Simon During is a professor at the Centre for the History of European Discourses at the University of Queensland, having…
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More than politics: An interview with Charles Villa-Vicencio
As National Research Director for the South African Truth and Reconciliation Commission, Charles Villa-Vicencio was intimately involved in the historic…
Romanticism, reflexivity, design: An interview with Colin Jager
Colin Jager’s reading of the British romantics places them at the center of debates about religion, secularism, and pluralism today.…
Peace from the ground up: An interview with Myla Leguro
After spending two years earning her master’s degree at the University of Notre Dame’s Kroc Institute for International Peace Studies—and…
The future of China’s past: An interview with Mayfair Yang
Anthropologist Mayfair Yang teaches in the Religious Studies Department at the University of California, Santa Barbara. She has done pioneering…
Cosmic war on a global scale: An interview with Mark Juergensmeyer
As director of the Orfalea Center for Global and International Studies at the University of California, Santa Barbara, Mark Juergensmeyer…
Religion, science, and the humanities: An interview with Barbara Herrnstein Smith
Barbara Herrnstein Smith is a distinguished literary scholar at both Brown and Duke, who, since her undergraduate days, has had…
Spirituality, entangled: An interview with Courtney Bender
Courtney Bender is an associate professor of sociology at Columbia University and co-chair of the SSRC’s Working Group on Spirituality,…
Religion gone global: An interview with Reza Aslan
How many scholars of religions also run a film company? And how many members of the Council on Foreign Relations…
Religions and rights: An interview with Richard Amesbury
Though currently on sabbatical at the University of Zürich, Richard Amesbury teaches religious and philosophical ethics at the Claremont School…