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Muffling the conflict
Stanley Fish on John Milbank's contribution to “Shari’a in the West”.
God, science and philanthropy
Nathan Schneider profiles John Templeton and the Foundation he built, in The Nation.
American Katechon
Nicolas Guilhot on when political theology became international relations theory.
Colloquium: secularism and its discontents
Event: Secularism and Its Discontents: The View from Jewish Studies. Herbert D. Katz Center for Advanced Judaic Studies, University of…
Theological arm wrestling
At The Daily Dish, Patrick Appel reviews a week-long debate over atheism and religion, and responds to the suggestion that…
A vast anti-narrative
Nathan Schneider on Robert Wright's The Evolution of God.
The evolution of God
Paul Bloom reviews Robert Wright's new book in the New York Times Sunday Book Review.
Talal Asad on religion, belief and politics
In his December 2008 Foerster Lecture at UC-Berkeley, Talal Asad discusses "attempts by anthropologists and others to define religion, the shifting…
Prison religion
Michael Warner blurbs a forthcoming book by Winnifred Fallers Sullivan.