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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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...
Uprising in Egypt
Space and resistance
by Farha Ghannam
...the number of protesters in the square increase until, on Sunday, February 6, it was estimated to have reached two million. For thousands of Egyptians, the square became the place...
Political Theology
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...
"These things are old"
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...
Religion and digital culture
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...
A Universe of Terms
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...
Theologies of American exceptionalism
Theologies of American exceptionalism: Marshall and Morgan
by Winnifred Fallers Sullivan and M. Cooper Harriss...Marshall Indian cases and then is raised again in the late nineteenth-century cases concerning US expansion, in United States v Curtiss-Wright Exp. Corp., 299 US 304, 318 (1936), and in...
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An anti-Semitic “Oliver!”
by Laura Duane...a black character who goes round eating watermelon, stealing chickens and grinning his head off,” theater reviewer Sam Leith wrote in The Sunday Times. Read the full article here. [via...