Last September, I sat down at UC-Berkeley with the eminent sociologist of religion, Robert Bellah, for a discussion about religious…
Rethinking secularism and religion in the global age
Robert Bellah
Civil religion, prophecy and Obama
For some scholars, "religion" gives the social cohesion and moral purpose without which a merely self-interested and fragmenting liberalism could…
The primacy of practice
Here's an "old thing" which relates, I think, to President Obama and the debate about civil religion---the primacy of practice.…