On Thursday, April 2, Columbia University will host a graduate student conference entitled "Belief Matters: Reconceptualizing Belief and Its Use."…
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How to disestablish the Church of England
Ruth Gledhill writes in the London Times about a campaign to have non-believing Britons rescind their baptisms in the Church…
The new Calvinism
Time magazine ranks new Calvinism at number three among its "10 Ideas Changing the World Right Now."
The “new face” of Hindu nationalism
In this month's Atlantic, Robert D. Kaplan profiles Narendra Modi, chief minister of Gujarat, who has overseen the state's rise…
Scandinavia’s “cultural religion”
At the New York Times, Peter Steinfels reviews Phil Zuckerman's Society without God: What the Least Religious Nations Can Tell…
Evangelicals predict evangelicalism’s future
Last week in the Christian Science Monitor, the "postevangelical" blogger Mark Spencer described the "coming evangelical collapse," predicting that "Evangelicalism…
Michael Lindsay on Bourdieu and Lindsay
In a Books and Culture review of Pierre Bourdieu's newly-translated Sketch for Self-Analysis, D. Michael Lindsay reflects not only upon…
Justifying the humanities
The New York Times's Patricia Cohen appraises current and coming challenges to the humanities.
What Dobson’s resignation means
David Waters comments on the signifiance of James Dobson's resignation as chairman of Focus on the Family.
The furtive triumph of theological liberalism
Although "many liberals dare not speak its name," Mark Chavez argues at Duke Divinity School's Faith and Leadership blog, "theological…