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The Unintended Reformation ![]()
by Brad S. Gregory
Genre, method, and assumptions
...There is no gainsaying this for anyone who wants to understand the past” (7). This principle informs the entire book; indeed, as already noted, the book is arguably more historicist...
A Universe of Terms ![]()
by Josef Sorett
spirit
intellectuals I encountered in researching my first book, Spirit in the Dark, availed themselves of what I eventually came to call a “grammar of spirit.” Spirit, spirits, spiritual, spiritually. Negro...
The Unintended Reformation ![]()
by Brad S. Gregory
Historical arguments and omissions
...imputed decline of which there is no lament in the book. I am, in fact, deeply suspicious of it. “The West” in my book is not an ideological banner but...
The Unintended Reformation ![]()
by Brad S. Gregory
Contents and discontents of (post)modernity
...with morality and politics in an image that neatly suggests the book’s genealogical method. Maritain plays very little role in the book or its inspiration; I cite only his essay...
Religion in Human Evolution ![]()
by Yang Xiao
Beyond reductive naturalism
...many anthropologists and participants, are virtually meaningless.” Smith’s book Natural Reflections was published before Bellah’s book. She could have made use of Bellah’s book as a positive model to show...
Religion in Human Evolution ![]()
by Robert N. Bellah
A response to three readers
reader of my book from the many citations to her work in the chapter on India. There are no citations to Luke Johnson in my book only because he writes...
Oprah: The Gospel of an Icon ![]()
by Tracy Fessenden
O tedious selfhood, O aftertaste of splinters
...Lofton’s book, in February, I was sure I’d given Oprah enough of my attention to conjure a felicitous scene of reading. Carrying the book with me to the dentist’s office,...
Lives of Great Religious Books ![]()
by Ruth Braunstein
“I would love to read the biography of a book . . .”
potentially quite interesting projects. I wanted to commission books that would tell the story of living, breathing religious books, books that have either sacred meaning or some deep spiritual resonance...
A Universe of Terms ![]()
by Olivia Whitener
spirit
can catch myself . . .” Spirit gives the lie to the North Atlantic myth of the autonomous solo agent. Read more November 14, 2019 A Universe of Terms spirit...