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A novel account of the relationship between sincerity, religious freedom, and the secular in the United States.   “Sincerely held religious belief” is now a common phrase in …

France, officially, is a secular nation. Yet Catholicism is undeniably a monumental presence, defining the temporal and spatial rhythms of Paris. At the same time, it often fades …

What are you drawn to like, to watch, or even to binge? What are you free to consume, and what do you become through consumption? These questions of desire and value, Kathryn …

“Citizenship is salvation,” preached Noble Drew Ali, leader of the Moorish Science Temple of America in the early twentieth century. Ali’s message was an aspirational call for …

A rethinking of African American religious history that focuses on the development and evolution of Africana spiritual traditions in Jim Crow New Orleans.   When Zora Neale Hurston …

An exploration of ways that discord binds rather than divides communal life, through an ethnography of French Muslim activism.   The conversation about Islam in France is framed by …

“It’s not a process,” one pastor insisted, “rehabilitation is a miracle.” In the face of addiction and few state resources, Pentecostal pastors in Guatemala City are fighting what …

From the perspective of Protestant America, nineteenth-century Mormons were the victims of a peculiar zealotry, a population deranged--socially, sexually, even racially--by the …

A study of religion through the lens of Peter Shaffer’s play Equus.   In Unbridled, William Robert uses Equus, Peter Shaffer’s enigmatic play about a boy passionately devoted to …

From the 1830s to the Civil War, Americans could be found putting each other into trances for fun and profit in parlors, on stage, and in medical consulting rooms. They were …

In 2011, Trinidad declared a state of emergency. This massive state intervention lasted for 108 days and led to the rounding up of over 7,000 people in areas the state deemed …

A new anthropology of Protestant feminism, anchored by the language experiments of one Lutheran community.   The language of the Bible is a powerful lens through which many …