Recently, the President of Exodus International, Alan Chambers, made statements renouncing some of his organization's beliefs, such as the ability…
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Evolutionary theory and religion
Charles Mathewes, of The American Interest, discusses the role of religion in evolutionary theory and analyzes two publications on this…
Knight Grants for Reporting on Religion and Public Life
The Knight Program at the USC Annenberg School for Communication & Journalism is accepting applications until July 1st, for the…
Traditional but not religious
The first thing that strikes you when looking at Frequencies is the scope of the project and the breadth of…
In defense of the sociology of religion
In a recent contribution to ASA Footnotes, Christian Smith explains why it is crucial for sociologists to take religion seriously,…
The resurgence of the civic
Occupy Wall Street and cognate groups around the world are part of a protest movement that is both global and…
RFP: New Directions in the Study of Prayer
The Social Science Research Council recently announced the launch of a new project and grants program entitled "New Directions in…
The big bang
Peter Manseau reviews Robert Bellah's Religion in Human Evolution.
Critiquing reductionism
There are reductive categories . . . that have been and should be abandoned in scholarly discourse because the terms…
Thinking about revolution, religion, and Egypt with Talal Asad
Reflecting on the consequences of the recent events in Egypt for the theory of religion, Carl Raschke writes that the…