...beliefs in order to be more compatible with modernity. Many sociologists of religion, especially those promoting “strictness theory” and “rational choice” approaches, have argued that when religious groups give up...
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The New Metaphysicals
History and the historyless
by Leigh Eric Schmidt...projects seem built on denying history, on obliterating more than a millennium and a half of church history in order to return directly to Pentecost or the River Jordan or...
Oprah: The Gospel of an Icon
“The hegemony of her sway”
by Jeffrey Mahan...practice. One watches the consumption and eclectic conversation of Oprah and her guests. The viewer participates by buying into Oprah’s interpretations and by buying the goods that Oprah offers and...
Religion in the public sphere
Fighting words that are not fought
by Sindre Bangstad...in order to prevent “fighting words” from turning into “fighting actions.” It is hard to see that when Islam is compared to Nazism, and ordinary Muslims to Nazis, it constitutes...
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Faith and the Occupy movement: What would Jesus do?
by Wei Zhu...on Biblical text to say that Jesus would in fact be a proponent of the free market: But just what does Jesus’ order to occupy mean? Does it mean take...
The politics of religious freedom
Freeing religion at the birth of South Sudan
by Noah Salomon...in order to dole out their goods (protection from persecution, the development of networks with global “communities of faith,” etc.), neat lines drawn on a map wherein what constitutes religion...
A Universe of Terms
modernity
by Nancy Levene
...go.” “Naming a border is a way to rectify and absolve us, it’s a way to give credence to our own inaction and to do so without shame. A border...
Nature and normativity: New inquiries into the natural world
Ethical response and the environmental humanities
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Habermas: Between Naturalism and Religion
by Ruth Braunstein...religious arguments into secular terms is still required at some point in order for them to potentially pass through the institutional filter, but this burden does not rest solely on...