For a brief moment yesterday, in Queens, one could purchase what appeared to be kosher pork. Philip Gourevitch explains.
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Debating religious freedom in Dissent
The latest issue of Dissent features an argument (sub. req.) by Austin Dacey and Colin Koproske against the prevailing understanding…
What federal agents are reading about Islam
Spencer Ackerman, at Wired's Danger Room blog, reports on the recommended reading on Islam provided to incoming FBI agents, as…
The house that D’Souza built?
Earlier this year, Jonathan D. Fitzgerald, a former adjunct professor at King's College, wrote an exposé for Killing the Buddha…
New journal: Secularism and Nonreligion
Secularism and Nonreligion, the "world's first journal dedicated to the study of the nonreligious and the secular," recently announced its…
Event: The Interplay between Religious Freedom, Extremism, and Security
On July 29---one week from today---the Berkley Center for Religion, Peace, and World Affairs at Georgetown University and the U.S.…
The rise and fall of Christian rock
Meghan O'Gieblyn, writing for Guernica, forays into the history of CCM, or Christian contemporary music, which also happens to be…
Conference: Multiple Secularities and Global Interconnectedness
On October 13-15, the Centre for Area Studies, University of Leipzig, will hold its second annual conference, Multiple Secularities and…
The Theological and the Political
From Fortress Press, an interview with Mark Lewis Taylor, author of The Theological and the Political: On the Weight of…
Is there anybody out there? (Pink Floyd and Charles Taylor)
In the Frankfurter Rundschau, Hartmut Rosa hears the echoes of Pink Floyd in the work of Charles Taylor.