Social Science Research Council
Jonathan VanAntwerpen is the founding editor of The Immanent Frame. An SSRC research fellow, program officer for Council projects on religion & the public sphere, and a visiting scholar at the NYU Institute for Public Knowledge, he is currently completing his Ph.D. in the department of sociology at the University of California, Berkeley. He received a B.A. from Calvin College, and an M.A. in philosophy from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
At The Daily Dish, Patrick Appel reviews a week-long debate over atheism and religion, and responds to the suggestion that “there really isn’t anything at all interesting to say anymore about atheism vs. religion, and hasn’t been since at least the 1950s, if not the 1850s.” Find his round-up of the week’s debate here.
Read the rest of Theological arm wrestling.Nathan Schneider on Robert Wright’s The Evolution of God.
Read the rest of A vast anti-narrative.Paul Bloom reviews Robert Wright’s new book in the New York Times Sunday Book Review.
Read the rest of The evolution of God.In his December 2008 Foerster Lecture at UC-Berkeley, Talal Asad discusses “attempts by anthropologists and others to define religion, the shifting place of ‘belief’ in that endeavor, and some of its implications for politics.” Watch the related interview here.
Read the rest of Talal Asad on religion, belief and politics.Michael Warner blurbs a forthcoming book by Winnifred Fallers Sullivan.
Read the rest of Prison religion.Mark Juergensmeyer blurbs Religion Beyond a Concept.
Read the rest of Beyond a concept.James Poulos continues an exchange with Andrew Sullivan.
Read the rest of Religion and modernity.A Social Research Conference at The New School, March 5th and 6th, 2009.
Read the rest of The Religious-Secular Divide: The US Case.David Kim discusses his book Melancholic Freedom, with Tavis Smiley.
Read the rest of Love, freedom, and public life.Kathryn Lofton discusses Oprah Winfrey.
Read the rest of An American icon.
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