...instance, uses a rather tendentious reading of the New Testament and of the history of Christianity to portray Christianity as a totalitarian sect, then compares Bolshevism to that version of...
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A Universe of Terms ![]()
by William Elison
space, place
...spirits—opens the possibility of an alternative recognition, one instantiated performatively through ritual interaction: If you look to me, I look to you. Again, in cases like these, omission from the...
A cognitive revolution? ![]()
by Justin L. Barrett
Which cognitive revolution?
...was, then, first and foremost about cognition and not about brain activity. We can learn what human working memory capacity is like, for instance, without knowing anything about what the...
Rethinking secularism ![]()
by Charles Taylor
Western secularity
...instance, when people argue that since the “secular” is an old category of Christian culture and since Islam doesn’t seem to have a corresponding category, therefore Islamic societies cannot adopt...
Essays ![]()
by Nicolas Guilhot
Secularism, realism, and international relations
...different from the interest-maximizing state upon which the traditional concepts and theories of international politics are premised (see for instance the recent comments of James Woolsey on that matter). And...
Crossing and conversion 
by Peter van der Veer
Crossing and conversion: Conclusion
by Peter van der Veer
...like in nineteenth-century Morocco and India, as well as between religious and secular rulings today in many parts of the world. Graham Greene’s novels and biography are a good instance...
Antiblackness as religion: Black living, Black dying, and Covid-19
Distorted mirrors: Toward a clear gaze on Black suffering
"These things are old" ![]()
by Wade Clark Roof
The primacy of practice
...issues at the University of Notre Dame. Implied in each instance is the primacy of practice, that is, in forging new, expanded solidarities, democracy reinvents itself. In his own inaugural...