Peter Berger

The note that I put into the Western Wall

By Jeffrey Salkin — July 5, 2023
(RNS) — Do I believe God lives in the Western Wall? No. Do I not believe it? Also, no. It’s complicated.

3 big numbers that tell the story of secularization in America

By Phil Zuckerman — March 8, 2023
(The Conversation) — Secularization has fascinated sociologists for 200 years – but that doesn’t mean they always agree on what it is, or how much it’s happening.

Controversial Mormon book pulled from publication

By Jana Riess — September 8, 2020
(RN) — Last month, the BYU Religious Studies Center halted publication of ‘Saving Faith’ because of author John Gee’s statements about homosexuality and child sexual abuse. But the book’s problems run even deeper.

Fifty years later, Catholic Church reckons again with unbelief

By Rosie Dawson — February 18, 2019
LONDON (RNS) — This spring, a half-century after the Vatican's first conference on unbelief, scholars will again gather in Rome to discuss research on the nature of non-religion.

The eclipse is deeper than we thought

By Jeffrey Salkin — August 17, 2017
(RNS) — It is not just the sun that is going into eclipse. It is human decency, and not just in Charlottesville.

The precarious vision of Peter Berger

By Martin E. Marty — July 5, 2017
I am choosing to remember the dominant and—to non-sociologists like me—most astonishing aspect of an inventive, creative truth-teller who taught and, through his many writings, will continue to teach us as we pursue cases, when we don’t “just make them up.”
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