...leaves us to read between the lines. The best I’ve been able to come up with is this: it seems that he is skittish about right order theories (and by...
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Uprising in Egypt
The dignity of Egyptian youth
by Azza Karam...(and much of the rest of the population) are livid, the older generation of opposition party leaders is trying to see how they can coexist and make the best out...
February 2, 2011
Religion and natural disaster in Haiti
So close and yet so far
by Cecelia Lynch...as the promotion of “locally led paternalism” silly and uninformed at best. At worst, however, both the “rational aid” projects and the naïve schemes to save children by spiriting them...
February 28, 2010
Oprah: The Gospel of an Icon
Divine pervasion and the change that isn’t
by Pamela Klassen...to make such change happen, they need to surround themselves with the right goods and services. To best participate in the “rituals of reading” prescribed by her Book Club, for...
April 28, 2011
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The “next door” jihadists
by Todd Kesselman...In the thick of his adolescence, he was fearless, raucously funny, rebellious, contrarian. “It felt cool just to be with him,” his best friend at the time, Trey Gunter, said...
February 8, 2010
Notes from the field
After atheism (Part I)
by Joseph Blankholm...of atheist discourse, for the reasons Anidjar cites? What’s the alternative and should a label even be attempted? I’ll try my best to answer these questions in my next blog...
August 20, 2010
here & there
Gauging irreligion in the heart of Europe
by Jake Alter...be best described as a belief in magic. Czechs may not be very enthusiastic churchgoers but many of them easily accept the idea that fortune-tellers can predict the future, lucky...
June 28, 2010
Oprah: The Gospel of an Icon
Spirituality, mediation, consumption
by David Morgan...when baptized into the Oprah Book Club. The honor translates into colossal sales and best-seller status, which means that hundreds of thousands of people around the country are reading the...
March 8, 2011
Notes from the field
Avitabile’s handwriting
by Rosemary Lee...you know, when you open a card, that it’s from your mother or your best friend. Early modernity—the period from the Italian Renaissance through the Enlightenment—was a particularly exciting and...
July 29, 2011
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Philosophy of religion in the public sphere
by Jessica Polebaum...the start any appeal to the transcendent, or even the non-physical. For them all religious faith has to be personal and private, with, at best, a subjective validity. The nature...
September 27, 2011