Julie Potler, in her Culture Watch column in Sojourners magazine, gives a Christian perspective on the religious use of social…
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What is a metaphor a metaphor for?
Haiti has always suffered from a plight of representation: “Black France” for Jules Michelet, “a tropical dog-kennel” for Thomas Carlyle,…
A new generation of Muslim activists
According to a recent story in Time magazine, there is a new type of Muslim activism brewing across the globe.…
Orthodox by Design
Jeremy Stolow's Orthodox by Design: Judaism, Print Politics and the ArtScroll Revolution will be published next month by University of…
New media and the reshaping of religious practice
As older forms of communication begin to cede their exclusive hold on the public’s attention, it becomes all the more…
The new landscape of the religion blogosphere
It's no longer news that digital media are changing how knowledge is produced and disseminated, and how people relate to…
Awe and wonder
At Trans/Missions, Diane Winston comments on an unusual and interesting new study, which finds that the most popular New York…
Let’s talk about faith
New York Times columnist Ross Douthat argues that "the debate that Brit Hume kicked off a week ago is still…
Swiss minarets and American self-righteousness?
At the Scoop, Courtney Bender analyzes the American media's editorial treatment of the Swiss minaret ban.
Violence, publicity, and sovereignty
Today we are once more at a time when lawless violence proliferates and territorial boundaries are infringed upon, when state…