Over at Tim Out Chicago, the website has conducted a short interview with Tariq Ramadan, the influential Swiss public intellectual…
Time Out interview with Tariq Ramadan
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11 years after 9/11
In the days immediately following September 11, 2001, the Social Science Research Council invited a wide range of leading social…
TIF essay nominated for the annual 3 Quarks Daily philosophy prize
3 Quarks Daily has just announced the full list of nominees for their annual annual prize for the best blog and…
The philosophy of Templeton
Over at The Chronicle of Higher Education, contributing editor Nathan Schneider writes about the Templeton effect, and the focus on…
The Post-Secular in Question and What Matters? reviewed
Over at The Revealer, James S. Bielo reviews What Matters? Ethnographies of Value in a Not So Secular Age and…
Charles Taylor and Buddhism
For Tricycle, an independent Buddhist publication, Linda Heuman writes on how to understand problems in the transmission of Buddhism to…
Studying religion
Over at Foreign Policy, anthropologist Scott Atran writes about the need for more social scientists to study how religion affects…
Monsignor William J. Lynn sentenced
Religion News Service reports that Monsignor William J. Lynn, the secretary for clergy at the Archdiocese of Philadelphia and the…
Purity balls
At Religion Dispatches, Jessica Valenti writes on a new Swiss documentary, Virgin Tales, and the phenomenon of purity balls.
A Conversation with Robert Bellah on Religion in Human Evolution
The following video is of Robert Bellah's comments at the 2011 annual meeting of the American Academy of Religion held…