At Trans/Missions, Diane Winston bemoans the latest “display of know-nothingism” with respect to religion and spirituality in an American newspaper: Riffing on a recent Pew Study on Americans’ penchant for...
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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...fantasies of normalcy and blaring outrage, suffering and sentimentality. But perhaps most provocative, and unexpectedly so, was my latest rereading of Melville’s Billy Budd and Other Stories. We know, of...
A cognitive revolution?
The cognitive revolution and the decline of monotheism
by Kelly Bulkeley...I find only modest theological comfort in the latest findings of cognitive science. Brooks betrays perhaps too much confidence that the atheist cause is doomed to irrelevance. This leads to...
here & there
Religion at The Huffington Post
by Nathan Schneider...ways they influence our lives. Like all our sections, HuffPost Religion will bring you the latest news—in this case about all things religion-related—served up in the HuffPost style. It will...
Essays
On France’s theologico-political crisis
by Michael C. Behrent...pessimistic verbiage. Last year’s terrorist attacks only confirmed the darkest of these fears. Michel Houellebecq’s latest novel, Submission, is emblematic of the national mood: in a deliberate swipe at both...
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Post-election roundup
by Nicole Greenfield...Sense of Darfur and listen to a Craig Calhoun’s latest podcast discussion with Paul Price, “The ‘Here We Are’ in ‘Yes We Can.'” Finally, don’t miss recent posts on the...
Deathless questions and other interviews
Spiritual machines: An interview with John Lardas Modern
by Nathan Schneider...generally thought of as promoters of a religious social order rather than a secular one. What, then, do you mean when you write of “evangelical secularism”? JLM: My work on...
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The new gurus
by Courtney Bender, Donna Schaper, Elizabeth McAlister, Mara E. Donaldson, Melani McAlister, Michele Dillon, Carl Raschke and Kathryn Lofton...out there each morning and keep working? Just as we yearn for the latest products on the market, we become individual searchers on a private journey—echoing the country’s majority Protestantism—always...