The Committee for the Study of Religion at CUNY Graduate Center in New York is holding a conference on Islam…
Event: Islam in Europe and America, CUNY, May 4-6, 2011
religion in the U.S.
CFP: Knight Grants for Reporting on Religion and American Public Life
A new grants program for journalists, sponsored by the Knight Program at the USC Annenberg School for Communication & Journalism:…
Farrakhan, Qaddafi, and the definition of American Islam
In another example of how mass media shape and constrain what constitutes legitimate Islam and religion more generally, the New…
Linking religion and obesity
A new study presented by researchers at Northwestern University at a recent American Heart Association conference challenges assumptions about the…
Adrift on common dreams
What a strange, provocative experience it has been to dwell with Kathryn Lofton’s Oprah: The Gospel of an Icon during…
Surviving the secular
Whether you see “the secular” as a threat or a refuge, an option or an impulse, we are all trying…
“The hegemony of her sway”
Oprah’s “gift is not her interviewing strategy but her confessional promiscuity.” While claiming only to tell you what she herself…
Supreme Court decides in favor of Westboro Baptist Church
While acknowledging their negative effects on public political discourse, the Supreme Court of the United States has ruled, in an…
Religion in Wisconsin
In an article at Religion Dispatches, Kim Bobo, the founder and Executive Director of Interfaith Worker Justice, describes the religious…
Secular humanism, the Christian Right, and progressive education
Over at U.S. Intellectual History, Andrew Hartman wants to know why, starting the 1970s, the Christian Right came to see…