As a PhD student in Religion, my answer to the question, “What do you do?” is always a loaded one.…
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Antihumanism and religion
One of the things that intellectual historians show us, although often only implicitly, is the fluidity of the terms of…
Secularism, atheism, antihumanism
In a 1956 text on ethics and literature, Emmanuel Levinas offered the following diagnosis of the philosophical trends of his…
The belief of or in God?
Recently, there was a brief back and forth at Cif Belief between Michael McGhee and Stephen Clark. The former, a…
Atheism as religion
At least since Ernst Bloch's Atheism in Christianity, the separation between "atheism" and "religion" has been questioned and interrogated by…
Taking stock of the rage against God
At the Guardian's Comment is Free blog, Madeleine Bunting offers a stocktaking of the "God debate" since the publication of…
‘Under God’ not a prayer, rules Appeals Court
The San Francisco Chronicle reports that the Ninth U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in San Francisco has ruled that the…
Templeton and journalistic integrity
The Templeton-Cambridge Journalism Fellowships have been a source of fierce controversy among science writers, particularly since John Horgan's ambivalent 2006…
Žižek’s perverse Christianity
At The Philosophers' Magazine, Carl Packman gives an overview of Slavoj Žižek's controversial "materialist theology."
Earthquake theodicy
In The New York Times, James Wood suggests that the theological consequences of President Obama's comments about the Haiti earthquake…