...me”) bestow on the relevant states of mind the motivational power that prompts our agency—our acts of pursuit or avoidance of X. If this is right, then something very interesting...
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A Secular Age
Psychoanalysis as spirituality
by Patrick Lee Miller...or no choice, save to follow a prescription. But other illnesses best treatable by these popular therapies are arguably the products of choice—alcoholism in some cases—and daily choices do worsen...
Global Christianity, Global Critique
Virtual Christianity
by Jon Bialecki...that which is “real without being actual, ideal without being abstract.” The best way to harmonize these seemingly unrelated descriptors is to think of the virtual as a generative collection...
here & there
Paul Froese featured in New Voices
by Candice Scharf...considered by some as one of the best new researchers in the field of the sociology of religion, had his revised dissertation, The Plot to Kill God: Findings from the...
The politics of spirituality
Who has ‘religion’?
by Christopher McKnight Nichols...data is imperfect and the best of it derives from the post-WWII period. Sources support the conjecture that earlier in the twentieth century more coherent and influential denominational and community-religious...
here & there
Reviewing God in America
by Jessica Polebaum...“perfectly logical.” In the end, the story of “God in America”—at least early America—is best told by following a direct line between Hutchinson and Whitefield, culminating in the American Revolution....
Notes from the field
Terry Eagleton, New Atheism, and the War on Terror
by Joseph Blankholm...soft philosophy bestsellers, we’d better have a good reason for doing so. Though I see some compelling arguments for indifference, I’m going to give my best argument for why we...
Essays
A tale of two flotillas
by Howard Eissenstat...to its religious profile, nonetheless see it as the best electoral option. The IHH, however, represents the AKP’s core constituency: more religious and, while still deeply nationalistic, far more aware...
