...its best to combat, intellectually and politically, throughout the duration of what Eric Hobsbawm has called the “short” twentieth century. It was therefore only really after the end of the...
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Secularity and the liberal arts
The good, the bad, and the ugly
by Mark S. Cladis...enlightened humanity. This is the ugly sense of secularism. Secularism and Hospitable Halls In “The American Scholar,” Emerson argued that American colleges do best when they surpass convention and “gather...
Oprah: The Gospel of an Icon
OMG: Oprah Winfrey, pop religion, and the temple of our familiar
by Daphne Brooks...to best understand her spiritual ethos. As she argues, “we must agree that one of the great success stories of Oprah’s years has been the complete conversion—the conversion of a...
here & there
Making sense of the emerging church movement
by John D. Boy...emerging church, arguing that it is best made sense of as a transnational milieu. Abstract: This article assesses current approaches to defining the emerging church. It argues for the value...
off the cuff
Homosexuality and the Anglican debate
by Mary Anne Case, Eric Fassin, Siobhán Garrigan, Jimmy Casas Klausen, Mary-Jane Rubenstein and Emilie Townes...biological law of nature can become the last refuge of transcendence. To such theologians, sexual difference may be the last, best hope of God on earth—while the social recognition of...
Beyond Religious Freedom
Beyond Religious Freedom—An introduction
by Elizabeth Shakman Hurd...it is embedded. Nor can it be imagined as a variable, segregated from other dimensions of human sociality and history. There are no untouched religions; it is best to approach...
Religion, spirituality, and democratic renewal: Essays from our grantees
White Christian nationalism and the racial politics of analogy
books
Book review: Bridging the maximalist-minimalist divide
by Annie Hardison-Moody...grounded in philosophical or religious presuppositions. Kao’s retrieval of what is best from both maximalist and minimalist approaches to rights leads her to an account situated within this divide. Rejecting...
Notes from the field
The Help, ethnography, and ickiness
by Jeffrey Guhin...those not marginalized are able to study them, such ickiness–despite all our best intentions–will remain. The fact that the movie ends on a positive note about one of the maids...
Antiblackness as religion: Black living, Black dying, and Covid-19
Bearing witness to testimonies of antiblackness