In The Power of Religion in the Public Sphere, due out spring 2011 from Columbia University Press and the SSRC,…
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John Haught’s theology of evolution
At the excellent evolution/creationism-junkie blog The Sensuous Curmudgeon, there's an announcement about Making Sense of Evolution, the new book by…
Can Islam in Europe be tamed?
At Bookforum, David Wallace-Wells reviews Taming the Gods: Religion and Democracy on Three Continents by Ian Buruma.
Faith from the NIH
When Francis Collins was appointed director of the National Institutes of Health last year, he stepped down from leading the…
Jewish economic ambivalence
From Princeton University Press, historian Jerry Z. Muller has a new book on Capitalism and the Jews.
Faith, Politics, and Power
As the new White House Office of Faith-based and Neighborhood Partnerships reflects on what it has accomplished during its first…
Maimonides, man of the Mediterranean
Better late than never: last year, Princeton University Press published Sarah Stroumsa's Maimonides in His World. It is a strictly…
Gandhi meets Bin Laden
James L. Rowell, an assistant professor of religion at Flager College, examines divergent forms of religious leadership through studies of Gandhi…
Being with Animals
Anthropologist Barbara J. King, whose previous book Evolving God explored the roots of religion among non-human animals, has a new…
This Incredible Need to Believe
Julia Kristeva's latest work, This Incredible Need to Believe, explores the fundamental role of belief within the psyche, as it relates…