Columbia University Press has just released What Matters?: Ethnographies of Value in a Not So Secular Age, edited by Courtney Bender…
What Matters? Ethnographies of Value in a Not So Secular Age
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The end of postcolonialism
The London-based publisher Zed Books recently released Hamid Dabashi's The Arab Spring: The End of Postcolonialism (distributed in the U.S. by Macmillan).
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…
New review of Bellah’s Religion in Human Evolution
For Tricycle, an independent Buddhist publication, Linda Heuman reviews Robert Bellah's Religion in Human Evolution, highlighting the place Bellah gives…
The Psychology of Prayer
The Psychology of Prayer: A Scientific Approach, co-authored by Bernard Spilka and Kevin Ladd, a member of the SSRC's New Directions…
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…
Contextualising Jihadi Thought
In the recent publication, Contextualising Jihadi Thought, editors Jeevan Deol and Zaheer Kazmi compile cross-disciplinary analysis on the concept of…
Religion and the Political Imagination
Religion and the Political Imagination is a volume, edited by Ira Katznelson and Gareth Stedman Jones, that brings together a…
When God Talks Back named a Notable Book of 2012
New Directions in the Study of Prayer Grantee Tanya Luhrmann’s book, When God Talks Back: Understanding the American Evangelical Relationship…
Debating Sharia: Islam, Gender Politics, and Family Law Arbitration
In Debating Sharia: Islam, Gender Politics, and Family Law Arbitration, editors Anna C. Korteweg and Jennifer A. Selby gather a…