...purgatory? That may sound like a whimsical question, but there are, in fact, mutual funds tailored to a number of religions and denominations. Their track records won’t answer the question...
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God is back?
by Nicole Greenfield...late 19th century,” diminishing the role of religion on college campuses. After noting the small number of believers in France, Germany and other European countries, they add: “Still there are...
Keeping kosher by caring for others
by Ruth Braunstein...federal trial, set for September, includes charges of bank fraud and 9,311 labor violations. That number—9,311—inspired the Orthodox Social Justice Movement called Uri L’Tzedek, or Awaken to Justice, to push...
What are you teaching?
...and religion in Spiritual Citizenship. I also use a number of films in class to demonstrate the religions’ rich performance and material culture, including Sacred Journeys: Osun-Osogbo, The King Does...
The NYPD’s religious profiling
by John D. BoyTa-Nehisi Coates on the New York Police Department’s profiling of Muslim student populations throughout the northeastern U.S.: If you follow the logic through it basically justifies a municipal police department...
Islamic law from below: Between trust and distrust

...with a number of studies about law “from below,” where the hierarchy embedded in expertise and professionalization is the subject of critique. Ahmed is no less attentive to the textual...
Making persons, cultures, and nations
...created those collectives in places religious studies scholars don’t always pay attention to? You suggest that if we did so, we would see that there are a great number of...
Google, God, and the public
by John D. Boy...the Landeskirchen, the Evangelical Lutheran Church of Hanover. The churches raise a number of critical issues with Google’s service, which, once implemented, will make the cityscapes of 20 German cities...
William James, phenomenology, and the embodiment of religious experience
...number of concerns animate these questions, the most immediately pertinent to the study of religion having to do with my sense that phenomenology in its Husserlian mode has difficulty attending...
Religion and modern communication
by Bryan S. Turner...or set of paradoxes. Religion has erupted into the public domain, being associated with a number of radical or revolutionary movements from Iran to Brazil and from Poland to Colombia,...