Religion Dispatches
RD’s book coverage is meant to lure you away from your screen—and our publication—and into the bookstore or the library. Honor our sacrifice by picking up a stack of these books. Read, respond, and write something of your own. We’ll be here when you get back. #augustbooks
Recognizing mutual support is important because neoliberalism preaches the false doctrine of pure independence—that the individual exists before society, before government, before relationships—which makes any form of relationship a threat to the individual’s autonomy.
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The Sisters are an order of self-named queer nuns who parody Roman Catholicism, and at the same time make an earnest and very serious claim to be nuns—just not Roman Catholic ones.
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If you were raised in American evangelicalism during the past thirty years, you’ve probably come…
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Hidely-ho, readerinos! It’s time for one of our favorite running gags around the RD religio-sphere,…
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In the wake of Donald Trump’s election (and since) many tried to answer the question,…
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Over the past six decades, rock ‘n’ roll music has played a central role in…
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Garry Wills was being only slightly ironic when he wrote (in the wake of the…
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What inspired you to write Modernity and the Jews in Western Social Thought? I was…
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Are they or aren’t they? As pundits have noticed, younger white evangelicals show signs that…
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What inspired you to write Buddhism, Politics and Political Thought in Myanmar? My interest in the…
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