“Human” features in A Universe of Terms, a project of The Immanent Frame. For information on why and how this project was curated, read the framing essay “Creating the Universe.”...
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Is Europe (still) white?
Olivier Roy’s Is Europe Christian? is an account of the relationship between secularism, Christianity, and populism in Europe, and a reflection on the Catholic Church’s response to these dynamics in...
spirit
by Paul Christopher JohnsonThe Spiritual Exercises. The Spirit of 1776. Spirit of an age, Zeitgeist. We’ve got spirit! A spirited opposition. Spiritual awakening. Spiritual warfare. The Spirit of Christmas Past. Esprit de corps....
CFP | Jews and Quakers (NEW DATE!)
by Olivia WhitenerUPDATE (3/29/2017) This one-day conference will now be taking place on Thursday, December 14, 2017 at the University of Sussex. If interested, please send 300-word proposals for 30-minute papers, along...
Channeling populism
Media has played a constitutive role in the global rise of populism. The past two decades have witnessed a procession of reality show presidents, the proliferation of fake news, a...
Christian theology, feminism, and unmarked fatherhood
For a female theologian of my age, writing a post on divine fatherhood is a strange throwback experience. I grew up intellectually in the world of Beyond God the Father,...
Self-inflicted wounds: The Church and dissipation of Christianity in Europe
Christianity in Europe is fading. A vague and symbolic identity is replacing belief in God, belonging to denominations, and attendance at religious services. Olivier Roy documents these changes in Is...
Smuggling scholarship—In re The Oxford Handbook of Islamic Law
One of us remembers the moment when his children, at a young age, encountered themselves in the mirror. While infants, they had certainly seen themselves before. But the image did...
The religious left left
First, I must tell you that I am not a scholar. My language and technical terms are more from the street than from academia. I do not serve a traditional...
Constructing Indian religion in Heathen, Hindoo, Hindu
Spoken out loud, the title “Heathen, Hindoo, Hindu,” makes you pause. The repetition to the ear draws your eye to the spelling differences. This, in itself, is part of the...