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- April 24th 2013Leon Sigal, director of the Northeast Asia Cooperative Security Project, discusses escalating tensions on the Korean peninsula in "Better Understanding North Korea," a Q&A with the Federation of American Scientists’ Strategic Security Blog →
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- March 21st 2013
- Op-ed by New Directions in the Study of Prayer grantee Peter Manseau featured in the New York Times: "In Praise of Priestly Marriage" →
- March 13th 2013
- At the Religion Program's new digital forum Reverberations, Steven Barrie-Anthony interviews Tanya Marie Luhrmann about her book, When God Talks Back, and her work on modern evangelicalism →
- March 8th 2013
- The Religion Program unveils the latest SSRC Forum, Reverberations: New Directions in the Study of Prayer →
November 2012
- November 13th 2012
- Read an excerpt from Birgit Meyer's chapter in What Matters? Ethnographies of Value in a Not So Secular Age →
October 2012
- October 11th 2012
- The Religion Program releases new working paper, "Mapping a Field: Why and How to Study Spirituality," by working group co-chairs Courtney Bender and Omar McRoberts →
- October 10th 2012
- New Directions in the Study of Prayer grantee Elizabeth Drescher responds to new Pew Research Center report on rising number of religious "nones" →
- October 4th 2012
- In a New York Times interview, novelist Jeffrey Eugenides says the next book he'll read is When God Talks Back, by NDSP grantee Tanya Luhrmann →
- October 3rd 2012
- New Directions in the Study of Prayer grantee Thomas J. Csordas will give a keynote address at a conference on religion at Northwestern University →
September 2012
- September 28th 2012
- New Directions in the Study of Prayer has selected twenty-eight grantees to pursue innovative research on practices of prayer →
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