This past February, the seven-part video series honoring Carl Sagan and his contributions to science was released, attracting the attention…
The Feynman Series: scientific…and spiritual (?)
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Frequencies, twenty transmissions in
Today marks the twentieth entry in Frequencies.
Secularism in Antebellum America
Forthcoming from the University of Chicago Press, a "pioneering account of religion and society in nineteenth-century America" by John Lardas…
Nothing is ever lost: An interview with Robert Bellah
Both an influential scholar and a public intellectual, Robert Bellah is one of the foremost sociologists of his generation. His…
What comes to mind when you think of spirituality?
After a year of planning and conversation, The Immanent Frame and Killing the Buddha launch today a new web-based project…
Forthcoming SSRC book: What Matters?
Edited by Courtney Bender and Ann Taves, and forthcoming from Columbia University Press, What Matters? Ethnographies of Value in a (not so)…
A whole earth
Brook Wilensky-Lanford shares her thoughts on the closing MoMa exhibit "Access to Tools: Publications from the Whole Earth Catalog, 1968-1974."
The rise and fall of Christian rock
Meghan O'Gieblyn, writing for Guernica, forays into the history of CCM, or Christian contemporary music, which also happens to be…
War on drugs may be interfering with Americans’ spiritual awakening
Kevin Drum, of Mother Jones, reports on a study conducted by the esteemed researchers at the Johns Hopkins School of…
After Oprah
On the occassion of the final broadcast of "The Oprah Winfrey Show," Kathryn Lofton reflects, in an On Faith article, on…