This year’s USIH conference was, as always, a marvelous gathering, filled with great conversations with fantastic people.  My thanks – all our thanks – to Tim Lacy for his hard work organizing and hosting our meeting this year. As is often the case with our conferences, some of the most interesting conversations happen not just during the sessions, but also after them, as we post-game the arguments and various intellectual positions represented by panelists and questioners. In just such a conversation, one of my interlocutors suggested that intellectual historians should treat religious thought as a special sort of category.  Well, Read more