In Ohio, lawmakers passed a new bill that authorizes public school and state university teachers to instruct on the “positive ...

Most modern believers see the success and spread of their religion as the result of spiritual activities such as preaching and conversion. And this is certainly true. But it is equally true that ...

This essay examines Quentin Skinner's historicist use of J. L. Austin's speech act theory, corrects and clarifies some ways in which Skinner seems to misapply Austin's categories, and argues that ...

Introduction -- Part I: African connections : historical roots of Afro-Caribbean religions. Yoruba, Fon-Ewe, Ashanti, and Kongo cultural history -- African cultus and functionaries -- Part II: Vodou : ...

"In so far as our American churches share the immediate interests and speak the vernacular of their world, they tend to lose the dispassionateness which pure religion ought to share with pure science, ...

Russell Blackford is personally and professionally acquainted with Jerry Coyne, and is among the "friends and colleagues" thanked for "help and encouragement" in the Acknowledgments section of Faith ...