...commonalities between these demographics that are obscured, for instance, by recent electoral maps. Such maps reflect slowly achieved divisions—Republican vs. Democrat, white vs. black, rural vs. urban. However, Restoring Eden...
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Essays
Play
by Mark C. Taylor...At the decisive moment, the eternal God enters history to redeem the believing individual by releasing him from the travails of time. This instant is the eternal Now in which...
Sex abuse in the Catholic Church
Encountering the archive
by Simon Coleman...of the issue in the archive itself and whether, for instance, we can discern a shift away from an exclusively spiritual framing of behavior by church officials towards one where...
Book reviews
Blood: A Critique of Christianity
by Daniel Steinmetz-Jenkins...admits, for instance, that Homer depicted blood as—among myriad other associations and functions—an element constitutive of kinship, especially in the Odyssey. Moreover, Aristotle explicitly invoked blood when stating “the same...
Essays
Banning Shari‘a
by Anver Emon...walking amidst the relics adorning the streets of Europe, represents a roving threat to that history, which grounds the ‘general spirit’ of these nations, as Montesquieu might say. For instance,...
A Universe of Terms
science
by Akeel Bilgrami
...form of cognitive inquiry. The present contribution spells out some implications of these criticisms. Those who deny such a claim—say, for instance, by asserting that nature contains value properties, which...
Deathless questions and other interviews
Endgame capitalism: An interview with Simon During
by Nathan Schneider...That’s ultimately what it implies in the recent work of Habermas, for instance. And that’s also what it means in the kind of intellectual history that uncovers the religious prehistory...
Modernity's resonances: New inquiries into the secular 
by
Graham Jones
Secularism’s enchantments and disenchantments: A reply to Goto-Jones and Zhan
by
Graham Jones
...curricula, enacted in magical performance, or instantiated in anthropological analysis—to function as either liberatory or oppressive. Goto-Jones raises a challenging critique of Magic’s Reason in this regard. Expressing concern “about...