In this exchange, Mayanthi Fernando and Susan Harding reflect on the norms and taboos of the secular academy and on…
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death
Pine knot woman
February 21, 2018
The family selection specialist described Mrs. Barclay as “a thin person of the ‘pine knot’ variety.” Was it her own…
Devout death
November 30, 2017
Marno's argument about the philosophical import of holy attention puts death in a curious position. Death becomes a cognitive problem…
The soft side
November 29, 2017
“Is this all there is?” can have practical meaning, e.g., “I asked for two dozen eggs, and you have only…
Attention and distraction, prayer and poetry
November 16, 2017
What is holy attention? Does its holiness have to do with the manner with which one attends, the object of…
Where I’m going
November 13, 2017
I have, on the whole, avoided studying or teaching about death, intent on showing my students that there is more…
Memento mori
October 18, 2017
The question isn’t only whether capitalism thoroughly saturates death—I stand by my view, held also by James, that it doesn’t,…