...that did not take its lacks and lacunas, its under-development and instability, as a starting point? What do we learn if we examine state power as productive and not solely...
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Rethinking the history of the astral sciences in modern Egypt with The Lighthouse and the Observatory
by Marwa Elshakry...an explanation. It also implicitly presents a very different story, particularly when set against much of the global historiography on the subject. (Contrast this, for instance, with the controversy generated...
History and the historyless
by Leigh Eric Schmidt...so ago—often with a sneering tone: When is history not history? When it is the history of religions. In this instance, we have a very particular version of this question:...
Fighting words that are not fought
by Sindre Bangstad...Denmark, for instance, The Free Press Society’s Lars Hedegaard was recently prosecuted successfully for racist speech. In France, TV personality Éric Zummour was convicted under similar laws. But in Norway,...
Freeing religion at the birth of South Sudan
by Noah Salomon...the central government in Khartoum had attempted to craft an “Islamic state.” However, the variety of secularism to be instantiated in the new state, particularly in a context in which...
Ethical journeys
by Charles Taylor...arise only within these. As a matter of fact, it can take atheist forms. Take Friedrich Nietzsche, for instance. His atheist credentials are unimpeachable. But (on one reading) we can...
Ethical response and the environmental humanities
...address some of the field’s pressing debates. This means, for instance, addressing “head-on the notion of responsible and human existence as that of being among other creatures in the face...
What is religious freedom supposed to free?
by Webb Keane...much heed to (mere) rituals or icons or dietary laws, for instance—is to remain backward. The moral narrative of modernity is a story about human emancipation and self-mastery. According to...
Anthropological translations: Strategy, content, audience
...resist rendering it either as an Other or as a version of the Self. For instance, I show how the notion of benefit (maṣlaḥa) has come to be split between...
Freedom struggles of China’s Christian rights lawyers
...in many times and places, including Northeast Asia, lawyers fought for basic legal freedoms, a vibrant civil society, and a state that moderated arbitrary executive power. In many instances, from...