...are motivated with missionary zeal to convert everyone, unrelentingly, to change. You make them believe their best lives are yet to come. You make it impossible to look away, to...
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Rethinking secularism
Landmarks in the critical study of secularism
by Matthew Scherer...contradictory, quite complex, and best approached indirectly. By way of comparison with “the secular,” secularism is relatively easy to locate as a “concept” and a “doctrine” bound together with, or...
Religion in Human Evolution
What should we now do differently?
by David Martin...ever in Bellah, his rigorous commitment to objectivity emits a normative aura: it is not a matter of putting stories behind us as childish but of telling the best stories...
The new evangelicals
Rethinking that word “evangelical”
by David P. Gushee...the abolitionist William Wilberforce and the firebrands of the early Social Gospel movement became identified, after 1972, with reactionary white right-wing politics in the American South. Evangelicalism is best understood...
here & there
The moral “we”
by Ruth Braunstein...reform by appealing to the best aspects of American character, reminding us of our history, and by making people accountable for their actions. He called us to neighborliness and generosity....
Beyond critique
“After the Shipwreck”: Interpreting religion in international relations
by Gregorio Bettiza...encouraged greater appreciation, at best, and reification, at worst, of international actors and dynamics understood as religious. Third, they have interpreted religion not solely as an overwhelming source of violence,...
The New Metaphysicals
The sun shone fiercely through the window at Starbucks (Part II)
by John Lardas Modern...secularism in other venues: atmospheric; an emergence that is not singular; a discourse that exhibits signs of organizational compatibility, moving systematicity, and feedback. As scene follows scene in The New...
off the cuff
Religion and the midterm elections
by Dr. Richard Amesbury, Jason C. Bivins, J. Kameron Carter, Ernesto Cortes, Jr., John L. Jackson, Jr., David Kyuman Kim, Rabbi Michael Lerner, Ebrahim Moosa, John Schmalzbauer, Jeffrey Stout and Emilie Townes...the like. And yet it’s deflating, at best, to realize that what has attuned Obama to listen to the pain and suffering of those who are trying to endure through...
Secularity and the liberal arts
Nothing human is foreign to me
by Annette Aronowicz...claim is that it does more to break down the religious/secular divide than arguments from first principles, which can never be decided, and which create, at best, a window dressing...