...also increased the number of wage laborers in England, with more money to spend, creating a kind of circle of prosperity—for some. By 1672 London had moved under the thumb...
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Religion and the 2008 election
Grasping King’s mantle
by David Domke...in the world. In South Carolina on Sunday, Clinton visited Columbia’s Northminster Presbyterian Church, where she worshipped, spoke, and even sang with the choir. All of this means that Martin...
Notes from the field
The importance of place
by Annie Hardison-Moody...he also raised another significant aspect of writing and thinking about religion: the importance of place. During fieldwork I conducted at a domestic violence organization in rural, eastern North Carolina...
here & there
Reverence for words
by Nathan SchneiderAt First Things, Stefan McDaniel takes a stand against blogging: Someone recently encouraged me to write more, because “words aren’t lifeblood. Words are cheap.” Words are certainly held cheap, and...
Political Theology
The political theology of freedom and unfreedom
by Mateo Taussig-Rubbo...the Crown to the Union, and not derived from the Constitution. United States v. Curtiss-Wright Export Corp., 299 U.S. 304 [1936]). The exclusion of these genealogies of sovereignty is surprising...
Religion and digital culture
When readers respond
by Tanya Marie Luhrmann...sit on the floor, gripping the phone, throat tight with distress. “I have this habit,” a young woman explained to me over the phone in a conversation about demons: “I...
Is this all there is
Secularism’s two ends
by Vincent Lloyd
...around things religious in our collective psyche, where “our” is presumed to be everyone, or more reflectively the Anglophone West, but more realistically an intellectual elite in North America. (The...
Uprising in Egypt
Space and resistance
by Farha Ghannam
...the number of protesters in the square increase until, on Sunday, February 6, it was estimated to have reached two million. For thousands of Egyptians, the square became the place...
"These things are old"
Not an end, but a beginning
by William Ayers...their friends, they had spent the weekends of the past year phone-banking and canvassing for Barack Obama in Michigan, Wisconsin, and Indiana. He had called me a week before to...