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American exceptionalism redux
by Vincent P. Pecora...results prove it, I think. It would be hard to show that the Americans were more willing than the French to sacrifice themselves in Vietnam, and both were less willing...
Weak theology and the anti-gospel of American exceptionalism
...willing to die rather than be compromised, willing to say things that disturb as often as they provided comfort. Jesus is the great deconstructor of normal human social life.2John D....
Reflections on summer reading
by Dr. Richard Amesbury, Courtney Bender, Jason C. Bivins, Tracy Fessenden, David Kyuman Kim, Pamela Klassen, Patrick Lee Miller, James K. A. Smith, Winnifred Fallers Sullivan and John Torpey...baseball: Cardboard Gods: An All-American Tale Told Through Baseball Cards, Josh Wilker (Seven Footer Press, 2010). Proust had his madeleine; Wilker, his baseball cards. Meditating on one after the other,...
Rethinking religion in a political scientific wilderness
by Ruth Marshall...of the bleak nature of the wilderness into which rare and prophetic voices like Shakman Hurd’s are crying. In her approach to the intellectual and political stakes of the current...
William James, phenomenology, and the embodiment of religious experience
...strengths of other kinds of descriptive analysis—by looking at William James’s Varieties of Religious Experience, perhaps the closest thing to an American phenomenology available to us. James was not concerned...
Mellon Postdoctoral Fellowship opening at Williams College
by Claire MaWilliams College has posted an opportunity in the Department of Religion. The college seeks a two-year Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow in Islam in Context, a position that begins in the fall...
Monsignor William J. Lynn sentenced
by Wei ZhuReligion News Service reports that Monsignor William J. Lynn, the secretary for clergy at the Archdiocese of Philadelphia and the first U.S. Catholic official convicted of covering up the sexual...
Rowan Williams and Karl Marx
by Daniel VacaRowan Williams, the Archbishop of Canterbury, responds to the financial crisis in the Spectator: Marx long ago observed the way in which unbridled capitalism became a kind of mythology, ascribing...
Engaging religion at the Department of State
by Ahmed al-Rahim, Helge Årsheim, Pasquale Annicchino, Margot Badran, Benjamin L. Berger, Anver Emon, Elena Fiddian-Qasmiyeh, Amy Frykholm, Maia Hallward, Elizabeth Shakman Hurd, Peter Mandaville, Nadia Marzouki, Melani McAlister, Sara Silvestri, Winnifred Fallers Sullivan, Mara Willard and Erin K. Wilson...Department Chair of Religious Studies, Indiana University Mara Willard, Lecturer, Harvard Divinity School in Religion, Ethics, and Politics Erin K. Wilson, Director of Centre for Religion, Conflict and the Public...