Peter Berger, Sociology’s Defender of God (1929-2017)
Years ago when I was co-directing the Berkeley-Harvard program in comparative religion our conference in…
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My Childhood Hobby Was Satanic, Or So They Told Me
The moral panic around Dungeons and Dragons and other role-playing games—and what it tells us about religion.
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Court Rules: Feminism is Not a Religion
When an Ivy League women’s studies department is sued for promoting the idea that women are divine princesses and men are minions of Satan, we are reminded that the act of defining religion is important work.
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Revisiting the secularization hypothesis and Alan Wolfe’s Atlantic essay.
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