...issues, as well as over development policy more broadly, involve religiously oriented and nonreligious NGOs who differ over such fundamental matters as the scope of the problems and the best...
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A review in three parts
by Gil Anidjar...most brilliantly revealing and, considering the success and praises his book has gathered, his most noxious contribution. This is no doubt secularism at its best. Like enmity for Schmitt, Lilla’s...
Mystical power
by Nicole Greenfield...thoroughly. Syria cultivates tolerant-minded Sufi orders as the best means of fending off Islamist subversion. For similar reasons, even the Chinese government openly favors Sufism. Hard as they try, fundamentalist...
“Sorry comforters” and the new Natural Law
by Peter Danchin...only question is one of means: how most effectively and accurately to reach the targeted audience; whether compliance is best achieved with sticks or carrots, hard coercion or soft power;...
“Good Intentions” alone are not good enough!
by Abdullahi Ahmed An-Na`im...best foundation for the universality of human rights, mandates that we treat others as we ourselves wish to be treated. Why should we allow the government of the United States...
Reflections on summer reading
by Courtney Bender, James S. Bielo, Anderson Blanton, John D. Boy, Wendy Cadge, Simon During, Omri Elisha, M. Christian Green, Martin Kavka, Tanya Marie Luhrmann, John Schmalzbauer and Jeff Sharlet...broad topic of secularism, religion, and public life. We asked: What are the best books and essays you’ve come across this summer? What are you most looking forward to reading...
The Charter of Quebec Values
by Valérie Amiraux, Lori G. Beaman, Benjamin L. Berger, Simone Chambers, Ian Alexander Cuthbertson, Mohammad H. Fadel, Jean-François Gaudreault-DesBiens, Pamela Klassen, David Koussens, Jean-Michel Landry, Georges Leroux, Jocelyn Maclure, Ruth Marshall, Jeremy Stolow, Charles Taylor, Jeremy Webber and Daniel Weinstock...large number of Quebecers around what the government presented last fall as “the best way to answer religious pluralism in a modern state.” As in the movie, nothing tangible informs...
Holding on to multiplicity
by Kathryn Lofton...Such analytic labor repeatedly pursues definitions of the spiritual seeker, perhaps best articulated by Leigh Schmidt in Restless Souls: The Making of American Spirituality, where he argues that there are...
spirit
by Josef Sorett...that best mediates this fundamental entanglement of race and religion, as well as the asymmetries that animate and provide context for the term’s place in American history. It both illuminates...
Preposterous practices
...domination in an academic discipline, we must undertake risky experiments aimed at cultivating new habits. Instead of accumulating and disseminating “best practices,” we must dream up preposterous new practices—Hail Marys...