In Praise of Failure: Is Defining Religion Such a Good Idea?
Recently, the New York Times’ religion writer appeared to throw up his hands in despair at…
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Is It the Job of Religion Journalists to Define “Religion”?
Weighing in on historian Damon Linker’s suggestion that the Times’ Mark Oppenheimer has just written himself out of a job.
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7 Women Scholars On the Gender Divide in Religious Studies, the Power of Mentors, and Leading While Female
This weekend, downtown Atlanta is entirely overrun by scholars of religion. Thousands have gathered for the…
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Endangered Speeches: Why It Matters (For All of Us) That Conservative Seminaries Are Firing Professors Over Theology
Seriously, God can’t handle a little honest questioning?
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A Religion Scholar Gets It Wrong on Indiana’s RFRA
Stephen Prothero breaks from the pack—and gets lost.
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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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The World is (Always) About to End, No Zombies Required
This week, researchers at Cornell spent presumably valuable time determining the safest places to be…
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Can Religion Professors Save the Planet?
Prof. Zoloth’s proposal tells us everything we need to know about the malaise poisoning the study of religion.
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TNR’s literary editor accuses the Times of “running promotions for praying in tongues.”
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How Robert Bellah (1927-2013) Changed the Study of Religion
Over fifty years ago Bellah rocked the field of religious studies with a pioneering study on Japanese religion. When he died suddenly this past week he was working on a book that was set to land him as a pioneer yet again.
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