...there capable of forgiving him, even if Elin Nordegren and his corporate sponsors never do. Or maybe not. For many people—Woods perhaps included—the fact that Buddhism promotes an ethical life...
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Colin Dayan: “‘Civilizing’ Haiti”
by Charles GelmanIn the Boston Review, Colin Dayan, Professor in the Humanities at Vanderbilt University, argues that woefully little has changed since the colonial era with respect to Western perceptions of Haiti...
February 10, 2010
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Human rights and the Arab Spring
by Candice Scharf...responded to this letter and justified their call for engagement with Islamist governments: Human Rights Watch called on Western governments to come to terms with the rise of Islamic political...
April 6, 2012
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The Buddha as a Christian saint
by Nathan SchneiderDavid B. Hart has a new essay at First Things about St. Josephat of India, revered in both Eastern and Western Christendom, whose legend has a surprising basis in fact:...
September 29, 2009
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Call for papers: Spirituality, political engagement, and public life
by John D. Boy...although belief in a divine order and some form of deity has declined only slightly. Furthermore, belief in various non-orthodox, or non-Western, religious ideas—from reincarnation to the “mind-body connection”—is becoming...
January 25, 2011
A Secular Age
What holds us together
by Robert N. Bellah...is to claim universalism for some limited particular position, and particularly the danger of Western nations using universalism to legitimate imperial claims, so the global universalism of which I speak...
January 11, 2008
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Greedy time: An interview with Patrick Lee Miller
by Nathan Schneider...Plato’s thought, and hence of the tradition of Western philosophy that followed in his wake. * * * NS: What is at stake in the questions of time and consistency...
January 10, 2011
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“Where does evolution leave God?” in the WSJ
by Nathan Schneider...favor by revealing a flaw in modern Western faith. Despite our scientific and technological brilliance, our understanding of God is often remarkably undeveloped—even primitive. In the past, many of the...
September 29, 2009
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Life after past evil: An interview with Daniel Philpott
by Nathan Schneider...Criminal Court, and most Western governments. The key commitment is the establishment of institutions based upon the rule of law, human rights, democracy, free markets, and punishment. These are good...
November 13, 2009
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Obama reaches out
by John L. Esposito...many have deep fears and grievances, fear of Western intervention, invasion, and domination, and the belief that the West, in particular the U.S., uses a double standard in its promotion...
January 30, 2009