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Seattle-area nuns investigated for “feminism”?
by Sam Han...Benedict’s style of rule and specifically his handling of sexual abuse cases, both as Pope and previously as a Cardinal. Related: A recent article in the New York Times casts...
Is this all there is
Fortress Europe and the myth of scarcity
by Zareena Grewal
...to Lesbos would only be a few hours by boat but it took them eight terrifying hours to get across the sea. When the boat finally met the Greek shore,...
The politics of spirituality
Shifting drivers of change
by Christopher McKnight Nichols...become increasingly publicly “intertwined.” Americans take and have historically taken astonishingly diverse (ir)religious paths, but they continue to measure their lives and times by what many say are religious values...
Notes from the field
Minnesota secularism gone global
by David BuckleyMinnesota politics is a bit, well, different. The state elected Jesse Ventura, of course, and is currently served by comedian-turned-politician Al Franken. The state Democratic Party affiliate, the DFL, is...
Rethinking secularism
Judith Butler and Cornel West in conversation
by The Editors...has brought all religions with it. We might actually think a little bit about whether there is a kind of presumptive Christian presupposition there and whether it’s also a Christianity...
Religion and natural disaster in Haiti
Haiti and the unseen world
by Elizabeth McAlisterI have written a good bit recently about the intense religious responses to the Haiti earthquake, as congregations regroup in public spaces in search of meaning and mutual support. To...
Rethinking secularism
The cross: more than religion?
by Winnifred Fallers Sullivan...detailed analysis of the evidence, but should simply conclude the Latin cross necessarily conveys an exclusively religious message . . . But unlike Buono, where no one apparently disputed that...
Is critique secular?
Critique and conviction
by Justin Neuman...before his death, in which he defends critical theory from the charge of quietism. Contra Arendt, who only a decade earlier saw the weight of scholarly consensus settled firmly against...
A Secular Age
The scope and uses of secularity
by John R. Bowen...so needlessly politically self-wounding it would be. Secularity remains then, in W.B. Gallie’s phrase, an “essentially contested concept” that cannot easily become an analytical concept for investigating current political debates...