So respond the Islamists did, but their gradually growing emphasis on political participation was always uncertain. They did not always respond quickly or surely, showing great caution before changing their...
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by David Kyuman Kim
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...
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by Joseph Blankholm
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...
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by Nathan Schneider and Colin Jager
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...
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by John D. Boy
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...
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by Mark Lilla
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...
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by Joseph Blankholm
“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,...
Experience between the secular and the divine
Abstraction and reduction, with continual reference to Hilma af Klint