After claiming two of the big prizes at this year’s Golden Globes (Best Motion Picture – Drama and Best Director…
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God was on everybody’s side: A conversation with Jean Comaroff
It is my pleasure to inaugurate Rites and Responsibilities, a new dialogue series for The Immanent Frame and the Social…
A Very Brief History of Eternity
Miroslav Volf blurbs Carlos Eire's new book, A Very Brief History of Eternity, which asks of its subject, "Is it…
Giving up the Holy Ghost
Keane’s account is convincing, but it is important to contextualize the semiotic ideology he defines. I could be misreading Keane…
The social body of belief
American civil religion has taken several forms. One type is preoccupied with national cohesion, claiming that the bonds by which…
Poll: 29% of Americans say religion “out of date”
Muriel Kane at The Raw Story reports on a Gallup poll released on Christmas Eve with some new numbers about…
Reconstructing belief
I would like to continue the discussion of modernity and the problem of belief, which, like Danilyn Rutherford, I do…
Varieties of Secularism in a Secular Age
Varieties of Secularism in a Secular Age will be published this spring by Harvard University Press. Edited by Michael Warner,…
An untapped constituency
In his 2008 documentary (some might prefer to call it a mockumentary) Religulous, comedian and satirist Bill Maher wonders aloud…
The study of special experiences: An interview with Ann Taves
Ann Taves is a professor of religious studies at the University of California, Santa Barbara and, this year, is serving…