...terrorism researchers, and the proverbial courageous Muslims “standing up against extremists” have emerged with extensive funding from the state and national research foundations. In Norway, there is a particular paradox...
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The theology of Dan Brown
by Laura DuaneRoss Douthat writes about the theology of Dan Brown, author of The DaVinci Code and Angels and Demons: In the Brownian worldview, all religions—even Roman Catholicism—have the potential to be...
Is this all there is
Who do you want me to be?
by Daniel Vaca
...that languages manifested the spiritual, mental, and intellectual qualities of the peoples who spoke them, comparative philologists not only identified what they saw as correspondences between “families” of languages and...
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A right to home-school?
by Ruth Braunstein...a French parliamentary committee early this year, recommending a new dress code for women in public buildings, “is a challenge to our republic.” Europeans believe in creating a clear civic...
Christian Moderns
Colonialism and conflict
by Stephen Berkwitz...a number of levels, even to someone who studies Buddhism in Sri Lanka, rather than Christianity in Indonesia. Keane’s discussion of the colonial and post-colonial encounters between Dutch Calvinists and...
The politics of religious freedom
Paradoxes of “religious freedom” in Egypt
by Tamir Moustafa and Asifa Quraishi-Landes...platform opts instead to promote the sharia as a “frame of reference. ” Working hard to assuage anxieties both at home and abroad, the Party explicitly calls for a “civil...
American Grace
Public sociology: rigor and relevance
by David E. Campbell and Robert D. Putnam...many different religious groups who have written to ask why their group—the Quakers, say, or the Eastern Orthodox—are not featured more prominently. We readily concede that American Grace does not...
The future of marriage
“Traditional” marriage or a break with tradition?
by Stephanie Coontz...minor children of men who died before age 65—if the couple was legally married. The federal tax code was rewritten to provide special benefits to married couples. Private employers followed...
The politics of national identity
Building secularity via religious revival and the “patrimonialization” of religion
by Geneviève Zubrzycki...“bad Catholics,” or masons (all code names for Jews), and now also sexual minorities and feminist-terrorists (likewise, often accused of being Jewish). On the one hand, ethno-Catholic nationalists contend that...
Christian Human Rights
Christian human rights and the Jews
by Paul Hanebrink...us to read Pope Pius XII’s 1942 Christmas address for what the pontiff said, not for what he did not. Christian human rights were not conceived with Jews in mind,...