...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,...
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For Love of the Prophet 
by Noah Salomon
For Love of the Prophet—A reply
by Noah Salomon
...lacking self-evidence or stability . . . .” Indeed, For Love of the Prophet seeks a double instability in precisely this way, of both the Islamic state and of “us.”...
A Secular Age ![]()
by John D. Boy
The fanatical counterpublic
...of “treatments” Michel Foucault documented in his work. Today’s liberal-democratic states employ several more or less overt disciplinary methods of treating deviant forms of Christian faith and practice. For instance,...
A Secular Age ![]()
by Simon During
The truth?
...of history, along with their capacity to classify historical formations and tendencies into units which instantiate discrete abstract categories, were important in generating the command over the past required by...
Is critique secular? ![]()
by Charles Taylor
Secularism and critique
...a move from Revelation to reason alone (Kant’s “blosse Vernunft”). Clear examples are found in contemporary political thinkers, for instance Rawls and Habermas. For all their differences, they seem to...
off the cuff ![]()
by Ahmed al-Rahim, Helge Årsheim, Pasquale Annicchino, Margot Badran, Benjamin L. Berger, Anver Emon, Elena Fiddian-Qasmiyeh, Amy Frykholm, Maia Hallward, Elizabeth Shakman Hurd, Peter Mandaville, Nadia Marzouki, Melani McAlister, Sara Silvestri, Winnifred Fallers Sullivan, Mara Willard and Erin K. Wilson
Engaging religion at the Department of State
...not only the U.S.—though it has served as a model in many instances. The European Union, Canada, Italy, and other states are all considering, and some are already implementing, specific...
Deathless questions and other interviews ![]()
by Nathan Schneider
Religious peacemaking in a secular world: An interview with Andrea Bartoli
...of the oppressor, on many occasions, I think that there are many instances in which the Church has been openly and boldly, on the side of peace. Many bishops have...
Science and the soul: New inquiries into Islamic ethics 
by Fadi A. Bardawil
The Arabic Freud: Discourse interruptus
by Fadi A. Bardawil
...on a major axis whose origin is taken to be a modern, secular West, nor subsumed under any Euro-American prevalent psychoanalytic theories. For instance, Yusuf Murad formulated a new grammar...
Rethinking secularism ![]()
by Vincent P. Pecora
Secularism, secularization, and why the difference matters
...the full instauration of “secularism” as a lived, quotidian experience. There is no way, I think, that Habermas, in his earlier work, could have predicted the return of religion in...