...to counter “radicalization.” Though experts would still be hard pressed to offer any conceptual or definitional clarity about what exactly radicalization entails, a significant industry of security and counter-radicalization consultants,...
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Essays
Tunisia’s election: counter-revolution or democratic transition?
by Alfred Stepan...very badly. In his view, the recent elections in Tunisia amount to a “counter-revolution.” It would appear from what he says that the elections could only count as a revolution...
The Unintended Reformation
Beyond the Catholic-Protestant divide
by Brenna Moore...rather than “the Counter-Reformation”). We know that Catholics engaged the unfamiliar peoples and traditions that they encountered on the mission field in widely divergent ways, but it is undeniable that...
Evangelicals & evangelicalisms
Beyond beliefs
by Paul Lichterman...Christian but not interfaith. Agreement on the group’s religious and anti-racist principles took literally just minutes, while arguments over how if at all to include non-Christians in a counter-Klan event...
Christian Moderns
No view from nowhere
by Webb Keane...as Gorski puts it, as trying to establish counter-traditions to it. I would draw one point of contrast between historical-ethnographic work and the philosophical and theological texts he invokes. Those...
Rethinking secularism
Beyond secularisms of all sorts
by Veit Bader...detail when compared with the fairly recent institutions and policies of multiculturalism. In my view, his proposal is counterproductive in most other European countries, but it may turn out to...