What does the academic study of religion have to contribute to public discussions concerning Major Hasan’s religious identity? What do…
The cheese, the worms, and Major Hasan
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Heraclitean spirituality: divine conflict
From the vertiginous summit of his virtue, and against all evidence to the contrary, Heraclitus informs us that "it is…
Constitutional patriotism
Robert Bellah’s latest post poses clearly the issues that we’ve been agonizing over in Canada, and in a different way…
The scope and uses of secularity
Early in Charles Taylor’s study, he remarks that the secular condition, in which belief is an option and religion a…
Secularization ain’t dead yet
Normally, when one sits down to read a book hailed by a figure such as Robert Bellah as “one of…
The slipstream of disenchantment & the place of fullness
One of the most important books of our time, Charles Taylor’s A Secular Age explains how many Europeans and their…