...Wisconsin), just to mention a few instances of a common situation known to everybody. Both the sovereign decision and the contract operate according to a logic of inclusion and exclusion...
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Uprising in Egypt ![]()
by Stathis Gourgouris
Withdrawing consent
...the revolutionary movement for democracy in both Egypt and Tunisia never gestured toward any religious authorization. Even the instances of collective prayer in Tahrir Square before projected mass actions remained...
Beyond critique ![]()
by Gregorio Bettiza
“After the Shipwreck”: Interpreting religion in international relations
...framework to make sense of a growing push towards the inclusion and operationalization of religion in American foreign policy. Just this past August, for instance, Secretary of State John Kerry...
Political Theology ![]()
by Jason Stevens
Paul Kahn’s mis-prognosis of America’s social imaginary
...selective use of history. Consider, first, Kahn’s comparison of modern democratic revolutionaries and early Protestants. To paraphrase: the trans-temporal, collective subject of the revolutionary sovereign, instantiated in every citizen, is...
For Love of the Prophet 
by Kabir Tambar
When is the Islamic state? Historical time and the agenda of Islamic studies
by Kabir Tambar
...within the discourses and institutions of the modern state: the movement in Iran, for instance, followed the longstanding revolutionary-national tradition in claiming that it acted on behalf of the will...
Lives of Great Religious Books ![]()
by Jeremy F. Walton
Moments from the lives of great religious books
...come into being. Our authors remind us that these material contexts of production are the neonatal moments of any text’s biography. Martin Marty, for instance, begins his biography of Deitrich...
A Universe of Terms ![]()
by Josef Sorett
spirit
...of a project such as this, “A Universe of Terms.” Yet even within the rubrics of an installation that revisits Mark C. Taylor’s 1998 edited volume, Critical Terms for Religious...