Deemed unfit for freedom
Weisenfeld’s research tracks the rise in psychiatry as a field of science and the parallel ascent of the discipline’s racialized theories about African American religious practices and mental health. Continue Reading →
Category: Religion
Islam in Pakistan: A History
Author: Muhammad Qasim Zaman, the Robert H. Niehaus ’77 Professor of Near Eastern Studies and Religion Publisher: Princeton University Press, May 2018 The first modern state to be founded in the name of Islam, Pakistan Continue Reading →
Historian of religion Elaine Pagels awarded National Humanities Medal
PHOTO BY MARK CZAJKOWSKI Elaine Pagels, an authority on the religions of late antiquity and the author of The Gnostic Gospels and Beyond Belief: The Secret Gospel of Thomas, received the 2015 National Humanities Medal. Continue Reading →
New World A-Coming: Black Religion and Racial Identity During the Great Migration
Author: Judith Weisenfeld, the Agate Brown and George L. Collord Professor of Religion Publisher: New York University Press, February 2017 When Joseph Nathaniel Beckles registered for the draft in the 1942, he rejected the racial categories Continue Reading →
Globalization raises new ethical questions
As strangers become more accessible to us through global markets and new media, so too do questions of our obligations to them. For Eric Gregory, who examines religious and philosophical ethics, our ever-growing connectedness to Continue Reading →
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