...refuses to take up discussions of the best way to live.” One way to encourage such weighty discussions, he contends, would be to construct “‘a more faith-friendly idea of public...
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Teaching Islam in high school
by Laura DuaneAt the Weekly Standard, Stephen Schwartz writes on recent changes in the ways American textbooks represent Islam: In the past, American textbooks were prone to two great pitfalls: Either they...
Religious freedom
Engagement for whose good?
by Clifford Bob...really only a pragmatic effort to implement Cairo’s ideas, and especially the improvement of U.S. relations with Muslim communities, its best approach would have been to boldly advocate changes to...
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René Girard dies at 91
by The EditorsEarlier this month, Stanford University announced that prominent faculty member René Girard had died after a long illness. Among many contributions, Girard is best known to many for his theory...
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Privatized beliefs
by Nicole GreenfieldAndrew Brown argues that neither religion nor atheism can be privatized in a democracy: Secularism is a doctrine about how society is best ordered. As such it cannot avoid imposing...
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German courts inhospitable to Muslim women
by Charles GelmanOver at altmuslimah.com, Sara Ludin writes that in numerous instances, the German court system has shown itself negligent at best, and vindictive at worst, in trying cases brought by Muslim...
The politics of spirituality
What does spirituality mean in America today?
by Courtney Bender and Omar M. McRoberts
Spirituality Politics | Image via Flickr user Annalisa Antonini What does “spirituality” mean in America today, and how can social scientists best investigate it? This paper identifies new approaches to...
A Universe of Terms
spirit
by Emily Ogden
...to remember only the loftiest and best parts of these things. A very partial list of what’s excised from our concepts of teen-ness and St. Louis-ness would have to include...
Justice: Rights and Wrongs
“Bob and weave”: A response to Wolterstorff
by James K. A. Smith...a level of technical, philosophical precision that I think is best pursued elsewhere.) Second, with respect to Wolterstorff’s (lack of) direct engagement with MacIntyre and Hauerwas: Wolterstorff contends that he...
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The other ‘life’ issue
by Nicole Greenfield...the bishops have advocated for universal healthcare—in fact, for a single-payer system with a strong emphasis on covering the uninsured, the poor and immigrants. The best shot at reform is...