Editors Gillian Frank (Stony Brook University), Heather White (New College of Florida), and Bethany Moreton (University of Georgia) have issued…
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CFP: Why Study Religion?
Illinois State University Philosophy and Religious Studies Department has announced a call for papers for the upcoming conference on religion in higher…
No Longer Invisible: Religion in University Education
In their recent publication, No Longer Invisible: Religion in University Education, Douglas Jacobsen and Rhonda Hustedt Jacobsen discuss how religion…
Henry R. Luce Initiative on Religion and International Affairs
A central source of support for the Social Science Research Council’s program on religion and the public sphere (including ongoing support…
Scientology not a religion?
According to a recent poll by 60 Minutes/Vanity Fair, a majority of Americans do not believe that Scientology is a…
The secular as space, the secular as process: The 2012 UCSIA summer school
At the end of August, the two of us joined approximately 30 scholars from around the world in Antwerp, Belgium…
Buddhism and the practices of contemporary education
Recently, Matt Bieber interviewed Peter Hershock, author of Buddhism in the Public Sphere, for his blog The Wheat and Chaff.
The study of American religions in Religion
In the most recent issue of Religion (subscription required), a peer-reviewed journal which publishes original research in the comparative and…
The “New New Atheists”
Christopher R. Beha discusses a recent article he had written for Harper's Magazine in which he considers three publications, written…
Wild Religion: Tracking the Sacred in South Africa
In his new publication, Wild Religion: Tracking the Sacred in South Africa, David Chidester explores South African indigenous religious heritage…