Michael Jerryson discusses his new book Buddhist Warfare, co-edited with Mark Juergensmeyer, at Religion Dispatches, explaining "how the notion of…
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“Wrong on every detail that matters”
John R. Bowen, author of Why the French Don’t Like Headscarves and Can Islam be French, has a new article…
Arsenic-laced communion wafer killed father of modern philosophy?
A new book by the german philosopher Theodor Ebert makes the claim that "Descartes died not through natural causes but…
Explaining the plague
At the Times Literary Supplement, Lauro Martines reviews Cultures of Plague: Medical Thinking at the End of the Renaissance, a…
John Esposito speaks on The Future of Islam
Leading scholar of Islam John L. Esposito spoke recently at the Carnegie Council in New York City, addressing both the…
This Incredible Need to Believe
Julia Kristeva's latest work, This Incredible Need to Believe, explores the fundamental role of belief within the psyche, as it relates…
Dark green religion
Religion Dispatches interviews Bron Taylor, author of the recent book Dark Green Religion: Nature Spirituality and the Planetary Future, who…
Hip-hop’s new good book
Hip-hop veteran KRS-One (aka The Teacha) has recently published, with powerHouse Books, The Gospel of Hip Hop: First Instrument, which…
A Very Brief History of Eternity
Miroslav Volf blurbs Carlos Eire's new book, A Very Brief History of Eternity, which asks of its subject, "Is it…
The spaces of American civil religion
Reviewing Kirk Savage's Monument Wars: Washington D.C., the National Mall, and the Transformation of the Memorial Landscape for Religion Dispatches,…