...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...
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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...
Practicing sex, practicing democracy
by Ann Pellegrini and Janet R. Jakobsen...puts it, “[t]here were mortal sins in…other dimensions as well (for instance, murder), and there were many in the domain of church rules (such as skipping Mass); but you could...
Conference: Apocalyptic Politics: Framing the Present
by Daniel Steinmetz-Jenkins...of theory – but these relations call for clarification. The multiplicity of ways in which prophecy can be received, for instance – whether the foretold end is interpreted as already-accomplished,...
Taking the Islamic in “the Islamic state” seriously
by Mayanthi L. Fernando...the Sudanese state is not, Salomon also wants to argue, merely another instantiation of a secular state; there is something specific to the “Islamic” in this Islamic state. As he...
An absence of belief?
by Danilyn Rutherford...essays that ended up in this book. His work instantly gripped me—for its elegance, for its clarity, for its judicious deployment of ethnography, for its hard-nosed insistence on sticking to...
A case of heteronomous thinking
by Stathis Gourgouris...of each other; the “buffered self” is an exclusionary self, and the “immanent frame” is, in the last instance, a frame of closure, of self-enclosure, whose greatest failure is that...
Toward a sociology of social religion
by Ruth Braunstein and Grace Yukich...as context-specific forms of talk that are interesting to study as social facts in themselves, whether they approximate more deeply held beliefs or not. For instance, participants in movements often...