CrossCurrents: Guilt and Impurity Volume 69, Number 3, September 2019

CrossCurrents connects the wisdom of the heart with the life of the mind and the experiences of the body. The journal is operated through its parent organization, the Association for Public Religion and Intellectual Life (APRIL), an interreligious network of academics, activists, artists, and community leaders seeking to engage the many ways religion meets the public. Contributions to the journal exist at the nexus of religion, education, the arts, and social justice.

In the September 2019 issue of CrossCurrents:

“Introduction” by Katharina von Kellenbach

“Guilt and Its Purification: The Church and Sexual Abuse” by Katharina von Kellenbach

“Weeds Among the Wheat: The Impurity of the Church Between Tolerance, Solace, and Guilt Denial” by Meinolf Schumacher

“Purity and Kashrut” by Deborah Williger

“‘Clean’ Collections: On the Idea of Contamination in the Provenance Discussion” by Roger Fayet

“Shit Bucket Campaigns and Nestbeschmutzer: The Waldheim Affair in Austria” by Iris Hermann

“Purifying Indonesia, Purifying Women: The National Commission for Women’s Rights and the 1965-1968 Anti-Communist Violence” by Nelly van Doorn-Harder

“The Bible’s Greatest Meme?” by Peter Heinegg

“Condemning the Congregation” by Peter Heinegg

“Summa Anti-Theologica” by Peter Heinegg

“Disfellowshipped!” by Peter Heinegg

“John V. Tolan” by Peter Heinegg