Recently I am struck by the ambiguity of the concept of the religious. Reading Linda Heuman’s review of Robert Bellah’s…
Colonialism’s religious domain
Book blog
Scholars from varying disciplines engage in critical discussions of recent books. Additionally, scholars introduce their books with an original essay or, occasionally, an original essay reviews an important new book, connecting it to other threads of conversation in the academy and beyond.
You can read our very first book forum, on Charles Taylor’s A Secular Age and the continued discussion around Varieties of Secularism in a Secular Age here.
Relevance of religious episteme in search of a just peace
Daniel Philpott’s book, Just and Unjust Peace, can be regarded as a milestone for policymakers and academics looking for ways…
A new theory on political wounds
Daniel Philpott has written an impressive book that offers a new conception of political reconciliation for the field of transitional…
Justice and reconciliation
Recent history is full of episodes of egregious, widespread and often systematic wrongdoing: genocide, torture, and mass killing. Cambodia, South…
Janus-faced justice
One of Philpott’s goals in Just and Unjust Peace is to challenge both sorts of reactions to the role of…
Recasting an agenda for peace
The International Criminal Court (ICC) celebrated its ten-year anniversary last summer. During its first decade of life, both the shadow…
Reconciliation and the pursuit of peace
Today, at the beginning of 2013, the world is confronted by a bewildering array of protracted and new armed conflicts:…
Reconciliation in the real world
In Just and Unjust Peace: An Ethic of Political Reconciliation, I argue that religious traditions—Judaism, Christianity, and Islam in particular—offer…
An intended absence? Democracy and The Unintended Reformation
The long-term consequences of the Reformation have been a subject of heated debate for many decades. Most accounts have taken…
The return of sacred history
Brad Gregory’s The Unintended Reformation is an expansively ambitious work. Indeed, its aim is to provide nothing less than an “explanation…