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by Nathan Schneider
Reverence for words
At First Things, Stefan McDaniel takes a stand against blogging: Someone recently encouraged me to write more, because “words aren’t lifeblood. Words are cheap.” Words are certainly held cheap, and...
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by Finbarr Curtis, Mark Hulsether, Derek E. Karchner, Daniel Maguire, Kathleen Sands and Kevin M. Schultz
The contraception mandate
...mandating that all employers—including religiously affiliated institutions such as Catholic universities and hospitals—provide health care that covers the cost of contraception has provoked widespread outcry from religious leaders, both Catholic...
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by Dr. Richard Amesbury, Courtney Bender, Jason C. Bivins, Tracy Fessenden, David Kyuman Kim, Pamela Klassen, Patrick Lee Miller, James K. A. Smith, Winnifred Fallers Sullivan and John Torpey
Reflections on summer reading
I have this complex and challenging novel to carry me into the fall. In a different vein, the relentless discussion over the Ground Zero “mosque” compelled me to pick up...
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by Simon During
Religion and state secularization
...with Byzantine Christianity. This was solidly in place by 1000 CE, mainly caused by a split over state organization. The Western empire was committed to dual sovereignty—sovereignty divided between the...
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by Nathan Schneider
Religion for radicals: An interview with Terry Eagleton
...rejection of religion on the cheap.” He believes that, in these controversies, politics has been an unacknowledged elephant in the room. This is the first in a series of interviews...
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by John Schmalzbauer
Obama’s reductionist moment
providing resources for the emergence of new social movements. Obama could also have benefited from reading Spirit and Flesh, sociologist James Ault’s penetrating ethnography of a fundamentalist church in post-industrial...
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by Nilüfer Göle
The new faces of the European far-right
well as by stirring up controversies over the presence of Islam in Europe. They take great care over their self-presentation, which is given precedence over their political representation and their...
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by Laura Duane
Putting the fun in fundamentalism
...of the same jokes on national television, vociferous protests would no doubt follow. Like those that greeted the mean-spirited cheap shots in Bill Maher’s movie Religulous. Read the full article...