My last post took my response up to the twentieth century invention of “Christian human rights.” This one engages with crucial…
Christianity, contemporary legacies, and the critique of secularism
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Roots and routes of rights
Over the past four decades, a cottage industry of important new scholarship has emerged dedicated to the history of rights…
The long shadow of Christian politics
It has become a truism to say that Samuel Moyn’s work landed like “a grenade” amid common understandings of postwar…
Christian human rights—An introduction
Christmas Day, 1942. The outcome of World War II was undecided, but the pope had something new to say. A…
Keeping sex sexy: American evangelicalism and the problem of sexuality
Do Christians have the best sex? What kind of sex is best? And what does sex have to do with…
Curses, foiled again and again
In June 2009, I was interviewing a Fijian Methodist minister on the island of Matuku when the subject of curses…
Faith in the nation: Nigerian publics and their religions
The cityscape of Abuja, the capital of Nigeria, is dominated by two houses of worship known as the National Mosque…
Pope Francis and liberation theology
One year into Francis’s papacy, many observers—both inside and outside the Catholic community—are still holding their breath. He has certainly…
Christianity grows in China
Over at The Telegraph, Tom Phillips writes about the rapid growth of Christianity in China.
Beyond religious nationalism
When Pope John Paul II visited Poland in 1979, he used his addresses and homilies to speak of faith and…