...the years, I have lost count of the number of times I have been instructed in listening. First in professional development classes as an educator, and later as a graduate...
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Tracking religious change
by Nicole Greenfield...report comes on the heels of useful surveys examining in detail religious political activists on the right and the left; the growing number of Americans who do not identify with...
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Paranormal activity
by Charles Gelman...religion scholars that they ought to study, say, ESP or alien abduction. Most scholars study traditions even nonbelievers are comfortable talking about, like Judaism and Christianity. And a growing number...
Asian American religions: Everywhere, all at once
Between Mother India and Jim Crow: Yoga in the United States during the interwar decades
Rethinking secularism
Beyond The God Delusion
by Elaine Howard Ecklund...atheists and agnostics. Yet, a surprising number of those who teach the sciences at the nation’s top universities are also part of a religious tradition (about 50%). These scientists approach...
Rethinking secularism
Rethinking secularism and religion in the global age
by Mark Juergensmeyer...new religiosity? Classically, we think of the origins of secularism in the Greek philosophers. Yet we had Wilfred Cantwell Smith for a number of years arguing that philosophia—and he went...
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Roman Catholics’ war over abortion
by Nicole Greenfield...root and branch, a test of Catholic identity—and the number of bishops leading the charge is growing. No wonder that Notre Dame, a venerable symbol of American Catholic identity, has...
Deathless questions and other interviews
The future of China’s past: An interview with Mayfair Yang
by Nathan Schneider...a growing number of Chinese scholars engaged in the study of religious cultures. In the 1980s and ’90s, their work was primarily textual and focused on the historical past of...
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The Politics of Religion
by John D. Boy...(English and Medieval studies, Queens College) will give a talk on “Everyday Conversion.” The program also lists a number of panels, for example on “Clashes between Religion and Secularism” and...
