The dismissal of Kenneth Howell, a University of Illinois adjunct professor of Catholic history and thought, has generated much discussion…
Teaching Catholicism and sexual morality
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The battle over Islamic Azad University
A university campus has become the ground for a political battle between conservatives and moderates in Iran. President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad…
The “inter-religious” university and the Christian right
In early June, the Claremont School of Theology announced that it would merge with its local Jewish and Muslim counterparts…
A trifecta of problems
Three of Insider Higher Ed's most recent dispatches focus on a trifecta of problems in the academic study of religion.
The evangelical flagship at a crossroads
As Wheaton College, known for decades as the "evangelical Harvard," searches for a new president, the flagship evangelical institution stands…
Beyond The God Delusion
The university classroom has become a battleground in the science and religion wars. In a controversial 2005 state of the…
Religion’s return
The Immanent Frame symbolizes a sea-change in American higher education. When I was in graduate school in the early 1990s,…
New freedoms in Turkey — for whom?
Turkey’s ban of the headscarf on university campuses -- rather than the headscarf itself -- has become a serious impediment…