"We should not throw out the baby with the bathwater. The debate over the sociological thesis of secularization has led…
A postsecular world society?: An interview with Jürgen Habermas
religion
GO big reD!
In the New York Times, Robbie Brown reports on a local debate in Georgia over the appropriateness of cheerleaders using…
Akbar Ganji in conversation with Charles Taylor
Charles Taylor: If the human relation to religion and to God is not as shallow as the mainstream theory thinks,…
Mind sciences and religious change in America
Like others in this discussion, I'm not sure that recent neurological studies will dramatically change contemporary religious belief or practice,…
Is this anything or is this nothing?
The New York Times opinion piece by David Brooks, titled "The Neural Buddhists," drives a wedge between mystical and "revealed"…
Medical materialism revisited
A century ago, in "Religion and Neurology," the opening chapter of The Varieties of Religious Experience, William James argued against…
A religious history of American neuroscience
Not long ago, researchers wired up the atheist Richard Dawkins with a helmet that would create magnetic fields partially simulating…
Naturalism, otherwise
The past fifteen years or so have been a period of extraordinary activity in pursuit of what are called "cognitive"…
Secular brooding, literary brooding
What's so bad about heteronomous thinking, anyway? Stathis Gourgouris has used the term in several posts here on The Immanent…
Cognitive machinery and explanatory ambitions
One of the most influential works among recent “cognitive” and/or “evolutionary” studies of religion is a book by French anthropologist…