...Several best-selling books aggressively attacked religion, calling it a “delusion” (Richard Dawkins), and a “spell” (Daniel Dennett) that “poisons everything” (Christopher Hitchens). Bill Maher’s movie “Religulous” warned that humankind must...
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The religion of the old women of Nishapur
Inborn faith or knowledge: Mothers and the old women of Nishapur
The politics of religious freedom
Hosanna-Tabor in the religious freedom Panopticon
by Peter Danchin...of rational despotism with free reason: the public and free use of autonomous reason will be the best guarantee of obedience, on condition, however, that the political principle that must...
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Faith in diplomacy
by James Bourk Hoesterey...Professor Shaun Casey. As the Persian Sufi Jalal al-Din Rumi once said, “The best of princes is he who visits scholars.” Secretary Kerry described Dr. Casey—a professor of theology, with...
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Holiday roundup
by Laura Duane...his blog. USA Today offers a list of eight great Channukah books, including the best holiday story ever, Hershel and the Hanukkah Goblins. If you, Hitchens style, don’t feel like...
Political Theology
The politics of the atonement
by J. Kameron Carter...not the best way to understand modern politics, and certainly not American political experience. Contra Mark Lilla, whose position represents in theoretical terms what more popularly is cast axiomatically as...
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Losing faith in peace
by Charles Gelman...he all but wholeheartedly embraces may be our best hope: I remember attending Rabin’s funeral in 1995 in Jerusalem and trying to convince myself that America must and could save...
