...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...
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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,...
For Love of the Prophet 
by
Mayanthi L. Fernando
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...
Christian Moderns
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 Secular Age
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...
Sociology of religion
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...
Notes from the field
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...
Deathless questions and other interviews
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....
Mere Civility
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...
Essays
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...