Sightings Articles
Monuments, Memorials, and the Resacralization of Space
The landscape of public space shapes collective understandings of the past...
February 8, 2021
Is This America?
A distinction may bring some clarity to disagreements about the meaning of the Capitol riots...
February 1, 2021
Of Memphis and Washington
White Supremacy's desecration of sacred spaces, in 1968 and today...
January 18, 2021
Nonwhitesome Mormons
Mormons, members of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, represent only about two percent of the American people, but “everybody” knows something or other about them. Ask your neighbor to discuss the Christian Church (Disciples of Christ)...
September 25, 2017
For Southern Baptists, a Sudden Awakening and Turn on the “Alt-Right”
In a classic essay on “Denominationalism,” Sidney E. Mead observed that “[t]he denomination, unlike the traditional forms of the church, is not primarily confessional, and it is certainly not territorial. Rather it is purposive.” When Mead published ...
June 19, 2017
Dylann Roof, the Radicalization of the Alt-Right, and Ritualized Racial Violence
Ritualized racial violence...
January 12, 2017