...of the revolution is to experience the mystical corpus of the sovereign. No such experience is possible without a leap of faith.” “That sovereignty could be directly instantiated in any...
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Who has ‘religion’?
by Christopher McKnight Nichols...observers to cry out in alarm and others to rejoice. But the transition is far more complicated than a mere movement from faith to non-belief implies. For instance, increases in...
Powers of ten
by Courtney Bender.... the relative size of things in the universe,” that led to the installation of the Eameses’ 1968 version of Powers of Ten among the inaugural exhibits at the National...
Can sex be a minor form of spitting?
by Elizabeth Povinelli...an ideal spiritual condition and then a moral precondition for entry into the Catholic sacrament. “There were mortal sins in the other dimensions as well (for instance, murder), and there...
On the night of the Notre-Dame fire
...popular piety—pilgrimages, devotion to local saints, or the prayer of the rosary, for instance—can be considered the central locus of negotiation between religious and secular values. Is Catholic disengagement from...
The discourse of Islamic militancy
by Wei Zhu...among Muslims. These claims — in the face of the numerous instances of violence associated with Islamic militancy — are simply not adequate. They are not the ammunition that academics...
The end of the Circus
by David Walker...critiqued others—for instance when clowns and magicians burlesqued “primitive” or spiritualist practices. Since 1920 the circus has been the official mission field for a small troupe of Catholic priests and...
The other shore
by Elizabeth Shakman Hurd...political theology, and how various instantiations of this relationship shape institutions, practices, and identities of world politics, is precisely what needs to be explored. Reading Lilla’s argument next to The...
Beyond beliefs
by Paul Lichterman...not simply as predictable derivatives of first-moving beliefs, we can better understand what it means to be evangelical in local public life and perhaps beyond. We can, for instance, get...
Proselytism and religious freedom
by Gerard V. Bradley...Almost all missionaries are guilty of a peculiar Original Sin, namely, they present their own cultural instantiation of the faith—Irish Catholicism, say, or Midwestern evangelicalism—as part and parcel of the...