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Is this all there is
Who do you want me to be?
by Daniel Vaca
...racial “spirit,” the pioneering comparativist Max Müller would later insist that all peoples and their religions emerged from common origins. Calling for a new “Science of Religion” to trace that...
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Reverence for words
by Nathan SchneiderAt 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...
off the cuff
The new landscape of the religion blogosphere
by Richard Bartholomew, Joe Carter, Frederick Clarkson, David Gibson, Scott Korb, Paul Levinson, William McKenzie, John Schmalzbauer, Mark Silk and Chuck Tryon...Joe Carter, Web Editor, First Things Frederick Clarkson, Author, Co-founder of Talk to Action David Gibson, Columnist, PoliticsDaily.com Scott Korb, Author, Documentary Editor, and Professor Paul Levinson, Professor of Communication...
Uprising in Egypt
Space and resistance
by Farha Ghannam
...resistance, as well as the productive interplay between physical and virtual space. Communication technologies such as the Internet (especially the websites Facebook and Twitter) and mobile phones aided the organization...
Political Theology
The political theology of freedom and unfreedom
by Mateo Taussig-Rubbo...American political theology, he rightly insists that we are not committed to law or to life in quite the way we think. Kahn’s surprising conclusion is that political theology is...
"These things are old"
Not an end, but a beginning
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Religion and digital culture
When readers respond
by Tanya Marie Luhrmann...as if you are a shil [sic] for religion…Academic degrees are no evidence of intelligence.” And their comments are sometimes odd. “It is impossible to engage in pure, unfiltered communication...
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What Dobson’s resignation means
by Daniel VacaAt Under God, David Waters comments on the signifiance of James Dobson’s resignation as chairman of Focus on the Family: Has Dobson held the reins of Focus on the Family...