Autor: R. Marie Griffith

‚Fat People Don’t Go to Heaven!‘ screamed a headline in the tabloid Globe in November 2000. The story recounted the success of the Weigh Down Workshop, the nation’s largest Christian diet …

Political polarization and unrest are not exclusive to our era, but in the twenty-first century, we are living with seemingly unresolvable disagreements that threaten to tear our country apart. Dis …

This collection of essays from a special issue of American Quarterly explores the complex and sometimes contradictory ways that religion matters in contemporary public life.Religion and Politics in …

This landmark collection of newly commissioned essays explores how diverse women of African descent have practiced religion as part of the work of their ordinary and sometimes extraordinary lives. By …