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The future of Egyptian democracy
Political Islam becomes less political
by Nathan J. Brown...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...
Deathless questions and other interviews
American civil religion in the age of Obama: An interview with Philip S. Gorski
by Joseph Blankholm...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...
Deathless questions and other interviews
Romanticism, reflexivity, design: An interview with Colin Jager
by Nathan Schneider and 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...
Deathless questions and other interviews
The view from Berlin: An interview with Hubert Knoblauch
by John D. Boy...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...
The Stillborn God
Our historical Sonderweg
by Mark Lilla...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...
Notes from the field
“I study religion,” or: How to start an awkward conversation
by Joseph Blankholm...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,...
A Universe of Terms
media
by John Durham Peters
...TV set, and pokes self-reflexively at the idea of television as an alien power that takes over your life and mind. The sound and image morph arbitrarily and we see...
A Secular Age
The sun shone fiercely through the window at Starbucks (Part I)
by John Lardas Modern...can be sufficiently liberated from history so as to be able to take the measure of itself—in concert, of course, with others, as they liberate themselves sufficiently from those very...