...in accord with or detrimental to moral judgment and moral behavior. For instance, does Thomas Hobbes’s denial of a qualitative divide between humans and other animals really “cause us to...
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by Supriya Gandhi
Secularism and Hindutva histories
...instance, not only highlights a past when India’s various religious communities seemed less rigidly divided. It also inserts the Mughal state into a teleological narrative of modernity. In this vein,...
The Unintended Reformation ![]()
by Ernst van den Hemel
A Kingdom that no longer says Whatever
...for instance, seems to me to have limited value when applied to the contemporary crises of secularism and religion in Western Europe and, more specifically, in the Netherlands. For instance,...
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by Atalia Omer
Praying with one’s legs again
...on the Shabbat before Ninth of Av to mark the destruction of Jerusalem), for instance, is as relevant to her now as it was then. Because Shabbat Hazon revolves around...
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by Mark C. Taylor
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...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...
Essays
“I am not a racist, but . . .”: The perversity of the recent ECJ ruling on the “headscarf issue”
An Atheism that Is Not Humanist ![]()
by Simon During
Catholicism, conservatism, and antihumanist politics
...interest in the politics of antihumanism is never allowed full extension, even if he offers an illuminating account of interwar left-wing humanism, for instance. So we don’t really find an...
Islam and the Secular State ![]()
by Daniel Philpott
Arguing with An-Na`im
...sure, but involved an independence of religious authority and a limitation of state responsibilities to typically temporal ones—raising armies and taxes, for instance. It was in good part European colonial...
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by Olivier Roy
The paradoxes of the re-Islamization of Muslim societies
...the transversal connections (the fact, for instance, that Al-Qaeda systematized a concept of terrorism that was first developed by the Western European ultra-left of the seventies or the fact that...