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Is there a secular body?
by Charles Hirschkind...overcome. While these twin movements have played an immense role in shaping what we recognize and valorize as the secular-modern, they also account for a kind of instability at the...
The surprising history of global blasphemy law
...Penal Code provide the affective infrastructure for global religion in the twenty-first century. In Pakistan, for instance, contemporary debates around blasphemy are produced via the Code, to which new sections...
Resistance, critique, religion
by Simon During...at hand, is not critique in any conventional sense but rather a denunciatory naming of the various forms and instances of untruthfulness and anti-universalism (nation, family) that have been made...
Truth in conflict
by Patrick Lee Miller...rather than a particulate succession. Is the same Aristotelian solution available to explain a related puzzle, the paradoxical change of everything in time? Consider an especially vivid instance of this...
Mansplaining religion
...further shows, while Malaysian law today is widely regarded as one of most complete instantiations of an effort to codify and enforce Islamic norms through state law, both the British...
An atheism a theologian can love
by James K. A. Smith...this respect, there might be room for a little more nuance in Geroulanos’s discussion of “Catholic humanism.” While it’s certainly true, for instance, that Henri de Lubac (in an odd...
Religion and hate speech
...be seen as hate speech—as causing, or creating a risk of, harm. We are more likely to discern a link between a particular instance of hateful speech and the spread...
Finding community in diversity
by Ruth BraunsteinAt Georgetown/OnFaith, Katherine Marshall explores similarities between the “robust yet complex” faith communities of Sant’Egidio and Baha’i: In both instances, the sense of membership is strong but there’s no signing...
The forgotten story of the Flushing Remonstrance
by Wei Zhu...not to judge least we be judged, neither to condemn least we be condemned.” Third, the Flushing Remonstrance presents a unique instance of Dutch religious rule and tolerance interpreted through...