...about belief – about how she loved her family’s fantastical stories exactly because she didn’t believe in them). This angle of vision seems broadly true of the current secular academic...
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Going Catholic in New York
by Nicole Greenfield...church. But it was only when I started to feel a little bit lost in the biggest of cities—New York, where I had begun a job in the publishing industry—that...
here & there
Ross Douthat responds to James K.A. Smith on the Pew Religious Knowledge Survey
by Charles Gelman...Great Awakening, or a pious Jew who doesn’t know that Maimonides was Jewish? Most certainly — and many of the Pew Forum’s questions fall into exactly this category, testing a...
here & there
Christianity and witchcraft
by Laura Duane...Philip Jenkins’ fine book, The Next Christendom, it has become popular in some Christian circles to romanticize African Christianity as more orthodox, spiritually vital, and morally pure than western Christianity....
Religions and their publics
Stuck in the middle with you
by Gregory Starrett...so on, ideas against which we so often set the apparently contrasting term “religion” for the purpose of organizing inquiry both conceptually and practically (“Religion and Pluralism,” for example, or...
Is this all there is
All or nothing: An unfree style
by Joseph Winters
...this matter. The self’s desire to be all, to be in communion with the entire world, constantly runs up against limits and reminders of loss, contingency, and mortality. Finally, the...
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The history of Tony Judt
by Charles Gelman...he balks. “Richard is being a bit mischievous,” Judt replies without smiling. He concedes that he has “always been verbally provocative” but that he doesn’t seek out controversy. A day...
A cognitive revolution?
Is this anything or is this nothing?
by Brent A. Field...We can currently evaluate comparatively mundane aspects of mystically oriented practices. Are practitioners subsequently less distracted or anxious? Does a given practice increase antibody titers, or decrease inflammation? Are practitioners...
Religion in Human Evolution
A response to three readers
by Robert N. Bellah...in India. The specific implications of the idea of karma, namely that your rebirth will reflect how you have behaved in your present or past births, is specifically and solely...