Building on earlier work, I show here that transnational Coptic Christians are remapping indigenous narratives of persecution and martyrdom in…
Religious publicity and transnational minority politics
conservatism
The imaginary “war on religion”
Over at The Atlantic, Peter Beinhart recounts the results of a new survey on religious observance in America.
Public sociology: rigor and relevance
Any authors would be pleased by an array of laudatory and thoughtful comments on their work, especially by a group…
God, money, and power
At Killing the Buddha, John D. Fitzgerald describes the inside of a little-known conservative Christian college in the heart of…
Catholicism, conservatism, and antihumanist politics
Geroulanos’s central thesis is compelling but simple: French antihumanism, in its theoretical mode, was based on a radicalized “negative anthropology,”…
When the personal keeps on being political
Susan Jacoby's recent post is one of the best statements I've seen in opposition to the "mamma grizzly" feminism of…
Hegel in the heartland
In The New York Times, J.M. Bernstein holds forth on the metaphysical dimensions of the sustained paroxysm known as the…
God, science and philanthropy
Nathan Schneider profiles John Templeton and the Foundation he built, in The Nation.
Circling the line
I was asked after the 2008 Presidential election to make some loose predictions about the future of conservative political religions…
Texas Board of Ed. ratifies new textbook standards
Last Friday, the Texas Board of Education ratified---with a seven-vote margin---a series of controversial new textbook standards, reports TPM's Justin…