This Friday, March 30, at 12:30pm, the Committee for the Study of Religion at the City University of New York…
Durkheim and belief
cognitive science
State of the Species
Human beings live in virtual worlds that define what they value, what they aspire to, and what they are able…
RFP: New Directions in the Study of Prayer
The Social Science Research Council recently announced the launch of a new project and grants program entitled "New Directions in…
Religion, science, and the humanities: An interview with Barbara Herrnstein Smith
Barbara Herrnstein Smith is a distinguished literary scholar at both Brown and Duke, who, since her undergraduate days, has had…
The pig is not the problem
Regardless of their stance on secularization, both classical and market-based positions take modernity for granted as the starting point for…
Which cognitive revolution?
David Brooks, in his New York Times op-ed column "The Neural Buddhists," offers speculations about how the "cognitive revolution" will…