Giving attention to religion’s place in politics can help us to account for the paradoxes we see in democratic life, especially in the politics of environmentalism, long assumed to be a province of the secular.
“Any religious tradition can affect decadent forms of practice. We must remain vigilant of the ways religion’s excesses negatively impact our pursuit of political unity amid our diverse cultural contexts and identities. For all political claims are...
Christian Nationalism is not the only religion influencing far-right political movements in the USA. Folkish Heathenry, a “white-only” minority religion, provides symbols, rhetoric, and rituals that shape far-right identity and political action.
Is the shift in contemporary theology to reduce ideas about God and religion to immanent, social, psychological, and political categories justified?
John the Baptist is aware that the very meaning of his existence is to announce a message about Christ as God. To convey the fullness of that message, John must present himself as a person empty of any self-reference, referring only to the otherness of...
Russell C. Powell's research is on the religious, ethical, and political resonances of contemporary environmental issues, particularly the religious dimension of American environmental thought. Prior to joining the CSWR, he taught at Boston College as a...
Alda Balthrop-Lewis is Associate Professor of Religion at Florida State University. She studies ethics—the norms, principles, relationships, and practices people use in their efforts to live well. In Thoreau's Religion (Cambridge University Press, 2021)...