Earlier this year, Jonathan D. Fitzgerald, a former adjunct professor at King's College, wrote an exposé for Killing the Buddha…
The house that D’Souza built?
Christianity
The rise and fall of Christian rock
Meghan O'Gieblyn, writing for Guernica, forays into the history of CCM, or Christian contemporary music, which also happens to be…
The politics of the atonement
To grasp the deep architecture of the political today, therefore, is to venture into the theological domains of Christology and…
Mirror, mirror on the wall
After the manner of psychoanalysis, political theology reflects the larger, darker, contours that liberalism—the discourse of the modern nation-state—fails to…
Angela Merkel chided for unchristlike comments
Der Spiegel reports that Chancellor Angela Merkel is under fire for her allegedly unduly celebratory comments about the assassination of…
TIF interview with Jean Comaroff republished in Cultural Anthropology
David Kyuman Kim's conversation with Jean Comaroff for the "Rites and Responsibilities" dialogue series, which originally appeared on this website…
Divine pervasion and the change that isn’t
Pervasive presence—or just ordinary ubiquity—is one of the main strategies in Oprah’s attempt to serve as a guide through the…
Crucifixes: cultural or religious?
Recently the European Court of Human Rights decided to allow the display of crucifixes in public school classrooms (Lautsi and…
Newt Gingrich’s secular, Islamic America
Matt Yglesias parses Newt Gingrich's (only) ostensibly contradictory statement, that "if we do not decisively win the struggle over the…
Go-ahead for classroom crucifixes in Europe
The European Court of Human Rights has ruled that crucifixes are acceptable in public school classrooms. Reversing an earlier decision,…