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God in America? Really?
by Vincent P. PecoraI write having seen the first installment of God in America, a three-part series produced by PBS that showed some promise. While there is much still to come, I can...
Greedy time: An interview with Patrick Lee Miller
by Nathan Schneider...Frame. That’s one of the great things about this site—scholars can test ideas, getting instant feedback from a much wider readership than we could hope for from our specialized journals....
Civility, toleration, and “human rights as empathy”
by Catherine Arnold...Locke argued that the civil magistrate was subject to the ethical demands of civil charity. For instance, Locke urged preachers to “exhort all men, whether private persons or magistrates (if...
Obama reaches out
by John L. Esposito...and restraint, diplomacy and peace, partnership not unilateralism, resonates with the vast majority of Muslims who like Americans want peace, not war, security, not instability and terrorism, leadership based on...
The 9th World Assembly of Religions for Peace
by Tanya Schwarz...theme papers and documents. In many instances, the delegates themselves probe and challenge these (largely) Western-centric discourses. Still, one wonders: who has been excluded from the World Assembly (consciously or...
Conviction and humility in American Buddhist activism
...well. Still, much of its membership remains white, and many of its activities remain rooted in direct action. For instance, in 2014 a group of Buddhists created a “meditation blockade”...
Josef Sorett and the idea of a racial aesthetic
by Robert Gooding-Williams...signifies suggests that he himself is skeptical of the prospect of identifying a set of properties that distinguishes and unifies the manifold instances of black cultural productivity. Without supposing, in...
Creating the Universe
by Mona Oraby...that term (Mark C. Taylor’s 2008 essay, “Play,” is listed under “performance,” for instance, though the term “performance” does not appear in the essay). If authors previously published essays on...
Inclusion and accountability in the public sphere
by Cristina Lafont...giving up on the democratic obligation to secure that only public reasons count in support of coercive policies with which all citizens must comply? [Stay tuned for the next installment]...