Associate Professor and Chair of Religious Studies Dr. Damon Berry has interview published in Ecumenica: Journal of Performance and Religion

Associate Professor and Chair of Religious Studies Dr. Damon Berry has interview published in Ecumenica: Journal of Performance and Religion.  Prophets, Mountains, and Warfare in the New Apostolic Reformation: An Interview with Damon Berry was published in Volume 18, Issue 2 of Ecumenica (November 2025).

In this conversation, Damon Berry talks with editor Hank Willenbrink about the New Apostolic Reformation (NAR) including its history, important attributes, distribution network and key figures. NAR has played an important role in shaping contemporary discourse from the right including the framing of events like January 6 and October 7 as related to demonic entities. Berry, whose training is in religious studies and who has worked with important journals like Nova Religio and advised on domestic terrorism, shares his experiences working with NAR and suggests areas of research that would be of interest to theater and performance studies scholars.

Ecumenica: Performance and Religion attends to the combination of creativity, religion, and spirituality in expressive practice. 

A peer-reviewed journal, Ecumenica regards performance and religion as overlapping and often mutually-constituting categories, preferring no particular form of creative expression, and privileging no particular religious tradition. The journal’s very aim is to consider the variety of modes in which creative and religious impulses might be realized.  Ecumenica’s interdisciplinary premise welcomes all critical approaches to such topics as performance art, theatre, ritual, contemplative and devotional practices, and expressions of community.