Readers of the What is ‘religion’? post will remember the citation of Donald K. Swearer’s Harvard Divinity Bulletin article about Wilfred Cantwell Smith. As Swearer writes, Smith’s controversial “personalism” approach to the study of…
Here are some observations drawn from the comments for What is ‘religion’?. One Friend offers this definition: Religion is an authority which intermediates between a community or set of communities and the object of that religion – i.e., that which is…
We have been exploring the possible connotations of the term “belief” from the perspective of various readers of this blog. The exploration was sparked by Katie Kent’s comment that, for her, being a Quaker is “a spiritual discipline and practice, rather…
