Anthropologist Maurice Bloch has a weighty obituary essay in the Guardian on the life and thought of Claude Lévi-Strauss, who died on October 30th. He discusses Lévi-Strauss's lonely status as a self-described structuralist and the debts the more fashionable post-structuralists owe to him.

Morgan Meis writes, at The Smart Set, about Søren Kierkegaard's love life, and the faith that drove him from it.

Over at the Daily Dish, Andrew Sullivan warns against taking yesterday's shooting at Fort Hood as cause for increased suspicion and vilification of Muslim-Americans.

Religion Dispatches interviews Anna L. Peterson, author of Everyday Ethics and Social Change: The Education of Desire.

In the Chronicle of Higher Education, Charles Kurzman discusses the demonization of social scientists and their work in post-revolutionary Iran, and its intensification in the wake of this summer's civic upheaval. The other side of this story is the fact that, as Kurzman notes, the work of social and political theorists such as Max Weber andJürgen Habermas has found an eager, though not uncritical audience, among many Iranian students and citizens.

In the latest issue of Social Movement Studies, Deana A. Rohlinger and Jill Quadagno offer an explanation for cooperation and conflict in the US conservative Christian political movement.

Eboo Patel at The Faith Divide.

At TPMCafe, Daniel Levy reviews the Obama administration's efforts to-date in confronting Israel-Palestine conflict.