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Last week my colleague Emily Clark and I both wrote about the Emanuel AME attack for public audiences – make sure to check out Emily’s powerful piece, “A Violent Act in the Name of White Supremacy.” Today we reflect on it again, together. See “Writing about Charleston” on the Religion in American History blog.
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Sanctuaries like Charleston’s AME Church aren’t just places of worship—they’re political institutions that threaten white power. Published on Slate
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Over the past year I have had the pleasure and privilege to teach religion and African American studies at Earlham College. Surrounded by passionate students and committed colleagues, I learned more about teaching than I thought possible in such a short time. I feel especially blessed to have been at an institution with justice at
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My latest on Religion in American History, a pedagogical rumination on failures to communicate and teaching the line between the “religious” and “political,” so-called. What we usually call “the religious” and “the political” have been practically inseparable in my course on African American religions this semester. After all, how can students think about practices, communities,
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Here’s my latest post on Religion in American History, where I take you into my first day of class in the History of African American Religious Experiences and we explore the most prevalent images and ideas about “African American religion.” I currently have the pleasure to be teaching African American religious history for the first
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As I’ve been teaching a seminar on theory in the study of religion this semester, I’ve been thinking back to a reflection I wrote a few years ago for the Harvard Divinity Bulletin about the ways a key category in Religious Studies – “the sacred” – was deployed in debates about the so-called “Ground Zero
Matthew J. Cressler, Ph.D. 