...to free themselves from enslavement. Harriet Tubman. Frederick Douglass. Ellen Craft. William Craft. Harriet Jacobs. Black cartographers also charted a sacred landscape that connected them to their ancestors and the...
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Religion in the public sphere
Fighting words that are not fought
by Sindre Bangstad...of free speech principle and political prudence,” Dutch politician Geert Wilders “should not be on trial for what he says about Islam.” Wilders, the leader of the Party for Freedom...
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PR and the Pope
by Nicole Greenfield...some remain unaware that Benedict XVI had not known about Williamson’s appalling views, and when he was informed, the pope quickly issued a public statement to disassociate himself from Holocaust...
Oprah: The Gospel of an Icon
OMG: Oprah Winfrey, pop religion, and the temple of our familiar
by Daphne Brooks...Harriet Wilson, author of Our Nig) challenge readers to consider the intersecting politics of celebrity and women spiritualist leaders (from Wilson to someone like the Anglo trance medium Cora L.V....
Mere Civility
Civility, toleration, and “human rights as empathy”
by Catherine Arnold...case, Bejan recovers three early modern responses to the problem of balancing difference and disagreement in a tolerant society: Thomas Hobbes’s “civil silence”; John Locke’s “civil charity”; and Roger Williams’s...
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Inventing God to save the world
by Ruth BraunsteinThe Guardian has printed the full text of the Archbishop of Canterbury Rowan Williams’ recent Ebor lecture, in which he argues that “God will not step in to save us...
A Universe of Terms
science
by Lisa H. Sideris
...the story takes an interesting turn. The appellation “scientist” was famously coined by the Victorian polymath and wordsmith William Whewell at a meeting of the British Association for the Advancement...
Political Theology
Not for the squeamish
by Sanford Levinson...to transcend or transgress legal commands when the situation warrants. One will find in Kahn’s book no discussion of the tortured politics of Weimar Germany, nor of Schmitt’s brilliant critique...
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“Serving Two Masters”? Not in Oklahoma…
by Jessica Polebaum...the Right Reverend Rowan Williams, Archbishop of Canterbury, tried in a now-famous lecture to give a nuanced answer to these questions by making what he considered a modest proposal. After...
Religion and digital culture
eBay and the historical imagination
by John Lardas Modern...is worth to you, how difficult it will be for you to find another one, and how soon you need it. Then determine the highest price that you’re willing to...