Recently released by Oxford University Press, Michael Saler's latest volume explores the imaginary realms of the modern world.
Modern enchantment
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The big bang
Peter Manseau reviews Robert Bellah's Religion in Human Evolution.
Philosophy of religion in the public sphere
Ars Disputandi has recently published a collection of essays from the 2010 Conference of the European Society for Philosophy of…
Secularism in Antebellum America
Forthcoming from the University of Chicago Press, a "pioneering account of religion and society in nineteenth-century America" by John Lardas…
The impossibility of (international) religious freedom
Religion blogger Doughlas Remy presents his reading of Winnifred Sullivan’s The Impossibility of Religious Freedom in relation to the politics…
America plus nothing
But Sweet Heaven When I Die is, first and foremost, a book about loss, about death, transience, neglect, and quitting. These…
Milton and the postsecular
In The Huffington Post, Feisal Mohammed offers an excerpt from his new book, Milton and the Post-Secular Present: Ethics, Politics, Terrorism, published in…
Robert Bellah on religion’s place in evolution
The Atlantic interviews Robert Bellah about his new tome Religion in Human Evolution. In the interview, he explains the impetus…
An interdisciplinary exploration of death
This September 24th, historian, writer, and artist Dr. Paul Koudounaris will open the doors to his first exhibit and book signing…
Forthcoming SSRC book: What Matters?
Edited by Courtney Bender and Ann Taves, and forthcoming from Columbia University Press, What Matters? Ethnographies of Value in a (not so)…