In response to statements made by Mark Juergensmeyer in his recent interview with Nathan Schneider, Vincent Pecora states that Juergensmeyer’s…
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Cosmic war on a global scale: An interview with Mark Juergensmeyer
As director of the Orfalea Center for Global and International Studies at the University of California, Santa Barbara, Mark Juergensmeyer…
Religion and violence in the early church
The ever prolific American historian Philip Jenkins recently published yet another book, The Jesus Wars, which deals with the issue…
“A Carefully Crafted F**k You”
At Guernica, Nathan Schneider interviews Judith Butler.
Prominent Pakistani cleric condemns political violence
John Esposito reports at On Faith that Muhammad Tahir Qadri, an influential Pakistani cleric, has "issued a 600-page fatwa, described…
Judith Butler on Judaism, Israel, and anti-occupation politics
In Haaretz, Judith Butler gives a long and personal interview to American-Israeli filmmaker Udi Aloni.
Catholics argue about waterboarding
In the first New York Times Beliefs column since the departure of Peter Steinfels, Mark Oppenheimer discusses the outrage among…
Taking exception to American exceptionalism
The United States is an empire in decline, as well as a nation under enormous economic duress, and civil religion…
Exploring Buddhist violence
Michael Jerryson discusses his new book Buddhist Warfare, co-edited with Mark Juergensmeyer, at Religion Dispatches, explaining "how the notion of…
Gandhi meets Bin Laden
James L. Rowell, an assistant professor of religion at Flager College, examines divergent forms of religious leadership through studies of Gandhi…