...interesting to note that a number of commentators and historians of the discipline often turn to religious metaphors in order to characterize some of its core features or talk about...
...to different religious and cultural practices. A series of public controversies in 2007 led the Québec government to appoint a commission to investigate what sorts of “reasonable accommodations” ought to...
[Thank you to Nilüfer Göle and Michael Sandel for leading the discussion that inspired this post, and for lending us the images that accompany it. Göle is leading a research...
by Iza Hussin
...fact becomes a practical possibility?” With admirable transparency, he notes what many of us have encountered in the field: “When I arrived in Sudan, I made the rather unsettling discovery...
...long as the notion of rationality be given some content—and Aristotle’s whole philosophy, coming to a point in the final book of the Nicomachean Ethics, accomplishes this task—such a formula...
...meanings for the public order.” That’s clearly insufficiently complex for our more turbulent and tangled present, in which theology and political theory are engaging one another afresh. Continue reading here....
...with the historian Thomas Mastnak, that medieval crusaders, too, may have been “true cosmopolitans.” I raise the question of theology to also emphasize how, at least since the sixteenth-century colonization...
