Religion

FROM VOL. 38 Erik Davis describes his research on how humans’ fascination with technology is permeated with “mythic energy” and gnostic aspirations. (11 minutes)

FROM VOL. 65 George Marsden discusses how Jonathan Edwards (1703–1758) understood world history and the American experience. (14 minutes)

FROM VOL. 85 Catherine Albanese describes the varieties of "metaphysical religion" popular in early American history and draws connections with the more recent New Age movement. (14 minutes)

FEATURED GUESTS: Mark Noll, R. Jared Staudt, Paul Weston, William C. Hackett, Hans Boersma, and David Paul Baird

Peter Leithart on why what the Church is and practices is not a “religion”

William Cantwell Smith on how the abstraction known as “Christianity” displaced the concrete reality of “Christian living”

Brent Nongbri on how Christian disunity led to the privatization of God and the gods

Reinhard Hütter on the necessity of the virtue of religion

FEATURED GUESTS: John Durham Peters, Paul Heintzman, Richard Lints, Peter Harrison, Francis J. Beckwith, David L. Schindler, and Nicholas J. Healy, Jr.

William Cavanaugh on the “religionization” of Christianity

Alexander Schmemann on the secularization of religion

Peter Harrison on the creation of an allegedly neutral public sphere

William Cavanaugh on how we must be disciples in public, not just citizens

FEATURED GUESTS: James Davison Hunter, Paul Spears, Steven Loomis, James K. A. Smith, Thomas Long, and William T. Cavanaugh

FEATURED GUESTS: John Witte, Jr., Hugh Brogan, Daniel Ritchie, Daniel Walker Howe, George McKenna, and Patrick Deneen

FEATURED GUESTS: John Witte, Jr., Steven Keillor, Philip Bess, Scott Cairns, and Anthony Esolen

FEATURED GUESTS: Roger Lundin, Lawrence Buell, Harold K. Bush, Jr., Katherine Shaw Spaht, Steven L. Nock, Norman Klassen, and Jens Zimmermann

In the late 1990s, three best-selling books outlined new “religious preferences” for many Americans: The Celestine Prophecy, Embraced by the Light, and Conversations with God. Why were they popular?

FEATURED GUESTS: Elizabeth Fox-Genovese, Robert D. Richardson, Jr., Roger Lundin, Wilfred McClay, Andrew A. Tadie, Robert Jenson, Ted Prescott, and Ted Libbey