...rendering a plausible and animating “American” civic tradition? MacIntyre famously elevates “tradition over genealogy” as a project of moral inquiry because of what he sees as inherent instability and contradictions...
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Samuel Moyn and the history of natural right
by John Milbank...one could see Moyn’s approach as anti-genealogical. But a third, genealogical approach which I would want to stress at least equally, need not be blind to the instances of rupture...
O tedious selfhood, O aftertaste of splinters
by Tracy Fessenden...with, and perhaps a generous, gang’s-all-here kind of scholarly inclusiveness. But I found the choice initially puzzling on two counts: one, because Lofton is in every instance the better writer;...
Secularism, belief, and truth
by Regina Schwartz...but it would not be obvious from the beginning what that would be. It might include ideas, for instance, about regulating ownership of property, that none held prior to the...
The evangelicals abroad
...and political ideology. Yet in too many instances transnational evangelicalism, however diverse and global, still collapses into a more conventional movement defined primarily by its theological and political conservatism. In...
For and against proselytism
by José Casanova...way Chinese, for instance, tend to think of religion, which is not as a community to which one belongs exclusively. When asked by surveys whether they are Christian, Buddhist, Taoist,...
Who deserves to be hated?
...their humanity. For instance, I listened to Shirley Phelps-Roper cry quietly as she described events leading up to having a child out of wedlock. Her brother Jonathan choked up telling...
The politics of divine intervention
by Amira Mittermaier...founder of the Muslim Women’s Association, claimed, for instance, that, while imprisoned in the 1960s, God’s angels appeared in her cell to feed, clothe, and protect her. She also reported...
Religion and reproductive science
...for instance, the court opinion averred that “the ability of women to participate equally in the economic and social life of the Nation has been facilitated by their ability to...
Gov. Bentley’s two addresses
by Justin Reynolds...newly-instated Governor gave a his inaugural address. It was a much different beast, though it, too, contained pungent allusions of scripture. Comparing the two speeches serves as a reminder of...