This Wednesday will mark the fiftieth anniversary of Martin Luther King, Jr.'s landmark "I have a dream" speech and the…
The civil religion of “I have a dream”
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CFP: Histories of Sexuality and Religion in the 20th Century United States
Editors Gillian Frank (Stony Brook University), Heather White (New College of Florida), and Bethany Moreton (University of Georgia) have issued…
CFP: The Book of Mormon: Americanist Approaches
Professors Jared Hickman and Elizabeth Fenton have put out a call for papers on The Book of Mormon for potential future publication.
The religious dimension of Morsi’s mandate
The Immanent Frame contributor Mbaye Lo writes at Mondoweiss on ousted Egyptian President Mohamed Morsi's claim of legitimacy and its…
CFP: The Religious Turn: Secular and Sacred Engagements in Literature and Theory
The Western Regional Conference on Christianity and Literature will host its annual conference on The Religious Turn: Secular and Sacred…
Religious freedom and the Constitution
Dennis J. Goldford was recently interviewed by Religion Dispatches Magazine about his new book The Constitution of Religious Freedom: God, Politics,…
Igbo Jews: A Lost Tribe of Israel?
Over at CNN, Chika Oduah writes about the assertion by Igbo Jews that they are descendants of Jacob and one…
What has been will be again
Marcia Pally’s incisive essay on “the new evangelicals” highlights a relatively small but growing population of white evangelicals who appear to…
Religion and the Political Imagination
Religion and the Political Imagination is a volume, edited by Ira Katznelson and Gareth Stedman Jones, that brings together a…
Mark Lilla reviews The Unintended Reformation
Over at The New Republic, Mark Lilla reviews historian Brad S. Gregory's latest book, The Unintended Reformation: How a Religious Revolution…