...there are contexts in which one judges secularism—as understood by my characterization of it in (S)—to be a normative necessity, questions arise, as I have said above, of how best...
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Sociology of religion
Toward a sociology of social religion
by Ruth Braunstein and Grace Yukich...develop innovative methodologies that better answer these questions. Rather, we argue that the current sociological toolkit best equips us to focus on questions about how religion operates socially. Cultural theory...
April 5, 2010
here & there
Controversy over crimes against the Church
by Aaron Weinstein...[. . . ]” Erin Saiz Hanna, executive director of the Women’s Ordination Conference said. She called the decision “mediaeval at best”. But Monsignor Charles Scicluna, an official in the...
July 19, 2010
A Secular Age
Framing the middle
by Jonathan Sheehan...of reasonableness between the extremes of atheism and heterodoxy, on one side, and ossified religious tradition, on the other. In the tradition I know best—Protestant apologetics—thinkers from Hugo Grotius to...
January 14, 2008
here & there
A Muslim prisoner’s story
by Jake Alter...stood before the highest judge of them all, to defend my actions I would say: “I was hungry your honour” and hope for the best. Read the full article here....
June 18, 2010
Religious freedom in the United States
The zero effect doctrine
by Finbarr Curtis...uneasy, accepting that justices fashion religion to serve their own purposes is the best way of predicting what courts will actually decide. What liberals can do is to stop pretending...
December 29, 2014
off the cuff
Surveying religious knowledge
by Dr. Richard Amesbury, Jason C. Bivins, John R. Bowen, Michele Dillon, Penny Edgell, Eddie S. Glaude, Jr., David A. Hollinger, Paul Lichterman, Vincent Lloyd, Kathryn Lofton, Andrew Perrin and James K. A. Smith...surely would seem like the pragmatically best message to put forward. (Some respondents also may have been puzzled by the absence of any mention of “grace.”) In the end, why...
October 5, 2010
here & there
Department of State launches Office of Faith-Based Community Initiatives
by Wei Zhu...this means knowing whom to invite to the next panel or luncheon (four out of five people being mediocre public speakers at best). But perhaps the more profoundly bureaucratic impulse...
August 10, 2013
Reconsidering civil religion
Confronting the mythical beast
by Ira Chernus...civil religion.” Even the best scholar has limited energy and limited time. Every moment and every drop of mental sweat spent in theoretical debate about “civil religion”—even in efforts to...
March 19, 2010
Oprah: The Gospel of an Icon
Every moment an Aha! Moment!
by John Lardas Modern...from Pacific Grove, California, who had once made a decision to be a stay-at-home mother, spoke of her spiritual struggle during the “Best Life Week” that inaugurated The Oprah Winfrey...
May 25, 2011