...at medieval royal courts across South and Southeast Asia. These groups are best categorized, again, in relation to Brahmanism: their success was a result of strategic appropriation and repudiation of...
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A Secular Age
Heraclitean spirituality: divine conflict
by Patrick Lee Miller...of conflicting opposites. His best examples are bow and lyre, since both must strain in opposite directions just to be the unities they are. But their unity in opposition reverberates...
The assassination of Benazir Bhutto
The best of all possible worlds
by Nermeen Shaikh...continue to think that the wars in Iraq and who knows, maybe Iran, will be the best way to make this world more democratic, more peaceful, more secure. And let...
Deathless questions and other interviews
American civil religion in the age of Obama: An interview with Philip S. Gorski
by Joseph Blankholm...and then something else, which I decided was best called religious nationalism. Eventually, I started to conceptualize civil religion as a mediating tradition in between two other alternative traditions within...
The Stillborn God
Our historical Sonderweg
by Mark Lilla...is why he is as much a hero in the story as Hobbes is. Hobbes understood something about violence, and about how messianic religion can feed into it; that is...
Rethinking secularism
Rethinking religious pluralism
by Courtney Bender...“the active seeking of understanding across lines of difference” is best understood as an “energetic engagement with diversity” achieved through a dialogue rooted in the encounter of commitments. Similarly, sociologist...
events
A discussion on religious freedom, Islam, and American Muslims
by Amanda Kaplan...reform, not only for Islam but for all religions.” Her book, The Trouble with Islam Today, has been published in 31 languages and became an international best-seller. Manji has just...