Lee Gilmore reflects on the opening blessing at Obama's Tucson speech last week by Carlos Gonzales, who identified himself as…
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Adieu to philosophy of religion?
Julia Galef reports for Religion Dispatches on philosopher Keith Parsons’s decision to quit doing philosophy of religion. In September, Parsons,…
Church attendance and identity
In an essay on Slate, Shankar Vedantam speculates on why Americans tend to overreport attendance at religious services.
Religion and the midterm elections
Set against a backdrop of continued economic distress, the emerging Tea Party movement, and mercurial public opinion of President Obama, many observers…
Surveying religious knowledge
Following the release last week of the results of the Pew Forum on Religion and Public Life's U.S. Religious Knowledge Survey,…
Reflections on summer reading
As the start of the fall semester inches closer, we’ve invited a handful of our contributors to reflect on what…
What’s wrong with burning the Qur’an?
A Florida church’s plans to burn copies of the Qur’an on September 11 have drawn widespread condemnation, including from the…
Islam: not a religion?
Tennessee Lt. Gov. Ron Ramsey, a Republican gubernatorial candidate, is drawing criticism for remarks made earlier this month in which…
Religion and the civic imagination
Since the publication of Robert Bellah’s 1967 article “Civil Religion in America,” discussions of the topic have tended to devolve…
Multi-religious denominationalism and American identity
Charles Taylor has argued that those of us living in North America and Europe are witnessing a shift in our…