...whom he is impersonating in it, to be objectively, and depressingly, banal. Does Coppola appreciate this sly logic of protagonist and progenitor? Undoubtedly not. His foray into metaphysics at the...
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Deathless questions and other interviews
God was on everybody’s side: A conversation with Jean Comaroff
by David Kyuman Kim...colonizing dualisms. As a discipline, anthropology was itself invested, not always willingly or wittingly, in the preservation of that idea of tradition, and even though they valued it positively, anthropologists...
January 25, 2010
Deathless questions and other interviews
Religion, science, and the humanities: An interview with Barbara Herrnstein Smith
by Nathan Schneider...of Biology in Early Religions figures in my book, not as a humanistic explanation of religion, but as an evolutionary-biological explanation of it that is duly historically informed and otherwise...
June 21, 2010
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Commentary: Obama distorts meaning of Passover
by Charles Gelman...not going to say anything like that. But there’s clearly a tension inside present-day diaspora Zionism. Nobody in my family, including its members who are quite a bit more conventionally...
March 30, 2010
Deathless questions and other interviews
Religious liberty, minorities, and Islam: An interview with Saba Mahmood
by Nathan Schneider and Saba Mahmood...Revolution had sought to dismantle. Finally, and perhaps most importantly, there are economic issues that are systemic, and that are not simply Egypt’s but belong to the international system of...
August 17, 2011
A cognitive revolution?
The Buddha according to Brooks
by Donald S. Lopez, Jr....generally found to be lacking, not only by Europeans, but eventually by Buddhist elites in Asia as well. The Buddha was transformed from a stone idol into a man of...
June 12, 2008
Essays
Blasphemous cartoons: The old threat of secularism and the new threat of Islam
by Yvonne Sherwood...blasphemy strangely comforting, because they suggest that religion—fanatical religion—is the only remaining, or the most important obstacle remaining, between us and the holy grail of being really “free”? Are gods...
April 6, 2015
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Falun Gong show
by Nathan Schneider...wish only to share with you a hopeful tomorrow.” This was followed, a bit later in the program, by “Heaven Awaits Us Despite Persecution,” in which wholesome, golden-shirted Dafa practitioners...
February 27, 2009
Deathless questions and other interviews
Reading the paranormal writing us: An interview with Jeffrey Kripal
by Nathan Schneider...paranormal migrated from the academy, where they were carefully created and widely celebrated in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, into popular culture and the media, where they now...
April 26, 2011
Book reviews
The Shipwrecked Mind: On Political Reaction
by Michael C. Behrent...recently risen to intellectual superstardom, notably for contending that Saint Paul was a kind of first-century Lenin. Badiou’s significance, Lilla persuasively argues, lies in his revival of the revolutionary fervor...
December 19, 2016