John D. Boy is a doctoral candidate at the Graduate Center and an instructional technology fellow in the Macaulay Honors College of The City University of New York, as well as a contributing editor at The Immanent Frame and an associate editor for Frequencies. His work is on religion and secularity, social theory, and historical sociology. For his dissertation, he is investigating the so-called church-planting movement and its impact on the religious landscape of the European metropolis.
Cambridge University Press is currently offering free access to the three essays in the review symposium on Robert Bellah’s Religion in Human Evolution from the December 2012 issue of the European Journal of Sociology.
Read the rest of Essays on Religion in Human Evolution.Robert Bellah, the eminent American sociologist whose latest book, Religion in Human Evolution, was the subject of a recent discussion series on this blog, will be delivering two talks in the coming week.
Read the rest of Upcoming talks by Robert Bellah.The latest issue of the journal of the Jewish Museum Berlin features an article by Yasemin Shooman, a German historian, comparing anti-Muslim racism (Islamophobia) and antisemitism.
Read the rest of Islamophobia and antisemitism in Europe.A public lecture recently delivered by Saba Mahmood at the London School of Economics entitled “Secularism, Religion and Sexuality: A Postcolonial Genealogy” is now available as an audio podcast.
Read the rest of A postcolonial genealogy of secularism and sexuality.
After discussing the general contours of the sociology of religion in Germany today (see part 1), I had a chance to ask Hubert Knoblauch about some of his own research. In recent years, Knoblauch, who works in the phenomenological tradition started by Alfred Schütz, has been preoccupied with spirituality, popular religion, and near-death experiences.
Hubert Knoblauch is a professor of sociology at the Technical University of Berlin, where he specializes in general sociological theory, sociology of knowledge, and the sociology of religion. A student of Thomas Luckmann, he is among the most distinguished representatives of the sociology of religion in Germany today. This summer, we sat down together over some of Berlin’s famously bad Indian food to discuss the sociology of religion in Germany, the influence of Jürgen Habermas, the meaning of spirituality, and ways to quit smoking.
Sage Publishers has announced the launch of Critical Research on Religion.
Read the rest of New journal: Critical Research on Religion.In How to Believe, a blog on “great works of religion and philosophy” hosted by The Guardian, Andrew Brown has been writing about Robert Bellah’s Religion in Human Evolution.
Read the rest of People make religions and religions make people.The London-based publisher Zed Books recently released Hamid Dabashi’s The Arab Spring: The End of Postcolonialism (distributed in the U.S. by Macmillan).
Read the rest of The end of postcolonialism.In a talk prepared last year for a symposium on the life and work of his father, the anthropologist Talal Asad lays out Muhammad Asad’s intellectual contribution.
Read the rest of Muhammad Asad and the concept of an Islamic politics.
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