...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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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,...
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,...
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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...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...
“I am not a racist, but . . .”: The perversity of the recent ECJ ruling on the “headscarf issue”
...both the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) and various national courts previously ruled on similar cases (see for instance: Ebrahimian v. France (2015) and Dahlab v. Switzerland (2001)), the...
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...
An exceptional tradition? The Jesuits in the world
...For instance, he used the printing press to circulate letters, reports, and rules. These new technologies gave the Jesuits an unprecedented ability to standardize education and centralize control. The possibility...
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...
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...