...the best kind of care for suffering bodies, the politics of health care is also shaped by a spiritual politics, divided along several axes. First, there is contentious debate about...
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Beyond Religious Freedom
A more anxious freedom
by Matthew Scherer...about policy, we should decide which course of action has the fewest disadvantages and we should regard that policy as the best, for we will never find a policy that...
Couture and the death of the real: A response to Heavenly Bodies
The soulful, comic defiance of Heavenly Bodies
A Universe of Terms
body
by Sarah Imhoff
...even belief. How, then, should a scholar attend to bodies? It won’t do to ignore texts, beliefs, or nonhuman material things. The best studies that focus on the body or...
here & there
Comparative Studies in Society and History takes on the secular
by Jake Alter...is problematic or interesting about it, secularism is best treated as a modern phenomenon. Again, this stance is puzzling, since state intervention in religious life is as old as state...
Is critique secular?
Equal opportunity criticism (affirmative faction)
by Gil Anidjar...antagonism, to say the least, as they have in turn for centuries. And out of the best global universities in the world, no less (“this is America at its best,”...
Political Theology
Political theology and political existentialism
by Peter E. Gordon...of modern politics as such. Here he follows the principle (also familiar from psychoanalysis) that the pathological is our best guide to the norm: “Politics,” Kahn writes “is not striving...
Essays
Religious freedom & U.S. foreign policy
by Thomas F. Farr...to humanitarian appeals that at best produced the release of a few prisoners. What, then, can be said about the overall legacy of American IRF policy during its first decade?...
here & there
A progressive Halloween
by Laura Duane...two important reasons: First, progressive faith takes new ideas seriously and we try to bring the best of contemporary thought into our theology and congregations. That’s who we are and...