...ways to approach the resurgence of religious forces in the present moment, I look forward to the next installment in the series on the subject of Gestures (edited by Anne-Marie...
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The politics of spirituality
Religion’s reputation
by Paul Lichterman...Luckmann argued in 1967, for instance, that religion was becoming “invisible”—alive mainly in our private ponderings. Believing did not need to mean belonging, and Luckmann further supposed that many of...
Notes from the field
Utopia now
by Jenna Tiitsman...the first pages, the location of Utopia is drawn into question; the very first mention of the island’s location is obscured in More’s account by a cough. This instance of...
Religions and their publics
Overlapping senses of salvation
by Eric Hoenes del Pinal
With a Guatemala’s history of social and political instability, the place of religion in public life is often fraught with tensions and ambiguities, especially with regard to the nature of...
Religious freedom in the United States
The Supreme Court’s faith in belief
by Sarah Imhoff
...This legal picture of religion offers no guidance about what to make of religious arrangements where practice is primary, and belief is secondary. For instance, Saba Mahmood and Talal Asad...
here & there
Hinduism, prosperity, and India’s rising middle class
by Grace Yukich...are not merely becoming more religious—they are embracing a type of religion that celebrates their new prosperity rather than asking them to adopt a more ascetic lifestyle. For instance, the...
Essays
An excursion through the partitions of Taksim Square
by Jeremy F. Walton...that I lived in the district of Kurtuluş, adjacent to Taksim, my own excursions (geziler) as a flâneur through Istanbul’s urban flux consistently bore witness to the instability and porousness...
Minding the Modern
Playing God
by Charly Coleman...that skeptics might reasonably mobilize in their defense. For instance, should it give one pause that Plato’s Republic advocates eugenics as well as the contemplation of the Forms, or that...
For Love of the Prophet 
by
Gina Giliberti
Tainted love
by
Gina Giliberti
...identification to the brain’s neural processes of unconscious and conscious social (not necessarily linguistic) transmissions that imbue public affects with an intrinsic creative instability. That is, even as the Sudanese...
Is critique secular?
What if?
by Simon During...off from prophecy for instance. But this triple discursive mechanism, so characteristic of modern intellectuals, is indeed pioneered in Christianity: to take an important English Protestant case, it is to...