...is, for instance, very clear that he is not offering an anthropology of Islam, nor is he proposing a study of jihad, jihadi, or jihadism. He certainly does not wish...
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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...
Law, religion, and state building
Bridging normative worlds: Religion, politics, and the rule of law
Islam and the Secular State
Does tolerance require struggle?
by Jenny White...reform process and to put its weight behind freedoms welcomed by the pious majority, while neglecting the freedoms of non-pious groups. For instance, severe strictures were put on alcohol and...
A cognitive revolution?
Let’s get clear about materialism
by Edward Slingerland...cultural primes (for instance, Catholic nuns) would probably result in very different reported experiences: not merging with some indefinite “larger presence” or Mt. Tam, but being physically embraced by a...