In the spirit of the critique of categories in the study of religion as protective strategies, I wonder what nature…
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Which politics of nature? A response to Crockford
[F]rom the vantage point of religious naturalism, I consider the “nature” of nature discourse in Veldman’s framing of white evangelicals’…
Religious naturalism, myriad nature, and justice: A reply to Kahn and Keller
I very much appreciate the scholarship of Jonathon Kahn and Mary Keller, so am particularly grateful for this opportunity to…
Nature and normativity: New inquiries into the natural world
The books selected for this forum traverse the fields of environmental studies, Islamic studies, and the philosophy of religion. They…
A superstition of modernity
The question “Is this all there is?” is intended, presumably, to explore our hankerings for (or our phobias against) a…
Epicureanism and naturalism
How could material nature conceivably account for the order and purposes of nature, and, above all, for the adaptation of…
Samuel Moyn and the history of natural right
Within historical approaches to questions of natural right, one can approximately distinguish three main tendencies. The first is a whiggish…
Bible, flowers, and relevance
John Boy, contributing editor to The Immanent Frame and an associate editor of Frequencies, reflects on his recent visit to…
The Feynman Series: scientific…and spiritual (?)
This past February, the seven-part video series honoring Carl Sagan and his contributions to science was released, attracting the attention…
Culture, nature, and mediation
Matthew Engelke is right: religion is about mediation. Ironically so, because it is about the divine; but because the divine…