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Have you ever left a church because of science?

While researching the history of philosophical arguments about the existence of God, it gradually became clear that my undertaking was in fact a study of masculinity, so shot through were these arguments with gendered assumptions and ideals. And, as a study of masculinity, it was also a study of patriarchy.

Over fifty years ago Bellah rocked the field of religious studies with a pioneering study on Japanese religion. When he died suddenly this past week he was working on a book that was set to land him as a pioneer yet again.

What scientists discover and what they say about it are two different things.

I was lost, and then I was found.

As Brazil’s evangelical population continues to rise a religious right has begun to consolidate power, bringing the church into the state and in some cases threatening to roll back hard won human rights advances.

The religious right is trying to tell them something, and, for once, they’re not listening.

The Tea Party debate.

New dimensions of criminality and injustice in the world of finance are revealed every day. So why are religious progressives—who know a thing or two about revelation—still posing, equivocating, and trimming around the edges while poor people suffer at the hands of a predator elite?

What is the media getting, and not getting, in its coverage of the religious right in politics?