...There is no gainsaying this for anyone who wants to understand the past” (7). This principle informs the entire book; indeed, as already noted, the book is arguably more historicist...
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The Unintended Reformation ![]()
by Brad S. Gregory
Historical arguments and omissions
...imputed decline of which there is no lament in the book. I am, in fact, deeply suspicious of it. “The West” in my book is not an ideological banner but...
Essays ![]()
by Helge Årsheim
Whose religion? What freedom?
on Civil and Political Rights (ICCPR), and surrounding legal texts – collectively known as the International Bill of Rights – does not require legal systems, whether international or domestic, to...
off the cuff ![]()
by Ahmed al-Rahim, Helge Årsheim, Pasquale Annicchino, Margot Badran, Benjamin L. Berger, Anver Emon, Elena Fiddian-Qasmiyeh, Amy Frykholm, Maia Hallward, Elizabeth Shakman Hurd, Peter Mandaville, Nadia Marzouki, Melani McAlister, Sara Silvestri, Winnifred Fallers Sullivan, Mara Willard and Erin K. Wilson
Engaging religion at the Department of State
...religion is considered to become increasingly important, both in domestic and international politics, after decades, if not centuries, in “exile.” International and domestic conflicts, debates over immigration policies and integration...
The Unintended Reformation ![]()
by Brad S. Gregory
Contents and discontents of (post)modernity
...own ideals, and certainly not from failing to instantiate a single metaphysical view. As Gordon rightly says (and as I also argue in the book), the attempt to instill a...
Religion in Human Evolution ![]()
by Yang Xiao
Beyond reductive naturalism
...many anthropologists and participants, are virtually meaningless.” Smith’s book Natural Reflections was published before Bellah’s book. She could have made use of Bellah’s book as a positive model to show...
Religion in Human Evolution ![]()
by Robert N. Bellah
A response to three readers
reader of my book from the many citations to her work in the chapter on India. There are no citations to Luke Johnson in my book only because he writes...
Book introductions ![]()
by Elizabeth Shakman Hurd
The politics of secularism in international relations
A survey of leading contemporary international relations (IR) journals published between 1980 and 1996 revealed that 6 out of 1,600 articles featured religion as an important influence. But things have...
Oprah: The Gospel of an Icon ![]()
by Tracy Fessenden
O tedious selfhood, O aftertaste of splinters
...Lofton’s book, in February, I was sure I’d given Oprah enough of my attention to conjure a felicitous scene of reading. Carrying the book with me to the dentist’s office,...