I welcome Spirit in the Dark for the seriousness with which it opens new prospects for the study of religion and literature…
Don’t play that song, Nathan Scott
religion and culture
Josef Sorett and the idea of a racial aesthetic
Josef Sorett’s Spirit in the Dark is a marvelous book, not least of all due to its meticulous, incisive, and…
Keeping up with “culture”
Benjamin Berger’s Law’s Religion: Religious Difference and the Claims of Constitutionalism is a welcome addition to the vibrantly interdisciplinary scholarship on…
Law as religion
Ben Berger’s book Law’s Religion: Religious Difference and the Claims of Constitutionalism is a work of great insight. I found…
Post-Doctoral Opportunity at Columbia University IRCPL
The Institute for Religion, Culture and Public Life invites applications for postdoctoral scholar positions, for the 2016-2017 academic year.
Governing religion with one eye closed
Everyone in China knows that official religious policy has only a nominal relationship to religious practice. The complaint comes from…
Secular belief, religious belonging
A recent Gallup poll found that almost half of China’s people (47 percent) say that they are “convinced atheists”—the highest…
The Communist Party and the future of religion in China
This short essay sketches out the different views that may be identified within the Chinese Communist Party as we look…
Why the West Fears Islam
Political scientist Jocelyne Cesari's recent book, Why the West Fears Islam: An Exploration of Muslims in Liberal Democracies, analyzes the Muslim…
Faith, modernity and Holy Ignorance
At Foreign Affairs, Karen Barkey looks at Oliver Roy's book Holy Ignorance.