...the culture of dispossession broadly? Did adherents to the culture of dispossession live in homes that were notably barer than their counterparts? Rousseau seemed to think it was necessary to...
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Trafficking as terror
...character pursues his daughter across the globe, drawing on his counterterrorism skills to murder and torture all who stand in his way. At the end of the film, Neeson tracks...
Are Evangelicals really outsiders?
by Charles GelmanDan Gilgoff at God & Country had an incisive post yesterday considering the Evangelical movement as a counter-cultural phenomenon: “Religions that grow are the ones that are hard-core in some...
Violence, publicity, and sovereignty
by Arvind Rajagopal...responses being planned or conducted by the state; torture and encounter killings do not make the news, and counter-insurgency operations occur off-camera and through third-party and non-verifiable sources. A Possible...
The shapeless things to come
by M. Cooper Harriss...fiction as fact and fabrication. History’s best practices, by both accident and design, cannot responsibly convey the depth and range that mark Nat Turner’s legacy. Yet, counter to Jasanoff, no...
Islam and authority
by John R. Bowen...first: not only is it futile and religiously counter-productive to enforce Islamic piety, but doing so also distorts and impoverishes religion. Islam as a system of religious understanding depends on...
Secular imperatives?
by Saba Mahmood...repeated use of the term “anti-secular” to describe and dismiss my arguments. This gesture of course invites a simple counter-response: “No I am not anti-secular” or “Yes, I am.” Such...
Presence and contagion
If scholars define Catholicism by its sacramentality, its commitment to an embodied encounter with the divine in real time, what even is Catholicism in an age of social distance during...
Bringing fathers more fully into view
...existing power relations, a way to say that God Godself modeled a different way of being in relationship, a counter-cultural vision in which fathers and sons were equal. For orthodox...
Keep your cake, I’d rather be dancing
by Eboni Marshall Turman...just do not add up. The truth is that Jim and Jane Crow did not die at the Woolworth’s lunch counter or at the water fountains in the city parks....