Anthropologist Mayfair Yang teaches in the Religious Studies Department at the University of California, Santa Barbara. She has done pioneering…
The future of China’s past: An interview with Mayfair Yang
Buddhism
Peter Berger on multilateral globalization
Globalization is not defined by one-way Westernization, argues Peter Berger in his new blog at The American Interest Online. Rather,…
Tradition Transformed: Tibetan Artists Respond
The Rubin Museum of Art in New York City is currently exhibiting the work of nine contemporary Tibetan artists who…
Exploring Buddhist violence
Michael Jerryson discusses his new book Buddhist Warfare, co-edited with Mark Juergensmeyer, at Religion Dispatches, explaining "how the notion of…
The souls of animals
The question of the week at The Guardian's Belief page is, "Do Animals Have Souls?" Musab Bora offers a Muslim…
Dialogues concerning Hume and religion
On the January 4th edition of FOX News Sunday, Brit Hume gave this surprising advice to Tiger Woods in the wake…
Colonialism and conflict
If the idea of purification is to retain broad currency across the colonial landscape, it may need to be defined…
Let’s get clear about materialism
David Brooks's op-ed, "The Neural Buddhists," is premised on a variety of conceptual confusions that are worth trying to clear…
The aesthetics of neural Buddhism
The first three postings in this series remind us how complex the individual topics of cognitive science, Buddhism, and religious…
Medical materialism revisited
A century ago, in "Religion and Neurology," the opening chapter of The Varieties of Religious Experience, William James argued against…