...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...
December 20, 2008
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...
January 15, 2010
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...
March 21, 2011
Pandemic, religion, and public life
The pandemic and new Muslim publics
November 5, 2020
...Malay-Muslim crowd, posting on Instagram: “What? #panicbuying? That is too mainstream for us Malay, we chose #panicmarrying.” The anxiety partly stemmed from financial reasons but more deeply, it spoke to...
November 5, 2020
Translation and the afterlives of Anglophone theory
Is Baathism an Arabic word?
June 22, 2021
...original invitation, Palestinian artist Emily Jacir’s 2003 installation, “Translate Allah,” came to mind. The installation is a billboard emblazoned with those two words just outside the Queens Museum that became...
June 22, 2021
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,...
June 12, 2020
Science and the soul: New inquiries into Islamic ethics
by Fadi A. Bardawil
The Arabic Freud: Discourse interruptus

...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...
October 11, 2018
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...
March 10, 2010
Couture and the death of the real: A response to Heavenly Bodies
Time, gender-bending, and the medieval church
October 26, 2018
...a woman became a nun by accepting the veil. By the same token, a cleric would be degraded from office by a ritual undressing, a process which entailed a painstaking...
October 26, 2018