This blog has enjoyed good weeks in its past (a relatively young past or is it ‘old’ in internet years?), but few have matched the energy and intellectual verve of the one now coming to an end.  I won’t attempt to summarize all the issues raised or parse out the many arguments made, but I would like to reflect on how the nature of these exchanges seem to reflect a point I tried to make in my post last week.  I offered the observation that the relatively recent surge in scholarship about American religions–professionally recognized by major award committees as Read more