The Global Liberal Studies Program at New York University will hold its inaugural conference entitled Global Secularisms in New York City from November 15-16, 2013.
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Are some ‘nones’ combinative religionists?
by Per SmithOver at the Huffington Post, Sean McCloud reflects on the continued attention given to religious disaffiliation in the American media.
March 7, 2013
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Praying on Twitter
by Wei ZhuOver at Religion Dispatches, New Directions in the Study of Prayer Grantee Peter Manseau talks about the use of Twitter as a venue for prayer.
March 8, 2013
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A conversation with Robert Bellah
by Ruth BraunsteinMargarita A. Mooney interviews Robert Bellah at Patheos.
March 13, 2013
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Is Latin America losing its religion?
by Per SmithWriting in the Christian Century, Philip Jenkins suggests that there are signs of an early stage European style "secularization" at work in parts of Latin America.
March 14, 2013
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Program assistant openings at the SSRC
by Wei ZhuThe Social Science Research Council is currently seeking program assistants in two of its Africa programs.
March 14, 2013
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Habemus Papam: Pope Francis Roundup
by Taline Cox and Sabrina SteinOn March 13, 2013, after five rounds of voting, Cardinal Jorge Bergoglio of Argentina was selected as pope, making him the 266th pope of the Roman Catholic Church, the first non-European pope in modern times, and the first from the Jesuit order. In this post, we round up a range of reactions to the selection of the new pope—both within the English-language press and across Latin America.
March 14, 2013
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Conference: Religion and the Idea of a University
by Daniel Steinmetz-JenkinsReligion and the Idea of a Research University, an interdisciplinary project of the Cambridge Inter-faith Programme at the University of Cambridge, will be hosting an international and interdisciplinary conference (April 3-5) exploring the question of: What place does religion have in the Western research university?
March 19, 2013
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The Future of Religious Freedom
by The EditorsIn The Future of Religious Freedom, editor Allen D. Hertzke assembles a diverse team of international scholars to not only determine the current status of religious freedom in the world but also understand the prospects for improvement.
March 21, 2013
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The renewal of evangelical philosophy
by Per SmithOver at Commonweal contributing editor Nathan Schneider writes about the renewal of Christian, and more specifically evangelical, philosophy in the United States over the past few decades.
March 21, 2013