Category: Religion

March 5, 2014

India's Etiquette Police — A Post by Peter Heehs

“Should a historian or biographer writing about a religion or religious figure follow the protocol of the temple or of the university?”—Peter Heehs The following post is by Peter Heehs, author of The Lives of Sri Aurobindo: In the beginning...

February 28, 2014

On the Geneaology of Cosmology/Unscientific Postscribble

This week our featured book is Worlds Without End: The Many Lives of the Multiverse by Mary-Jane Rubenstein. Throughout the week, we will be featuring content about the book and its author on our blog as well as on our...

February 27, 2014

Ending the Endless: Thomas Aquinas

This week our featured book is Worlds Without End: The Many Lives of the Multiverse by Mary-Jane Rubenstein. Throughout the week, we will be featuring content about the book and its author on our blog as well as on our...

February 26, 2014

Asceticosmologies: Modern Science as Religious Practice

This week our featured book is Worlds Without End: The Many Lives of the Multiverse by Mary-Jane Rubenstein. Throughout the week, we will be featuring content about the book and its author on our blog as well as on our...

February 25, 2014

How to Avoid the G-Word

This week our featured book is Worlds Without End: The Many Lives of the Multiverse by Mary-Jane Rubenstein. Throughout the week, we will be featuring content about the book and its author on our blog as well as on our...

January 30, 2014

Salman Rushdie on the Role of Religion in Literature and the Literary Imagination

Below is an excerpt from an edited transcript from the public discussion Salman Rushdie had with Gauri Viswanathan. The full transcript was recently published in the new book Boundaries of Toleration, edited by Alfred Stepan and Charles Taylor as part...

November 7, 2013

Judith Butler on Parting Ways: Jewishness and the Critique of Zionism

In the following video, Judith Butler discusses some of the themes, arguments, and experiences that shape her book Parting Ways: Jewishness and the Critique of Zionism (now available in paper). Butler considers Israel’s policy in Palestine and the Jewish response...

October 10, 2013

Antonio Negri in conversation with Gabriele Fadini

This week our featured book is Spinoza for Our Time: Politics and Postmodernity, by Antonio Negri, translated by William McCuaig and with a foreword by Rocco Gangle. We’ve excerpted brief parts of a longer conversation between Antonio Negri and Gabriele...

July 26, 2013

Frederick Cooper: How Global Do We Want Our Intellectual History to Be?

This week our featured book is Global Intellectual History, edited by Samuel Moyn and Andrew Sartori. Today, the final day of this week’s feature, we have an excerpt from Frederick Cooper’s chapter in Global Intellectual History: “How Global Do We...

July 25, 2013

Cemil Aydin: Globalizing the Intellectual History of the Idea of the "Muslim World"

This week our featured book is Global Intellectual History, edited by Samuel Moyn and Andrew Sartori. Today, we have an excerpt from Cemil Aydin’s chapter in Global Intellectual History: “Globalizing the Intellectual History of the Idea of the ‘Muslim World.’”...

July 19, 2013

Further reading on the problem with God from Peter J. Steinberger

Check out a list of further reading if you are interested in the philosophical background of the problem with God, pulled from the Afterword of Peter J. Steinberger’s THE PROBLEM WITH GOD.

July 18, 2013

A Q&A with Peter J. Steinberger

Read a Q&A with Peter J. Steinberger about his new book, THE PROBLEM WITH GOD.