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Vol. 24 No. 2 (Winter 2026): Challenging the Justifications of Domination Through Religion

Part 1: We Were Planting Corn and They Were Planting Crosses

Vol. 24 No. 2 (Winter 2026): Challenging the Justifications of Domination Through Religion

This issue gathers eighteen essays that emerged from conference collaborations examining the Doctrine of Christian Discovery, law, religion, and decolonial futures.

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This is the first issue in the JCRT import for Outcome. The issue collects eighteen essays from volume 24, number 2, with canonical links pointing to JCRT archive pages.

Issue Contents

Christian Control of Women and Mother Earth: The Doctrine of Discovery and the Doctrine of Male Domination

Christian Control of Women and Mother Earth: The Doctrine of Discovery and the Doctrine of Male Domination

Wagner links church patriarchy and the Doctrine of Discovery to colonial violence, calling for Indigenous rematriation to restore women and the Earth.

 Outcome Sally Roesch Wagner

Baltic Religion: The Sacred Things

Baltic Religion: The Sacred Things

Trinkauskaite explores Baltic sacred traditions and sutartinės, linking domestic deities and revivalist practice to collective ethics beyond hierarchy.

 Outcome Eglutė Trinkauskaitė

 Outcome Ellen B. Cutler

Hindu Political Theology: Beyond Hindutva’s Political Monotheism

Hindu Political Theology: Beyond Hindutva’s Political Monotheism

Somayajula reads Hindutva as political theology, showing how Hindu nationalism flattens religious diversity and urging a more inclusive Hindu identity.

 Outcome Pranay Somayajula

Schools, Teachers, and Teacher Educators: Education Through the Disruption of White Supremacy

Schools, Teachers, and Teacher Educators: Education Through the Disruption of White Supremacy

Radhakrishnan examines how U.S. schooling reproduces white supremacy and identifies teacher education strategies to disrupt curriculum, instruction, and policy.

 Outcome Ritu Radhakrishnan

A Preface to Challenging the Justifications of Domination Through Religion: “We Were Planting Corn, and They Were Planting Crosses”

A Preface to Challenging the Justifications of Domination Through Religion: “We Were Planting Corn, and They Were Planting Crosses”

Preface to a special issue examining Christian Discovery’s role in white supremacy, law, and education, with decolonial paths grounded in Indigenous justice.

 Outcome Philip P. Arnold

 Outcome Sandra Bigtree

 Outcome Adam DJ Brett

Using the Doctrine of Discovery to Increase Shared Language and Conceptual Frameworks Between Black and Indigenous Feminist Organizing

Using the Doctrine of Discovery to Increase Shared Language and Conceptual Frameworks Between Black and Indigenous Feminist Organizing

Nahar argues Doctrine of Discovery can build shared language between Black and Indigenous feminisms, strengthening solidarity against settler colonial power.

 Outcome Sarah Nahar

“Engineering Marvel”: Towards Resisting the Affective Politics of Erie Canal Heritage

“Engineering Marvel”: Towards Resisting the Affective Politics of Erie Canal Heritage

Nagle critiques Erie Canal heritage marketing, showing how engineered marvel obscures Haudenosaunee dispossession and calls settlers to affective resistance.

 Outcome Danielle S. Nagle

Charting the Doctrine in the Colonial Archive: Papal Bulls and the Translation of the ‘Discovery’ Purpose

Charting the Doctrine in the Colonial Archive: Papal Bulls and the Translation of the ‘Discovery’ Purpose

Modrow shows how papal bulls transformed crusade theology into global colonial strategy, legitimizing Indigenous dispossession and imperial expansion.

 Outcome Sebastian Modrow

Other Forms of Dwelling: A Dalit – Feminist Perspective

Other Forms of Dwelling: A Dalit – Feminist Perspective

Lakshmi frames Dalit feminist values alongside Indigenous frameworks to show alternative forms of dwelling, relation, and resistance beyond colonial modernity.

 Outcome Shrutika Lakshmi

Dismantling White Supremacy in the Classroom and Beyond

Dismantling White Supremacy in the Classroom and Beyond

Jimenez shows criminal justice education must confront white supremacy by centering race, power and oppression to transform teaching and policies now.

 Outcome Celinet Duran Jimenez