...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...
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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...
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...
Death Be Not Proud—A reply
...share the view that distractions are inevitable, but instead of lamenting they seek to downplay them. For instance, Francisco Suárez distinguishes between “actual” and “virtual” attention. Actual attention is, well,...
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,...
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...
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...
Secularism’s enchantments and disenchantments: A reply to Goto-Jones and Zhan

...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...
Solid ground (“Idioms of the left”)
...is, for instance, very clear that he is not offering an anthropology of Islam, nor is he proposing a study of jihad, jihadi, or jihadism. He certainly does not wish...
Moments from the lives of great religious books
by Jeremy F. Walton...come into being. Our authors remind us that these material contexts of production are the neonatal moments of any text’s biography. Martin Marty, for instance, begins his biography of Deitrich...