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Statement by the AAR Board of Directors, in Boston, on November 21, 2025 - AAR As we are gathered in Boston for the Annual Meeting of the world’s largest professional society of religious studies scholars,…

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I hate to ask, but what is the next stage (and how can we hide from it?)

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As part of the Fall Fridays Scholarship WebinAAR Series, this webinar examines the complex relationship between modern universities and academic theology in the 19th century, and its implications for the study of religion in 21st century universities. Register now: aarweb.org/event/theolo...

This webinAAR will provide an overview of "The World of the Bahá’í Faith" (Routledge, 2022), in which 32 authors produced 51 chapters on Bahá’í scripture, leading figures, history, and teachings about a variety of mystic, personal, and social subjects. Register now: aarweb.org/event/the-wo...

Religion and Conflict: Case Studies from Ukraine – AAR An AAR Fall Fridays WebinAAR Hosted by AAR’s Eastern Orthodox Studies Program Unit As part of the Fall Fridays Scholarship WebinAAR Series, this webinar features a panel of globally renowned experts i...

@aarweb.bsky.social is hosting a free webinar next month on religion and the war in Ukraine, featuring three of the leading global experts on this topic, and moderated by @riccardiswartz.bsky.social- more info below:

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2025 AAR Book Award Winners - AAR About The American Academy of Religion is pleased to announce the 2025 recipients of the Awards for Excellence in the Study of Religion, the Best First Book in the History of Religions, and the Religi...

Shout-out to Prof. Ribovich for being a FINALIST in the Best First Book in the History of Religions category of @aarweb.bsky.social's Book Awards!

Why did Israel launch air strikes on Gaza, then ‘resume’ truce? Trump has backed Israel through numerous violations of the ceasefire, which has yet to enter its crucial second phase.

Trump has backed Israel through numerous violations of the ceasefire, which has yet to enter its crucial second phase.

I always thought "ceasefire" means all parties stop shooting and killing. Somehow I must have missed a memo...

BREAKING: At least three Palestinians were killed and more have been injured in an Israeli attack on the Nuseirat refugee camp, a medical source at Al-Awda hospital has told Al Jazeera.

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#FallFundraisAAR | Thanks to the generosity of several AAR board members and individual matchmakers, we are running a matching campaign until November 15. If even HALF of our nearly 6,000 members gives $10 each, we will meet our goal. Protect religious studies: aarweb.org/news/where-w...

YouTube video by Alive with Steve Burns Why Do We God? with Professor Leela Prasad

Need a rejuvenating pause? As Steve Burns says at the beginning of his interview with AAR president Leela Prasad, "take a deep breath" and... listen to this thought-provoking conversation around our collective inclination to believe in something larger than ourselves: www.youtube.com/watch?v=yjpd...

Who will lose out when ACA health insurance subsidies expire? Here’s a look at who could be affected by the end of the Affordable Care Act credits and how much prices could change.

Some 22 million Americans are set to lose health insurance subsidies by the end of the year.

Here's who it will affect and what will happen if the subsidies are allowed to expire:

An Open Letter to My Sister, Miss Angela Davis | James Baldwin One might have hoped that, by this hour, the very sight of chains on black flesh, or the very sight of chains, would be so intolerable a sight for the American people, and so unbearable a memory, that...

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Or, to put it another way, as long as white Americans take refuge in their whiteness— for so long as they are unable to walk out of this most monstrous of traps-they will allow millions of people to be slaughtered in their name, and will be manipulated into and surrender themselves to what they will think of-and justify—as a racial war. They will never, so long as their whiteness puts so sinister a distance between themselves and their own experience and the experience of others, feel themselves sufficiently human, sufficiently worthwhile, to become responsible for themselves, their leaders, their country, their children, or their fate. They will perish (as we once put it in our black church) in their sins—that is, in their delusions. And this is happening, needless to say, already, all around us.

James Baldwin to Angela Davis in 1970, discussing white Americans:

Like the protest signs say: "STOP THIS NAZI SHIT!"

In the latest AAR Weekly Briefing, AAR Executive Director Claudia Schippert shares thoughts on staying upright in an upside-down world and makes the case for higher education in a hostile climate. mailchi.mp/aarweb/advoc...

Teaching Controversial Topics in the News: Immigration and Religion in the Classroom Setting and Beyond – AAR Hosted by AAR’s Committee on Teaching and Learning Addressing issues such as birthright citizenship and deportation practices, this webinAAR aims to examine effective ways to teach about immigration…

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Not that it will stop others...

They did arrest 4 people in Orlando already for just this.

Columbia Will Make Direct Payments to Jewish Employees. Not All of Them Are Happy About It. A planned $21-million fund for victims of campus antisemitism raises a host of questions — such as who is eligible for a slice of the money.

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Mellon Foundation The Mellon Foundation makes grants to actively unlock the power in the arts and humanities that helps connect us all.

“American Academy of Arts&Sciences reports 96.3% of humanities grads age 23-32 fully employed. Earnings in humanitiess comparable to social/life sciences, job satisfaction levels too. A serious mismatch bw actual employment for hum grads +general perception."
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Fetterman voted Nay. www.senate.gov/legislative/...

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to fight for, I simply accept the possibility that I may not
live to see it. I have grown weary of telling myself lies

that I might one day begin to believe. We are not all left
standing after the war has ended. Some of us have
become ghosts by the time the dust has settled.

does not bend in a direction that will comfort us.
Sometimes it bends in ways we don’t expect & there are
people who fall off in the process. Please, dear reader,

do not say I am hopeless, I believe there is a better future

I have grown accustomed to a lifetime of aphorisms
meant to assuage my fears, pithy sayings meant to

convey that everything ends up fine in the end. There is no
solace in rearranging language to make a different word
tell the same lie. Sometimes the moral arc of the universe

all I hear is the wind slapping against the gravestones
of those who did not make it, those who did not
survive to see the confetti fall from the sky, those who

did not live to watch the parade roll down the street.

Thanks to Dean Spade for including this poem in a recent newsletter. It spoke to me today. 1/5

When people say “we have made it through worse before”
— Clint Smith

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