It has been almost twenty years since the US Congress passed the International Religious Freedom Act (IRFA), which was signed…
Paradoxes of international religious freedom
theory of religion
State of the Species
Human beings live in virtual worlds that define what they value, what they aspire to, and what they are able…
Dangerous evolutions?
Religion in Human Evolution is an immensely ambitious book on a topic only a scholar of Robert Bellah’s stature could…
Weber for the 21st century
For almost one hundred years, all sociologists of religion have taken Max Weber’s great work on comparative religions as a primary point…
Where did religion come from?
When an interviewer for the Atlantic Monthly blog asked me “What prompted you to write this book?” I apparently replied,…
Religion-making
Broadly conceived the term religion-making refers to the ways in which religion(s) is conceptualized and institutionalized within the matrix of…