Sightings Articles
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Smart Sightings | Embodying Religion in Rodin's "The Cathedral"
Time and again, my camera has taught me that religion is deeply enmeshed with the body and everyday lived experience. Rodin’s piece resonates similarly....
November 16, 2023
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James Baldwin and the Cost of Community
Denying that there is persistent brokenness in the world, we have concluded that everything wrong comes from structures that rest on ideologies we oppose. ...
November 9, 2023
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Jews, Semites, and Antisemitism
We need a conceptual approach that recognizes the multifaceted nature of identity and groups....
November 3, 2023
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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
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“The Higher Law”: Tracing the Color Lines with Charles Chesnutt
Charles Chesnutt’s novel "The Marrow of Tradition" indexes the ongoing persistence of racism and the recourse to a color-blind “higher law” based putatively on ability rather than race....
October 19, 2023
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Donald Trump and the Exceptions of American Evangelicalism
Evangelicals see themselves as exceptional in both respects: as not typical of American society as it currently is governed by loathsome elites, and as surpassing that society in virtue. ...
October 13, 2023
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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
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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
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Sightings on Summer Hiatus
Enjoy a curated reading list until we return for Autumn Quarter in September 2023....
July 6, 2023
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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....