...strategist Donna Brazile to Norman J. Ornstein, resident scholar at the American Enterprise Institute, considered how President Obama can best navigate the political dangers of the mosque debate. David Gibson,...
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A Universe of Terms
human
by Constance M. Furey
...no single definition of humanity. So, too, in the Christian sources I know best—sources that associate god with a god-man savior. These sources, like Luther’s, make clear that god-human is...
Religious freedom in the United States
The Supreme Court’s faith in belief
by Sarah Imhoff
...Individual beliefs and faith—the very thing the court holds up as the essence of the religious human—are at best indirectly accessible to the process of legal scrutiny. Even if we...
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Can religion save the world?
by Nathan Schneider...suggests, and is ‘good’ religion the best peacemaker? Tony Blair is not the first person to think that religion will decide the fate of the modern world. “The 21st century”,...
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Questioning religious pluralism in the US
by Charles GelmanAt Religion Dispatches, religious studies professor Ivan Petrella argues that the United States would be best served by re-imagining itself as “a nation of multi-religious individuals,” rather than “a multi-religious...
Oprah: The Gospel of an Icon
Holy City (a history of Chicago’s future)
by Marshall Brown...the city limits. She guaranteed total equality of education for everyone. All families, rich and poor, sent their children, since Her school surpassed even the best private academies. This earned...
Is critique secular?
What if?
by Simon During...memory and admiration? Again I think Chris Nealon is correct when he says (not as a secularist perhaps) that, in this context, it would be best to resist the temptation...
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Michael Sandel on justice, religion, and civic engagement
by Charles Gelman...refuses to take up discussions of the best way to live.” One way to encourage such weighty discussions, he contends, would be to construct “‘a more faith-friendly idea of public...
Religious freedom in the United States
Hobby Lobby and the question for religious freedom
by Andrew Koppelman...the object of solicitude. The moral case for moving beyond “religion” is perhaps best captured by Christopher Eisgruber and Lawrence Sager, who argue that “religion does not exhaust the commitments...
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Teaching Islam in high school
by Laura Duane...the unity of Islam, which is portrayed as simple, monolithic, and benign. The wide range of belief and practice between Sunni, Shia, and Sufi Islam, to name only the best-known...