Ann Taves is a professor of religious studies at the University of California, Santa Barbara and, this year, is serving as president of the American Academy of Religion. After distinguishing...
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Is an Anglican schism now ensured?
by Laura Duane...of homosexuals to all levels of power: In the slow-moving train crash of international Anglicanism, a decision taken in California has finally brought a large coach off the rails altogether....
Practice and performance in ritual language
...Practicing the Faith, ed. Martin Lindhardt (New York: Berghahn Books, 2011) Focusing specifically on prayer as a mode of utterance present both in ritual events and in everyday life allows...
Is this all there is to talk about?
by Melissa Wilcox...United States has had who didn’t exploit women sexually at one time or another?) I didn’t understand, that is, until I moved to Southern California. I lived for over a...
Conference: “Saving the Sacred in a Secular Age”
by Todd KesselmanThe University of California at Riverside will host a two day conference entitled Saving the Sacred in a Secular Age on February 26-27. Participants include Charles Taylor, Hubert Dreyfus, and...
Call for papers: CSID annual conference
by Phillip Quintero...International Trade Center in Washington DC, and invites proposals for papers. For full details, see the call for papers from the University of California Institute on Global Conflict and Cooperation....
Implicated and enraged: An interview with Judith Butler
by Nathan SchneiderJudith Butler, a professor at the University of California, Berkeley, is among the leading social theorists alive today. Her most recent books are Frames of War (2009) and The Power...
President Trump visits St. John’s Church
...that increasingly asserts constitutional rights of its own. The US Supreme Court issued an order last Friday, May 29, 2020, finding that California had not violated the First Amendment when...
“Traditional” marriage or a break with tradition?
by Stephanie CoontzThe recent California court ruling in favor of same-sex marriage has elicited a new round of warnings about the threats to “traditional” marriage. Marriage, say foes of the ruling, has...
Racism and sectarianism
...legacy of which is still evident today. Whereas the Ottomans admitted the testimony of non-Muslims in secular courts after the mid-nineteenth century, the California Supreme Court invalidated the testimony of...