...new—under its many names and the accelerating shift of its guises and growth can help it. The Lord knows its efforts. Kojève no doubt put the matter best when he...
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Political Theology
Political theology or political hierophany
by Miguel Vatter...calling a political theology would correspond, at best, to what the Romans called “civil theology”—not to be confused with the modern idea of civil religion—and, at worst, to what Voegelin...
Religion in the public sphere
Translation and transformation
by Craig Calhoun...at best yield reluctant adaptations to a kind of modus vivendi”. A utilitarian compromise—based on the expectation of doing better in the next majority vote—is an inadequate basis for continuing...
A Secular Age
A Catholic Modernity?
by Hans Joas...(with the significant exception of Poland)? The value orientations prevailing in these countries are hardly best described as “secular humanism.” We could be dealing here with a new version of...
"These things are old"
“Out of many, one”
by Martin E. Marty...board, and other expressions within public life. I find corollaries to this reasoning and labeling in, for example, Alexis de Tocqueville’s “Associations,” Edmund Burke’s “Platoons,” and, best, in a Dutch...
here & there
Thomas Friedman taken to task
by Charles Gelman...NY Times and columnists like Friedman have chosen to ignore them. For example, Muslim scholars’ and organizations’ condemnations (including fatwas) of the 9/11 attacks, given from Saudi Arabia to Malaysia...
The politics of spirituality
An untapped constituency
by Laura R. Olson...of the religiously unaffiliated seem best classified as religious skeptics, as asserted by Kosmin and Keysar, because many of them have not abandoned religion altogether. Politically speaking, the religiously unaffiliated...
Rethinking secularism
Waiting for Godot, who is either late or not coming at all
by Vincent P. Pecora...answer positions may look the same, but the answers are really very different). But his best insight is to see the desire for the fulfillment of the standard “secularization thesis”...