Daniel Silliman

Jul 8, 2009

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Is cosmology a species of mysticism?

"Mass produced sentimentality has been the hallmark of Catholic art since the 1840s"

The music of Father Yod's The Source Family, a hippie religious movement in '73, '74 Los Angeles

Lawsuit accusing new Calvinist church of covering up sex abuse mostly thrown out on technicality

The religious affiliations of American immigrants

What political legacy did the Puritans leave? by @ThomasSKidd

RT @SSRC_org "close to 20% of those who identified as Atheist or Agnostic...reported praying on at least a monthly basis."

Ultra-Orthodox Jews try new fashions

Concern about the pursuit of the "MRS degree" at Christian colleges

St. Louis priest who wrote anonymously about being gay comes out

Georgia decides to leave Gideon Bibles in state park cabins

Concerns about changes in understanding of who has legal standing to sue govt for respecting religious establishment

New York Cardinal Timothy Dolan gears up for fight w/ Catholic gov. Andrew Cuomo over abortion legislation

Where Thomas Nagel went wrong

Christ on bodies: crazy Jesus tattoos

Doug Wilson, slavery, and the problem of placing too high a value on intellectual consistency

@danielsilliman

Daniel Silliman teaches American religion and culture at Heidelberg Universities' Center for American Studies.

His research is focused on 20th & 21st century evangelical engagements with culture, cultural practices of belief, and religious book history. He is currently working on his doctoral dissertation on how belief and secularity are represented in contemporary Christian fiction. He has an M.A. in American Studies from the University of Tübingen and a B.A. in Philosophy from Hillsdale College.

He also worked for several years as a newspaper reporter, reporting on crime in Atlanta's Southern Crescent.

He lives in southern Germany with his wife.

E-mail: dsilliman@hca.uni-heidelberg.de

Notable posts

Could charity replace welfare?

If individuals, corporations, foundations, bequests all increased giving by three or four percent, it would be possible to pay for the groceries of all of Georgia's poor, or give them a significant offset in the cost of a one bedroom apartment.

Not both, though.

The 1st Pentecostal scandal

In 1907 in San Antonio, in the heat of July and Pentecostal revival, Charles Fox Parham was arrested.

Francis Schaeffer and the death of Baby Doe

Francis Schaeffer's 1982 message to the Presbyterians at Coral Ridge Presbyterian Church in Fort Lauderdale, Fla., was pretty simple: the philosophy of modern society is humanism, and humanism means death

Belief about 'belief' in the days of twitter & Beyoncé's baby's name

People are gullible, but gullible to the second degree. That is, gullible about how gullible other people are.

Books of 2013

22. God in Proof, by Nathan Schneider

21. The Fire Next Time, by James Baldwin

20. Gödel's Proof, by Ernest Nagel and James R. Newman

19. The Most Hated Man in Kentucky: Charles Chilton Moore and the Blue Grass Blade, by John Sparks

18. The Great Agnostic, by Susan Jacoby

17. Jesus Hates Zombies, vol. 4, by Stephen Lindsay

16. Companion to Marx's Capital, by David Harvey

15. Life of Pi, by Yann Martel

14. The Eighteenth Brumaire of Louis Bonaparte, by Karl Marx

13. Fanpire, by Tanya Erzen

12. Native Guard: Poems, by Natasha Trethewey

11. What's God Got To Do With It? Robert Ingersoll on Free Thought, Honest Talk and the Separation of Church and State, ed. by Tim Page

10. Fields of Zombies: An Amish Parable, by Sam Lang and Sarah Price

9. Watchmen, by Alan Moore and Dave Gibbons

8. The Messenger, by Thomas Peele

7. Adam, by Ted Dekker

6. Religion in American Politics, by Frank Lambert

5. The Religious History of America, by Edwin Gaustad and Leigh Schmidt

4. Demon: A Memoir, by Tosca Lee

3. Religious Experience Reconsidered, by Ann Taves

2. Lucifer's Flood, by Linda Rios Brook

1. Faithest, by Chris Stedman

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