Tariq Ramadan speaks with On Faith’s Sally Quinn about the meaning(s) of jihad and why Comedy Central was wrong to censor a recent episode of South Park for fear of...
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Theologies of American exceptionalism
Theologies of American exceptionalism: Winthrop and Cavell
by Constance M. Furey and Matthew Scherer...language. In the same spirit, although Scherer notes that Cavell’s philosophical concerns are “very much a piece” with “central theological motifs,” including Biblical motifs of exception and conversion, and notes...
here & there
The varieties of unbelief and the ghost of Richard Dawkins
by Nathan Schneider...thing—a reasonable denial that a God exists. The fiercer argument, however, broke out between McGinn and Turner; despite Niebuhur’s welcome efforts to turn their attention back to the question at...
Book introductions
Religion and populism
by Nadia Marzouki, Olivier Roy and Duncan McDonnell...National in the 2015 local elections in France, the unexpected nomination of Donald Trump as the Republican candidate for US presidential elections, and the unexpected vote in favor of Brexit,...
Rethinking secularism
Religion’s return
by John Schmalzbauer...has steadily mounted, as high-profile scholars have joined the movement for a post-secular academy. In 2004 UCLA’s Alexander Astin wrote that “spirituality deserves a central place in liberal education.” The...
Deathless questions and other interviews
Making compassion cool: An interview with Karen Armstrong
by Nathan Schneider...is a dress rehearsal for the challenging task of addressing people who are strangers or foreigners. I myself am at a disadvantage as a “freelance monotheist” in not having a...
here & there
Teaching science to Buddhist monks
by Laura Duane...us our participants in this grand and inexorable globalization experiment, there is that most challenging and central question for all educators and learners: how do we most effectively teach and...
A Universe of Terms
body
by Olivia Whitener
...physical practices, for example, related to food, sexuality, movement, or body modifications, are increasingly central to religious studies. Recent discussions about secularism often use the body as a lens for...
Sex abuse in the Catholic Church
Encountering the archive
by Simon Coleman...the problem was the lack of central control of such priests, whereas in the cases we’re looking at here there are clear problems with the center itself. But can we...
"These things are old"
Politics and prophecy as vocations
by George Shulman...social fixity, deviance, and political marginality, he also affirms the sacralizing of liberalism as the very meaning of a freedom that is god’s gift. At the same time, he affirms...