...rather as applying in the last instance to more than freedom alone—for instance, as the examination also of a society’s supposedly sacred or highest values—might provide an illuminating perspective on...
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Is this all there is ![]()
by Elayne Oliphant
Clothing the emperor in medieval garb
...“But there’s nothing to see!” Nearly ten years earlier, in another summer in Paris, I had worked as a mediator for contemporary art installations in a space very similar to...
Deathless questions and other interviews ![]()
by Nathan Schneider
The shining and the shiny: An interview with Sean Dorrance Kelly
...believers in America, for instance. Instead, it means that the role of religious belief in a person’s life today is different than it was in earlier epochs in the history...
Political Theology ![]()
by Anders Stephanson
The geopolitical imperative?
...the guarantor of order in the last instance, and so on. The end result is in some ways a more interesting Schmittian condition than the posture of George W. Bush:...
Rethinking secularism ![]()
by Simon During
Is absolute secularity conceivable?
...its displacement. Thus, for instance, in his Scholasticism and Politics (1938), Jacques Maritain, following Nietzsche, speaks of the “Christian leaven fermenting in the bosom of human history” as the source...
Book introductions 
by Robert Orsi
The breaking-in of the gods
by Robert Orsi
...number of angels—to a specific time and place. This into might be a family, for instance, or a political crisis, the public sphere, or a single life. It was crucial...
Global Christianity, Global Critique ![]()
by Jon Bialecki
Virtual Christianity
...of vectors and axes that trace out the trajectories from the past to the present as constantly reforming objects continually reinstantiate themselves as actual entities. Here, the virtual would be...
Deathless questions and other interviews ![]()
by Nathan Schneider
Age of spirit: An interview with Harvey Cox
...for instance. Is that still a live issue for you? HC: Oh, absolutely. I wanted to make it a festive event. We had a septet of tubas, led by the...
The headscarf controversy ![]()
by Jenny White
Turkey’s coup by court
...an a la carte way that betrays a functional attitude toward reform. For instance, while the government has pushed to repeal the ban on headscarves in universities, it has not...