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Conference on Populism, Nationalism, and the Future of Democracy (Announcement)
Sponsored by the Journal for Cultural and Religious Theory in Collaboration with the University of Denver You must register in order to receive a participation
Conference on Populism, Nationalism, and the Future of Democracy – Call for Papers and Presentations (Conferences)
This call invites interdisciplinary papers on populism, nationalism, and democratic futures, outlining themes, participation details, and deadlines for
Special Issue On Religion and Bioethics (Call for Papers)
The Journal for Cultural and Religious Theory (JCRT) invites submissions for a special issue dedicated to the intersection of religion and bioethics It
Religion and Bioethics (Conferencee)
Sponsored by the The Whitestone Foundation dba The Journal for Cultural and Religious Theory in collaboration with the University of Denver It highlights
Healing As A Multimedia Practice – Contemporary Spirituality In Turkey, Part 1 (Duygu Sendag)
Zeynep, a 37-year-old Turkish woman, comes from a secular family background. She has traveled to Bali and India on different occasions to participate in yoga
Greening America’s Virtues (Nick Mather)
The United States likes to present itself as a global leader, yet, when it comes to tackling what is arguably the greatest crisis facing humanity, global
Conference on Religion and Bioethics – Call for Proposals
This call for proposals frames a conference on religion and bioethics, inviting interdisciplinary work on ethics, theology, policy, and emerging The argument
Sikh Environmental Ethics-Theory and Praxis Part 2 (Harpreet Kaur)
The following is the second installment of a two-part series. The first can be found here. Many verses can be retrieved to prompt human beings to be thankful
Sikh Environmental Ethics-Theory and Praxis Part 1 (Harpreet Kaur)
Eco-philosophy, or ecosophy, offers insight into the relationship of living beings with their environment. The intersection of faith and eco-philosophy is known
Religious Faith In Pursuit of Environmental Justice (Chris Durante)
In recent years, the world’s religions, including the Abrahamic faiths as well as Hinduism, Buddhism, Taoism and various indigenous forms of spirituality, have
What Black Disabled Bodies Can Teach Us About Environmental Justice (Robert Monson)
As early as 2014, governmental officials in the city of Flint, Michigan made a series of decisions that would prove to have deleterious effects on the people
Metaphysical Protestantism-A Comparative Literary Ecology (Zane Johnson)
The influence of religions on human attitudes toward the non-human, whether beneficent or deleterious, has been the subject of serious scholarly debate since at
The Image of God and Our Vocation of the Soil, Part 2 (Mick Pope)
The article is published in two installments. The first can be found here. It is generally recognised that the Garden story is more environmentally friendly
The Image of God and Our Vocation of the Soil, Part 1 (Mick Pope)
Earth history has entered a new geological era known as the Anthropocene. The commonly agreed origin of this era was the 1950s with the “Great Acceleration,” a
The Environmental Ethics of Pope Francis – Parsing Key Terms and Claims In Laudato Si’ (Thomas Massaro, S.J.)
On October 4, 2023, Pope Francis published the apostolic exhortation Laudate Deum (“Praise God”), an 8000-word document advocating for urgent action to counter
Religious Sacrificial Sympathy- How Man Became More Valuable Than Beast (Kevin S. Grane)
The religious attitude of the West today demonstrates a consumerist ethos that would have been deeply foreign to the religious discourse of old It highlights
Sikhs As Subalterns – Voice, Inequality, And Power, Part 3 (Nirvikar Singh)
The following is the third installment of a three part series. The first can be found here, the second here. It is published as a catalogued .PDF in article in
Sikhs As Subalterns – Voice, Inequality, And Power, Part 2 (Nirvikar Singh)
The following is the second installment of a three part series. The first can be found here. It is published as a catalogued .PDF in article in the latest issue
Sikhs As Subalterns – Voice, Inequality, and Power, Part 1 (Nirvikar Singh)
The following article is the first of three installments. It is published as a catalogued .PDF in article in the latest issue of the Journal for Cultural and
The Re-Enchantment Of Bodies – The Transformative Power Of Charismatic Healings, Part 2 (Anna Magnasco)
The following is the first of a two-part series. The first installment can be found here. It was originally published in issue 22.1 of the Journal for Cultural
The Re-Enchantment Of Bodies – The Transformative Power Of Charismatic Healings, Part 1 (Anna Magnasco)
Part 1 investigates charismatic healing as embodied practice, arguing that affect, ritual, and perception can reconfigure modern assumptions about agency and
The Sacred As Bordering Practice, Part 2 (Anna-Maria Edlinger)
The following is the second of a two-part series. The first portion can be found here. It was originally published in issue 22.1 of the Journal for Cultural and
The Sacred As Bordering Practice, Part 1 (Anna-Maria Edlinger)
Part 1 theorizes the sacred as bordering practice, showing how ritual and discourse draw limits, authorize belonging, and organize contested social and
What Exactly Is Postmodernism, And How Did It Change The Landscape Of Religious Studies?, Part 2 (Carl Raschke)
This article is published in two installments. The first can be found here. Taylor’s typification of postmodernism as Flatland, however, as the quintessential
What Exactly Is Postmodernism, And How Did It Change The Landscape Of Religious Studies?, Part 1 (Carl Raschke)
Almost a half century ago a change took place in the humanities, and by extension in the fledgling field of religious studies It highlights key arguments