It has been almost twenty years since the US Congress passed the International Religious Freedom Act (IRFA), which was signed…
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theory of religion
State of the Species
November 28, 2011
Human beings live in virtual worlds that define what they value, what they aspire to, and what they are able…
Dangerous evolutions?
November 23, 2011
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
November 9, 2011
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?
November 2, 2011
When an interviewer for the Atlantic Monthly blog asked me “What prompted you to write this book?” I apparently replied,…
Religion-making
October 26, 2011
Broadly conceived the term religion-making refers to the ways in which religion(s) is conceptualized and institutionalized within the matrix of…