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The Chosen People at Grouse Mountain | The Journal for Cultural and Religious Theory | JCRT Felese challenges conquest-based land values and shows Indigenous relational worldviews offer life-affirming alternatives to extraction and alienation

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Christian Control of Women and Mother Earth: The Doctrine of Discovery and the Doctrine of Male Domination | The Journal for Cultural and Religious Theory | JCRT Wagner links church patriarchy and the Doctrine of Discovery to colonial violence, calling for Indigenous rematriation to restore women and the Earth.

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My Decades-long Inquiry Into the Doctrine of Christian Discovery and Domination | The Journal for Cultural and Religious Theory | JCRT Steven Newcomb reflects on decades studying Christian Discovery, showing how law and language normalized domination over Native nations for centuries.

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The Doctrine of Christian Discovery and Domination: How It Has Been Used by United States Courts to Deny Treaty Rights & Dismiss the Haudenosaunee Land Rights Cases | The Journal for Cultural and Reli... Joseph J. Heath shows how U.S. courts use Christian Discovery to deny Haudenosaunee treaty and land rights, and calls for its repudiation in U.S. law.

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Right & Respectful Relations: A Memoir of the Road to the Historic Yakama Nation Amicus Brief Challenging ‘Christian Discovery’ in Washington State V. Cougar Den | The Journal for Cultural and Religio... Jode Goudy recounts how the Yakama Nation built a historic amicus brief, connecting treaty rights, sovereignty, and opposition to Christian Discovery.

Right & Respectful Relations: A Memoir of the Road to the Historic Yakama Nation Amicus Brief Challenging ‘Christian Discovery’ in Washington State V. Cougar Den | The Journal for Cultural and Religious Theory | JCRT jcrt.org/archives/25....

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Federal Anti-indian Law: Why a Challenge to “Christian Discovery” Creates a Metaphysical Crisis for the US | The Journal for Cultural and Religious Theory | JCRT Peter d'Errico argues that U.S. anti-Indian law rests on Christian Discovery, and that challenging it exposes a metaphysical crisis in U.S. law today.

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Challenging the Justifications of Domination through Law: Indigenous Resistance and the Undoing of Christian Empire | The Journal for Cultural and Religious Theory | JCRT The following issue has resulted from a conference in the winter of 2023. The conference was sponsored by The Henry Luce Foundation, Syracuse University Departments of Religion and Biology, Indigenou...

Challenging the Justifications of Domination through Law: Indigenous Resistance and the Undoing of Christian Empire | The Journal for Cultural and Religious Theory | JCRT jcrt.org/archives/25.1/

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Using the Doctrine of Discovery to Increase Shared Language and Conceptual Frameworks Between Black and Indigenous Feminist Organizing | The Journal for Cultural and Religious Theory | JCRT Nahar argues Doctrine of Discovery can build shared language between Black and Indigenous feminisms, strengthening solidarity against settler colonial power.

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A Preface to Challenging the Justifications of Domination Through Religion: “We Were Planting Corn, and They Were Planting Crosses” | The Journal for Cultural and Religious Theory | JCRT Preface to a special issue examining Christian Discovery’s role in white supremacy, law, and education, with decolonial paths grounded in Indigenous justice.

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Conclusion: Dismantling the Doctrine of Christian Discovery Cultivating Right Relations | The Journal for Cultural and Religious Theory | JCRT The conclusion calls for decolonization beyond legal reform, centering Indigenous law, land return, and right relations to resist Christian Discovery.

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Conclusion: Dismantling the Doctrine of Christian Discovery Cultivating Right Relations | The Journal for Cultural and Religious Theory | JCRT The conclusion calls for decolonization beyond legal reform, centering Indigenous law, land return, and right relations to resist Christian Discovery.

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An Appeal to the American People—Overturning “Federal Indian Law” | The Journal for Cultural and Religious Theory | JCRT Steven J. Schwartzberg urges Americans to overturn Federal Indian Law by confronting the colonial assumptions that still shape U.S. jurisprudence now.

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An Intergenerational and Perpetual Imperium of Domination and Subjugation of Indigenous Peoples: The Doctrine of Christian Discovery and Royal Supremacy | The Journal for Cultural and Religious Theory... Phillip Rodgers-Falk argues that native title and colonial sovereignty preserve Indigenous subordination through terra nullius and racial hierarchies.

An Intergenerational and Perpetual Imperium of Domination and Subjugation of Indigenous Peoples: The Doctrine of Christian Discovery and Royal Supremacy | The Journal for Cultural and Religious Theory | JCRT jcrt.org/archives/25....

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My Decades-long Inquiry Into the Doctrine of Christian Discovery and Domination | The Journal for Cultural and Religious Theory | JCRT Steven Newcomb reflects on decades studying Christian Discovery, showing how law and language normalized domination over Native nations for centuries.

My Decades-long Inquiry Into the Doctrine of Christian Discovery and Domination | The Journal for Cultural and Religious Theory | JCRT jcrt.org/archives/25....

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Using the Doctrine of Discovery to Increase Shared Language and Conceptual Frameworks Between Black and Indigenous Feminist Organizing | The Journal for Cultural and Religious Theory | JCRT Nahar argues Doctrine of Discovery can build shared language between Black and Indigenous feminisms, strengthening solidarity against settler colonial power.

Using the Doctrine of Discovery to Increase Shared Language and Conceptual Frameworks Between Black and Indigenous Feminist Organizing | The Journal for Cultural and Religious Theory | JCRT jcrt.org/archives/24....

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The Medieval Origins of Religious White Supremacy: English Imperialism, Crusade Defeats, and the Doctrine of Discovery | The Journal for Cultural and Religious Theory | JCRT Callan traces how medieval English myths, crusade defeat, and Irish colonization shaped Christian white supremacy and fed the global Doctrine of Discovery.

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The Chosen People at Grouse Mountain | The Journal for Cultural and Religious Theory | JCRT Felese challenges conquest-based land values and shows Indigenous relational worldviews offer life-affirming alternatives to extraction and alienation

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“Engineering Marvel”: Towards Resisting the Affective Politics of Erie Canal Heritage | The Journal for Cultural and Religious Theory | JCRT Nagle critiques Erie Canal heritage marketing, showing how engineered marvel obscures Haudenosaunee dispossession and calls settlers to affective resistance.

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Deconstructing the Erie Canal: Three Lessons for its Next Century | The Journal for Cultural and Religious Theory | JCRT In this bicentennial reflection on the Erie Canal, Renee Barry examines how celebratory public histories mask the canal's foundation in settler colonial violence on unceded Haudenosaunee land. Drawing...

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Deconstructing the Erie Canal: Three Lessons for its Next Century | The Journal for Cultural and Religious Theory | JCRT In this bicentennial reflection on the Erie Canal, Renee Barry examines how celebratory public histories mask the canal's foundation in settler colonial violence on unceded Haudenosaunee land. Drawing...

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Silencing the Doctrine of Discovery – The Brazilian Process: Accidental Discoveries, Secret Manuscripts, Imaginary Lines and Myths | The Journal for Cultural and Religious Theory | JCRT Alencar traces how the Doctrine of Discovery shaped Brazil through church-backed silence, racial myths, and colonial violence, urging decolonial accountability.

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Baltic Religion: The Sacred Things | The Journal for Cultural and Religious Theory | JCRT Trinkauskaite explores Baltic sacred traditions and sutartinės, linking domestic deities and revivalist practice to collective ethics beyond hierarchy.

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Other Forms of Dwelling: A Dalit – Feminist Perspective | The Journal for Cultural and Religious Theory | JCRT Lakshmi frames Dalit feminist values alongside Indigenous frameworks to show alternative forms of dwelling, relation, and resistance beyond colonial modernity.

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Hindu Political Theology: Beyond Hindutva’s Political Monotheism | The Journal for Cultural and Religious Theory | JCRT Somayajula reads Hindutva as political theology, showing how Hindu nationalism flattens religious diversity and urging a more inclusive Hindu identity.

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Charting the Doctrine in the Colonial Archive: Papal Bulls and the Translation of the ‘Discovery’ Purpose | The Journal for Cultural and Religious Theory | JCRT Modrow shows how papal bulls transformed crusade theology into global colonial strategy, legitimizing Indigenous dispossession and imperial expansion.

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Christian Control of Women and Mother Earth: The Doctrine of Discovery and the Doctrine of Male Domination | The Journal for Cultural and Religious Theory | JCRT Wagner links church patriarchy and the Doctrine of Discovery to colonial violence, calling for Indigenous rematriation to restore women and the Earth.

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Expecting Excellence in Education: When Content Conditions Class Consciousness | The Journal for Cultural and Religious Theory | JCRT Chaness links white supremacy, settler colonialism, and anti-Indian racism, showing how Indigenous values and pedagogy reshape critical classroom practice.

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Flesh of Words: Confrontation, Navigation, and Integrity in the English Classroom | The Journal for Cultural and Religious Theory | JCRT Hurtado uses Critical Race Theory and Latina feminisms to show how multiethnic curricula can confront colonial legacies and teach resistance in class.

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Flesh of Words: Confrontation, Navigation, and Integrity in the English Classroom | The Journal for Cultural and Religious Theory | JCRT Hurtado uses Critical Race Theory and Latina feminisms to show how multiethnic curricula can confront colonial legacies and teach resistance in class.

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Schools, Teachers, and Teacher Educators: Education Through the Disruption of White Supremacy | The Journal for Cultural and Religious Theory | JCRT Radhakrishnan examines how U.S. schooling reproduces white supremacy and identifies teacher education strategies to disrupt curriculum, instruction, and policy.

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