Essays

Essays on Religion

Navigate essays by title on the menu to your left, or explore them by theme. 

Difficulty

• Keramat: Beyond Imagined Divisions
• Teaching While Muslimah: Difficulties in Sounding Islam in the Classroom
• Explaining Why Jewish History Matters: Drawing Big Lessons from a Small People
• Teaching Religion in the Foreign Language Classroom

Practice

• • Openly Practicing
  • Webs of Knowing: Birth and Religion
  • The Journey Toward Wholeness: Personal Growth, The Angulimala Sutra, and Therapeutic Interventions for Men
  • Hosting Paikea: On Indigenous Ontologies of Carving and Kinship

Failure

• Teaching Mysticism: An Exercise in Productive Failure
• Let the Past Fail Me

• Devotional Absurdity and the Efficacy of Failure in Bangladeshi Shrine Performance

• The Need for Developing an Afro-Latinx Theology
• Failure is an Option: Queer Failure and the Negotiation of Religious Identity

Scripture

• A Cat in the Basket and Other Scholarly Stories
• Animating Religious Literacy: Japanese Pop Culture and Teaching through Video
• Cultivating Curiosity, or, Why Study Scripture At All?
• 한글 Hangul in Korea and Kreyòl in Haiti: Indigenous Languages and Spelling Systems in Religious and National Development