Overview

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 March 2024 issue of CrossCurrents: "Beyond Borders: Wu-Tang Clan's Quest for Transcendence" by Marcus Evans "The Magic Mirror of Ritual: Three Weddings of the Waters and the Grand Celebrations of the Erie Canal" by Marla Segol "Walls, Paths, Gardens, and a Gravediggers' Pub" by Matthew R. Anderson "Slung Sky Glitter" & "Mass-Ejection Ejection" poetry by Agnes Hanying Ong "Randall Balmer, Passion Plays: How Religion Shaped Sports in North America" reviewed by Cody Musselman "Sharon Ellis Davis, The Trauma of Sexual and Domestic Violence: Navigating My Way Through Individuals, Religion, Policing, and the Courts" reviewed by Joshua Turpin "Omar Kasmani. 2022. Queer Companions: Religion, Public Intimacy, and Saintly Affects in Pakistan" reviewed by Issar Lucky "Cecily Brown: Death and the Maid at the Metropolitan Museum of Art" reviewed by Irina Sheynfeld "The 31 Women Collection, Then and Now: Peggy Guggenheim's First All-Women Show Recreated Eighty Years Later" reviewed by Irina Sheynfeld