From very early in the movement, spirituality and faith have played a role in the Occupy movement. Religious observances began…
Faith and the Occupy movement: What would Jesus do?
Christianity
Politics of Faith—The Role of Religion in Divided Societies
America Abroad, the award-winning documentary radio program, has released a new documentary, "The Politics of Faith---The Role of Religion in…
Going to law
Last week, in the first week of its October 2011 term, the U.S. Supreme Court heard argument in a suit…
America plus nothing
But Sweet Heaven When I Die is, first and foremost, a book about loss, about death, transience, neglect, and quitting. These…
The home of the syndrome
Sam McPheeters travels through the Holy Land in search of the "Jerusalem syndrome" for Vice.
Conference/CFP: Modernism, Christianity, and Apocalypse
A conference organized by the Department of Foreign Languages at the University of Bergen, Norway, to take place on July…
Paul Kahn’s mis-prognosis of America’s social imaginary
As I argued in my previous post, there are indications that Paul Kahn subscribes to Carl Schmitt’s belief in the…
Western secularity
We live in a world in which ideas, institutions, artistic styles, and formulas for production and living circulate among societies…
American evangelicals and the Arab Spring
At Foreign Policy, Molly Worthen examines the sentiments and commitments that inform many American evangelicals' ambivalence towards the democratic possibilities…
The WTC cross: a religious synecdoche?
Atlantic columnist Wendy Kaminer discusses American Atheists' suit to prevent the "World Trade Center cross," an original cross-beam from one…