...number of bloggers, journalists, and scholars how blogs and new media have altered academic and public discussions of religion. Now, we ask another group of thinkers: how are new media—from...
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Reconsidering civil religion
Civil religion and beyond
by Ebrahim Moosa...their own, despite a good number of palliative voices calling for calm. Clearly President Obama is doing a great deal to rehabilitate the image of Islam and Muslims nationally and...
Mumbai 11/26
The death of secular India is greatly exaggerated
by Sumit Ganguly...intelligence and police sources have made clear that they have no evidence of the existence of any such entity. More to the point, the cell phone transcripts reveal that the...
Religion and digital culture
Comments don’t replace the news
by Tom Heneghan...of occasional letters to the editor, maybe a phone call or a discreet word from a source not completely satisfied with a report. Now, the publication of an online news...
Uprising in Egypt
The road to Tahrir
by Charles Hirschkind...in bringing large numbers of people of different political persuasions into the street to protest government policies and actions; they were also the first political movement in Egypt to exploit...
National identity, nationalism, and the politics of religion
Competing narratives of the “us” in “our culture and heritage”
"These things are old"
Obama as public theologian: Old wine in new wineskins
by Ronald F. Thiemann...nation. Lincoln eschews both cheap theodicy and false hope with this sophisticated employment of theological reasoning. Although comparisons between Obama and Lincoln are surely overstated—our current president has not yet...
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Love is an orientation
by Nathan Schneider...a genuine commitment to justice and equality, Marin’s proposal of simple love may appear as a cheap substitute for costly solidarity. On the other hand, for those gay Christians, like...
Is this all there is
Agnostic front of the aging boomer
by Ron Kassimir
...would ever expect to get. I almost sighed in relief when the true believer showed up, glad this was not just another cheap shot via what Newman himself calls his...