Tag: Religion Dispatches

  • New History Finally Recognizes Afro-Creole Spiritualists Religion Dispatches 2016-09-20 Paul Harvey, Distinguished Professor of History University of Colorado “Ladder of Progress,” a drawing added to the archive of the Cercle Harmonique by René Grandjean, the circle’s first archivist. Emily Clark’s new work, A Luminous Brotherhood, is an extensive study of a subject that has weirdly…

  • A New Book for Those Who Cling to a “Post-Racial” Christianity Religion Dispatches 2017-02-17 In The Death of Race, Brian Bantum explores the theological underpinnings of cultural understandings of race and gender. What inspired you to write The Death of Race? Truthfully, this wasn’t the book I had wanted to write right now. There is…

  • Melissa Harris-Perry: LGBT Advocates Need Public Progressive Faith Religion Dispatches Sexuality/Gender University of Southern California 2011-05-31 Peter Montgomery, Associate Editor Political scientist Melissa Harris-Perry has developed a devoted following with her appearances on Bill Moyers Journal and Rachel Maddow’s MSNBC show, and her insightful commentaries on race, history, politics and culture in The Nation and…