At a March 2010 conference, “Gendering the Divide: Conflicts at the Border of Religion and the Secular” (sponsored by Arizona…
Secularism . . . a really interesting problematic: A conversation with Joan Wallach Scott
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Why the Assemblies of God is like the Democratic Party
New York Times columnist Charles Blow began his Saturday piece with a surprising question: "Which political party’s members are most…
This song is old. But is it true?
Obama calls upon Americans to "give our all to a difficult task" and "carry forth a precious gift" of increasingly…
Not an end, but a beginning
Here we enter the necessary if unglamorous world of organizing, of reframing debates and dialogues at every level, of animating…
Politics and prophecy as vocations
In my previous post, I outlined the civil religion that Robert Bellah and Sacvan Bercovitch both identify, though with opposed…
Civil religion, prophecy and Obama
For some scholars, "religion" gives the social cohesion and moral purpose without which a merely self-interested and fragmenting liberalism could…
The evangelical complexion
Just who are America's evangelicals? Conventional wisdom says that evangelical Protestantism is a white-bread, white people's religion. The movement's leading…