-harwood/) (North Carolina State University) ### [Constructing Mystical Experiences: a Critique of the Mystical Paradigm in Psychedelic Research](/archives/24.1/phelps/) By [Hollis Phelps](/authors/hollis-phelps/) (Mercer University, Claremont Graduate University ) ### [The Violence of Classification and Ethics of Suicide: a Reflection on Qiu Jin’s Death](/archives/24.1/ruan/) By [Genn Ruan](/authors/genn-ruan/) (University of California, Riverside) ; [Xiaoqian Zhang](/authors/xiaoqian-zhang/) ### [Medical Procedure in the Heat of Emotion: the Positions of Military Rabbinate Personnel on Posthumous Sperm Retrieval (Psr) Following the October 7, 2023 Attack](/archives/24.1/silverstein/) By [Yaron Silverstein](/authors/yaron-silverstein/) (Hemdat Academic College) ## [23.2 - winter - Journal for Cultural and Religious Theory - Table of Contents](/archives/23.2/) A Whitestone Publication - Issue 23.2 Winter 2025 ### [A Conversation with Philip P. Arnold on the Urgency of Indigenous Values](/archives/23.2/arnold/) By [Philip P Arnold](/authors/philip-p-arnold/) (Syracuse University) ; [Victor Taylor](/authors/victor-taylor/) (Independent Scholar) ### [Author bios](/archives/23.2/bios/) By [Editorial Board of JCRT](/authors/editors/) ### [Reuniting Ethics and Aesthetics: Augustinian and Thomistic Aesthetics and the Buck-Passing Account of Aesthetic Value.](/archives/23.2/marks/) By [Pierce Marks](/authors/pierce-marks/) (Southern New Hampshire University) ### [Dis/Ordered Liberty: Islamic and Catholic Feminist Perspectives on Natural Law After Dobbs](/archives/23.2/porter/) By [Andrew Stone Porter](/authors/andrew-stone-porter/) (Bellarmine University) ### [Saying “You”: the Grammar of Address and the Limitations of Cognitive Theories of Religion](/archives/23.2/raschke/) By [Carl A. Raschke](/authors/carl-raschke/) (University of Denver) ### [Healing as Multimedia Practice: Contemporary Spirituality in Turkey](/archives/23.2/sendag/) By [Duygu Sendag](/authors/duygu-sendag/) (French Institute for Anatolian Studies) Page 1 of 14 Older → [The Journal for Cultural and Religious Theory (JCRT)](https://jcrt.org) is an online, peer-reviewed, academic publication published by [The Whitestone Foundation](http://thewhitestonefoundation.org/), a 501c3 corporation located in Boulder, Colorado. ISSN 1530-5228. Articles are open access under a [CC BY 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) license; authors retain copyright. Indexed by [EBSCO](https://www.ebsco.com/). Listed with [Duotrope](https://duotrope.com/magazine/journal-cultural-religious-theory-20464?ref=lst-7vbKB-7r3u0g8&pc=L-7VBKB). Website © The Whitestone Foundation dba The Journal for Cultural and Religious Theory 1999-2026. 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