Is bland beautiful? Almost never, most of us would say. But when it comes to religion in a diverse society,…
American religion in the era of Fosdick’s revenge
Catholicism
Understanding resacralization (part 3)
Should religious discourse be welcomed in the public sphere, or should we require that it first be translated into secular…
Understanding resacralization (part 2)
The Rimini Meeting is run almost entirely by unpaid volunteers. Everything from the physical construction and take-down of the arena,…
World Youth Day reassessed
Two writers at the The Guardian enter into the conversation about this year's World Youth Day and the public reaction…
Religion in the call center
When I set out to examine the lifestyle changes of employees working night shifts in India’s call centers, I was…
Understanding resacralization (part 1)
Dominant accounts of the religion-modernity relationship, at least among sociologists of religion in the US, have tended to focus mainly…
The cross and the cheeseheads
Where do Christians stand with regard to Wisconsin's euphemistically named "budget repair bill"? That's a question stirring up some debate…
Rubber soul
To much fanfare, the Vatican recently decreed that under certain conditions the trapping of male semen by a thin balloon of…
Video removed from the National Portrait Gallery
Yesterday morning saw the removal of David Wojnarowicz's 1987 video A Fire in My Belly from the National Portrait Gallery's…
A Catholic critique of capital?
A lengthy profile by John Cornwell, which appears in the November issue of Prospect, examines the biography and the philosophical…