...of Sojourners, and megachurch pastors such as Joel Hunter, both of whom personally know the president-elect? Certainly, personal interaction with the president raises the stock of an evangelical leader. The...
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here & there
Religion and modernity
by Jonathan VanAntwerpen...from subjective subject to subjective subject, anxiously relying on, and seeking to balance out, the extremely non-neutral and internally-oriented feelings of each. So Andrew I think ties himself a bit...
The politics of spirituality
Who are the “spiritual but not religious”?
by Laura R. Olson...the small remainder gave other responses). I found that SBNR respondents are (not surprisingly) significantly less likely than religious respondents to say “religion is important in [their lives],” to attend...
American Grace
Taking theology seriously
by Molly Worthen...and counter-reactions that have left Americans increasingly polarized over whether or not to impose the authority of holy scripture over one another’s lives, particularly in their bedrooms. That polarization accelerated...
Notes from the field
Secularism by eschatology, deferred
by Alex Eric Hernandez...lands were confiscated by governmental authorities. Secularization, in the few cases in which it is finished, applies only to the expropriation of that which was once tangibly religious (the decidedly...
Essays 
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Judith Gurewich
Understanding the president’s reality: A psychoanalytic contribution to public life
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Judith Gurewich
...but rather that he has never left the mental space we all inhabited as toddlers and that we have never entirely forgotten. A glimpse of this place comes vividly to...
Religions and their publics
What kind of territory? On public religion and space in Ethiopia
by Tom Boylston
...of religious interests using public, highly visible gatherings in order to declare their presence in the national and (usually but not necessarily) urban context. Religions in Addis Ababa today build...
here & there
A godless win?
by Nicole GreenfieldBob Geary interviews Kristen Douglas, a “borderline agnostic” from North Carolina, on the contentious Hagan-Dole U.S. Senate race: “Are godless Americans less American than religious Americans?” she asked. Actually, the...
Deathless questions and other interviews
Spiritual machines: An interview with John Lardas Modern
by Nathan Schneider...Unitarians, or phrenologists and prison reformers. NS: How does the category of “religion” relate to that of “spirituality,” which is increasingly popular lately? JLM: I’m actually writing now about the...
off the cuff
The new gurus
by Courtney Bender, Donna Schaper, Elizabeth McAlister, Mara E. Donaldson, Melani McAlister, Michele Dillon, Carl Raschke and Kathryn Lofton...of a “new wave.” (This, unfortunately, is also not a particularly novel habit.) Yet what is this remarkable new trend, exactly? Is it women reading and writing self-help books? Going...