In Heathen, Hindoo, Hindu, rather than looking for people doing religion, I looked for people using religion. The variety of…
Heathen, Hindoo, Hindu—An introduction
lived religion
Religion and politics beyond religious freedom
I would like to thank each of the contributors to this series for their generous engagement with my book, Beyond…
The uncertainty principles of Heisenberg and Hurd
In the late 1920s, the theoretical physicist Werner Heisenberg wrote a series of scientific papers proposing that the universe could…
Beyond Religious Freedom—An introduction
Last summer I read All Can Be Saved by the eminent historian of colonial Latin America, Stuart Schwartz. It’s a…
Ross Douthat responds to James K.A. Smith on the Pew Religious Knowledge Survey
In his New York Times blog, Ross Douthat comments on James K.A. Smith's response to the Pew Forum's U.S. Religious…
The Catholic heresy, again
The reason I am talking about Catholics here is because of the subtitle of Bender's book: Spirituality and the American…
Lived religion, British-style?
Over at the British weekly The Observer, Peter Stanford reviews Is God Still an Englishman?, the latest from Cole Moreton.
Hybrid consciousness or purified religion
Charles Taylor's framework for understanding the advent of a "secular age" in the North Atlantic world offers a useful first…