As the final installment of the series “Sex, secularism, and ‘femonationalism,’” Sara Farris, author of In the Name of Women’s Rights, and Joan Wallach Scott, author of Sex and Secularism, discuss...
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Saad Eddin Ibrahim to speak at NYU
by Ruth Braunstein...(53 Washington Square South). It is the second installment in a series of public dialogues on Rethinking Secularism, co-sponsored by NYU’s Institute for Public Knowledge and the SSRC. A recent...
Political Theology
Ground: Zero
by Juan Obarrio...themes, and their translation, or mistranslation, into the context of contemporary American politics (for instance, the curious association between Schmitt’s work and a philosophy of freedom). I agree with many...
Uprising in Egypt
Arab and American revolutions in history
by Abdullahi Ahmed An-Na’im...they operate openly and legally through “front” organizations or are forced to work underground, their religious and ideological appeal has several sources. One source, for instance, is their ability to...
Rethinking secularism
Secularism, secularization, and why the difference matters
by Vincent P. Pecora...the full instauration of “secularism” as a lived, quotidian experience. There is no way, I think, that Habermas, in his earlier work, could have predicted the return of religion in...
A Secular Age
The truth?
by Simon During...of history, along with their capacity to classify historical formations and tendencies into units which instantiate discrete abstract categories, were important in generating the command over the past required by...
A Secular Age
The fanatical counterpublic
by John D. Boy...of “treatments” Michel Foucault documented in his work. Today’s liberal-democratic states employ several more or less overt disciplinary methods of treating deviant forms of Christian faith and practice. For instance,...
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Religion, race, and the Neanderthal genome
by Terence D. Keel...conversation solely concerns whether humans were the direct and instantaneous creation of God or evolved precariously from a lowly anthropoid ancestor. But when the question is framed in terms of...