Religion is a hot new topic for historians
The latest annual survey by the American Historical Association says that younger historians are more likely than older ones to turn their sights on faith issues.
What Paul really thought about women
John Dominic Crossan continues The Search for the Historical Paul with an essay in Huffington Post on what Paul thought about women:
Cross disciplinary religious thought lacking
Speaking from personal experience, there's a great deal of commentary about religion made by scholars who don't have any. While the lack of any personal faith doesn't necessarily disqualify someone from having an opinion, most commonly negative, about how people of faith should comport themselves; in most other fields, the lack of personal experience with the subject would make it much harder for a person's views to be taken seriously.
Not interested
Studies are appearing that reveal that there are significant numbers of people who are not only unaffiliated religiously but also don't really care. Call them the not-spiritual-not-religious.
Discussing faith and belief
Andrew Marr on BBC Radio 4 discusses the nature of faith and belief with Jonathan Safran Foer, Richard Holloway, Karen Armstrong and Helen Edmundson, who all live outside of their traditional faiths and in the agnostic middle ground.
Bending tradition for schools of theology
There has been much conversation recently on the future of seminaries.
Katherine M Douglass and Jason Bruner, doctoral candidates at Princeton Theological Seminary, write in The Chronicle of Higher Education:
More on the rise of the "nones"
A study published by the Institute for the Study of Societal Issues says that the number of people who claim no religious affiliation as grown. Most of these "nones" are people who believe in God and most had a religious affiliation earlier in life.
Here is the abstract and the rest of the study:
