At the New York Times, Patricia Cohen reviews Shlomo Sand’s The Invention of the Jewish People, a recent best-seller in Israel that is now available in English. A scholar of...
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A Secular Age
Higher times in the Bible Belt
by John Schmalzbauer...is called marijuana by the moderns—say that this stuff is best planted on Good Friday. Flax must be planted on Good Friday no matter what the weather conditions, according to...
Religion, spirituality, and democratic renewal: Essays from the 2020 fellows
On parable, truth, and true and false reconciliation
A Secular Age
Constitutional patriotism
by Charles Taylor...phrases like “the last best hope on earth,” but which often arise in Canada around things like multiculturalism, and certain feelings of smug superiority when we look at some unfortunate...
Political Theology
Political theology and liberalism
by Paul W. Kahn...the sacred, and this works quite independently of reason. Political theology today is best thought of as an effort to describe the social imaginary of the political. It proceeds at...
Essays
What is religion in China? A brief history
by Wei Zhu...governed an embedded religiosity in the population, one best described as diffused, non-exclusive, and pluralistic. As a companion to The Immanent Frame‘s newly launched series of essays on the state...
Essays
So, what about the Christian lobby?
by Gil Anidjar...so fond. Obama is perfectly clear. There are two sides, in his narrative, and two sides only: Ultimately, we cannot tell either the Israelis or the Palestinians what’s best for...
Is this all there is
Future imperfect
by Sarah Imhoff
...of our subjects have. We must keep observing and explaining as best we can, even with the awareness that perfect knowledge is no more attainable than perfect subjects. These observations...