This past week the Catholic church denounced Sister Margaret A. Farley, an American nun and professor of Christian Ethics at…
Sexuality and the Catholic Church
ethics
What Matters? Ethnographies of Value in a Not So Secular Age
Columbia University Press has just released What Matters?: Ethnographies of Value in a Not So Secular Age, edited by Courtney Bender…
A response to three readers
I am grateful to Mark Juergensmeyer for organizing a panel on my book at the November 2011 meetings of the…
Axial axioms
The word “magisterial” in publishers’ blurbs usually means little more than “too long,” and indeed Religion in Human Evolution is…
Is there a global ethic?
It snowed on Saturday throughout the American Northeast. Six weeks ahead of the official start of winter, it snowed on…
A struggle between faith and human action? Or, a question of apples and oranges
But then here, on another level, a question similar to that of the Christians above arises: when is human action…
Book review: Bridging the maximalist-minimalist divide
Must human rights be grounded in a religious or metaphysical worldview in order for them to be understood and implemented…
CFP: “Ethics, Religion, and Civil Discourse”
How might schools play a role in encouraging or discouraging civil discourse across religious and political lines? The National Endowment…
Implicated and enraged: An interview with Judith Butler
Judith Butler, a professor at the University of California, Berkeley, is among the leading social theorists alive today. Her most…
Our Values
Our Values is a new blog published by the Michigan Institute for Social Research and featuring the writing of sociologist…