Sunday, November 30, 2014

W. E. B. Du Bois on Religion (7): "Divine Discontent"

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Kahn, Jonathon S.   Divine discontent: The Religious Imagination of W.E.B. Du Bois . Oxford; New York: Oxford University Press, 2009. ...
Saturday, October 4, 2014

William R. Jones, Jr. on Black liberation theology: Mao, Martin, or Malcolm?

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This is an old essay. I see no indication of an earlier publication, so perhaps this is the first time it appeared; on the other hand, the s...
Thursday, August 7, 2014

Martin Gardner & the mathematics of joy

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The Martin Gardner Home Site continues to expand in the year of the Martin Gardner Centennial 1914-2014. You can follow the Twitter accoun...
Saturday, August 2, 2014

William Sanders Scarborough, reason, & the anti-racist struggle

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There is an incredible history of Black American intellectuals, stretching back to the era of slavery, and of outstanding intellectual achie...
Thursday, July 3, 2014

Social class & the atheist movement (2)

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My previous post was heavy on the abstract and conceptual. More needs to be said about David Hoelscher's essay Atheism and the Class ...
Wednesday, July 2, 2014

Social class & the atheist movement (1)

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As I do not regularly follow the blogosphere, I missed out on this article, which I was informed of only last week: Counterpunched: We Hav...
Monday, June 2, 2014

Albrecht Dürer, Sprouts, Martin Gardner

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" The triumph of melancholy: 500 years of Dürer's most enigmatic print " by Karl Galle, The Guardian , 16 May 2014  ...