...and economic deals between both Haitians and Americans (and others) that have been instrumental in shaping the overlapping crises that Haitians confront. So far, many social scientists and policy commentators...
Deals
Is critique secular?
Historical notes on the idea of secular criticism
by Talal Asad...criticism, and especially since the beginning of the nineteenth century theology has absorbed secular criticism. The example that I now cite deals with meta-criticism: the Regensburg lecture by Pope Benedict...
The future of Egyptian democracy
Three observations on religion, politics, and the Muslim Brotherhood
by Atef Said...in the near future—e.g., striking deals with or supporting amenable parties or political candidates. The MB seems to view protesting in the streets as a main strategy for now, as...
A Universe of Terms
media
by Kajri Jain
...vision is one of several kinds of material substance the image deals in; the image exceeds the visual and cannot be reduced to that modality alone. But this regime cannot...
here & there
Religion and violence in the early church
by John D. BoyThe ever prolific American historian Philip Jenkins recently published yet another book, The Jesus Wars, which deals with the issue of “religious violence.” In a guest contribution to the Washington...
A Secular Age
Secularism of a new kind
by Robert N. Bellah...Casanova, particularly in his important book Public Religions in the Modern World, deals with some of Taylor’s issues, but again his canvas is much smaller. David Martin has written interestingly...
Political Theology
The politics of the atonement
by J. Kameron Carter...and especially atonement, that area of theology (particularly, Christian theology) that deals with the logic of (redemptive) death. But the journey cannot be simply phenomenological in the way Kahn carries...
Political Theology
The perspective of the common
by Bruno Gulli...light of the decision itself. It is for this reason that Aristotle, in his Nicomachean Ethics, first deals with the decision, and only after with deliberation, although the order of...
here & there
Breaking the fear barrier in Egypt
by Justin Reynolds...that Israel’s stability has been built on deals with a few men rather than with the people of the region. Arab democracy is understood by Israeli and American officials as...
Islam and the Secular State
Disentangling Islam and the post-colonial state
by Joel S. Migdal...The impact of colonialism is a topic with which An-Na`im deals, as well. He begins, for example, “with the reality that European colonialism and its aftermath have drastically transformed the...