...either underemphasized, to the point that it is sidelined at best, entirely ignored at worst; or religion’s place is overemphasized, and religion is made the explanatory factor for almost everything....
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Reconsidering civil religion
All used up
by David Kyuman Kim...becomes how to evaluate and judge the best means of working with the remnants of a tradition—here, the tradition of American exceptionalism and perhaps that of civil religion—after the catastrophic...
Oprah: The Gospel of an Icon
Spirituality: what remains?
by Webb Keane...not created or bestowed, but uncovered. In this respect, spirituality is the product of that purification characteristic of what I have called the “moral narrative of modernity.” Historically, religious purification...
Essays
Queer faiths: Can conversions uncover and unsettle racialized religion?
by Jana Glaese...in fact, “being a German Muslim involves embodying the very best qualities of both German society and the Islamic community.” Young, faithful musicians, in turn, put forward another definition of...
Is this all there is
Promise and consolation
by Nadia Marzouki
...the preemptive engineering of alternative ideologies and belief systems aimed at moderating behaviors and reforming beliefs is inconclusive at best. The political invocation of a curative transcendence that would address...
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3QD Philosophy Prize
by Charles Gelman3 Quarks Daily is now accepting nominations for its second annual prize for the best blog writing in philosophy. Winners will be selected by Akeel Bilgrami. Last year, Patrick Lee...
Religion and natural disaster in Haiti
What is a metaphor a metaphor for?
by Colin Dayan...of Vodou, which is most often used by outsiders to signal the backwardness and indolence that they feel best describe Haitian history. What is the relationship between dead bodies, haunting...
Secularity and the liberal arts
Thinking otherwise
by Mary-Jane Rubenstein...the secularist; she worries that it inspires other-worldliness at best, and dictatorship at worst. This is to say that a politic suspended from some mythic other world either encourages people...
