If one aspect of religiosity in America is the belief in America, then scholars of religion would do well to…
Everything Everywhere All at Once as religious experience
enchantment
Divine motherhood: Introduction
Rather than posing a straightforward answer to Mary Daly’s implicit question of what lies beyond God the Father, perhaps the…
Thinking from the verge: The dynamic of secularism and its others
In this forum prompted by Emily Ogden’s Credulity, Susan Lepselter’s The Resonance of Unseen Things, Pamela Klassen’s The Story of…
Abduction as abduction
Lepselter’s text is a magisterial enactment of the thing that it is ultimately about: American weirdness.
Pay no attention to that man behind the curtain!
Don’t you love the word “debunk”? Its cheerfully aggressive sound is inseparable from its sense. The second syllable, bunk!, seems…
Cosmology and the environment
Can—and should—a scientific account of the universe function as a global myth? If so, what is the likely impact of…
Modernity, enchantment, and Fictionalism
The stern visage of Max Weber looms over discussions of modernity and enchantment, as does the sunnier countenance of Charles…
Credulity: Enchantment and Modernity in the 19th-Century U.S.
The Heyman Center for the Humanities at Columbia University is co-sponsoring a conference later this week on "credulity."
Confused parchments, infinite socialities
Ambivalence, avoidance, hedging, delay—these are but some of my responses to Michael Warner’s richly rendered provocation and response to my…
Was antebellum America secular?
The question “Was Antebellum America Secular?” obviously depends on what one means by secular. Because the term is dialectical by…