...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...
insta---batmanapollo
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...
Notes from the field
On reductionism
by Brandon Vaidyanathan...dismissal that itself ends up being an instance of what it aims to prevent. Reductionism needn’t be dismissed tout court. I don’t hope to do a great deal of image-management...
Political Theology
Paul Kahn’s mis-prognosis of America’s social imaginary
by Jason Stevens...selective use of history. Consider, first, Kahn’s comparison of modern democratic revolutionaries and early Protestants. To paraphrase: the trans-temporal, collective subject of the revolutionary sovereign, instantiated in every citizen, is...
Uprising in Egypt
Withdrawing consent
by Stathis Gourgouris...the revolutionary movement for democracy in both Egypt and Tunisia never gestured toward any religious authorization. Even the instances of collective prayer in Tahrir Square before projected mass actions remained...
A Universe of Terms
spirit
by Josef Sorett
...of a project such as this, “A Universe of Terms.” Yet even within the rubrics of an installation that revisits Mark C. Taylor’s 1998 edited volume, Critical Terms for Religious...
Deathless questions and other interviews
The suspicious revolution: An interview with Talal Asad
by Nathan Schneider...questions about the state of the economy. Since the economy suffers from the political instability in the country, they say, we shouldn’t have more demonstrations or strikes. But one of...