...into question progress, because progress constitutes catastrophe, and the best we do—the dialectic is at a standstill—you put your foot on the brake to stop the elite from just looting...
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Religion and natural disaster in Haiti
Haiti and the unseen world
by Elizabeth McAlister...failures, and illegal trafficking that journalists have revealed. The anthropology of corruption, mafias, and development can be consulted in order to apply specific strategies, best practices and concrete ways to...
Rethinking secularism
The cross: more than religion?
by Winnifred Fallers Sullivan...singular and sectarian. It cannot be secular or universal. Justices Kennedy, Alito, and Scalia argued that the cross, in the context of a war memorial, was not best described as...
Is critique secular?
Critique and conviction
by Justin Neuman...the best possible guarantor of productive scholarly engagement—indeed, of critique as such? I believe there is a case to be made for committed criticism—secular, religious, and otherwise, in all their...
Is critique secular?
The renouncers
by Robert N. Bellah...the best life for human beings, it is, in his words, useless. It is a good internal to itself, but it has no consequences for the world. Aristotle’s Politics, furthermore,...
Religion and the 2008 election
The justice we need
by John D. Carlson...“public service” to signify the nobler side of political life. The best that politics usually can muster is compromise: a pragmatic sensibility or artful process of overcoming ideological differences for...
Notes from the field
Indifference we can believe in
by Justin Reynolds...suburbs we grew up in. For my money, Nietzsche nailed this point best when he observed, “only that which has no history is definable.” Everything else—by which Nietzsche meant the...
Evangelicals & evangelicalisms
The evangelical complexion
by Joel Carpenter...has 250 congregations and home worship groups meeting regularly in the U.S. African immigrants are among the nation’s best educated new arrivals, and their leadership potential is emerging already. The...