The Atlantic interviews Robert Bellah about his new tome Religion in Human Evolution. In the interview, he explains the impetus…
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Slavoj Žižek on radical politics and Christianity
Over at the Religion and Ethics blog of the Australian Broadcasting Corporation, Slavoj Zizek has written an opinion piece on…
Supreme Court decides in favor of Westboro Baptist Church
While acknowledging their negative effects on public political discourse, the Supreme Court of the United States has ruled, in an…
Religion and democracy
Over at Boston Review, Princeton political scientist Jan-Werner Müller has written a lengthy article considering the rise of Christian (Catholic)…
Karen Armstrong discusses the Charter for Compassion
Yesterday, religion scholar Karen Armstrong appeared on WNYC, the NPR-affiliate in New York City, to discuss, among other things, a…
Pew poll shows Americans lack religious “knowledge”
A newly published report from the Pew Forum Religion and Public Life shows that Americans seemingly know very little about religious…
“9/11 Christian Center” Pastor provokes ire on all sides
The Florida televangelist Bill Keller, who has spearheaded a plan to build a "Christian center" as a counterpoint to the…
Clergy urged to take it easy
The New York Times reports that several health studies on clergy show that clergy members "now suffer from obesity, hypertension…
Muslim political history: two views from the West
In this week's New York Times Sunday Book Review, Max Rodenbeck has an essay on two recent books on Islam: Faith and…
A Response to Susan Jacoby on the Oil Spill
Susan Jacoby, author of The Age of American Unreason and a contributor to the On Faith column at The Washington Post, has recently…