At the visually striking Triple Canopy, Nathan Schneider discourses on the devolution of theology into---and, some might say, its eventual…
Sacred disorder
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“Religious-Secular Distinctions”
On January 14-16 the British Academy will host "Religious-Secular Distinctions," a conference intended take up, from an interdisciplinary set of…
The evolutionary theory of religion
In today's New York Times, Judith Shulevitz reviews The Faith Instinct: How Religion Evolved and Why It Endures by Nicholas…
Religion journalism after Steinfels
Citing two recent examples of unusually attentive and nuanced reporting on religion, Nick Street ponders the future of the field…
Dialectic of Enlightenment, today and tomorrow
Looking back at Roger Forster's 2001 Telos essay "Dialectic of Enlightenment as Genealogy Critique," Andrew Walker advocates for the "continued…
Thomas Friedman taken to task
At the Huffington Post John O. Voll and John Esposito rebut in no uncertain terms Thomas L. Friedman's most recent…
An Islamic civil war?
In his op-ed piece in yesterday's New York Times, Thomas Friedman made a number of astute remarks about the current…
Religion as revolution
McGill University and the Centre for Research on Religion will be holding a conference specifically for graduate students on March…
Obama, Christian realism, and Just War theory
A round-up of some of the recent commentary on President Obama and the ethics of war, following the invocation of…
Schmitt on Shakespeare
At TELOSscope , Nicole Burgoyne interviews David Pan, translator of the first English edition of Carl Schmitt's 1956 foray into…