As director of the Orfalea Center for Global and International Studies at the University of California, Santa Barbara, Mark Juergensmeyer…
Cosmic war on a global scale: An interview with Mark Juergensmeyer
religious studies
Religious signage
At Design Observer, William Drenttel offers up a post and slide show on religious signage in the American South. He…
The promise and limits of the sociology of religion
According to [the assesments of Smilde and May and Levitt et al.], sociology of religion is not in crisis, but…
A trifecta of problems
Three of Insider Higher Ed's most recent dispatches focus on a trifecta of problems in the academic study of religion.
New technologies in research on religion
Harvard's "New Technologies and Interdisciplinary Research on Religion," which Ruth posted on earlier, is coming up on March 12-13 and…
Religion and the historical profession
Religion, reported Inside Higher Ed last week, is now the most popular theme of historical study in America, according to…