...and the critique of racecraft by Karen and Barbara Fields, other explanations emerge. Immanentism that builds myths, creates worlds, and speaks in symbols runs counter to strains within the immanentist...
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Promise and consolation
by Nadia Marzouki...religious activists call for a spiritual revival, they suggest that violent ideologies and movements can only be fought through a counter-ideology that proposes a similar combination of emotional intensity, moral...
Lucretius and the immanence of motion
...Greek atomism reintroduced transcendence, and 3) It is the primacy of motion in Lucretius that defines his philosophical immanence. Lucretius was not an atomist This thesis is as counterintuitive as...
Marriage plots
by Janet R. Jakobsen and Ann Pellegrini...idiom, we too worry about the effects of the sexual ethic developed in the Protestant Reformation, a worry that haunts Taylor’s essay with its focus on the French Counter-Reformation. Like...
Understanding and undoing the far right: India and beyond
...from different contexts would not only improve our understanding but allow us to better counter these dehumanizing movements. How integral is misogyny to these far-right movements? Nitasha Kaul has argued...
Practicing sex, practicing democracy
by Ann Pellegrini and Janet R. Jakobsen...as whether it should be lived through a commitment to poverty. This concern with sexual life is refracted through the Counter Reformation, which emphasizes sexual purity such that, as Taylor...
Sex and the subject of religion
by Tracy Fessenden...Church’s post-sexual revolution critics. Importantly, Taylor locates the ramping-up of sexual regulation and the modes of its resistance much further back, in the Counter-Reformation, which also brings a broader set...
This song is old. But is it true?
by Romand Coles...more than a cog servicing leadership that drives America up the path of dubious progress. In Dreams of My Father, Obama tells a profound story of moving counter to dominant...
The public voice of Muslim women
by Sindre Bangstad...with hate speech—that few seemed to have the stomach to engage in any form of counter-speech, and hate speech against Muslims was hardly ever prosecuted.1“Counter-speech,” in recent scholarly usage, refers...
Wolterstorff’s Bible-as-“frame”
by Ward Blanton...Wolterstorff’s book. As readers will recall, the first half of the book gives us a kind of genealogy of human rights inasmuch as it counters a story we hear (interestingly,...