Reconstructing Kiowa Cosmology: 7 Questions for Benjamin R. Kracht

Benjamin R. Kracht During the summer of 1935, field party director Alexander Lesser and five graduate students—Jane Richardson (Hanks), William Bascom, Bernard Mishkin, Donald Collier, and Weston LaBarre—interviewed approximately thirty-five Kiowas born in the mid-nineteenth century about indigenous Kiowa culture.
Investigating Moderate Islam: 7 Questions for Rosemary Corbett

Rosemary Corbett In other words, violence and coercion aren’t just what supporters of moderate religion seek to combat, they’re also what supporters (particularly state actors) of so-called moderate religion use as a means to achieve certain ends.
What Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein Teaches Us About the Need for Mothers

Richard Gunderman The circumstances of the creature’s birth may be monstrous, but it is not yet a monstrosity. Only by depriving it of any semblance of love does Victor create a true monster.
Discovering Holy Dirt: 7 Questions for Brett Hendrickson

Brett Hendrickson The sacred kind of piles up at the Santuario.
Colonial Violence, Sacred Power, and Gods of Indian Country: 7 Questions for Jennifer Graber

Jennifer Graber A crucial part of the Kiowa survival story is that they survived American occupation and ritual interactions with sacred power–as well as adaptation of those rituals.