Living Religion
Vivek Ramaswamy and the limits of ‘God talk’
By Khyati Y. Joshi — August 7, 2023
(RNS) — Evangelical attacks on the Hindu candidate show that in politics, 'religious' still means 'Christian.'
Nikki Haley says she’s Christian, but it’s complicated
By Khyati Y. Joshi — February 16, 2023
DEI is more than race and gender. It’s faith, too.
By Khyati Y. Joshi — October 11, 2022
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(RNS) — This ruling allows taxpayers to be compelled to pay tuition to schools that expressly discriminate.
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By Khyati Y. Joshi — December 17, 2021
(RNS) — 'Happy Holidays' does nothing to change the privilege that Christians enjoy in the United States.
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By Khyati Y. Joshi — November 4, 2021
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The battle over CRT is a manufactured crisis. Here’s why we still have to fight it.
By Khyati Y. Joshi — August 18, 2021
(RNS) — Teachers and administrators are bracing for an attack that is rushing toward them like a tsunami.
For Indian American Hindus, loving India doesn’t mean holding back our criticism
By Khyati Y. Joshi — June 2, 2021
(RNS) — We must examine how ethnic pride results in soft-pedaling our criticism of the Indian government.
The swastika and the 4 H’s
By Khyati Y. Joshi — March 24, 2021
(RNS) — Banning the swastika, or writing laws that treat it as only a Nazi symbol, would violate the First Amendment. Just as important, bans sidestep the real issue such as dealing with our differences and coexisting as Americans.
Kamala Harris can show Americans how we share our faiths
By Khyati Y. Joshi — January 21, 2021
(RNS) — In Harris’ America, people can be steadfast in their own faith and part of their own religious community and still engage with other traditions.
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Khyati Y. Joshi
Living Religion
Khyati Y. Joshi lives at the intersection of race and religion, personally and professionally. She is a professor at Fairleigh Dickinson University and the co-founder of the Institute for Teaching Diversity and Social Justice, which provides professional development on diversity, equity, and justice. Growing up as a brown Hindu girl in Atlanta, Georgia, shaped Khyati’s scholarship: she is the author or editor of seven books, including "White Christian Privilege: The Illusion of Religious Equality in America," "Envisioning Religion, Race and Asian America," and "Teaching for Diversity and Social Justice. Her website is khyatijoshi.com, and she can be contacted on Twitter @ProfKjoshi.