Post-election reporting that 79 percent of white evangelicals voted for Mitt Romney got little attention in the news because most…
Evangelicalism
When God Talks Back named a Notable Book of 2012
New Directions in the Study of Prayer Grantee Tanya Luhrmann’s book, When God Talks Back: Understanding the American Evangelical Relationship…
Experiences with evangelical congregations
In The New Yorker, Joan Acocella gives a favorable review of Tanya M. Luhrmann's When God Talks Back: Understanding the American…
Religious freedom between truth and tactic
In the last issue of First Things, a self-described coalition of “Catholics and Evangelicals together” defends religious freedom. The coalition…
Decoding religious freedom claims
Molly Worthen, in the New York Times' Campaign Stops blog, considers the undertones of recent conservative claims regarding the Obama…
The naked public sphere?
In light of Rick Santorum's recent comments on religion and the public sphere, we asked a small handful of scholars…
Reconceiving human life
Fred Clark on evangelicals and the view that human life begins at conception.
America plus nothing
But Sweet Heaven When I Die is, first and foremost, a book about loss, about death, transience, neglect, and quitting. These…
The paradoxes of the re-Islamization of Muslim societies
The 9/11 debate was centered on a single issue: Islam. Osama Bin Laden was taken at his own words by…
Why I don’t read non-fiction from Barnes and Noble, and why that’s a problem for public scholarship; or, what I learned in third grade about epistemology and essentialization
I have not been interested in the Barnes and Noble non-fiction section for a long time. There might be a…