...religion’s “elementary forms.” I borrow Durkheim’s iconic language, while amending his assumption that there are elementary forms of a generic religion at the root of all cultures. Durkheim identifies an...
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Generic crisis or defining moment?
by Penny EdgellCrisis talk is the currency of the mass (and niche) media, and it can lead to a mentality that is paradoxically anxious (always attuned to the next crisis) and numbed...
Essays
Blasphemous cartoons: The old threat of secularism and the new threat of Islam
by Yvonne Sherwood...as standing in a combative relation to those values in the name of Islam. Why do we keep summoning and provoking religion (but not in the generic sense, never in...
Religion, spirituality, and democratic renewal: Essays from our grantees
White Christian nationalism and the racial politics of analogy
Is this all there is
The All: A philosophico-political polemic
by John Milbank
...or form or eidos. Of every specified thing as manifesting a generic eidos. Of everything whatsoever, however specified, as manifesting ousia or some mode of essence. As manifesting Being always...
The politics of religious freedom
Protecting freedom of religion in the secular age
by Cécile Laborde...one of the ways in which individuals seek the good for themselves. Exercising one’s freedom of religion is one of the ways in which we exercise a more generic freedom—moral...
Is this all there is
American carpe diem
by David Marno
...I have a soft spot for allegories and Trump’s comments on the song make for a good one: after all, from a strictly generic point of view, Peggy Lee’s song...
The politics of national identity
American Muslims between legal citizenship and public exclusion
by Mucahit Bilici...and normalize different selves under a legible generic cloth. The task that citizenship performs legally and invisibly is reiterated visibly and locally by the uniform. This past summer brought us...
off the cuff
The naked public sphere?
by Abdullahi Ahmed An-Na’im, Michele Dillon, John L. Esposito, John H. Evans, Philip S. Gorski, R. Marie Griffith, Cristina Lafont, Nancy Levene, Nadia Marzouki, Ebrahim Moosa, Justin Neuman and John Schmalzbauer...want to get their act together without suffocating debate by retreating various artifices at its command. A variety of publics are no longer satisfied with generic “store-brand” versions of political...
Ecologies of the dead and living: Mourning out of place
Dust to dust: A religion of return migration