...curricula, enacted in magical performance, or instantiated in anthropological analysis—to function as either liberatory or oppressive. Goto-Jones raises a challenging critique of Magic’s Reason in this regard. Expressing concern “about...
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Lives of Great Religious Books
Moments from the lives of great religious books
by Jeremy F. Walton...come into being. Our authors remind us that these material contexts of production are the neonatal moments of any text’s biography. Martin Marty, for instance, begins his biography of Deitrich...
A Secular Age
Akbar Ganji in conversation with Charles Taylor
by Nader Hashemi and Danny Postel...good historical sociology. I mean, for instance, if you want to talk about religion, the development of religion, and let me say in parenthesis that I’m just claiming in that...
Deathless questions and other interviews
Implicated and enraged: An interview with Judith Butler
by Nathan Schneider...in every instance wrong and must be opposed, and the colonial subjugation of the Palestinian people, which is in every instance wrong and must be opposed. NS: But what strikes...
The new evangelicals
Evangelicals who have left the right
by Marcia Pally
...on coalition-building and more issue-by-issue policy assessment (more Democrat on environment, for instance, and more Republican on abortion). While the religious right remains robust, in 2005 Christianity Today lambasted evangelicals...
Secularism: Its Content and Context
Genealogy and plurality
by Akeel Bilgrami...clichés presented in this essay about how there is a plurality of religions can undermine this claimed advantage. In a characterization of some ideal (secularism, for instance), words like “should...
Political Theology
The perspective of the common
by Bruno Gulli...Wisconsin), just to mention a few instances of a common situation known to everybody. Both the sovereign decision and the contract operate according to a logic of inclusion and exclusion...
Ecologies of the dead and living: Mourning out of place
The commemorative state, human remains, and the question of missing-ness
Law, religion, and state building
Bridging normative worlds: Religion, politics, and the rule of law