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Category Archives: Religion
Religion In A Secular Age
As the world grows more secular with every passing year, it seems that when religion hits the news, it almost always looks bad. To more effectively compete, religious leaders need to develop secular language to describe what is going on. … Continue reading
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The Tradition of Post Tradition (2021)
Stephen Turner writes: * The arrival of the war focused the discussion of the moral crisis. One theme was the question of what the war was being fought for: Robert Maynard Hutchins and John Dewey debated the question in the … Continue reading
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Interaction Ritual Chains
Here are some highlights from this influential 2004 book by sociologist Randall Collins: * Eminent thinkers are energy stars. They are highly productive, turning out large amounts of published (and often unpublished work), only some small portion of which becomes … Continue reading
Imagine No Religion, Ukraine War Discussion (3-5-22)
00:00 Religion in Secular Society, https://lukeford.net/blog/?p=141986 02:00 The dark world of mega-churches? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hTfKpAWkgJY 1:12:30 Peter Zeihan on the Ukraine war 1:18:30 The War in Ukraine Could Change Everything | Yuval Noah Harari, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yQqthbvYE8M 1:22:00 Cinema vs religion 1:26:00 Can liberalism … Continue reading
Academic: Why there is no way back for religion in the West
David Voas says the secular transition is an ongoing generational replacement of religious people by secular people. People don’t tend to change vis-a-vis religion. Only a tiny percentage of people who are raised secular become religious. People with no religion … Continue reading
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Religion in Secular Society: Fifty Years On
Here are some excerpts from the updated 2016 edition: * Bryan Ronald Wilson came from unusually humble origins. He was born in 1926 in a working-class terrace in Leeds. The house had no running hot water, and the communal toilet, … Continue reading
The Late Religious Scholar Jonathan Z. Smith
From an interview June 2, 2008: * I despise the telephone. That’s probably why. I don’t like it. I’ll reveal my age, but I don’t like the notion [that] for a nickel…anyone could get a hold of me any time … Continue reading
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From Seminary to University: An Institutional History of the Study of Religion in Canada
Aaron W. Hughes writes in this 2020 book: * The academic study of religion, for all intents and purposes, began in Germany in the nineteenth century. Its goal was, as indeed it still is, to understand the religions of the … Continue reading
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Gods and Demons, Priests and Scholars: Critical Explorations in the History of Religions
Bruce Lincoln writes in this 2012 book: * This is not a religious book. Rather, it is a book about religion. Insofar as it aspires to truth, said truth is strictly provisional and mundane. * Like all proponents of the … Continue reading