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Beyond moderate secularism
by Rajeev Bhargava...it is, but, in order to accommodate Muslims, must undergo some institutional adjustments. How then can we speak of—that horrible term—a crisis of secularism in Europe? Surely, this is hyperbolic,...
Electoral legitimacy, not religious legitimacy
by Mohamad Elmasry...of the political game put in place after the January 2011 uprising against Hosni Mubarak. The political order created and codified in the 2012 constitution, while flawed, would not have...
Holy attention as art
...fine-tuning the self to introspect itself, but also a subject whose goal is to surrender, to restrict its own agency in order to create space for transcendence. Importantly, Marno reminds...
Surviving the secular
by Ari Y. Kelman...by the spread of the “faithful unfaithful.” One need not find a religion to be religious, and one need not be religious in order to be spiritual. For many, Oprah...
Three approaches to the study of religion
...greater order of things. Intellectual historians and students of political thought study religious traditions as coherent, inter-generational, scholarly bodies of thought—the “Islamic” or the “Christian” or the “Confucian” tradition, for...
Time, gender-bending, and the medieval church
...disinvestment of garments in descending order, until he was demoted to lay status.1Elliott, Dyan. “Dressing and Undressing the Clergy: The Rites of Ordination and Degradation.” In Medieval Fabrications: Dress, Textiles,...
On disciplines and non-knowing: A reply to Agnes Callard
...thing. In this way, I need the constructed term to function as fixed in order to help students to see how it is constructed. When that happens, when the student...
American Katechon
by Jonathan VanAntwerpen...interesting to note that a number of commentators and historians of the discipline often turn to religious metaphors in order to characterize some of its core features or talk about...
Of saints, separatism, and secularization (part 2)
by Sarah Shortall...Christian thought on [Québec] culture,” which continue to make themselves felt in the value Quebecers place on the welfare state, social solidarity, authority, order, and humanism. In other words, while...