...these run counter to the will of the majority or to traditional understandings of Islamic piety. In an earlier project, Islamic Family Law in a Changing World, An-Na‘im documented many...
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Taking theology seriously
by Molly Worthen...and counter-reactions that have left Americans increasingly polarized over whether or not to impose the authority of holy scripture over one another’s lives, particularly in their bedrooms. That polarization accelerated...
Hope, tragedy, and prophecy
by Colin Jager...repertoires, even capitalism itself. (S) runs directly counter to this discursive expansion of secularism. We might think, Bilgrami writes, that the “rhetoric of ‘secularism’ … plays a role in the...
Public sociology: rigor and relevance
by David E. Campbell and Robert D. Putnam...thick counter-narrative to contemporary society.” If Americans do not take their religion all that seriously, or fail to insist on its superiority to other religions, does this mean that religion...
Spiritual machines: An interview with John Lardas Modern
by Nathan Schneider...to, and that it is the historian’s duty to go back and look at the counter-intuitive moments that made the difference. Not just to say, “Look what happened in 1850,”...
Now broadcasting: Atheist TV
by Ella Wagner...of the growing segment of atheists who should be, but are not, their target audience.” To counter, as they see it, this kind of content, Atheist TV currently hosts interviews...
Crosswise logic
by Patrick Lee Miller...with disciplined effort discern not only one theme or its counter-point, nor only both in alternation, but both at once. Beyond this already difficult accomplishment, the highest comprehension of the...
Genealogy and plurality
by Akeel Bilgrami...being in opposition to religion, for the utterly obvious reason that it may be some part of those disciplines and ideologies that they run counter to the commitments and disciplines...
Informatic cosmologies and the anxieties of immanence
...nor that the cosmos, like culture, is digital. What is more striking is that in the informatic cosmos, order and complexity increase. The great trick of information was to counter...
In-capacities of the soul: A reply to Largier and Iqbal
by Stefania Pandolfo...encounter each other through these layers.” The murmuring comes forth from beginning to end as a (musical) counterpoint of the soul: from the encounters with patients and their experiences of...