...holy ignorance, such as Pentecostalism, avoids political extremism while other forms do not: Many adherents of Salafist Islam, for instance, endorse violence in the name of fidelity to the Prophet....
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by Wei Zhu
The philosophy of Templeton
...they receive are often meant just to buy them time—a semester away from teaching to write a book or a paper, for instance—or to foster discussion through conferences. The National...
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by Mona Oraby
Out of time
...that didn’t stand a chance at rebellion. “Are you Jewish?” * * * Yael Bartana’s twenty-two-minute video installation, Inferno, is a visual and auditory masterpiece whose epic soundtrack would likely...
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by Charly Coleman
Playing God
...painstaking exposition will no doubt leave many readers in awe. Others might take issue with his disavowal of historical method as typically practiced—which he associates with a kind of willful...
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by Jeremy F. Walton
An excursion through the partitions of Taksim Square
...that I lived in the district of Kurtuluş, adjacent to Taksim, my own excursions (geziler) as a flâneur through Istanbul’s urban flux consistently bore witness to the instability and porousness...
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by John D. Boy
The Amish Madoff
...given to those in greater need. And while Mr. Madoff’s wife and sons instantly became social pariahs in Manhattan, Mr. Beachy’s wife and children remain at his farmstead here, living...
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by Birgit Meyer
Secularization and disenchantment
...accounts for actual Western influences, albeit by “provincializing Europe.” This is the concern of this chapter. Instigated by Taylor’s invocation of the case of Celestine as an instance of a...
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by Courtney Bender, James S. Bielo, Anderson Blanton, John D. Boy, Wendy Cadge, Simon During, Omri Elisha, M. Christian Green, Martin Kavka, Tanya Marie Luhrmann, John Schmalzbauer and Jeff Sharlet
Reflections on summer reading
...to approach the resurgence of religious forces in the present moment, I look forward to the next installment in the series on the subject of Gestures (edited by Anne-Marie Korte...
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by Grace Yukich
Hinduism, prosperity, and India’s rising middle class
...are not merely becoming more religious—they are embracing a type of religion that celebrates their new prosperity rather than asking them to adopt a more ascetic lifestyle. For instance, the...