...vinculum societatis or “bond of society” once more. Some even pushed for legislative enforcement. For instance, the Maryland Toleration Act of 1649 banned a whopping seventeen offensive names—including “Presbyterian,” “Puritan,”...
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Hindutva and the shared scripts of the global right
Online Hindutva as a global right-wing counterpublic
The Unintended Reformation
Beyond supersessionist stories?
by Guido Vanheeswijck...(by Ian Hunter, James Chappel, Mark Lilla, and others), as well as by more balanced critiques (those of Peter Gordon, Victoria Kahn, and Adrian Pabst, for instance). I will not...
Is this all there is
The soft side
by Simon During
...unable to connect to its intended object. For all that, a philosophical use of “Is this all there is?” can sometimes have a narrower reach. For instance, when its “this”...
here & there
Judith Butler on Judaism, Israel, and anti-occupation politics
by Charles Gelman...understood even to be human in a recognizable sense, but they are artillery. The bodies themselves are artillery. And of course, the extreme instance of that is the suicide bomber,...
here & there
Secularizations
by Nicole Greenfield...to an analysis of class or ethnic struggles, power rivalries, or economic dynamics. In her 2004 book The Roads to Modernity, for instance, the historian Gertrude Himmelfarb examines how the...
Notes from the field
Belonging without believing
by Sarah Shortall...is worth questioning, however, if the decision to belong to a religious community ultimately rests with the individual believer (or unbeliever). For instance, many of the Catholic theologians I study...
The Unintended Reformation
Get over it
by Victoria Kahn...one were only to skim it. For instance, Gregory bemoans the “demise of the family” and sees same-sex marriage as “aggressively secularizing” and motivated as much by “overtly antireligious, bigoted...