At U.S. Intellectual History, Raymond J. Haberski, Jr. appraises Barack Obama's implicit invocations of civil religion in this week's speech on…
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On The Invention of the Jewish People
At the New York Times, Patricia Cohen reviews Shlomo Sand's The Invention of the Jewish People, a recent best-seller in…
Cormac McCarthy’s altar call
Beliefnet's Idol Chatter blog rounds up recent conversations surrounding the marketing of the film "The Road" to evangelically-inclined Christian churches.…
Adjudicating Jewishness in Britain
At the New York Times, Sarah Lyall reports on an ongoing British case that centers on complex questions of Jewish…
The white privilege of disassociation
At Progressive Revival, Paul Raushenbush takes the occasion of the Fort Hood tragedy to point out that American culture and…
Church technology and race
At Call & Response, Mark Chavez draws upon an April 2008 article by Paul DiMaggio and Bart Bonikowski to explain…
Who cares about intellectual history?
At U.S. Intellectual History, Tim Lacy reflects upon the abiding significance of the field. Lacy focuses his three-part discussion on…
The Religious Right’s bad timing
At Front Porch Republic, Darryl Hart laments that historians and other observers of religion in America too often cast the…
Carl Jung rocks
The indie-music authority Pitchfork reports that Billy Corgan (of the Smashing Pumpkins) and David Byrne (of the Talking Heads) will…
Believing in Ricky Gervais
At the New Yorker, Anthony Lane finds much to fault in Ricky Gervais's The Invention of Lying, including Gervais's treatment…