...is to relocate mining, manufacturing, heavy industry, and most humans off-planet; specifically, to a number of human-made, Gerard K. O’Neill-inspired satellites that will allegedly allow Earth to reconstitute herself as...
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here & there
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...
here & there
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...religion and spirituality in diverse ways-ways often different from the faith found among the general public. Surprisingly the majority of scientists (over 65%) are interested in matters of spirituality. And...
Rethinking secularism
Rethinking secularism and religion in the global age
by Mark Juergensmeyer...as religious practice and religious insight into, in Plato and the Greek philosophers, a different perception, a different kind of discovery, which was more intellectual than it was spiritual. Is...
here & there
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...meditating or attending to the spiritual needs of their congregation. NS: Do you approach the work of shedding light on religiosity as a constructive contribution to the development of Chinese...
events
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...
Indigeneity and secularity
Indigenous protective occupation and emergent networks of spirited refusal