A curious finding in sociologist Elaine Howard Ecklund's national study on the religious beliefs and practices of American scientists is…
Why some atheist scientists participate in religious institutions
Qatar hosts interfaith dialogue conference
he Doha International Center for Interfaith Dialogue is currently hosting its ninth annual conference on interfaith dialogue from October 24-26.
Atheism and religious art
The Guardian has been hosting a series of posts on the question of whether faith is necessary in order to…
Understanding resacralization (part 3)
Should religious discourse be welcomed in the public sphere, or should we require that it first be translated into secular…
Understanding resacralization (part 2)
The Rimini Meeting is run almost entirely by unpaid volunteers. Everything from the physical construction and take-down of the arena,…
Religion in the call center
When I set out to examine the lifestyle changes of employees working night shifts in India’s call centers, I was…
Understanding resacralization (part 1)
Dominant accounts of the religion-modernity relationship, at least among sociologists of religion in the US, have tended to focus mainly…
On reductionism
There’s something attractive about a neat typology, and also something we seem to loathe about the compartmentalization entailed. So what…