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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.
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.
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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)
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
23.2 - winter - Journal for Cultural and Religious Theory - Table of Contents
A Whitestone Publication - Issue 23.2 Winter 2025
A Conversation with Philip P. Arnold on the Urgency of Indigenous Values
By Philip P Arnold (Syracuse University) ; Victor Taylor (Independent Scholar)
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Reuniting Ethics and Aesthetics: Augustinian and Thomistic Aesthetics and the Buck-Passing Account of Aesthetic Value.
By Pierce Marks (Southern New Hampshire University)
Dis/Ordered Liberty: Islamic and Catholic Feminist Perspectives on Natural Law After Dobbs
By Andrew Stone Porter (Bellarmine University)
Saying “You”: the Grammar of Address and the Limitations of Cognitive Theories of Religion
By Carl A. Raschke (University of Denver)
Healing as Multimedia Practice: Contemporary Spirituality in Turkey
By Duygu Sendag (French Institute for Anatolian Studies)
23.1 - spring - Journal for Cultural and Religious Theory - Table of Contents
A Whitestone Publication
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Religious Faith in Pursuit of Environmental Justice.
By Chris Durante (Saint Peter’s University)
Transforming Schema: Toward an Integral Ecology.
By Kevin Hujing (Metropolitan State University of Denver)
Metaphysical Protestantism: a Comparative Literary Ecology
By Zane Johnson (University of Denver/Iliff School of Theology)
Sikh Environmental Ethics: Theory and Praxis
By Harpreet Kaur (University of Maryland)
The Environmental Ethics of Pope Francis: Parsing Key Terms and Claims in Laudato Si
By Thomas Massaro (S.J., Fordham University)
Greening America’s Virtues
By Nicholas Mather (East Los Angeles College)
Ancestral Devotion, New England Conservation, and the Challenge of Environmental Justice
By Daniel Mckanan (Harvard Divinity School)
Seated at the Cross: What Black Disabled Bodies Can Teach US About Environmental Justice
By Robert Monson (University of Denver/Iliff School of Theology)
The Image of God and Our Vocation of the Soil
By Mick Pope (Whitley College)
The Solar Nun: the Prophetic Action and Thought of Sr. Paula Gonzalez, S.C
By Elijah Prewitt-Davis (Mount St. Joseph University, Drew University)
22.2 - fall - Journal for Cultural and Religious Theory - Table of Contents
A Whitestone Publication - Issue 22.2 Fall 2023
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Eckhart and the Ek-Sistence of God: a Mystical Quarter Turn in the Theology of the Real
By Gabriel Thomas Gustav Byng (University of Vienna)
On the Relation of Fashion to Art: An Interview with Ali Hval
By Ariadne Dubus (Binghamton University) ; Ali Hval (University of Iowa) ; Madeleine Taylor (Binghamton University)
Introducing Spirit Dance: Reconstructed / Spiritual Practices
By Joshua M Hall (University of Alabama at Birmingham)
Hegel Contra God: Replying to Gavin Hyman’s ‘New Hegel’
By Rebekah Howes (University of Winchester)
The Religious Roots of Environmental Justice
By Catherine Keller (Drew University) ; Carl A. Raschke (University of Denver)
The Use and Abuse of the Expression “Christian Nationalism”
By Carl A. Raschke (University of Denver)
Sikhs as Subalterns: Voice, Inequality and Power
By Nirvikar Singh (University of California, Santa Cruz)