...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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Clothing the emperor in medieval garb
by Elayne Oliphant...“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...
The shining and the shiny: An interview with Sean Dorrance Kelly
by Nathan Schneider...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...
The geopolitical imperative?
by Anders Stephanson...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:...
Normalizing nationalism through social media in transnational Jain communities
...streamed on the SRMD’s website and posted (in highly edited form) to their Instagram account, cut to the animated crowd as the Prime Minister declared his longstanding relationship with the...
Is absolute secularity conceivable?
by Simon During...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...
The breaking-in of the gods

...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...
Virtual Christianity
by Jon Bialecki...be seen as an instantiation of a collective-individual problematic traced in Christian thought; and, in a not unrelated vein, William Garriott and Kevin O’Neill have argued for unpacking Christian groups...
Knowing our demons
by Annette Yoshiko Reed...for instance, look to how Jews, Christians, Manichees, Neoplatonists, and others reread mundane reality as a site of cosmic drama—whether by filling its invisible spaces with the blur of demons...
Axial axioms
by Wendy Doniger...a single age—that change is gradual. In the case of India, for instance, Professor Bellah rightly notes that there were continuities with older inquiries, that there was, already in the...