Religious Intimacies

Scholars of religion have come a long way since William James famously made of religion a matter between man and his maker. For decades now, they have been attentive to the ways in which religion takes shape as the product of broad social forces, focusing on the dynamics of power and culture as heuristics for understanding religious phenomena and experience.   What, however, might they be missing by moving too quickly from one interpretative extreme to the other—and what might we learn abou