...home from work to avoid infecting their coworkers. If we expect individuals to act ethically, we have a societal obligation to protect them when they do—for instance, by guaranteeing paid...
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events
Why Prayer? A Conference on New Directions in the Study of Prayer
by The Editors...installation of multi-media presentations and material objects that call attention to the myriad representations of prayer shaping discourse and practice. On Saturday, two plenary events will highlight the multiple registers...
A Secular Age
Constitutional patriotism
by Charles Taylor...and try to establish a new more equal relationship with our erstwhile victims. How else, for instance, to resolve the poisoned relations between post-Columbian entrants and aboriginal peoples in North...
The Stillborn God
Two books, oddly yoked together
by Charles Taylor...tongue in cheek exercise meant to fool his contemporaries. Another interpretation is not ruled out. There were Christian Epicureans in the 17th Century (Gassendi, for instance). But we can by-pass...
Essays
What is religion in China? A brief history
by Wei Zhu...and wane throughout different dynasties and emperors and as they evolved and adapted to Chinese culture. For instance, while Christianity, Islam, and Tibetan Buddhism became major influences among the ruling...
Mere Civility
Civility, identity, and agency
by Jeffrey Collins...flattens Bejan’s readings of her source texts. For instance, she presents Hobbes as a fairly uncompromising advocate of enforced “civil silence,” a servile obedience to the dictates of public doctrine....
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Religion and the Olympics
by Taline Cox...he said. That would lead to instant elimination. Others are not so sure. One of Al Drie’s teammates, Khadijah Fahed Mohammed, a weightlifter, says that though the Olympics are important,...
Deathless questions and other interviews
The view from Berlin: An interview with Hubert Knoblauch
by John D. Boy...crude comparison of intellectual traditions in the sociology of religion. In France, for instance, the factor of integration has been very important since Durkheim, and we can see that as...
Deathless questions and other interviews
Power and resources: A conversation with Sidney Jones
by David Kyuman Kim...displaced by people from northern parts of the Philippines, who are mostly Christian, coming in and taking over land and political power from the Muslims themselves. The problem, for instance,...