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Spirituality, ecology, and ethics in India’s time of thirst When the water isn’t fit for bathing a people’s gods—and not even safe for the people to drink—then what is next? Tulasi Srinivas explores the connections between spiritual, ecological, and humanitarian tragedy in her article for The Revealer, “Bathing the Gods in Bottled Water: An Account…
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Northeastern University students report on religious diversity just outside the academy walls. Fourteen Northeastern University students participated in the “Reporting Religion” course, co-taught by religious studies professor Carlene Hempel and journalism professor Elizabeth Bucar. This entailed reporting on religious life 3,510 miles away in Granada, Spain. Understanding religious life and diversity beyond the classroom was,…
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An experiential course for journalism students Granada, Spain, is one of those cities where multiple religious communities converge. It is home to mainline Protestants, Catholics, Pentecostals, Seventh-day Adventists, and Anglicans as well as Muslims, Hindus, Tibetan Buddhists, Jews, and Rastafari. Like many multicultural cities, it has seen the rise and fall of different occupying powers—such…
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A special issue of the award-winning online magazine By . . . . 2018, stories about abusive priests had become both routine and shocking—routine in that Americans were accustomed to such reports, and shocking in that there seemed no end to new revelations about abusive clergy and the institutions that protected them. —Brett Krutzsch, The…
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A portal into the digital world of Islamic studies In the political sphere, the term sharia is frequently used and often abused—particularly by political figures in the West. Directly translated from Arabic, “sharīʿah” means “the path” or “the way.” Practically, sharia (or Islamic law) is a set of sacred imperatives that direct the everyday lives…
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Tim Slade’s film describes how assaults against a society’s infrastructure lead to the annihilation of its people The history and culture of a people are not just preserved in their written texts. They are also housed in the physical structures that shelter them and mark their existence in the world. Residences, communal spaces, places of…
