The Guardian has been hosting a series of posts on the question of whether faith is necessary in order to…
Atheism and religious art
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Slavoj Žižek on radical politics and Christianity
Over at the Religion and Ethics blog of the Australian Broadcasting Corporation, Slavoj Zizek has written an opinion piece on…
The WTC cross: a religious synecdoche?
Atlantic columnist Wendy Kaminer discusses American Atheists' suit to prevent the "World Trade Center cross," an original cross-beam from one…
Getting one’s atheism on the cheap
Jacques Berlinerblau, on The Chronicle of Higher Education's Brainstorm blog, enumerates some of the prevalent misconceptions that inform what he…
‘Tis the season for reason
In this age of overt commercialization of the holiday season---where no sooner have children returned from trick-or-treating than Christmas music…
Terry Eagleton, New Atheism, and the War on Terror
Last Wednesday evening, eminent theorist of literature and culture Terry Eagleton gave a talk at Columbia University entitled "The New…
Secularism and atheism: a discussion at the Institute for Advanced Study
Stefanos Geroulanos’s An Atheism that Is Not Humanist Emerges in French Thought---the subject of an ongoing forum here at The…
Human morality
At the NYTimes.com blog "The Stone," Frans de Waal, C. H. Candler Professor in Psychology and Director of the Living Links…
Have atheism and political radicalism parted ways?
So argues John Milbank at the ABC (that's the Australian Broadcasting Corp.) Religion and Ethics page---indeed, that they have not…
An atheism a theologian can love
“Strangely enough,” Foucault mused, “man—the study of whom is supposed by the naïve to be the oldest investigation since Socrates—is…