Sabbath Sundries — Religion Gone Wild!
One of the many benefits that come with the study of religion is that scholars never run out of material. This speaks, of course, to the fact that religion is a human universal that simply begs for...
View ArticleIs “Hinduism” Science Friendly?
In yesterday’s post, I discussed Philip Goldberg’s contention that “Eastern religions” (i.e., Hinduism and Buddhism) are science friendly. To support his argument, Goldberg relies on a very specific —...
View ArticleOn Design: Hawking, Paley & Chopra
Stephen Hawking’s new book, The Grand Design, is generating a fair amount of press because of his claim that the laws of physics explain the Big Bang and remove the need for a Prime Mover. God in the...
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Gandhi’s Dualism & Homer’s Soul
No stranger to the angst arising from the meta-and-physical dichotomy of sacred/profane, the inimitable Christopher Hitchens recently evaluated similar sorts of tensions in the life of India’s...
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Yoga as Religion
Over at aeon, Erik Davis has posted a fantastic piece that addresses the apparently simple question: Is yoga a religion? Your answer to this question will probably depend on what yoga is for you...
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