...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...
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Deathless questions and other interviews ![]()
by Nathan Schneider
Reading the paranormal writing us: An interview with Jeffrey Kripal
...jokingly wrote of the coming Era of Witchcraft. He was only half-joking. NS: What do you think would fall under Charles Fort’s idea of the “damned” today, for instance? JK:...
A Universe of Terms ![]()
by Kajri Jain
media
...Protestantism’s role in constituting the category of religion. So, for instance, the pioneering work on images in modern Hinduism came from scholars of religion who initially studied classical texts, such...
here & there ![]()
by Thomas Alberts
Skyping secularism: Religion and democracy
...to be able to hear commercial cases, for instance, and there’s fairly broad agreement that these courts don’t have the administrative capacity that they need to address the needs of...
Sex abuse in the Catholic Church ![]()
by Simon Coleman
Encountering the archive
...of the issue in the archive itself and whether, for instance, we can discern a shift away from an exclusively spiritual framing of behavior by church officials towards one where...
Deathless questions and other interviews ![]()
by Nathan Schneider
Endgame capitalism: An interview with Simon During
...That’s ultimately what it implies in the recent work of Habermas, for instance. And that’s also what it means in the kind of intellectual history that uncovers the religious prehistory...
A Universe of Terms ![]()
by Akeel Bilgrami
science
...of cognitive inquiry. The present contribution spells out some implications of these criticisms. Those who deny such a claim—say, for instance, by asserting that nature contains value properties, which do...
Essays ![]()
by Anver Emon
Banning Shari‘a
...walking amidst the relics adorning the streets of Europe, represents a roving threat to that history, which grounds the ‘general spirit’ of these nations, as Montesquieu might say. For instance,...
Book reviews ![]()
by Daniel Steinmetz-Jenkins
Blood: A Critique of Christianity
...admits, for instance, that Homer depicted blood as—among myriad other associations and functions—an element constitutive of kinship, especially in the Odyssey. Moreover, Aristotle explicitly invoked blood when stating “the same...