...number of key twentieth-century developments in Shi’i Islam have passed. The book’s central focus is on how the rationalizing impulse that accompanied Iranian modernity shaped a wide variety of experiments...
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Realizing Eliade’s Dream
by Jeffrey Kripal...in that order). Despite the centrality of such paranormal phenomena in the history of religions (framed, of course, in other registers), in modern science fiction, and in contemporary fantasy, film,...
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Who cares about intellectual history?
by Daniel Vaca...best common thread in a wide-ranging survey course. Igo wrote that “a capacious history of ideas…can and ought to be central to the survey” (p. 19-20). McClay notes that surveys...
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“The I in Me”
by Charles Gelman...exist and that they are not human beings. However, Strawson is a materialist and does not think that your self could exist apart from your central nervous system. He holds...
Rethinking secularism
Who speaks for Islam?
by John L. Esposito...expressed this. Finally, no significant difference exists between the percentage of the politically radicalized and moderates who said: “better understanding between the West and Arab/Islamic cultures concerns me a lot.”...
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The “post-secular” impulse
by Nathan Schneider...Europe throughout the postwar period. After all, the church was central to the emergence of Christian Democracy, and the diminution of its influence, say in Spain or Holland, is a...
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Udi Greenberg
From Christ to Confucius
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Udi Greenberg
In 1924, the influential German missionary Carl Johannes Voskamp composed a series of lengthy reflections on the relationship between Christianity and culture in China, a land in which he had...
Science and the soul: New inquiries into Islamic ethics 
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Kabir Tambar
The future of enlightenment: Comparison, tradition, temporality
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Kabir Tambar
...inquiry into the very practice of inquiry. But what is clear from this example is that Doostdar is not offering us a comparison between two entirely distinctive traditions of inquiry—for...