From Practical Matters, a special issue on ethnography and theology. Benjamin Aldes Wurgaft (UC-Berkeley): Persecution and the Art of Critique: Leo Strauss between Secularism and Religion. Donald Gelpi (UC-Berkeley): In Search of A Method: Charles Sanders Peirce’s Contribution to Theology. Eric Repphun (Otago): Anything in Exchange for the World: Jean Baudrillard, Jacques Derrida, and the Aqedah. A review of Derrida and Theology by Steven Shakespeare. An interview with Anthony Paul Smith and Daniel Whistler, editors of After the Postsecular and the Postmodern: New Essays in Continental Philosophy of Religion (and more). A review of Religion, Metaphysics, and the Postmodern: William Desmond and John D. Caputo by Christopher Ben Simpson. Bertrand Russell versus faith in God: Which comes first, faith or philosophical proof? A review of The Logic of the Heart: Augustine, Pascal, and the Rationality of Faith by James R. Peters. A review of Understanding Faith: Religious Belief and its Place in Society by Stephen R. L. Clark. Can the experience of faith be shared by those unable to believe in the existence of a transcendent God? A review of Political Myth: On the Use and Abuse of Biblical Themes by Roland Boer. From Marx & Philosophy Review of Books, a review of books on Marxism and Christianity. From National Catholic Register, Peter Kreeft on the Left, the Right and Dominus Iesus. Can religion be apolitical?: Is political religion an inevitability, or an aberration? Philosopher Mary Warnock tells Laurie Taylor why religion and politics shouldn’t mix.
