Does Religion Exist?
Aaron W. Hughes and Russell T. McCutcheon In the once well-known (and still cited) appendix to his 1912 book, A Psychological Study of
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Scholarship Out of Time: Weimar’s Lost Existence
Samuel J. Loncar on Anachronism in Philosophy, Religion, and Heidegger’s Existence and Time (Sein und Zeit) The Forum provides a home for original
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James Baldwin: Witnessing in Dark Times
Jamil W. Drake on Eddie S. Glaude On May 16, 1969, James Baldwin appeared as a guest on the Dick Cavett Show. Live
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Do We Need God For Happiness?
Timothy Larsen on Tanya M. Luhrmann When we get to Constantine the Great, my students often experience a fair amount of frustration. At
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Religious Diversity vs the Supreme Court?
Mitch McConnell and Donald Trump paid off their debt to the white evangelical community for its political support. And they did so with
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Why Philo Matters
Gregory E. Sterling on Philo of Alexandria “What should I say about Philo whom critics call…the ‘Jewish Plato’?” So said Saint Jerome, who
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When Secular Laws and Religious Convictions Collide
Perry Dane on religious freedom, current conflicts, and Martin Buber The recent challenges by some churches and synagogues to COVID related state restrictions
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The Religion of Economics
Benedikt Koehler on the Enlightenment, Religion, and Mosaic Economics The Enlightenment purged economics of religion. This began when John Locke claimed that everyone
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“A Small Good Thing” An Interview with John Wilson
Samuel Loncar in conversation with John Wilson In the early age of COVID-19, I got to sit down with John Wilson to talk
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The Ramayana and The Birth of Poetry
Amit Majmudar on poetry and the incarnation of the divine. Consider Punch. He wears jester’s red and carries a stick the size of
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