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A strong moral argument: A conversation with Andrew Bacevich
...dad was actually briefly in the Army again during the Korean War, but that was simply because he had finished medical school in Chicago and he needed someplace to do...
American civil religion in the age of Obama: An interview with Philip S. Gorski
...that it’s usually been handled consciously or unconsciously is by creating a fairly sharp divide between certain occasions: campaign speeches and the high ritual of events like the State of...
Romanticism, reflexivity, design: An interview with Colin Jager
...religion, mostly because literary critics tend to write about it so unintelligently. Eventually it dawned on me that you can’t really write about religion without writing about the background against...
Practices of relation: Gorski and Perry
...specified. This was particularly surprising because most transracial adoptions involve the adoption of children of color by white parents. So apparently they resist the idea of a mixed-race family of any sort....
The view from Berlin: An interview with Hubert Knoblauch
...Scholarship on religion plays an astonishingly minor role. Similarly, religious education in public schools is not scholarly instruction; it is instruction by the actors, although it is still seen in...
Our historical Sonderweg
...things usually slip in their own unexamined, usually political, concepts somewhere along the way, and then say quite a bit.) Triumphalism The most surprising reaction I’ve had to The Stillborn...
“I study religion,” or: How to start an awkward conversation
I try to let them down gently by quickly adding that I study secularism and atheism. This being a bit unlikely, I can usually get a laugh or a smile,...
Abstraction and reduction, with continual reference to Hilma af Klint
...what follows, I attempt only to clear a bit of the ground, to prepare us to consider these questions a bit more clearly, with a greater sense of the problems,...
Practices of relation: Fernando and Harding
...not only epistemologically and ontologically, but also politically and ethically? Obviously, we can’t know, and that’s one of your moves: abandon the quest for certainty. But let’s think about it....