Islam in China is going through a period of architectural amputation called Sinicization. The result is a haunting landscape where dome-less and minaret-less mosques visualize deficiency as a definition of what it means to be Muslim in China today.
By dealing death on dark life, whiteness and white supremacy reveals itself dangerously asleep, and so liable to divine judgment. Black life, alternatively, is already “awake” with the illumination of a future reality in which the dead things are brought back to life.
For those witnessing today’s televised violence and mass destruction, the collapse of meaning renders nihilism seductive. Can the collapse of meaning be resisted?
Machiavelli’s Discourses on Livy reveals how religion became not a check on power—but its strategic lifeblood.
If God reconciled us while we were still enemies, how should Christians view and speak about those they consider their enemies?
Why did Dwight Hopkins, a leading Black liberation theologian and a longtime University of Chicago professor, move toward MAGA?
Amey Victoria Adkins-Jones responds to the book forum on her newly published, Immaculate Misconceptions.
Luke Roberts introduces the essays in the symposium on Religion and Public Life.
Benjamin devises a pure sacrificial ethos, devoid of the profanities of teleology. Benjamin’s account of sacrifice is saturated with emancipatory sacred dispositions.
God’s love nullifies every hierarchy based on ancestry and ethnicity, since birth does not determine status in the eyes of God. With equal measure it rejects the idea that some are above accountability and some do not deserve justice.
This essay is part of a book forum on Immaculate Misconceptions by Amey Victoria Adkins-Jones.