Category: Religion

August 3, 2015

The Blackening of Havana

Read an article on Santería and race relations in Cuba by Aisha M. Beliso-De Jesús, author of ELECTRIC SANTERIA: RACIAL AND SEXUAL ASSEMBLAGES OF TRANSNATIONAL RELIGION, originally published on the Huffington Post’s BlackVoices blog.

June 19, 2015

University Press Roundup

Our weekly roundup of blog posts from the world of university presses.

June 12, 2015

The Personal Mystery and the Impersonal God

Read an excerpt from Eric Dietrich’s EXCELLENT BEAUTY: THE NATURALNESS OF RELIGION AND THE UNNATURALNESS OF THE WORLD.

June 11, 2015

The Beauty of Seeing More Than We Can Understand

Read an excerpt from Eric Dietrich’s EXCELLENT BEAUTY: THE NATURALNESS OF RELIGION AND THE UNNATURALNESS OF THE WORLD.

June 10, 2015

On the Mystery of Consciousness

Read an excerpt from Eric Dietrich’s EXCELLENT BEAUTY: THE NATURALNESS OF RELIGION AND THE UNNATURALNESS OF THE WORLD.

June 10, 2015

Everyone Loves a Good — Temporary — Mystery, Pt. 2

Eric Dietrich discusses the continuing existence of “excellent beauties” (currently unsolved and possibly unsolvable mysteries) in a guest post about his new book, EXCELLENT BEAUTY.

June 9, 2015

Everyone Loves a Good — Temporary — Mystery, Pt. 1

Eric Dietrich delves into our innate attraction to mystery, our nature as metaphysical realists, and the war between science and religion in a guest post about his new book, EXCELLENT BEAUTY.

June 8, 2015

Beyond Atheism: The Religion Illusion

Read an excerpt from Eric Dietrich’s EXCELLENT BEAUTY: THE NATURALNESS OF RELIGION AND THE UNNATURALNESS OF THE WORLD.

December 22, 2014

Evan Thompson's Waking, Dreaming, Being reviewed in the New York Times

Read Adam Frank’s NYTimes review of Evan Thompson’s WAKING, DREAMING, BEING: SELF AND CONSCIOUSNESS IN NEUROSCIENCE, MEDITATION, AND PHILOSOPHY!

December 18, 2014

Thursday Fiction Corner: Julia Kristeva and Teresa of Ávila in the New York Times

Read Carlene Bauer’s review of TERESA, MY LOVE, by Julia Kristeva, which originally appeared in the New York Times.

November 20, 2014

Thursday Fiction Corner: Julia Kristeva and St. Teresa

Today’s fiction corner features Julia Kristeva’s new novel Teresa, My Love: An Imagined Life of the Saint of Avila. While Kristeva first made her name as a philosopher and critic, she has also written several novels, including Murder in Byzantium...

November 14, 2014

Francisco Varela and Waking, Dreaming, Being

Read an excerpt of an interview with Evan Thompson from the Wild River Review in which he discusses the influence of Francisco Varela on WAKING, DREAMING, BEING.