Over at Foreign Policy, anthropologist Scott Atran writes about the need for more social scientists to study how religion affects…
Studying religion
study of religion
The curious case of Paul Richard Shanley
In the discursive regime of sexual abuse, the operative silence is the victim’s. This silence stems from shame and intimidation.…
Abusing rhetoric
Many of these documents are appalling in the way that bureaucratic recitals of torture are appalling, in the way that ledgers…
Colonialism’s religious domain
Recently I am struck by the ambiguity of the concept of the religious. Reading Linda Heuman’s review of Robert Bellah’s…
Methods for the study of religion
The Centre for Religion and Contemporary Society at the University of Kent in the UK recently launched an online training resource on research methods in…