Jacques Berlinerblau, on The Chronicle of Higher Education‘s Brainstorm blog, enumerates some of the prevalent misconceptions that inform what he calls “Pop Atheism”: 1) That the term “atheist” has a...
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Creating new Sufi publics at an old Sufi shrine
...throughout Europe and posts videos of his music. Shaykh Hisham is the US khalifa, and his digital presence in the form of videos, books, iPhone apps, and multiple websites engages...
Space and resistance
by Farha Ghannam...resistance, as well as the productive interplay between physical and virtual space. Communication technologies such as the Internet (especially the websites Facebook and Twitter) and mobile phones aided the organization...
Reverence for words
by Nathan SchneiderAt First Things, Stefan McDaniel takes a stand against blogging: Someone recently encouraged me to write more, because “words aren’t lifeblood. Words are cheap.” Words are certainly held cheap, and...
Muslims and the American political imaginary during a pandemic
...their already limited attendance at mosques in order to reduce numbers and allow for physical distancing. Online lectures and sermons are more readily found on the websites or Facebook pages...
Pandemic security and insecurity in the Gulf
...your phone, such as photos and contacts. In order to bypass this problem, group members were purchasing new phones solely to run the app. However, since the app requires a...
The political theology of freedom and unfreedom
by Mateo Taussig-Rubbo...the Crown to the Union, and not derived from the Constitution. United States v. Curtiss-Wright Export Corp., 299 U.S. 304 [1936]). The exclusion of these genealogies of sovereignty is surprising...
Not an end, but a beginning
by William Ayers...their friends, they had spent the weekends of the past year phone-banking and canvassing for Barack Obama in Michigan, Wisconsin, and Indiana. He had called me a week before to...
When readers respond
by Tanya Marie Luhrmann...sit on the floor, gripping the phone, throat tight with distress. “I have this habit,” a young woman explained to me over the phone in a conversation about demons: “I...
spirit
by Paul Christopher Johnson...Spirit possession. Spirit Airlines. Holy Spirit. Espírito Santo, Brazil. “Whoa, spirit / Watch the heavens open (yeah) / Spirit, can you hear it callin’?” sings Beyoncé. Karl Marx: We are...