Category: Religion

June 5, 2009

Forward Reviews Contemporary American Judaism: Transformation and Renewal

Forward magazine recently reviewed Dana Evan Kaplan’s forthcoming Contemporary American Judaism: Transformation and Renewal. In his book Kaplan notes the many ways in American Judaism has changed even in the span of the post-war era as the conventional denominational structure...

May 20, 2009

Interview and Author Event with Stephen Phillips, Author of Yoga, Karma, and Rebirth

15.8 million people in America now practice yoga according to a recent survey done by Yoga Journal. Most of us are familiar with the mats, the apparel, and basic asanas (such as Downward Facing Dog or the Corpse Pose) but...

May 15, 2009

Obama at Notre Dame: We Catholics Would Rather Fight than Mourn

The following post is by Marian Ronan, Research Professor of Catholic Studies at the Center for World Christianity at New York Theological Seminary (NYC) and the author of Tracing the Sign of the Cross: Sexuality, Mourning, and the Future of...

May 14, 2009

Interview with Marian Ronan, author of Tracing the Sign of the Cross: Sexuality, Mourning, and the Future of American Catholicism

Marian Ronan is the author of Tracing the Sign of the Cross: Sexuality, Mourning, and the Future of American Catholicism . This interview originally appeared in EqualwRites (EwR) EwR: Can we begin by asking the significance of its title, Tracing...

May 12, 2009

The Buddha Diaries Reviews Mind in the Balance

The Buddha Diaries recently reviewed Alan Wallace’s Mind in the Balance: Meditation in Science, Buddhism, and Christianity. Here’s a brief excerpt from the review: Exploring, first, the long history of religious meditation practice in both East and West from its...

May 1, 2009

Mark Taylor in the New York Times and His Forthcoming Book

Mark C. Taylor’s recent New York Times Op-ed, End the University as We Know It continues to be one of the most popular stories on the NYT Web site and has been widely discussed on the Internet. (The University of...

April 9, 2009

The Tablet Reviews Global Catholicism

“Every bishop and priest in the Catholic Church should sit down and read this remarkable book.” So begins a review from The Tablet of Ian Linden’s Global Catholicism: Pluralism and Renewal in a World Church. The Tablet, which is Britain’s...

March 11, 2009

Is Obama Satan's Warm-up Act? Mark Hulsether in Religion Dispatches

As Mark Hulsether, author of Religion, Culture and Politics in the Twentieth Century United States, notes in his recent piece in Religion Dispatches, “End Times believers consider Barack Obama as a serious contender for the Antichrist.” The Obama-as-Antichrist rhetoric got...

March 9, 2009

Video Part 2 of Alan Wallace talking about Mind in the Balance

A while ago we posted here part 1 of an interview with Alan Wallace, author of the recently published book, Mind in the Balance: Meditation in Science, Buddhism, and Christianity. Today, we are posting part 2 of the video series....

February 24, 2009

Don’t Try to Speak to the Muslim World!

The following is a post from Olivier Roy, author of The Politics of Chaos in the Middle East. This post originally appeared on the UC Berkeley website Blue Sky: New Ideas for the Obama Administration. The Obama administration must not...

February 12, 2009

Signs of Spring

While the weather in New York City seems to be returning to more February-like temperatures, the fact that our Spring 2009 books are shipping out to store is perhaps a sign that Spring is just around the corner. We had...

January 7, 2009

Excommunicating Dead Terrorists, by Leor Halevi

In a past post, Columbia University Press authors Bruce Hoffman and Ami Pedazhur looked at the geopolitical and security issues raised by the Mumbai attacks. In his article Excommunicating Dead Terrorists, Leor Halevi, author of Muhammad’s Grave: Death Rites and...