Occupy Wall Street and cognate groups around the world are part of a protest movement that is both global and…
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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…
Affect vs. global totality
The tricky thing about global imaginaries unlike other social imaginaries is the issue of totality. Whereas other kinds of social…
Conference: Multiple Secularities and Global Interconnectedness
On October 13-15, the Centre for Area Studies, University of Leipzig, will hold its second annual conference, Multiple Secularities and…
Culture, nature, and mediation
Matthew Engelke is right: religion is about mediation. Ironically so, because it is about the divine; but because the divine…
“States of Devotion” conference, Nov. 4-5, Hemispheric Institute, NYU
The Hemispheric Institute of New York is holding a conference this Thursday-Friday (Nov. 4-5), called "States of Devotion: Religion, Neoliberalism…
The many globalizations of Christianity
Globalization, Chalmers Johnson says, is just a new word for what used to be called imperialism. He is partly correct,…
Peter Berger on multilateral globalization
Globalization is not defined by one-way Westernization, argues Peter Berger in his new blog at The American Interest Online. Rather,…
It’s all about reconciliation: A conversation with Tariq Ramadan
I had the opportunity to sit for a conversation with the Swiss philosopher Tariq Ramadan at the end of the…
The global evangelical
Evangelicals, contra their isolationist or xenophobic image, have become a well-traveled group, going to places usually reserved for anthropologists and…