...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,...
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Beyond Religious Freedom
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...
Experience between the secular and the divine
William James, phenomenology, and the embodiment of religious experience
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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...
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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...
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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...
Political Theology
Paul Kahn’s mis-prognosis of America’s social imaginary
by Jason Stevens...of these stem from the “genealogical” side of his methodology. But his search for residuum of the past is supported, as I will here attempt to demonstrate, by a very...
A cognitive revolution?
A religious history of American neuroscience
by Leigh Eric Schmidt...its salubrious effects. It is in the tradition of Harvard’s William James, pioneering psychologist, psychical researcher, and philosopher of religion, that the current turn to the contemplative mind is best...
Mere Civility
Mere Civility—An introduction
by Teresa Bejan...was a society characterized by precisely the two-fold toleration of difference and disagreement to which most modern liberals claim to be committed today. Whether we will follow Williams in practicing...
Antiblackness as religion: Black living, Black dying, and Covid-19
The just shall live by faith: Living without metaphysical guarantee in an antiblack world