Commenting on Nicholas Carr's The Shallows: What the Internet is Doing to Our Brains, Religion dispatches' Jonathan L. Walton cites an absent…
Is internet dependence sacrilegious?
books
Glenn Beck’s history book club
What's the number one bestseller on Amazon.com? Give up? As of May 20, 2010, it was George Washington's Sacred Fire…
Cyber-theology
The bulk of the debates on religion and science today focus on ethical issues regarding advances in medical science and…
Lived religion, British-style?
Over at the British weekly The Observer, Peter Stanford reviews Is God Still an Englishman?, the latest from Cole Moreton.
Demography and de-secularization
Profile Books recently published Shall the Religious Inherit the Earth?, an analysis of the demographic contradictions of modern capitalist societies,…
Made in America
Claude S. Fischer discusses his latest book, Made in America: A Social History of American Culture and Character, at Rorotoko.
Religion and violence in the early church
The ever prolific American historian Philip Jenkins recently published yet another book, The Jesus Wars, which deals with the issue…
Education and American civil religion
Education Review, an open-access online journal, reviews the recently published Public Education, America's Civil Religion: A Social History (Teachers College Press, 2009)…
Serving the master
Religion Dispatches reviews Lake Lambert's Spirituality, Inc.: Religion in the American Workplace (NYU Press, 2009).
Case studies in religion and democracy
In The New York Times, Peter Beinart reviews Ian Buruma's Taming the Gods: Religion and Democracy on Three Continents.