Immoral Halloween TemptationsOctober 27, 2011Amy Levin: Last week, rushing through the Atlantic-Pacific terminal in Brooklyn, I passed my usual underground subway Jesus cheerleader,...
Feature A Questionable Purpose, A Test of WordsJune 26, 2011Part of The Revealer’s series on the John Jay report, “The Causes and Context of Sexual Abuse...
Feature Pathologizing the Sexual RevolutionJune 7, 2011Part of The Revealer’s series on the John Jay report, “The Causes and Context of Sexual Abuse of...
Misinterpreting the Legacy of the 1960sMay 28, 2011Part of The Revealer’s series on the John Jay report, The Causes and Context of Sexual Abuse of Minors...
Feature Failure to Deliver: Predictions that did not predict and a case-closing report that did not close the caseMay 26, 2011Part of The Revealer's series on the John Jay report, The Causes and Context of Sexual Abuse of...
Keeping the Patriarchy: Sex as Dominance in the Catholic ChurchMay 24, 2011by Amanda Marcotte To quickly summarize a recently- released, five-year study funded by the Catholic Church on the priest sex...
Mapping AbuseApril 20, 2010Twenty-one countries, six continents, 30 priests accused of abuse and transferred to international locales; the Catholic sexual abuse scandal,...
The Empire Contracts.April 15, 2010Mary Valle: Listeners to commercial broadcast radio in Baltimore may have been surprised in the past month to hear an earnest,...
Feature Priest Migration to Save Italy’s Catholic ChurchesNovember 11, 2024Carmela GuaglianoneItalian bishops are hiring priests from Africa, South America, and elsewhere to address a priest shortage. But the migrant...
Feature Mothers in ZionOctober 4, 2023Amanda Hendrix-KomotoThe longstanding pressures Mormon women face to be mothers
Perspective What Does BDS Really Mean?March 7, 2023Adele OltmanThe movement to boycott Israel is divorced from the day-to-day problems facing Palestinians, and new strategies are urgently needed
Review Changing Stereotypes of South Asians on ScreenApril 7, 2022Bhakti MamtoraRepresentations of South Asians on American TV have remained limited for decades. But things are starting to change slowly.
Feature Religious Sisters RespondMarch 7, 2022Renée Darline RodenWhat popular media misses about religious sisters' experiences and why women continue to join Catholic religious orders
Feature A Lake of Fire, A Runaway Goddess, and the Perils of Climate Change in IndiaOctober 7, 2021Tulasi SrinivasHave the goddesses and gods of Hinduism fled because the planet is too polluted?
Conversation Religious Militancy Overseas and Its Messages at HomeSeptember 9, 2021Kali Handelman, Suzanne SchneiderA conversation with Suzanne Schneider about her new book, The Apocalypse and the End of History: Modern Jihad and...
Review Hindu Ritual in India’s High-Tech CityJuly 22, 2021Deonnie MoodieA Review of Tulasi Srinivas’s The Cow in the Elevator
Feature Postapocalyptic Communities: Tribal and Religious Organizations Respond to COVID-19March 9, 2021Abel R. GomezHow have groups that survived near-genocide reacted to the pandemic and what can they teach us about how to...
Review Mucho Mucho Amor, Mucho Mucho ReligionOctober 6, 2020J. Barton ScottA review of Netflix's documentary about Walter Mercado, an eccentric Puerto Rican celebrity astrologer
Column Political Feelings: Suffer the ChildrenMarch 20, 2019Patrick BlanchfieldWhy the charge of child sacrifice thrives in our contemporary discourse.
In the News In the News: How to talk about what we need to talk about?November 16, 2017Kali HandelmanA round-up of recent religion news.
Feature Work, Spirits, and RainJune 1, 2017Anthropologist Julio Glockner on the history of traditional rituals in Guerrero, Mexico and Yael Martinez and Orlando Velazquez's work...
Excerpt, Review (Excerpt) Making Moderate Islam: Sufism, Service, and the Ground Zero Mosque ControversyApril 4, 2017An excerpt from Making Moderate Islam: Sufism, Service, and the "Ground Zero Mosque" Controversy (Stanford University Press, 2016) by Rosemary...
Feature The Remembrance of AmalekMarch 22, 2016King Philip's War and the many beginnings and ends of sacred violence in America. By Ed Simon.