Monthly Archives: January 2013

January 30, 2013

Hallelujah, I’m a Bum!

Peter Berger

As readers of my blog have discovered (perhaps with a measure of irritation) my favorite cognitive style is free association. The following post is an exercise in putting together bits and pieces—in the event: flea markets, cowboys, hobos and the … Continue reading →

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January 23, 2013

Religion As An Activity Engaged In By Consenting Adults In Private

Peter Berger

The Center for the Study of Law and Religion at Emory University publishes a very informative electronic newsletter about religious developments all over the world. On January 12, 2013, the newsletter carried a story originally published in the Buffalo News, … Continue reading →

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January 16, 2013

Ethnic Religions

Peter Berger

On January 7, 2013, the New York Times carried a story about the race to fill the Congressional seat in Chicago vacated by the resignation (apparently for both health and legal reasons) of Jesse Jackson, Jr. The district is still … Continue reading →

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January 10, 2013

Why are there no humanist funerals?

Peter Berger

On December 29, 2012, the New York Times carried an article by Samuel Freedman, who is on the faculty of the Graduate School of Journalism at Columbia University and who regularly writes in the religion column of the Times. The … Continue reading →

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January 2, 2013

Just in case you failed to notice: The world did not end on December 21, 2012

Peter Berger

About the same time, in early December 2012, that the media went into high gear discussing the putatively catastrophic consequences of a “fiscal cliff” on January 1, 2013, they also reported quite extensively about another looming date, that one a … Continue reading →

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