Sage Publishers has announced the launch of Critical Research on Religion.
New journal: Critical Research on Religion
critical theory
A question on affect
To write about something that is noncognitive and asignifying requires an incredible stomach for loss; whatever we write about affect…
Global Christianity, Global Critique
Striking changes are afoot in the way intellectuals address Christianity. Long seen as a largely Western tradition steadily losing its…
The secularization of secularism
In the newest issue of Theory, Culture & Society, British sociologist Gregor McLennan takes a closer look at the "postsecular…
Circling the line
I was asked after the 2008 Presidential election to make some loose predictions about the future of conservative political religions…
Religions and rights: An interview with Richard Amesbury
Though currently on sabbatical at the University of Zürich, Richard Amesbury teaches religious and philosophical ethics at the Claremont School…
What Taylor misses
The heft of a book would seem proportional to its exhaustiveness. It is no surprise that Charles Taylor's A Secular…
Giving the strong program a critical edge
In these comments I want to point to another angle on the tendency to emphasize the positive aspects of religion—one…
The promise and limits of the sociology of religion
According to [the assesments of Smilde and May and Levitt et al.], sociology of religion is not in crisis, but…
Is Critique Secular?
At Religion Dispatches, Winnifred Fallers Sullivan reviews Is Critique Secular?: Blasphemy, Injury, and Free Speech, a collection of essays by…