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Endgame capitalism: An interview with Simon During
Simon During is a professor at the Centre for the History of European Discourses at the University of Queensland, having…
A Catholic critique of capital?
A lengthy profile by John Cornwell, which appears in the November issue of Prospect, examines the biography and the philosophical…
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…
The future of China’s past: An interview with Mayfair Yang
Anthropologist Mayfair Yang teaches in the Religious Studies Department at the University of California, Santa Barbara. She has done pioneering…
The sun shone fiercely through the window at Starbucks (Part I)
Let us recognize, from the outset, the delicious perversity of inviting comments upon comments about the comments about Charles Taylor’s…
A spiritual and moral approach to capitalism and aid
Speaking of Faith's Krista Tippett interviews Jacqueline Novogratz, founder and CEO of the Acumen Fund, on the ethics of aid…
Can greed be good?
In the Australian Broadcasting Corporation's new Religion and Ethics section, renowned American theologian Stanley Hauerwas asks, "Can greed be good?"—a…
The experiment that did not fail?
On the occasion of the one-hundredth anniversary of the Degania kibbutz, J. J. Goldberg writes about the decline of the…
Serving the master
Religion Dispatches reviews Lake Lambert's Spirituality, Inc.: Religion in the American Workplace (NYU Press, 2009).