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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New directions in the study of prayer
The Social Science Research Council has just announced the launch of a major new project and grants program entitled “New…
Why I don’t read non-fiction from Barnes and Noble, and why that’s a problem for public scholarship; or, what I learned in third grade about epistemology and essentialization
I have not been interested in the Barnes and Noble non-fiction section for a long time. There might be a…
On reductionism
There’s something attractive about a neat typology, and also something we seem to loathe about the compartmentalization entailed. So what…
The parting of religion and culture
The New York Times reviews Olivier Roy's Holy Ignorance, now out in English translation.
Christianity and its others
In the nineteenth century the new disciplines in the social sciences and the humanities were ‘emancipated’ from Christian theology. To…
Global Christianity, Global Critique
Striking changes are afoot in the way intellectuals address Christianity. Long seen as a largely Western tradition steadily losing its…
Charlotte W. Newcombe Doctoral Dissertation Fellowship
The Woodrow Wilson National Fellowship Foundation is currently fielding applications for the Charlotte W. Newcombe Doctoral Dissertation Fellowship.
Comparing the incommensurate
David Buckley's recent post in Notes from the field raises a crucial methodological question. On what basis is comparative work…
Holding on to multiplicity
Scholars of religion (like, it seems, scholars of nearly everything animate and inanimate) have yet to decide if the world…