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Book Review: American Empire, American Faith: Conquest, Christianity, and the Shaping of a Nation Kev Grane reviews Philip Jenkins’s American Empire, American Faith, which reframes U.S. empire as a religious and moral order in which Christianity authorized, normalized, and contested imperial power.

Book Review: American Empire, American Faith: Conquest, Christianity, and the Shaping of a Nation

Kev Grane reviews Philip Jenkins’s American Empire, American Faith, which reframes U.S. empire as a religious and moral order in which Christianity authorized, normalized, and contested imperial power.

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Every Article in the JCRT Archive Now Has a DOI All 829 articles in the numbered JCRT archive, from volume 1 in 1999 through volume 25 in 2026, now carry a Digital Object Identifier and are deposited in Knowledge Commons Works as 67 public issue collections.

Every Article in the JCRT Archive Now Has a DOI

All 829 articles in the numbered JCRT archive, from volume 1 in 1999 through volume 25 in 2026, now carry a Digital Object Identifier and are deposited in Knowledge Commons Works as 67 public issue collections.

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JCRT Announces Volume 25, Issue 2: Interruption, Interdependence, and Re-Enchantment JCRT Volume 25, Issue 2 brings ten essays into conversation around political theology, materiality, ecology, consciousness, performance, Sufism, and re-enchantment.

JCRT Announces Volume 25, Issue 2: Interruption, Interdependence, and Re-Enchantment

JCRT Volume 25, Issue 2 brings ten essays into conversation around political theology, materiality, ecology, consciousness, performance, Sufism, and re-enchantment.

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Artfully Dodging a Presidential Endorsement: How Joel Osteen Uses Rhetoric to Build an Audience for Political Gain Reginald Bell, Jr. reads Joel Osteen’s refusal to endorse Donald Trump through Edwin Black’s second persona, naming the ideal audience his rhetoric builds and the third persona it s...

Artfully Dodging a Presidential Endorsement: How Joel Osteen Uses Rhetoric to Build an Audience for Political Gain

Reginald Bell, Jr. reads Joel Osteen’s refusal to endorse Donald Trump through Edwin Black’s second persona, naming the ideal audience his rhetoric builds and the third persona it silences.

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Bare Life and Divine Violence: Benjamin, Levinas, and Ethics of Interruption Diako Alikhani rereads Benjamin’s divine violence through Levinas, arguing that bare life is where mythic law and ethical interruption confront one another.

Bare Life and Divine Violence: Benjamin, Levinas, and Ethics of Interruption

Diako Alikhani rereads Benjamin’s divine violence through Levinas, arguing that bare life is where mythic law and ethical interruption confront one another.

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BOOK REVIEW: YASCHA MOUNK, THE IDENTITY TRAP: A STORY OF IDEAS AND POWER IN OUR TIME (NEW YORK: PENGUIN PRESS, 2023). Kevin Grane reviews Yascha Mounk’s The Identity Trap, whose sharpest contribution is showing how the identity synthesis undercuts its own egalitarian aims.

BOOK REVIEW: YASCHA MOUNK, THE IDENTITY TRAP: A STORY OF IDEAS AND POWER IN OUR TIME (NEW YORK: PENGUIN PRESS, 2023).

Kevin Grane reviews Yascha Mounk’s The Identity Trap, whose sharpest contribution is showing how the identity synthesis undercuts its own egalitarian aims.

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Registration Now Open: Religion, Politics, and Cognitive Warfare Registration is now open for the online JCRT conference Religion, Politics, and Cognitive Warfare: Information, Interpretation, Conspiracy, and the Struggle for Reality, taking place October 1-3, 2026.

Registration Now Open: Religion, Politics, and Cognitive Warfare

Registration is now open for the online JCRT conference Religion, Politics, and Cognitive Warfare: Information, Interpretation, Conspiracy, and the Struggle for Reality, taking place October 1-3, 2026.

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