I argue that shifting assumptions about “authentic Islam” have catalyzed the scandalization of mystical music in Pakistan. The emergence of Arabization, with its emphasis on rediscovering true Islam in Arab culture, has…
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Why not just abolish the religion clauses?
October 19, 2020
“What is a church in the mind of a secular American today?” “How does US law imagine religion?” and “Where to draw the line between religion and nonreligion?”
October 19, 2020
Experience between the secular and the divine
Abstraction and reduction, with continual reference to Hilma af Klint
October 16, 2020
How might the methodological orientation of phenomenology be compared to formally focused movements in other modernist domains where relations between the methodological and spiritual are in question? Can the study of a…
October 16, 2020
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Imagining community
October 12, 2020
I was so glad for a book that systematically discarded the American “separation of church and state” paradigm, which despite some critiques, has been held up for so long as a model…
October 12, 2020
Experience between the secular and the divine
William James, phenomenology, and the embodiment of religious experience
October 9, 2020
What I will show in the following is the ways in which, because James relies on narrative accounts of religious experience for his articulation of the phenomenon, this putative interiority is challenged…
October 9, 2020
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Jurisdictions of the church
October 5, 2020
Can you reflect a bit on how you see the developments you chart against the history of American Christianity? Even if the American state is not now and has never been “in…
October 5, 2020
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