...and neither one is more or less misshapen than the other. If the question is whether or not reformist politics are still best purveyed by a certain form of male...
Best/feed//Users/Olivia/Downloads/with Malay/Javanese interlinear translations
off the cuff
After Sandy: Presidential rhetoric and visions of solidarity
by Dr. Richard Amesbury, Robert N. Bellah, Michele Dillon, Marie A. Eisenstein, John R. Hall, Ebrahim Moosa, Laura R. Olson, Jenna Reinbold and Rhys H. Williams...possible for anyone today to formulate the very best of the American tradition in such eloquent terms? (Needless to say, with a sense of the centrality of rhetoric to the...
Religious freedom
Words for a faithful world
by Chris SeipleWhat fascinates me most about these religious freedom conversations—within the U.S. and between America and the world—are the words we use. Some words, even with the very best of intentions,...
here & there
Religion enters stage left
by Nathan Schneider...Progressive? Is this the best descriptor for religious groups who advocate for liberal political aims? I have used the term regularly in the past and can argue for its use....
Notes from the field
A question on affect
by Jenna Tiitsman...That is perhaps why most of the texts on affect are tentative if not obtuse or why many of them (even the best among them) adopt the occasionally awkward strategy...
off the cuff
Summer reading: Part III
by Nancy Levene, James K. A. Smith, Rudy Busto, Jason C. Bivins, Webb Keane, Omar M. McRoberts, Justin Neuman and Stathis Gourgouris...have read these past few months. So we asked: What are the best books and essays you’ve come across this summer? What are you most looking forward to reading in...
Oprah: The Gospel of an Icon
Will Oprah Winfrey save us all?
by Deirdre English...few slivers of privacy she has left; her soul mate is her best friend, Gayle King. These factors alone would seem to mark her populist origins as more of an...
Secularism: Its Content and Context
Taking a stance
by Lars Tønder...plurality that subsists within experience itself. Elsewhere I have suggested that the best way to consider the politics of secularism is by examining it in relation to cases such as...