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Reconsidering civil religion
Echoes of American civil religion
by Catherine L. Albanese...1970s, a number of things became clear: 1) Bellah’s term of choice came trailing an ambiguous past and legacy, dating from Jean-Jacques Rousseau’s Social Contract, with its chapter “Of Civil...
The Modern Spirit of Asia
Modern spirits
by Jason Ā. Josephson-Storm...reader of this comment with the sense that van der Veer’s book is weak; it works admirably well as a synthesis of normally disparate secondary literature, and charts a number...
Religion in the public sphere
Cosmopolitanism and the ideal of postsecular public reason
by Craig Calhoun...considered. It is not just one among the various sources of diversity to be recognized and accommodated. There are also a number of religious projects that are direct competitors to...
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Religion scholars descend on (or ascend to) Montreal
by Nathan Schneider...a number of panels, talks, and tours about Montreal’s religious heritage, including a remarkable film, Bonjour Shalom, about Hasidic Jews living in the city’s Outremont district, not to mention sessions...
Sex abuse in the Catholic Church
Abusing rhetoric
by Mark Jordan...relationship with a 17-year-old. Is it wrong for a Catholic priest to begin a sexual relationship with anyone committed to his pastoral care? Yes, it is, and for a number...
Notes from the field
A question on affect
by Jenna Tiitsman...that makes affect such a fruitful and provocative topic. So, then, what does it mean to write about affect? There are a number of extraordinarily helpful texts on affect appearing...
Is this all there is
Supernatureculture
by Mayanthi L. Fernando
...back of her neck. The opera raises a number of questions for me: Can the dog and the snails know—“see” —the ghost in ways humans cannot? Could we retrain our...