...research, sociologists have suggested the trend toward digitization has increased as new generations of office workers leave universities—where their class notes and syllabi are online—and take paperless habits with them,...
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Deathless questions and other interviews
The study of special experiences: An interview with Ann Taves
by Nathan Schneider...exciting initiatives is the development of an online social network for scholars. My predecessor Mark Juergensmeyer appointed a technology task force that will continue to advance that project. We have...
here & there
Practical Matters call for submissions
by Annie Hardison-MoodyThe journal Practical Matters is now seeking submissions for the Spring 2012 issue on Violence and Peace. Practical Mattersis an online, multimedia, transdisciplinary, peer-reviewed journal designed to ask and provoke...
here & there
Postdoctoral Fellowship in International Humanities
by Wei Zhu...(including research statement), a statement of proposed courses, a curriculum vitae, a brief writing sample, and three letters should be submitted online. Review applications will begin on February 15, 2013....
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Swiss democracy
by Charles Gelman...cynicism to outright disgust. To begin with, leading American Islamophobe Daniel Pipes tacitly praised the Swiss decision in the digital pages of National Review Online, arguing that the referendum marks...
events
Prothero and Bacevich to discuss religion and foreign policy
by David Walker...from the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan to the ‘Ground Zero Mosque’ debate.” The event will be open to the public, and it will also be streamed live online. For...
off the cuff
Reflections on summer reading
by Dr. Richard Amesbury, Jason C. Bivins, Edward E. Curtis, IV, Tracy Fessenden, Elizabeth Shakman Hurd, David Kyuman Kim, Cecelia Lynch, John Lardas Modern, Justin Neuman, John Schmalzbauer and Diane Winston...irremediably airless and fraught. What couldn’t be found or done more easily, more deftly, online? A lot of us were moving out of the building at the same time, and...
A cognitive revolution?
The cognitive revolution and the decline of monotheism
by Kelly Bulkeley...a new appreciation for the radical pluralism of religious experiences that humans are capable of generating. As better brain imaging technologies come online, we will begin to study a wider...
Essays
“Traditionalist” Islamic activism
by Barbara D. Metcalf...days immediately following 9/11/01, the Council invited a wide range of leading social scientists to write short essays for an online forum. Ten years later, these same contributors have been asked to...