The Psychology of Prayer: A Scientific Approach, co-authored by Bernard Spilka and Kevin Ladd, a member of the SSRC's New Directions…
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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 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…
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).
What Matters? Ethnographies of Value in a Not So Secular Age
Columbia University Press has just released What Matters?: Ethnographies of Value in a Not So Secular Age, edited by Courtney Bender…
Experiences with evangelical congregations
In The New Yorker, Joan Acocella gives a favorable review of Tanya M. Luhrmann's When God Talks Back: Understanding the American…
Ghosts in Antebellum America
At Religion in American History, John Turner, Professor of History at the University of Southern Alabama, reviews two books that…
Love, InshAllah
Over at the New York Times, Neil MacFarquhar writes about the recently published Love, InshAllah: The Secret Love Lives of…
After the secular age
Just out from Verso Press, Simon Critchley's The Faith of the Faithless: Experiments in Political Theology investigates the role of religion in…
Religious roots of the secular
At the Harvard University Press Blog, historian Brad S. Gregory discusses his latest book, The Unintended Reformation: How a Religious…