Religious studies scholars as public intellectuals / edited by Sabrina D. MisirHiralall, Christopher L. Fici and Gerald S. Vigna.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Part I. Our role as public intellecturals. Presidential address. The future of religious and theological studies: what is our responsibility as public intellectuals? / Sabrina D. Misirhiralall ; Claiming our voice: religious studies and public scholarship / Michael D. Waggoner ; A scholar's lament: public acts of grief in a nation of religious minorities / Nathan C. Walker -- Part II. Public intellectual theology for the common good in the post-truth era. Tragedy and resistance: religious and theological studies for the common good / Joel C. Daniels ; Chess boards and boxing gloves: public theology, aesthetics, and post-truth politics / L. Callid Keefe-Perry ; Theological inquiry and leadership in a "post-truth" era: insights from blessed Oscar Romero / Marc Delmonico -- Part III. Pedagogy and praxis of the public intellectual. Decolonizing the classroom: experimental strategies for decolonial pedagogy and praxis / Gabriel C. Crooks ; The responsibility and limits of military chaplains as public theologians / Adam Tietje ; Religion and leadership: taking some cues from Focolare's "inundations" / Marian Maskulak ; The faithful frame: interfaith conversation and the role of the public intellectual / Rev. Dr. Jane Huber and Rabbi Seth Wax -- Part IV. Public intellectualism across the borderlines of religion and history. Welcoming Syrian refugees in Turkey: the role of religious discourse in the case of Diyanet / Ayşenur Sönmez Kara ; The philosophy of Islamic Sufism in public and private piety / Walead Mosaad ; Public intellectuals at the dawn of the Anthropocene Age: can we reMember? / Sara Jolena Wolcott ; Theological anthropology: Christianity's metaphysic of oppression / Roberto E. Alejandro -- Conclusion: Scholars of religion and the duty to speak and act / Christopher L. Fici and Gerald S. Vigna.