...I mean the “we” who live in the West, or perhaps Northwest, or otherwise put, the North Atlantic world—although secularity extends also partially, and in different ways, beyond this world....
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A Universe of Terms
spirit
by Paul Christopher Johnson
...Spirit possession. Spirit Airlines. Holy Spirit. Espírito Santo, Brazil. “Whoa, spirit / Watch the heavens open (yeah) / Spirit, can you hear it callin’?” sings Beyoncé. Karl Marx: We are...
Theologies of American exceptionalism
Theologies of American exceptionalism: Marshall and Morgan
by Winnifred Fallers Sullivan and M. Cooper Harriss...in North America—and well beyond. The suit was ostensibly between the successors to Thomas Johnson, who claimed to have bought the land from the Piankeshaw Indians in 1773, and William...
Religion and the 2008 election
A new kind of evangelical
by D. Michael Lindsay...than many pundits predicted, and with South Carolina and many other states up for grabs in the next few weeks, Huckabee’s political star will continue to rise—at least for a...
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Religion and the midterm elections
by Dr. Richard Amesbury, Jason C. Bivins, J. Kameron Carter, Ernesto Cortes, Jr., John L. Jackson, Jr., David Kyuman Kim, Rabbi Michael Lerner, Ebrahim Moosa, John Schmalzbauer, Jeffrey Stout and Emilie Townes...Theology Jason Bivins, Associate Professor of Religious Studies, Associate Head of the Department of Philosophy and Religious Studies, North Carolina State University J. Kameron Carter, Associate Professor in Theology and...
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Reflections on summer reading
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...Study of the American South, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill John D. Boy, Ph.D. candidate in Sociology, City University of New York Wendy Cadge, Associate Professor of Sociology,...
The politics of religious freedom
Everson’s Children
by Ann Pellegrini...am writing these words a day after North Carolina voters overwhelmingly passed Amendment One, a constitutional amendment banning same-sex marriage. Although many liberal and progressive secularists had hoped, even expected,...
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A tale of two Franks
by John Schmalzbauer...Calvinist apologist Francis Schaeffer. On November 22, Palin met with Billy and Franklin Graham at the evangelist’s Montreat, North Carolina home. In a statement to the press, Franklin celebrated Palin’s...
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Reflections on summer reading
by Dr. Richard Amesbury, Courtney Bender, Jason C. Bivins, Tracy Fessenden, David Kyuman Kim, Pamela Klassen, Patrick Lee Miller, James K. A. Smith, Winnifred Fallers Sullivan and John Torpey...Claremont Graduate University Courtney Bender, Associate Professor of Religion, Columbia University Jason Bivins, Associate Professor of Religion, Associate Head of the Department of Philosophy and Religion, North Carolina State University...