Sightings Articles

Short white girl in white dress walking down church aisle toward camera

Exorcism | Catholicism | interfaith | Religion and media

A Demon for Everyone: Religion in the Latest "Exorcist"

The ecumenical, even interfaith, nature of the film reflects the America of 2023....

October 26, 2023
The square white buildings against a blue sky with white clouds

interfaith | tolerance | tourism

Tolerance as Tourism? Dual Developments in the Arab Gulf

Through the Abrahamic Family House, the UAE carefully curates the public sightseeing of what counts as true religion, what is tolerable and what is not, and what never reaches open discussion in the first place....

March 23, 2023

religious pluralism | interfaith

A New Global Faith?

The current state of global faith...

May 20, 2019

American church | Philip J. Hefner | Sidney E. Mead | Paul Tillich | Dietrich Bonhoeffer | religionless Christianity | James M. Gustafson | Joseph Haroutunian | Leigh R. Jordahl | ecumenism | interfaith | secularity

Futures Projected

Let’s step back this week from the overdoses of religion-in-public-life evidences which are candidates for Sightings these seasons and look for some perspective by using the rear-view mirror provided by historians, theologians, and ethicists. Recentl...

March 14, 2016