Last week at BBC News, Robert Pigott reported that the Dalai Lama will give to charity the £1.1 million in Templeton prize money…
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What Matters? Ethnographies of Value in a Not So Secular Age
Columbia University Press has just released What Matters?: Ethnographies of Value in a Not So Secular Age, edited by Courtney Bender…
Three dots and a dash
“It resists classification…” Language is a funny thing. Take my epigraph, for example: three words from the fourth paragraph of…
What is the aesthetic of contemporary spirituality?
At Religion in American History, Michael J. Altman takes a broad look at Frequencies, citing his appreciation of individual posts,…
Traditional but not religious
The first thing that strikes you when looking at Frequencies is the scope of the project and the breadth of…
The impossible road sign
A friend recently sent me a Huffington Post piece from last summer on the state of New Hampshire putting up…
Frequencies named Official Honoree of the 16th Webby Awards
Frequencies has been named an Official Honoree of the 16th Annual Webby Awards!
Get it on
The first thing you notice about Frequencies is the sheer proliferation of categories, though they clearly are not categories in…
Spirituality’s family tree
Much more than a blog, Frequencies is a treasure trove of deep description and highly creative analysis. The casual observer initially…
The fiercest love of all
Reading the entries posted at Frequencies, an online project that alleges to be “a collaborative genealogy of spirituality,” brings out…