An explicit religious naturalism meets Big History in the work of Ursula Goodenough. Within Big History itself, a variant of naturalism seems implicit. In previous posts in this series, I suggested ...

Matthew Avery Sutton’s lively new book, Chosen Land: How Christianity Made America and Americans Remade Christianity, is less a narrative than a counternarrative to how American religious history has ...

Historians of American religion have been congratulating themselves of late on the booming state of scholarship in their field. In the past thirty years, according to the editors of a recent anthology ...

This valuable addition to the literature on American religious liberalism tells how Catholics and Protestants in Los Angeles drew upon the Social Gospel tradition, the Black power movement, and ...

The premier museum on Maryland’s history has hired a curator to focus on one of the state’s proudest claims to fame: its profile as a haven for faith traditions. The Maryland Center for History and ...

Named after the sage Confucius (b. 551 B.C.E.), Confucianism is one of the most important philosophical traditions in China. Although it’s widely considered a spiritual philosophy, some scholars ...

Co-authored with Dr. Ken Baskin. Few things are more important to human psychology writ large than religion. But what does this concept really mean? The more deeply we investigate it, the odder ...