“To have or not have sex,” writes R. Marie Griffith, “is a vital symbolic and discursive arena for [enacting] the relationship…
Rabid for a peace
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Volatile signs: Feminism, secularism, political economy
What, then, does a feminist critique of secularism and its imperial geopolitics look like? What are the terms in which…
Islamic law from below: Between trust and distrust
Rumee Ahmed’s Sharia Compliant begins with a letter to his Muslim readers. The Arabic term for “letter” is risala, 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…
A “pastoral earthquake” in Rome?
On October 13th, the Extraordinary Synod of Bishops on the Family, an assembly convened by Pope Francis, released a relatio post…
Love, InshAllah
Over at the New York Times, Neil MacFarquhar writes about the recently published Love, InshAllah: The Secret Love Lives of…
Secularism in Antebellum America
Forthcoming from the University of Chicago Press, a "pioneering account of religion and society in nineteenth-century America" by John Lardas…
Lecture: Michael Warner on “Sex and Secularity” at NYU
On Thursday evening, Michael Warner will give the annual LeBoff Lecture at New York University, for which he will draw…
Sex & aggression
I want to raise some questions about Taylor’s account of “our moral landscape” after the mainstreaming of the sexual revolution…
Can sex be a minor form of spitting?
So what’s the problem? What’s the ethical crisis? For Taylor it is this: sexuality cannot carry the burden of the…