Overall, the book aims to do two things: First, to offer a history that documents the ways in which gender…
On Sex and Secularism
Michel Foucault
The Origins of Neoliberalism: Modeling the Economy from Jesus to Foucault: An introduction
Traditionally, Western thought framed human life as evolving in a three-dimensional space: the economic, the political, and the philosophical. Nowadays,…
Sister Martin Ignatius explains not very much at all for you
Ever since I was first asked to offer reflections on the study of religion and the Catholic sex abuse crisis, it…
The fiercest love of all
Reading the entries posted at Frequencies, an online project that alleges to be “a collaborative genealogy of spirituality,” brings out…
Prayer is technology. I think.
My dissertation is a comparison of the use of prayer, scripture, science education, and “high technology” in four religious high…
Power, normality, revolution
The degree of success of the Egyptian revolution is still undecided as I write these lines. The situation is critical,…
An atheism a theologian can love
“Strangely enough,” Foucault mused, “man—the study of whom is supposed by the naïve to be the oldest investigation since Socrates—is…
Religion, spirituality, and the sexual scandal
Religion and the sex scandal are still closely linked, though the targets of public outrage have morphed: it is often…
Meta meta meta
Tonight on Big Brother 12, the implosion of the secular age!
Man dies again!
"Man dies again.” Or so might one entitle a tabloid version of Stefanos Geroulanos’s excellent work on the history of…