I find Kahn's book as a whole less coherent than some others have. One issue I want to raise is…
Vincent P. Pecora
Vincent P. Pecora is the Gordon B. Hinckley Professor of British Literature and Culture at the University of Utah. His books include Secularization and Cultural Criticism: Religion, Nation, and Modernity (University of Chicago Press, 2006), Households of the Soul (Johns Hopkins University Press, 1997), Self and Form in Modern Narrative (Johns Hopkins University Press, 1989), and, as editor, Nations and Identities: Classic Readings (Wiley-Blackwell, 2001).
The post-secular: A different account
John Boy, in a post on March 15th, titled "What we talk about when we talk about the postsecular," provides…
Rubber soul
To much fanfare, the Vatican recently decreed that under certain conditions the trapping of male semen by a thin balloon of…
Don’t drink everything that runs downstream
Concerning recent (and seemingly conflicting) poll results from the First Amendment Center at Vanderbilt University, Justin Reynolds is, I think,…
God in America? Really?
I write having seen the first installment of God in America, a three-part series produced by PBS that showed some promise.…
Black crescent, white cross
By now, everyone has seen the Newsweek poll indicating that a majority of Republicans believes President Barack Obama sympathizes with…
Comparing the incommensurate
David Buckley's recent post in Notes from the field raises a crucial methodological question. On what basis is comparative work…
A brief note on teleology
I think Jonathan Sheehan points to something quite useful in his last post: the need for a discourse that does…
Waiting for Godot, who is either late or not coming at all
I wondered how long it would take DPDF participants to undo what I thought I had carefully assembled in my opening post on…
Secularism, secularization, and why the difference matters
Several decades ago, well before there had been any concerted effort among historians and sociologists of religion to trash the…