...side defined the coalition’s insiders and outsiders differently, despite their shared, religiously-motivated anti-racism. Evangelicals did not worry seriously that contact with non-Christians would threaten their Christian commitments. As one pastor...
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An empirical perspective on religious and secular reasons
by John H. Evans...mean by the term general reasons that are widely or near universally shared by citizens. This would preclude reasons deriving from any “comprehensive perspective,” such as religion, obviously including Leviticus...
A Witness in our spirits
...itself on behalf of its future. And it cannot be held, as it would seem, ethically or morally responsible.” These juridical metrics require, in Thurman’s estimation, a nonmetrical response. Something...
Waiting for Godot, who is either late or not coming at all
by Vincent P. Pecora...agree with Hernandez completely on these points, and have argued as much elsewhere: Blumenberg’s approach does not finally allow him to respond adequately to people like Schmitt and Löwith; and...
Secularism . . . a really interesting problematic: A conversation with Joan Wallach Scott
by David Kyuman Kim...Work and Family (with Louise Tilly), Parité!: Sexual Difference and the Crisis of French Universalism, and, most recently, the timely and highly praised The Politics of the Veil. Scott’s books...
O tedious selfhood, O aftertaste of splinters
by Tracy Fessenden...existential morass in which “deep” thinkers want fatally to bog us down. (Dreyfus and Kelly, of Berkeley and Harvard respectively, sportily call these “whoosh” moments; Oprah, more confident of controlling...
A different notion of fraternity
by Akeel Bilgrami...necessarily allowing the possibility that internal reasons may in the future be efficacious in changing the minds of those whom one deeply opposes on some moral or political issue, but...
Religion takes the stand: An interview with Winnifred Fallers Sullivan
by Nathan Schneider...say that we aren’t going to spend the money to do this—that these people are basically throw-away people who deserve only an amateur substitute for what really needs to be...
Mind sciences and religious change in America
by Christopher White...much more than a regimen of experimentally tested meditative techniques. A second reason that psychological experimentation hasn’t dramatically altered the American religious landscape is that American Christians borrow selectively and...
Islamic finance and the Western cult of money
by Laura Duane...bit like a rapt meditation on the way the shower of gold behaves—shimmering and falling—when it cascades over Danaë in her cloister in Argos. In the story, it’s merely the...