There is more here to dancing than meets the eye. As Lee’s reversal tells, dancing holds her here, on this…
religion
The shapeless things to come
Can fiction offer a viable, even preferable alternative to history? Good novelists and historians both recognize the objective limits of…
Prayer to no end
Sightings of a bridge between philosophy and religion by way of cognitive technē are among this book’s most exciting contributions.…
Political Islam and emancipatory politics
Does it matter if you are Muslim? Lately it seems to matter very much. By drawing our attention to the…
Irreligion on its own terms
Are there meaningful conceptual trajectories that can be traced between ancient Greco-Roman atomism, Spinozan monism, Humean empiricism, Marxian materialism, and…
Don’t play that song, Nathan Scott
I welcome Spirit in the Dark for the seriousness with which it opens new prospects for the study of religion and literature…
Spirit in the Dark—An introduction
Josef Sorett (Columbia University) introduces a critical exchange centered on his new book, Spirit in the Dark: A Religious History of…
Mere Civility and Jeremiah Wright
Reporters who covered the Jeremiah Wright controversy during the 2008 United States presidential campaign would have benefited from reading Mere…
Writing religion for the IPSP
Can we hope for a better society? That is the animating question behind an ambitious project, the International Panel on Social…
The refugee crisis and religion: Beyond physical and conceptual boundaries
According to the United Nations Refugee Agency (UNHCR), as of the end of 2015, 65.3 million people were displaced globally…