Hybrid consciousness or purified religion
Charles Taylor’s framework for understanding the advent of a “secular age” in the North Atlantic world offers a useful first draft for understanding the place of religion in Asian modernity. As I have...
View ArticleThe Catholic heresy, again
Courtney Bender did the fieldwork for this impressive study of the “new metaphysicals”—and, more broadly, of contemporary American “spirituality”—in Cambridge, Massachusetts. She chose to work in...
View ArticleHybrid consciousness or purified religion
Charles Taylor’s framework for understanding the advent of a “secular age” in the North Atlantic world offers a useful first draft for understanding the place of religion in Asian modernity. As I have...
View ArticleLived religion, British-style?
In the British weekly The Observer, Peter Stanford reviews Is God Still an Englishman?, the latest from Cole Moreton. According to Stanford, the book is a story of the “privatization of faith.” He...
View ArticleThe Catholic heresy, again
Courtney Bender did the fieldwork for this impressive study of the “new metaphysicals”—and, more broadly, of contemporary American “spirituality”—in Cambridge, Massachusetts. She chose to work in...
View ArticleRoss Douthat responds to James K.A. Smith on the Pew Religious Knowledge Survey
In his New York Times blog, Ross Douthat comments on James K.A. Smith’s response to the Pew Forum’s U.S. Religious Knowledge Survey in our recent “off the cuff” forum: These are wise words, but their...
View ArticleBeyond Religious Freedom—An introduction
Last summer I read All Can Be Saved by the eminent historian of colonial Latin America, Stuart Schwartz. It’s a compelling story of inter-religious tolerance and boundary-blurring coexistence in the...
View ArticleThe uncertainty principles of Heisenberg and Hurd
It is not surprising that our language should be incapable of describing the processes occurring within the atoms, for…it was invented to describe the experiences of daily life. —Werner Heisenberg *...
View ArticleReligion and politics beyond religious freedom
I would like to thank each of the contributors to this series for their generous engagement with my book, Beyond Religious Freedom: The New Global Politics of Religion. In this response I address a...
View ArticleHeathen, Hindoo, Hindu—An introduction
“You should smash your computer with a hammer.” That was one early response I received to the project that became Heathen, Hindoo, Hindu. Even before the book was finished, before it was sent off to...
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