Jen'nan Ghazal Read, associate professor of sociology and global health at Duke University and a contributor to The Immanent Frame,…
events
Upcoming events featured at here & there will be collected below.
The Scandal of the Evangelical Mind, 15 years later
Religion in American History announces an upcoming conference looking back on Mark Noll's important book The Scandal of the Evangelical…
Yale to hold conference on homosexuality, globalization, and the Anglican schism
Yale University will be holding an interdisciplinary conference entitled Why Homosexuality: Religion, Globalization and the Anglican Schism on October 17,…
Religion in the Global City
On October 7-9 the New York Theological Seminary will host "Religion in the Global City," a conference on the role…
C. Wright Mills: “taking it big”
On 16-17 October 2009, the CUNY Graduate Center will host a conference in honor of the fiftieth anniversary of C.…
The Power of Religion in the Public Sphere
On October 22 the Institute for Public Knowledge at NYU, in concert with the SSRC and the Humanities Institute at…
Jeff Sharlet discusses The Family, October 29th
On October 29th at the Brooklyn Society for Ethical Culture, journalist Jeff Sharlet will be discussing his recent bestselling book,…
Carl Jung rocks
The indie-music authority Pitchfork reports that Billy Corgan (of the Smashing Pumpkins) and David Byrne (of the Talking Heads) will…
Tonight: Harvey Cox and E.J. Dionne on faith and progressive politics
Harvey Cox and E.J. Dionne, two luminaries of American progressive Christianity, will be discussing Cox's The Future of Faith tonight…
“Religious-Secular Distinctions”
On January 14-16 the British Academy will host "Religious-Secular Distinctions," a conference intended take up, from an interdisciplinary set of…