...America’s nonbelievers, and by her own sense of fairness. “I always do my best to make sure every group is represented,” said Ms. Parvizi, who is an atheist herself. “I...
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Carla Bley’s secular evangelicalism
by John Schmalzbauer...holiday tunes. Her father played organ at church, and her parents met as students at the Moody Bible Institute in Chicago.” The flavor of Moody was best captured by Shirley...
Scales of justice for environmental ethics: A reply to Hennessy and Hoesterey
...scales of environmental ethics balance corruption. Hoesterey here has hit on the critique of the approach to “Islam and environment” that would extract only helpful, uplifting teachings, affording at best...
A religious history of American neuroscience
by Leigh Eric Schmidt...its salubrious effects. It is in the tradition of Harvard’s William James, pioneering psychologist, psychical researcher, and philosopher of religion, that the current turn to the contemplative mind is best...
Race and Christian identity
by John D. BoyReligion News Service reports that a new book about Christian identity is inadvertently tapping into the U.S.’s racial history: For evangelical author John MacArthur, the best way to explain a...
Atheism and antihumanism as intellectual-historical objects
by Stefanos Geroulanos...to offer for “antihumanism.” For purposes of clarity, let me quickly recall that definition: “antihumanism” is best thought of as a rather fluid weave of three parallel and intertwined discourses,...
The bishops, the sisters, and religious freedom
by Elizabeth A. Castelli...benefits to religious citizens”). “At our best,” they write, “we might call this an American public square.” Framed in this way, the very presence of religious arguments and believers is...
The long shadow of Christian politics
by Udi Greenberg...for many liberals, Protestants, and even (albeit only rarely) socialists. After the war, as Jan-Werner Müller has shown, thinkers of many camps shared the hope that supra-national organizations were best...
Nothing special about religion
by Mark S. Cladis...Studying diversity in this fashion is one of our best avenues to greater social understanding and tolerance on matters pertaining to religion. Turning now to a different application of the...
Colonial reverberations in contemporary religious freedom promotion
...A second blind spot appears in the common refrain among international FoRB advocates to “name and shame” abusers. This preferred policy mechanism aims to deter FoRB violations by inflicting reputational...