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Ross Douthat responds to James K.A. Smith on the Pew Religious Knowledge Survey
In his New York Times blog, Ross Douthat comments on James K.A. Smith's response to the Pew Forum's U.S. Religious…
Surveying religious knowledge
Following the release last week of the results of the Pew Forum on Religion and Public Life's U.S. Religious Knowledge Survey,…
A. S. Byatt on literature, religion, and social media
The Guardian met up with A. S. Byatt, author of Possession, to talk about, well, a number of things. It…
Gauging irreligion in the heart of Europe
Conventional wisdom states that the Czech Republic is the least religious society in the West. At The Guardian, Dana Hamplová discusses…
Stephen Prothero on inter-religious difference, again
Charles Gelman has already posted here on Stephen Prothero's book God is Not One, but a new interview with the…
The making of a student of religion
Last week I wrote about the conversations I get into when I tell people what I do. Answering that I…
Religion, science, and the humanities: An interview with Barbara Herrnstein Smith
Barbara Herrnstein Smith is a distinguished literary scholar at both Brown and Duke, who, since her undergraduate days, has had…
The dangers of spirituality?
CNN profiles the growing "spiritual but not religious" population, contrasting the views of some who fear that the spiritual turn…
Antihumanism and religion
One of the things that intellectual historians show us, although often only implicitly, is the fluidity of the terms of…