The Social Science Research Council recently announced the launch of a new project and grants program entitled "New Directions in…
RFP: New Directions in the Study of Prayer
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The big bang
Peter Manseau reviews Robert Bellah's Religion in Human Evolution.
Critiquing reductionism
There are reductive categories . . . that have been and should be abandoned in scholarly discourse because the terms…
Thinking about revolution, religion, and Egypt with Talal Asad
Reflecting on the consequences of the recent events in Egypt for the theory of religion, Carl Raschke writes that the…
Egyptian revolution round-up
For the eighteen days that tens of thousands of Egyptians were rallying to push strongman Hosni Mubarak ever closer to…
“When Religion Is Not a Choice”
At the Martin Marty Center's Religion and Culture Web Forum, Slavica Jakelić shares a chapter from her Collectivistic Religions: Religions,…
Secular representations of religion on Turkish television
Television broadcasting has played a significant role in the creation of a public governed by norms of secular reason in…
Religion is a syncretism (and that’s okay)
There is something very liberating about Jonathan Sheehan’s call for moving orthogonally into the mundanities of everyday research, even though…
Symposium: The Traffic in Policy
This Friday, April 30, the Hemispheric Institute of Performance and Politics at New York University will hold a day-long symposium…
The Politics of Religion
On April 16-17, 2010, Macaulay Honors College of The City University of New York is hosting an international conference on The…