Buried in the middle of William James’s chapter on “The Sick Soul” in The Varieties of Religious Experience is the…
History and the historyless
Cambridge
The sounds of science
As previous posts about The New Metaphysicals have illustrated, Courtney Bender’s spiritual but not religious subjects pose a number of…
Institutions, discourses, practices… and life-in-the-world
The portraits social scientists create get appropriated by their subjects, used, and fed back to social scientists. Like a Cherokee…
Grasping for authenticity
The New Metaphysicals offers a peek into a world that I found at once pedestrian and strange, and the information…
Quantum sociology and The New Metaphysicals
At first glance, Courtney Bender’s The New Metaphysicals might appear narrow and idiosyncratic. After all, it's an ethnography of spiritual practitioners in…
The Catholic heresy, again
The reason I am talking about Catholics here is because of the subtitle of Bender's book: Spirituality and the American…