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.
Ethnographic research suggests that people across the United States are increasingly gathering to commune with their creators, to interact with their ancestors, to enter the spirit world, to gain supernatural insights, and to engage in what they otherwise...
“Contrary to many current discourses on conspiracy theories, lived ethnography on conspirituality shows that not all conspiracists align with the polarizing, divisive, and intransigent discourses and behaviors often attributed to them by media and...
“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...