Well-known ethicist and scholar Jean Bethke Elshtain of the University of Chicago recently passed away on August 11, 2013.
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CFP: Varieties of Understanding
The Varieties of Understanding project at Fordham University in New York is a three-year, $3.85 million initiative that aims to fund groundbreaking work…
CFP: The Religious Turn: Secular and Sacred Engagements in Literature and Theory
The Western Regional Conference on Christianity and Literature will host its annual conference on The Religious Turn: Secular and Sacred…
Ways of Knowing: Graduate Conference on Religion
Harvard Divinity School is hosting its annual Ways of Knowing conference for graduate students and young scholars who are studying religion in all different programs…
On the freedom of the concepts of religion and belief
This short piece attempts to come at the current debate on law and religious freedom from two unusual angles. I…
Postdoc fellowship: New Circles of Learning for Engaged Scholars Studying Congregations
The Boston University School of Theology is seeking a Research Fellow in Congregational Studies for a three-year period, beginning June…
John Hick (1922 – 2012)
An influential thinker in the areas of Christology, eschatology, and the problem of evil, Hick will likely best be remembered…
The cry for immanence
Today begins a discussion series at the collaborative theology blog An und für sich on Daniel Barber's recent book, On Diaspora: Christianity, Religion, and Secularity. Daniel…
Where religion comes from and leads us
In seeking to make sense of modernity in the classical tradition of sociology as a field, the body of Robert…
A response to critics
I knew that my new book, Political Theology, would be controversial. It covers a lot of ground; it produces odd…