...around me, freighted with grief, scrambled and struggled to find the best way to lay the family matriarch to rest in a country that did not understand how these strangers...
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"These things are old"
Teaching for democracy
by William Ayers...at their best, are powered by the engines of enlightenment and freedom. The promise of education is always tied up with the radical proposition that we can change our lives...
off the cuff
Christianity and the crash
by Anthea Butler, John B. Cobb, Jr., William E. Connolly, Harvey Cox, Michele Dillon, Michael S. Horton, D. Stephen Long, Rachel M. McCleary, Sarah Posner, James K. A. Smith, Mark C. Taylor, Jonathan L. Walton and Diane Winston...Christ’s life, death, and resurrection), are all beside the point when the question is how I can have my best life now. Joel Osteen may smile a lot more with...
A Secular Age
Commentaries on our age
by Nancy Levene...Jonathan VanAntwerpen. Each contributor delivers a reading of Taylor’s work, helping to evaluate its significance, critical flaws, and lingering questions. They are companion pieces, then, and work best with a...
off the cuff
Engaging religion at the Department of State
by Ahmed al-Rahim, Helge Årsheim, Pasquale Annicchino, Margot Badran, Benjamin L. Berger, Anver Emon, Elena Fiddian-Qasmiyeh, Amy Frykholm, Maia Hallward, Elizabeth Shakman Hurd, Peter Mandaville, Nadia Marzouki, Melani McAlister, Sara Silvestri, Winnifred Fallers Sullivan, Mara Willard and Erin K. Wilson...a department would be to foster dialogue with groups in various countries who could have quite different approaches to that question. The potential department for religious engagement would be best...
The state of religion in China
Gazing into the future
by Mayfair Yang...while maintaining the hegemonic status of ideology. Separation of Religion and the State? The best way to maintain ideological hegemony is to keep religious institutions on a tight leash, rather...