Two days ago, Karen L. King, Hollis Professor of Divinity at the Harvard Divinity School, identified a scrap of papyrus…
Jesus’ wife?
history
The Post-Secular in Question and What Matters? reviewed
Over at The Revealer, James S. Bielo reviews What Matters? Ethnographies of Value in a Not So Secular Age and…
Genealogy and plurality
Simon During’s essay begins with a taxonomy that is harmlessly at odds with my own classification. He uses the term…
Charles Taylor and Buddhism
For Tricycle, an independent Buddhist publication, Linda Heuman writes on how to understand problems in the transmission of Buddhism to…
The possibilities of history
Colin Jager projects the virtues of his own reading of me onto my essay when he describes it as possessed…
The church, the state, and the child
The child, as the psychoanalytic theorist Adam Phillips points out, “remains our most convincing essentialism.” By this he means that at…
The study of American religions in Religion
In the most recent issue of Religion (subscription required), a peer-reviewed journal which publishes original research in the comparative and…
Placing childhood sexual abuse in historical perspective
One of the major achievements of the past quarter century has been the growing awareness of the prevalence and damaging…
The problem with the history of toleration
The problem with the history of toleration is not that no one is studying it. There is now a rapidly…
Cultural models and Rethinking Secularism
Rethinking Secularism is the title of a striking new collection of essays, edited by Craig Calhoun, Mark Juergensmeyer, and Jonathan…