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Abby Day’s Believing in Belonging: Review 30 Jun 2013 | 07:16 pm
Here’s my review of Abby Day’s Believing in Belonging which appeared in last year’s edition of the Journal of Religion and Society. Though I didn’t quite buy the theoretical argument of the book, I th...
Cultures of Belief — post-print version of article 10 Apr 2013 | 08:42 pm
As promised, here’s a post-print version of my Cultures of Belief article, which was published in Anthropological Theory. cultures-of-belief-post-print The text is identical to the journal version, ...
Cultures of Belief – New paper out in Anthropological Theory 10 Apr 2013 | 07:31 pm
I’ve just had a new paper out in Anthropological Theory — this is behind a paywall, I’ll make a post-print version available through this website soon for those who don’t have access to the journal th...
Literacy, religious renaissance and the ‘morality system’ 5 Apr 2013 | 12:00 am
Safari ya roho akhera, ‘the journey of the soul into the afterlife’, was published in 1999 by Said Amour Al-Habsy in Oman — image from Becker’s 2009 paper. This is a cross-post from ethics.CRASSH. F...
New blog: ethics.CRASSH 28 Mar 2013 | 09:26 pm
ethics.crassh blog: interdisciplinary studies in ethics I’ve launched a new website as part of my current project at CRASSH. It’s called ethics.CRASSH and at the moment it’s covering the Speaking Eth...
Kwame Anthony Appiah on Cosmopolitanism 1 Feb 2013 | 12:17 am
Here’s another video on cosmopolitanism, this one by Kwame Appiah, who has written on the topic: Kwame Anthony Appiah in Examined Life – YouTube.
Stuart Hall on rootless cosmopolitanism 31 Jan 2013 | 08:51 pm
Stuart Hall Here’s an interesting interview with Stuart Hall, in which he speaks about cosmopolitanism and rootedness — relevant to the previous post: http://www.sms.cam.ac.uk/media/1119965 Pnina W...
Rooted Cosmopolitanism 31 Jan 2013 | 08:44 pm
Diogenes the Cynic, a citizen of the world, in a painting by John William Waterhouse Tuesday saw the first of a series of reading groups that I’m organizing at CRASSH on the subject of ethical conver...
Alastair Macintyre on the moral/instrumental division of the modern world 15 Dec 2012 | 11:21 pm
Alasdair MacIntyre (Photo Credit: Sean O’Connor) I am reading Alasdair MacIntyre’s After Virtue: A Study in Moral Theory (1981), and I’ve just come across a passage that is related to my recent argum...
“Neoliberal is henceforth dead to me” 14 Dec 2012 | 09:53 pm
Thanks to Theo Kyriakides (@Theo_Kyriakides), who was present at the GDAT debate on neoliberalism for alerting me to a post by Kathleen Fitzpatrick of Pomona College. She writes, I have come to despi...
