...rather the best of Africans” (the sign was, I should note, in both Arabic, from which I translate, and choppy English, held up at an ceremony largely conducted in Arabic,...
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Christian Human Rights
An unwanted legacy: Christianity and the future of human rights
by Or Rosenboim...In his speech, Maritain praised the constitution as “the best among many plans of international organisation which are being elaborated today, and the most comprehensive and well-balanced ideal pattern that...
Nature and normativity: New inquiries into the natural world
Ethical response and the environmental humanities
here & there
Reverberations of cognition and culture
by The Editors...encourages the practice of breaking out of intellectual silos and Robert Orsi locates academic walls as the best places to discover new knowledge. Fareen Parvez continues the discussion by questioning...
A Secular Age
On the call from outside
by Jane Bennett...extent to which Bilgrami and I have different views of human agency—what composes it, how it is activated and sustained. I think that human agency is best conceived as the...
Rethinking secularism
Beyond moderate secularism
by Rajeev Bhargava...also quite right that (3) there is no effective challenge from the church or radical secularists to this moderate political secularism. This may not be the best of all possible...
Essays
Blasphemous cartoons: The old threat of secularism and the new threat of Islam
by Yvonne Sherwood...figures with their buttocks exposed (though note the tear in the trousers, and what might be a hint at a little piece of toilet paper). Similarly, Monty Python’s Life of...
A Universe of Terms
modernity
by Jonathan Sheehan
...theological forms,” or the persistence of Christianity, or the durability of religious commitments—is simply not an interesting criticism of secular modernity. At best, it acknowledges that the present is not...
here & there
The (religious) textbook wars
by Ruth Braunstein...Washington encapsulates the best of America in his 1790 letter to the Hebrew Congregation of Rhode Island: America gives bigotry no sanction, and persecution no assistance. Read the full column...