Beatrice Marovich

Beatrice Marovich is an associate professor at Hanover College. Her work offers provocative reflections on the way that strange and ancient religious figures and ideas remain at work in our cultures, in our politics. Her first book is Sister Death: Political Theologies for Living and Dying (Columbia University Press, 2023). You can follow her Substack newsletter, Galactic Underworlds or find @beamarovich on Twitter and Instagram.

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Religion Dispatches

ChatGPT Can't Teach Us about Religion (or anything else, for that matter)

This article includes analysis of ChatGPT use in classrooms. With due respect to the author: given its devastating and demonstrably racialized environmental impact, its replication of white supremacy…

Beatrice Marovich

August 18, 2025

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Religion Dispatches

Is America in 2025 What 'Disenchantment' Looks Like?

I’ve always found the performative use of religious language, as an excoriation or a scold, to be laughably ineffective. To call someone “godless” was a way to make me curious, not a way to convince…

Beatrice Marovich

March 18, 2025

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Religion Dispatches

How Christian Theology Created the Need to Assert that Black Lives Matter

The Republican Party’s primary race is filling up with candidates crusading against “wokeness,” particularly in the American educational system. Meanwhile, here in Kentucky (where I live), a rural…

Beatrice Marovich

July 10, 2023

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