Over at ISLAMiCommentary, TIF contributor Mbaye Lo sees a clear disconnect and calls for a retrospective analysis in the wake of the furor created by the film Innocence of Muslims.
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Los Angeles Review of Books reviews Oprah: The Gospel of an Icon
by Wei ZhuThe Los Angeles Review of Books recently reviewed TIF editor-at-large Kathryn Lofton’s book Oprah: The Gospel of an Icon.
November 15, 2012
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New School Center for Public Scholarship: Conference on giving
by Taline CoxOn December 6, 7, and 8, 2012, the New School is hosting the 28th Social Research Conference: Giving: Caring for the Needs of Strangers.
November 19, 2012
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Secularism and secularity
by Per Smith and Jonathan VanAntwerpenOur proposal for the creation of a new program unit on “Secularisms and Secularities” within the American Academy of Religion (AAR) seeks to promote and enable more sustained interdisciplinary engagement among scholars of secularism and secularity and those researchers whose work has focused on variously conceived forms of “non-religion.”
November 29, 2012
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Islamophobia and antisemitism in Europe
by John D. BoyThe latest issue of the journal of the Jewish Museum Berlin features an article by Yasemin Shooman, a German historian, comparing anti-Muslim racism (Islamophobia) and antisemitism.
November 30, 2012
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Understanding “nones”
by Taline CoxIn a new article for Religion Dispatches, Elizabeth Drescher, responds to a piece by Katherine Stewart and attempts to clarify some of the discrepancies and difficulties in finding an accurate term to describe religious "nones."
December 3, 2012
books
When God Talks Back named a Notable Book of 2012
by Ruth BraunsteinNew Directions in the Study of Prayer Grantee Tanya Luhrmann’s book, When God Talks Back: Understanding the American Evangelical Relationship With God, was named one of the New York Times’ 100 Notable Books of 2012. As Molly Worthen wrote in an early 2012 review of the book: After more than four years of observing and interviewing […]
December 4, 2012
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Funding for atheists
by Candice ScharfRecently, the University of Wisconsin-Madison gave the student organization, Atheists, Humanists, and Agnostics (AHA) $69,000, the largest amount of grant money ever given to a non-theistic, student-led organization by a college or university.
December 5, 2012
events
Conference on René Girard and international relations
by Wei ZhuOn May 23-24, 2013, the University of Central Lancashire will convene a conference on "Politics, Violence and the Sacred: Exploring René Girard’s thought in Security and International Studies."
December 6, 2012
events
Upcoming talks by Robert Bellah
by John D. BoyRobert Bellah, the eminent American sociologist whose latest book, Religion in Human Evolution, was the subject of a recent discussion series on this blog, will be delivering two talks in the coming week.
December 6, 2012