by Martin Marty | Jan 13, 2012 | Opinion
“Sightings” of religion in the academy, we are regularly told, are rare. “Secularism” is the villain. You wouldn’t know it if you attended programs or visited publishers’ displays at historians’ conventions, where, by all...
by Martin Marty | Dec 27, 2011 | Opinion
Chelsea Clinton, Hedy Lamarr, Shakespeare as author of “Titus Andronicus” (seen in the family of “torture-porn” art), and Damien Hirst, major-major painter of images (“dead animals – sharks, zebras, piglets … and cigarette...
by Martin Marty | Dec 20, 2011 | Opinion
Atheism shows up in my columns on occasion, partly as a refreshing alternative to the overcovered examples of “religion-in-American-public-life” which crowd the cable television channels and headlines: you know, like stories of the piety of quarterback Tim...
by Martin Marty | Dec 13, 2011 | Opinion
Atheism now gets more attention than usual when people measure religious trends in North America. More people put the name “atheism” on their a-religiousness than did so decades ago. For the record, my Ph.D. thesis in 1956 was on “unbelief,”...
by Martin Marty | Nov 29, 2011 | Opinion
Twice in the last four years I have spied Benton Harbor, Mich., a once flourishing factory town that has suffered all manner of ills: bad leadership, racial conflicts and more. Its downtown is ghostly. The most devastating blow occurred when Whirlpool abandoned it and...
