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Religious Affects: Animality, Evolution, and Power: An Interview with Donovan O. Schaefer, Part 2
The following is an interview with Donovan O. Schaefer based on his new book, Religious Affects: Animality, Evolution, and Power (2015), with Duke University Press. An excerpt from the book can be found here. Part one of this interview can be found here. … Continue reading
Reza Aslan’s Theory of Religion and Politics
by Simon Frankel Pratt * This post original appeared on the author’s blog. As talking heads in the media once again make problematic, ultra-general claims about Islam’s supposed essential bellicosity, or attribute to Islamic texts and practice the power to make … Continue reading
Posted in Politics and Religion, Religion and Popular Culture, Religion and Society, Religion and Theory, Religion in the News, Uncategorized
Tagged Asef Bayat, Bill Maher, Carrie Wickham, Fox News, Islamism, Maajid Nawaz, New Atheists, Reza Aslan, sam harris, Shiraz Maher, Simon Frankel Pratt, William James
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Sam Harris: You Are My Data
by Matt Sheedy As a scholar of religions, I find your arguments about religion both frustrating and wrongheaded, which is a sentiment that is shared by most of my colleagues, though often for different reasons. Your recent post, “Why I … Continue reading
Posted in Matt Sheedy, Politics and Religion, Religion and Popular Culture, Religion and Society, Religion and Theory, Religion in the News, Theory and Method, Theory in the Real World, Uncategorized
Tagged anti-semitism, Atheism, Hamas, Hebrew Bible, Israel, Letter to a Christian Nation, New Atheists, Palestinians, sam harris, The End of Faith, The Moral Landscape: How Science Can Determine Human Values, Waking Up: A Guide to Spirituality Without Religion
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The War on Christmas, Affect, and the Closet of Disbelief: Postsecular Atheisms, Part 1
by Donovan Schaefer Atheist interfaith activist and author of the memoir Faitheist Chris Stedman appeared two weeks ago on Fox News for an interview with right-wing commentator Bill O’Reilly. O’Reilly’s topic was the “War on Christmas,” an annual theme of … Continue reading
Posted in Donovan Schaefer, Politics and Religion, Religion and Popular Culture, Religion and Society, Religion and Theory, Religion in the News, Theory and Method, Theory in the Real World, Uncategorized
Tagged affect, bill o'reilly, Chris Stedman, class, Eve Sedgwick, Faitheist, Fox News, haverford college, homophobia, interfaith, Mean Girls, New Atheists, post-atheism, postsecular atheism, queer, Race, war on Christmas
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Religion Snapshots: On the Uses of “Atheism”
Religion Snapshots is a new feature with the Bulletin for the Study of Religion blog, where a number of contributors are asked to briefly comment on popular news items or pressing theoretical issues in the field, especially those topics relating to definitions, … Continue reading
Posted in Donovan Schaefer, Matt Sheedy, Politics and Religion, Religion and Society, Religion and Theory, Religion in the News, Steven Ramey, Tenzan Eaghll, Theory and Method, Theory in the Real World
Tagged Alabama, Circumfession, Herbert of Cherbury, Jacques Derrida, Jean Bodin, John Locke, New Atheists, Oprah Winfrey, Pew Forum, Richard Dawkins, the Nones, Whovian, William Connolly
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Whose Atheism? Which Humanism?
by Matt Sheedy I recently had occasion to attend a lecture given by the well-known British philosopher and popular atheist A.C. Grayling, entitled “Atheism, Secularism and Humanism.” While much has been written about the “New Atheist” phenomenon, including two recent … Continue reading