Globalization, Chalmers Johnson says, is just a new word for what used to be called imperialism. He is partly correct,…
The many globalizations of Christianity
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Reviewing God in America
Over a week since the conclusion of PBS's three-night, six-hour television event God in America, new commentary on the documentary…
Global Christianity, Global Critique
Striking changes are afoot in the way intellectuals address Christianity. Long seen as a largely Western tradition steadily losing its…
God in America? Really?
I write having seen the first installment of God in America, a three-part series produced by PBS that showed some promise.…
Alberto Toscano on fanaticism
Alberto Toscano, author of the recently published Fanaticism: The Uses of an Idea, will be speaking at New York University tomorrow, 5–7pm,…
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…
Comparing the incommensurate
David Buckley's recent post in Notes from the field raises a crucial methodological question. On what basis is comparative work…
Catholicism, conservatism, and antihumanist politics
Geroulanos’s central thesis is compelling but simple: French antihumanism, in its theoretical mode, was based on a radicalized “negative anthropology,”…
Something more mundane
Pondering a bit the posts so far in Notes from the field---those focused on the theoretical side of the secularization…
Secularism . . . a really interesting problematic: A conversation with Joan Wallach Scott
At a March 2010 conference, “Gendering the Divide: Conflicts at the Border of Religion and the Secular” (sponsored by Arizona…