Sightings Articles
Catholic Hispanics Defect
The Chicago media is full of stories about a Latino candidate for mayor, and keep Latinos on our minds. We decided to go national/international....
March 23, 2015
(Everywhere) Ferguson and the Socio-Religious Challenge of Hip Hop Culture
Arising out of the 1970s Black/Brown youth-cultured streets of the South Bronx, Hip Hop has emerged to signify a religious and civic politics of human storytelling in the service of undoing deleterious police actions, which are visited upon Black and...
March 19, 2015
Fifty Years After Selma: Historically Black Colleges and Universities Create a Moral Vision of Education
American higher education is in crisis. ...
March 12, 2015
Lost in Translation -- Martin E. marty
“Religion in American (etc.) Public Life” is our rubric and we sight references to it at least weekly. So what business do we have lifting up, from a single magazine, two reviews of books about ancient Hebrew prophets and New Testament parables? What...
March 9, 2015
Nigeria's Presidential Election: Will the Muslim Challenger Defeat the Christian Incumbent? by Debra Erickson
Reports from Nigeria...
March 5, 2015
Fragments of the Past: Imagining Medieval Cluny at the Smart Museum -- Claire Jenson
Fragments of the past...
February 26, 2015
Pope Francis
Depressed, weary, or frightened by stories of USIS and ISIS and other horrors, plus by debates over “religious extremism” and the role of Islam, we focus instead on the not-unimportant figure of Pope Francis, who makes news and inspires reflection. W...
February 23, 2015
Another Take on “After ‘Charlie Hebdo,’ Islam Must Critique Itself” -- Matthew Kapstein
Jewish-Muslim Relations...