By David Haberman
religious studies
It’s nearly June, the traditional time for weddings galore. But marriage—its legality, longevity, permutations, and failures—seems perennially in the news. Here are some recent views on love and marriage from different corners of the IU Bloomington campus: In an article for the Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (Winter 2012), Constance Furey, a professor [...]
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When sickness strikes, people around the world pray for healing. Many claim prayer has cured them of blindness, deafness, metastasized cancers. Some believe they have been resurrected from the dead. Can science test such claims? Should it? Science cannot prove prayer’s healing power, but according to Candy Gunther Brown, associate professor of religious studies in [...]
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You’ve had a wretched day at work, and things aren’t so hot at home, either. You unload to your best friend or the stranger standing next to you in line, and your confidante responds, “I know how you feel.” Ah, you think, a little empathy at last. Generally speaking, we think of empathy as a [...]
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by Richard Nance
