...by several scholars of religion as “fundamentalist” (see for instance, Antoun, Davis and Robinson, and Zadra). More peculiar, perhaps, was the cast of presenters promoting the event: a Jewish professor...
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memory
...site-specific version of her Welcome to America installation in 1997. The Project took advantage of the building’s decay to host innovative artwork engaging memories of the building’s history while it...
Oaths are dangerous and necessary
...and are usually made in a public, ceremonial fashion. For instance, US presidents take an oath of office at an inauguration ceremony. Married couples usually commit to one another at...
Politics of religious freedom in South Africa
...and was often used by the apartheid government to justify its oppressive laws. For instance, marriages that did not conform to Christian values such as monogamy and opposite-sex unions were...
Prayer to no end
...Spiritual Body,” elucidating its support of holy attention as a cognitive end. There, for instance, the point of a poem’s invoking literally unified, thinking-feeling “spiritual bodies”2 is that such images...
Knowing our demons
...for instance, look to how Jews, Christians, Manichees, Neoplatonists, and others reread mundane reality as a site of cosmic drama—whether by filling its invisible spaces with the blur of demons...
Axial axioms
...a single age—that change is gradual. In the case of India, for instance, Professor Bellah rightly notes that there were continuities with older inquiries, that there was, already in the...
United States religion in a transnational frame
...of state racism against Muslims, for instance, is connected to and even enabled in part through US militarism against Muslim polities abroad. For instance, McAlister examines the rationality of evangelical...
Life after past evil: An interview with Daniel Philpott
...a wide range of practices. For instance, forgiveness is something that you don’t see very much in the liberal peace. It is often thought to be opposed to justice, but...
A different notion of fraternity
...He says: Bilgrami is quite clear that in the first instance the caring is for one’s own conception of truth. I am not at all clear about that because I...