...they will be understood, suspends one’s interest in the temporal and contingent, or fails to distinguish between “truths”, “truth-claims”, and “regimes of truth”, one has ceased to function as historian...
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Evangelicals & evangelicalisms ![]()
by Michael Warner
The ruse of “secular humanism”
...it can be difficult to remember how it can also serve as a framework of corporeal experience and struggle. We are used to associating corporeal discipline and affect with religion,...
Notes from the field ![]()
by Vincent P. Pecora
Rubber soul
To much fanfare, the Vatican recently decreed that under certain conditions the trapping of male semen by a thin balloon of rubber fastened around the penis when it is inserted...
here & there ![]()
by Thomas Alberts
Skyping secularism: Religion and multiple modernities
...destructive vis-à-vis the overarching goal of promoting liberal democracy in each case? I was particularly struck by Chakrabarty’s discussion of the role of Indian peasants in the political process. As...
here & there ![]()
by Charles Gelman
Commentary: Obama distorts meaning of Passover
and, indeed, religious message of the Jewish holiday. Jon Chait and Matt Yglesias take turns taking Rubin’s piece down. Chait: Gadzooks. Does Rubin really think Obama came up with this...
Antiblackness as religion: Black living, Black dying, and Covid-19
Distorted mirrors: Toward a clear gaze on Black suffering
The future of Egyptian democracy ![]()
by Atef Said
Three observations on religion, politics, and the Muslim Brotherhood
...There are many reasons for this hysteria, the most important of which are Egyptian frustrations and disappointment with the rule of the MB, and the presence of an intensive campaign...
here & there ![]()
by Claire Ma
Judge rules yoga not a threat to separation of church and state
Is the practice of yoga inherently religious or can it be a form of secular exercise? A judge in California ruled on Monday that teaching yoga in public schools does...
The future of Egyptian democracy ![]()
by Dalia Fahmy
This is not Mubarak-lite: The new face of authoritarianism
...That lesson has been lost on Egypt’s new leaders. The mass arrest of political activists across the ideological spectrum is facilitating the crystallization of authoritarian rule. Furthermore, parliamentary elections, which...