...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...
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The Kingdom of God Has No Borders 
by Melani McAlister
The Kingdom of God Has No Borders—A reply
by Melani McAlister
...and as victims. This modality has inspired donations of money for the hungry in some cases, or activism on behalf of victims of government oppression in other instances. But victim...
Deathless questions and other interviews ![]()
by Nathan Schneider
The study of special experiences: An interview with Ann Taves
...by focusing only on individuals. NS: A lot of the most visible scientific work going on now about religious experience—for instance, Andrew Newberg’s SPECT scans—seems so fraught with oversimplifications to...
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...
A Universe of Terms ![]()
by Webb Keane
economy
...perspective—for instance, of those whose jobs must be sacrificed for the sake of economic efficiency, or whose mental health care loses out to tax cuts. But there is more than...
Secularism: Its Content and Context ![]()
by Justin Neuman
There is no such thing as a monoculture
...group when asked to state their religion—answering “Christian” or “Muslim” to the question marked “religion” in a Pew Research Center survey, for instance—individuals within the society will differ widely in...
The Unintended Reformation ![]()
by Brad S. Gregory
Contents and discontents of (post)modernity
...own ideals, and certainly not from failing to instantiate a single metaphysical view. As Gordon rightly says (and as I also argue in the book), the attempt to instill a...
Essays ![]()
by Anver Emon
Is ISIS Islamic? Why it matters for the study of Islam
...is Wood’s principal argument. ISIS’s own leadership would probably make this argument. In its decree on the Christians of Raqqa, for instance, ISIS invoked pre-modern rules on the dhimmi (non-Muslim...