Now Open Access!

American Religion Journal

American Religion is delighted to announce that our journal is now open access! All of our past and future issues are now freely accessible through our website and Project Muse!

Many thanks to the Henry Luce Foundation and the IU Center for Religion and the Human for helping us bring our journal to all those who do not have institutional access. If you publish with us, you will now have an even broader reach!

Book Talk with Janine Giordano Drake

The Gospel of Church

On September 19, IU History Professor Janine Giordano Drake joined IU Religious Studies Professor Constance Furey at the Center for Religion and the Human for a book talk on Drake's recent monograph The Gospel of Church: How Mainline Protestants Vilified Christian Socialism and Fractured the Labor Movement (Oxford University Press, 2023).

Community Conversation at Bethel AME Church

Solidarity in Everydayness

In anticipation of Professor Emilie Townes' Charles H. Long Memorial Lecture, IU Religious Studies PhD candidates Mihee Kim-Kort and Amber Lowe, alongside IU Professor Randall Jelks, initiated a discussion around evil and community solidarity at Bethel African Methodist Episcopal Church in downtown Bloomington, Indiana on Wednesday, September 11.

IU faculty and students, as well as Bloomington residents and community members participated in this public conversation.

Emilie M. Townes gave the Charles H. Long Memorial Lecture

shadowboxing the ridiculous

On Thursday, September 12 at the Cook Center in Maxwell Hall Dr. Emilie M. Townes gave the Charles H. Long Memorial Lecture: "Shadowboxing the Ridiculous."

Townes is Martin Luther King, Jr. Professor of Religion and Black Studies at Boston University School of Theology. An American Baptist clergywoman, she is a native of Durham, North Carolina. She tolds a Degree of Ministry from the University of Chicago Divinity School and a PhD in Religion in Society and Personality from Northwestern University.

The Charles H. Long Memorial Lecture is a biennial lecture series on Black religion, honoring the life and work of Professor Charles H. Long.

Knausgaard Reading and Writing Collective featured in The Immanent Frame

Forum on Experimental Books

The Abyss or Life Is Simple: Reading Knausgaard Writing Religion (University of Chicago Press, 2022) by the Knausgaard Reading and Writing Collective was featured in The Immanent Frame's forum on experimental books.

"Refusing the choice: Neither academic nor novelist, an experiment in writing," by Jeffrey Kosky

"Us being changed," by Kathryn Reklis

"Writing living," by Scott Korb

"Experiments in collective labor," by Kyle Wagner

"The future of us," by the Knausgaard Reading and Writing Collective

Center for Religion and the Human receives $750,000

from the Henry Luce Foundation

Constance Furey, Cooper Harriss, Sarah Imhoff, and Winnifred Fallers Sullivan, co-PIs on the grant, expressed gratitude for the Henry Luce Foundation’s generous support and called it deeply affirming of the work they've done so far.

“This is a collective project,” Sullivan said. “Together with IU students and faculty participants from other universities, we’re excited to continue the Center’s research, creative activity, pedagogical innovation, and programming, building off of what we’ve developed in the first five years of our existence.”