...wellbeing of people and planet. The abstraction—prime instance of Whitehead’s “fallacy of misplaced concreteness”—obscures the differential relations of responsibility for the actual destruction of actual worlds.1A. N. Whitehead’s “fallacy of...
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Skyping secularism: Religion and democracy
by Thomas Alberts...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...
Essays
9/11 chronomania
by Justin Neuman...teams of hijackers, a stopwatch-driven succession that culminates in the instant when, “at 8:46:40, American 11 crashed into the North Tower of the World Trade Center.” The conspicuous precision of...
For Love of the Prophet 
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Kabir Tambar
When is the Islamic state? Historical time and the agenda of Islamic studies
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Kabir Tambar
...within the discourses and institutions of the modern state: the movement in Iran, for instance, followed the longstanding revolutionary-national tradition in claiming that it acted on behalf of the will...
Beyond critique
“After the Shipwreck”: Interpreting religion in international relations
by Gregorio Bettiza...framework to make sense of a growing push towards the inclusion and operationalization of religion in American foreign policy. Just this past August, for instance, Secretary of State John Kerry...
Is this all there is
Do my socks respond to my caress?
by Sonia Hazard
...do things simply mediate a power that resides elsewhere, for instance by acting as symbols. Things have a power all to themselves, one that is irreducible to the human. Like...
Religious freedom
Islam and terrorism
by Peter Danchin...on the promise of the justice and legitimacy of the normative order being instantiated thereby. The desperate struggle we have witnessed against the U.S. occupation, and the ensuing brutal conflict...
Christian Moderns
No view from nowhere
by Webb Keane...style of critique that insists, for instance, that secularism is a discipline and liberalism a tradition. This is also consistent with a certain kind of pluralism: to admit that this...
A Universe of Terms
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by Nathan Schneider
...The tithe, for instance, derives from references in the Hebrew Bible to an expectation of turning over a tenth of a person’s portion to religious purposes—typically interpreted in Jewish and...
A Secular Age
Heraclitean spirituality: ephemeral selves
by Patrick Lee Miller...then, Heraclitus seems to intend instability in both subject and object together, and he does so with an aphorism that exhibits the same instability. As you step into a river,...