...share the view that distractions are inevitable, but instead of lamenting they seek to downplay them. For instance, Francisco Suárez distinguishes between “actual” and “virtual” attention. Actual attention is, well,...
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A Secular Age ![]()
by Hent de Vries
Naive and reflective faiths
...live up to its very concept and intention (which imply its potential for being fully immersed or engaged and, hence, an instant or instance of “fullness”), or it is not...
Reconsidering civil religion ![]()
by David Morgan
The social body of belief
...place accessed as a moment aside, caught up in memory, ritual performance, and oratory. Such liminal moments occur at graveside, while visiting monuments, in concerts, perhaps in passing instants at...
Lives of Great Religious Books ![]()
by Garry Wills
The “great sinner” myth
...Augustine had no time for promiscuity, since he took up instantly, at age seventeen or eighteen, with his common-law wife “and lived with this one woman and kept faith with...
A Universe of Terms ![]()
by SherAli Tareen
modernity
...of modernity, such as, for instance, in the effective use of print by evangelical and reformist movements in the global North and South. Approaching modernity as a narrative category, however,...
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...
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...
Couture and the death of the real: A response to Heavenly Bodies
Time, gender-bending, and the medieval church