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Problems with How Journalists Write about Hindu Death Rituals

May 10, 2022Bhakti Mamtora

Legacies of colonial stereotypes about people in India persist in today’s journalism

Conversation

Epidemic Empire: A Conversation with Anjuli Raza Kolb

May 6, 2020Kali Handelman, Anjuli Raza Kolb

Contributing Editor Kali Handelman interviews Anjuli Raza Kolb about her upcoming book Epidemic Empire and its connections to today.

Feature

Representing Migration: Two photographers creating new ways to see history and sanctuary

August 9, 2019Ashley Okwuosa, Soumya Sankar Bose, Cinthya Santos-Briones

Images that challenge us to see migration differently

Review

Destruction on Display: The Politics of Preservation

August 9, 2019Raha Rafii

A review of the University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology's exhibition, “Cultures in the Crossfire: Stories from...

Feature

Strange Characters; or, the Antecolumbian Imaginary

May 22, 2018Ed Simon

Ed Simon on how pre-Columbian contact theories play with a story of America that can be told and retold.

Column

Political Feelings: The Purest Kind of Ideology

March 20, 2018Patrick Blanchfield

“Political Feelings” is a bi-monthly column by Patrick Blanchfield about stories, scenes and studies of religion in American culture....

Review

P/partition: Urvashi Butalia's Volume of Essays in Lower Case

September 8, 2017

Shruti Devgan reviews Partition: The Long Shadow edited by Urvashi Butalia.

Feature

Work, Spirits, and Rain

June 1, 2017

Anthropologist Julio Glockner on the history of traditional rituals in Guerrero, Mexico and Yael Martinez and Orlando Velazquez's work...

Feature

The Crescent, The Cross, The Star, The Void

June 1, 2017

A conversation with photographer Oscar B. Castillo about photographing subjects on France's margins.

Feature

Resisting the “Inevitable” Narrative: Standing Rock’s Anti-Colonial Eventualities

December 7, 2016

The first of two articles by Sarah Dees about the Standing Rock water protectors: How history does and doesn't...

Review

Of Rosaries and Revenge: Anticolonial Imaginations of The Legend of Tarzan

August 31, 2016

"The Legend of Tarzan," a much-hyped reboot of the popular relic of Western colonialism, suffers from its attempt to...

Review

Review: Religion, Science, and Empire

September 25, 2015

Anand Venkatkrishnan reviews Religion, Science, and Empire by Peter Gottschalk.

Feature

God and Guns

September 25, 2015

Patrick Blanchfield tracks the long-standing entanglement of guns and religion in the United States. Part 1 of 2.

In the News: Apps, Apologies, Apocalypse and more!

July 15, 2015

A round-up of the week's religion news.

In the News: Racism, Ramadan, Romanian Witches and more!

June 25, 2015

A round-up of the week's religion news.

Problems with How Journalists Write about Hindu Death Rituals

Epidemic Empire: A Conversation with Anjuli Raza Kolb

Representing Migration: Two photographers creating new ways to see history and sanctuary

Destruction on Display: The Politics of Preservation

Strange Characters; or, the Antecolumbian Imaginary

Political Feelings: The Purest Kind of Ideology

P/partition: Urvashi Butalia's Volume of Essays in Lower Case

Work, Spirits, and Rain

The Crescent, The Cross, The Star, The Void

Resisting the “Inevitable” Narrative: Standing Rock’s Anti-Colonial Eventualities

Of Rosaries and Revenge: Anticolonial Imaginations of The Legend of Tarzan

Review: Religion, Science, and Empire

God and Guns

In the News: Apps, Apologies, Apocalypse and more!

In the News: Racism, Ramadan, Romanian Witches and more!

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