The latest issue of the Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion contains the presidential address of British sociologist James Beckford. In it, Beckford…
Public religions and the postsecular
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Israel, secularism, and democracy
At Harvard Law School, faculty members Noah Feldman and Duncan Kennedy recently debated the question "Can Israel Be Both Jewish…
Imagining radical refusal
In Reviews in Cultural Theory, Erin Wunker reviews Exit Capitalism: Literary Culture, Theory, and Postsecular Modernity by Simon During.
Religious foreclosures: where religion and finance meet
Reuters reports that banks in the U.S. are foreclosing on churches in record numbers.
The religious affiliation of international migrants
The Pew Forum on Religion & Public Life published yesterday a new report, "Faith on the Move: The Religious Affiliation…
#OccupyLSX and the church
Following the recent eviction of the Occupy London encampment outside St. Paul's Cathedral, Joseph Cottrell-Boyce argues that the episode illustrates the church's growing…
The Amish Madoff
The New York Times reports on a member of an Amish community in Ohio accused of running a Bernie Madoff-like…
Reconceiving human life
Fred Clark on evangelicals and the view that human life begins at conception.
The NYPD’s religious profiling
Ta-Nehisi Coates comments on the New York Police Department's profiling of Muslim student populations throughout the northeastern U.S.
Missions and church-planting in Europe
Last month, Eurochurch.net published a report on the state of missional church-planting activities in Europe authored by Darrell Jackson and…