Sightings Articles
Selling the Gospel of Positive Thinking
It's the everyday nature of the failures in "Salesman," a film about Bible salesmen, that makes the film so powerful and relatable....
October 5, 2023
Welcome to a New Year of Sightings
As the Divinity School and the Marty Center begin a new academic year, Sightings welcomes new voices and new partnerships....
September 28, 2023
Sightings on Summer Hiatus
Enjoy a curated reading list until we return for Autumn Quarter in September 2023....
July 6, 2023
Modi, Biden, and the Surprising Links Between Multiculturalism and Islamophobia
Support for Hindu nationalism is widespread in the western diaspora, which both ends of the American political spectrum enable, in their own ways....
June 29, 2023
Sightings and Sorrows of Religion
While religion should motivate efforts to alleviate hatred and dehumanization, it often finds itself wrapped up in these social evils....
June 22, 2023
Redefining Redlining on Chicago’s Southside
The tulips in Amanda Williams' art installation enact for residents who live in or pass through the area that tenacious double effect of urban redlining: the mark of the past is never entirely erased....
June 15, 2023
The Prophetic and the Pragmatic in Cornel West
Using the language of prophecy and vocation to describe West’s campaign raises some interesting questions—not only about West but about what it means to be prophetic....
June 9, 2023
Connection and Celebration at the World's Parliament of Religions
At the height of racism in the US and Western colonialism, the Parliament was one attempt to mitigate human division and the sectarian passions nurtured and released by religious certainty....
May 25, 2023
This is the Way: Daoist Themes in Star Wars
Return of the Jedi resonates with themes, ideas, and symbolism from real-world religious traditions....
May 3, 2023
The Symbolism of a Kiss?
A single human action can take on multiple meanings, personal, social, cultural, and even moral and religious....