Colin Jager’s reading of the British romantics places them at the center of debates about religion, secularism, and pluralism today.…
Romanticism, reflexivity, design: An interview with Colin Jager
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Christianity and its others
In the nineteenth century the new disciplines in the social sciences and the humanities were ‘emancipated’ from Christian theology. To…
Global Christianity, Global Critique
Striking changes are afoot in the way intellectuals address Christianity. Long seen as a largely Western tradition steadily losing its…
Two recent journal issues of interest
Recent issues of South Atlantic Quarterly and New German Critique contain articles of interest to scholars of religion and public…
Alberto Toscano on fanaticism
Alberto Toscano, author of the recently published Fanaticism: The Uses of an Idea, will be speaking at New York University tomorrow, 5–7pm,…
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…
The sun shone fiercely through the window at Starbucks (Part II)
Soon after reading Varieties of Secularism in a Secular Age, I turned to Courtney Bender’s The New Metaphysicals. It is…
The sun shone fiercely through the window at Starbucks (Part I)
Let us recognize, from the outset, the delicious perversity of inviting comments upon comments about the comments about Charles Taylor’s…
Seminar: “From Worldview to Worship: The Liturgical Turn in Cultural Theory”
Next summer, James K.A. Smith will lead the Calvin College seminar "From Worldview to Worship: The Liturgical Turn in Cultural…
3QD Philosophy Prize
3 Quarks Daily is now accepting nominations for its second annual prize for the best blog writing in philosophy, to…