We’re excited to launch our new Graduate Student Spotlight series, featuring members of the APARRI graduate student community! To start off, we’re spotlighting Ann Tran, who recently received her PhD in Comparative Literature from UC Irvine and is now an Assistant Professor at Cal State University, Long Beach. Check out our interview with Ann below! […]
Tracy Sayuki Tiemeier, PhD (Loyola Marymount University) and Shyam K. Sriram, PhD (Canisius University) reflect on APARRI 2023 and APA religious futures. Imagining a Future for APA Religions and Communities The Asian Pacific American Religions Research Initiative (APARRI) held its 2023 conference June 20-23. The exciting conference program included a keynote address by cartoonist Gene […]
(RNS) — On Tuesday (June 21), the U.S. Supreme Court ruled on what may have seemed like a unique, local question: When Maine provides vouchers for students in small rural towns without public high schools to attend private schools, may it exclude religious schools? The Carson v. Makin decision could in fact presage a return […]
Plenty of writers have argued in recent years that work has become a false idol, with the office, not church, the place where many Americans now seek out meaning and purpose. As a sociologist of religion, I think these writers are right: Work is replacing — and in some cases, even taking the form of […]