...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...
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Essays ![]()
by Mark C. Taylor
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...At the decisive moment, the eternal God enters history to redeem the believing individual by releasing him from the travails of time. This instant is the eternal Now in which...
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...
Religious Difference in a Secular Age ![]()
by Anupama Rao
Competing inequalities
...of the double bind of minority religion. Think not only of the Bahá’í who are forbidden to note their religion on identity cards, but also about instances of religious intermarriage,...
Is critique secular? ![]()
by Stathis Gourgouris
Anti-secularist failures
...doubt, for instance, the great revolutionary inspiration that liberation theology once held for certain oppressed societies in Central America or, for that matter, the inarguable power that Islam holds for...
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by Faisal Devji
Attacking Mumbai
...history of religious violence in Mumbai and elsewhere in the country, if only to scramble and so utterly transform this past. For instance a hospital was targeted by the gunmen...