In a more nuanced way, a number of influential scholars, such as Rodney Stark and Regina Schwartz, have also cast monotheism as particularly intolerant towards the "Other" and thus a fertile ground ...

Long established as a leading sociologist of American religion, Stark has in recent years extended his methodology into increasingly speculative territory. Here he follows up his inquiry into the ...

Is God dead? The fantastic proposition of God’s demise has fuelled our wonderings for millennia. The great philosophers and scientists have conceded that God’s existence or non-existence is a personal ...

In my previous column, we discussed the common complaint that No. 841 in the Catechism of the Catholic Church is wrong when it teaches that “The plan of salvation also includes those who acknowledge ...

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Jonathan Kirsch’s new book, God Against the Gods: The History of the War Between Monotheism and Polytheism, describes the fight between monotheism and paganism, with Roman Emperor Constantine securing ...

Journal for the Study of Religion, Vol. 37, No. 1 (2024), pp. 1-30 (30 pages) In the wake of Said’s landmark work, Orientalism (Said 1979), scholars have been widely concerned with countering the ...