In this installment of the Rites and Responsibilities dialogue series, I met with the Boston University anthropologist and scholar of…
Change over time: A conversation with Robert W. Hefner
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Experiences with evangelical congregations
In The New Yorker, Joan Acocella gives a favorable review of Tanya M. Luhrmann's When God Talks Back: Understanding the American…
RFP: New Directions in the Study of Prayer
The Social Science Research Council recently announced the launch of a new project and grants program entitled "New Directions in…
Secularism in Antebellum America
Forthcoming from the University of Chicago Press, a "pioneering account of religion and society in nineteenth-century America" by John Lardas…
Religious liberty, minorities, and Islam: An interview with Saba Mahmood
Saba Mahmood is an anthropologist who teaches at the University of California, Berkeley, and whose work raises challenging questions about…
The suspicious revolution: An interview with Talal Asad
Not long after his return from Cairo, where he was doing fieldwork, I spoke with Talal Asad at the City…
Religion first, then civilization
For years, the German archaeologist Klaus Schmidt has been excavating an 11,600-year-old assemblage of carved pillars at Göbekli Tepe in…
TIF interview with Jean Comaroff republished in Cultural Anthropology
David Kyuman Kim's conversation with Jean Comaroff for the "Rites and Responsibilities" dialogue series, which originally appeared on this website…
Falling on the sword of the spirit
There is no doubt that anthropology needs new approaches for understanding dramatic change, a new way of figuring the relationship…
Post-secular development
For most of the second half of the twentieth century development was assumed to be consonant with modernity and its…