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24.2 - Winter - Challenging the Justifications of Domination Through Religion: “We Were Planting Corn and They Were Planting Crosses” Part 1 - Table of Contents

The following issue has resulted from a conference in the winter of 2023. The conference was sponsored by The Henry Luce Foundation, Syracuse University Departments of Religion and Biology, Indigenous Values Initiative, American Indian Law Alliance, American Indian Community House, Good Faith Media (GFM), Neighbors of Onondaga Nation (NOON), Syracuse Peace Council, Syracuse Cultural Workers, Tonatierra, Toward Our Common Public Life, Unitarian Universalist Association.

Author Bios

A Preface to Challenging the Justifications of Domination Through Religion: “We Were Planting Corn, and They Were Planting Crosses”

By Philip P Arnold (Syracuse University) ; Sandra Bigtree (Indigenous Values Initiative, Syracuse University) ; Adam DJ Brett (American Indian Law Alliance, Syracuse University)

Introduction

By Philip P Arnold (Syracuse University) ; Sandra Bigtree (Indigenous Values Initiative, Syracuse University) ; Adam DJ Brett (American Indian Law Alliance, Syracuse University)

Christian Control of Women and Mother Earth: The Doctrine of Discovery and the Doctrine of Male Domination

By Sally Roesch Wagner (Matlida Joslyn Gage Center & Syracuse University)

Charting the Doctrine in the Colonial Archive: Papal Bulls and the Translation of the ‘Discovery’ Purpose

By Sebastian Modrow (Syracuse University)

Using the Doctrine of Discovery to Increase Shared Language and Conceptual Frameworks Between Black and Indigenous Feminist Organizing

By Sarah Nahar (University of Michigan in the Program in the Environment, Syracuse University)

The Medieval Origins of Religious White Supremacy: English Imperialism, Crusade Defeats, and the Doctrine of Discovery

By Maeve Callan (Simpson College)

The Chosen People at Grouse Mountain

By Wendy Felese (Regis University, Montana State University Billings)

“Engineering Marvel”: Towards Resisting the Affective Politics of Erie Canal Heritage

By Danielle S. Nagle (independant scholar)

Deconstructing the Erie Canal: Three Lessons for its Next Century

By Renée Barry (Matilda Joslyn Gage Foundation)

Silencing the Doctrine of Discovery – The Brazilian Process: Accidental Discoveries, Secret Manuscripts, Imaginary Lines and Myths

By Telma Alencar (independant scholar)

Baltic Religion: The Sacred Things

By Eglutė Trinkauskaitė (Maryland Institute College of Art) ; Ellen B. Cutler (independant scholar)

Other Forms of Dwelling: A Dalit – Feminist Perspective

By Shrutika Lakshmi (Syracuse University)

Hindu Political Theology: Beyond Hindutva’s Political Monotheism

By Pranay Somayajula (independant scholar)

Expecting Excellence in Education: When Content Conditions Class Consciousness

By Michael E. Chaness (Assistant Professor at State University of New York (SUNY) Oswego, State University of New York Oswego)

Flesh of Words: Confrontation, Navigation, and Integrity in the English Classroom

By Roberta Hurtado (State University of New York Oswego)

Schools, Teachers, and Teacher Educators: Education Through the Disruption of White Supremacy

By Ritu Radhakrishnan (State University of New York Oswego)

Dismantling White Supremacy in the Classroom and Beyond

By Celinet Duran Jimenez (State University of New York Oswego)

Unselling the Classroom: Confronting History and Ourselves

By Elaina Berlin (The University at Albany)

24.1 - summer - Special Issue on Religion and Bioethics - Table of Contents

The following issue has resulted from a conference in the fall of 2024. The conference was sponsored by the journal in collaboration with the University of Denver.

Abstracts

By editors

Author Bios

By editors

The Sacred End: Exploring the Ethical Practice of SallekhanĀ in Jaina Tradition

By Nisha Daga (Indian Institute of Technology) ; George Kodimattam Joseph (Indian Institute of Technology)

Religion’s Relationship with Public Bioethics: a Critical Historical Assessment and Pragmatic Method for Inclusive Discourse

By Christopher Durante

A ‘Social Constructionist’ Approach to ‘Muslim Biomedical Ethics’: Examining ‘Muslim’ Opposition to Physician-Assisted Suicide

By Hossein Godazgar (University of Warwick)

Suffering and Dying in Modern Pandemics: a Parallel Reading of Ivan Illich, Giorgio Agamben and Byung-Chul Han

By Iria Grammenou (National and Kapodistrian University of Athens)

Faith and Transitions: Religious Notions of Accountability and Gender Affirming Care for Youth

By Kevin Grane (University of Denver/Iliff School of Theology)

Reconsidering the Significance of Biogenetic Ties

By Karey Harwood (North Carolina State University)

Constructing Mystical Experiences: a Critique of the Mystical Paradigm in Psychedelic Research

By Hollis Phelps (Mercer University, Claremont Graduate University )

The Violence of Classification and Ethics of Suicide: a Reflection on Qiu Jin’s Death

By Genn Ruan (University of California, Riverside) ; Xiaoqian Zhang

Medical Procedure in the Heat of Emotion: the Positions of Military Rabbinate Personnel on Posthumous Sperm Retrieval (Psr) Following the October 7, 2023 Attack

By Yaron Silverstein (Hemdat Academic College)

23.2 - winter - Journal for Cultural and Religious Theory - Table of Contents

A Whitestone Publication - Issue 23.2 Winter 2025

23.1 - spring - Journal for Cultural and Religious Theory - Table of Contents

A Whitestone Publication

22.2 - fall - Journal for Cultural and Religious Theory - Table of Contents

A Whitestone Publication - Issue 22.2 Fall 2023