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Wild Religion: Tracking the Sacred in South Africa
In his new publication, Wild Religion: Tracking the Sacred in South Africa, David Chidester explores South African indigenous religious heritage…
The New Religious Intolerance: Overcoming the Politics of Fear in an Anxious Age
In her new publication, The New Religious Intolerance: Overcoming the Politics of Fear in an Anxious Age, Martha C. Nussbaum…
What Matters? Ethnographies of Value in a Not So Secular Age
Columbia University Press has just released What Matters?: Ethnographies of Value in a Not So Secular Age, edited by Courtney Bender…
Frequencies 81/100 – 90/100
Today marks the ninetieth entry in Frequencies. In the ten most recent entries, Benjamin Zeller climbs a stairway to heaven,…
New directions in the study of prayer
The Social Science Research Council has just announced the launch of a major new project and grants program entitled “New…
Forthcoming SSRC book: What Matters?
Edited by Courtney Bender and Ann Taves, and forthcoming from Columbia University Press, What Matters? Ethnographies of Value in a (not so)…
Rethinking Secularism
Rethinking Secularism helps to reframe discussions of religion in the social sciences by drawing attention to the central issue of…
Habermas and Religion
Edited by Craig Calhoun, Eduardo Mendieta, and Jonathan VanAntwerpen, Habermas and Religion presents a series of original and sustained engagements…
Religion and development: “from AIDS to zebras”
Katherine Marshall, co-chair of the SSRC's Project on Religion and International Affairs, speaks of her tenure at the World Bank,…