Ross Douthat writes about the theology of Dan Brown, author of The DaVinci Code and Angels and Demons: In the Brownian worldview, all religions—even Roman Catholicism—have the potential to be...
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Is this all there is
Who do you want me to be?
by Daniel Vaca
...ever made you feel compelled to switch the code of your speech, or to introduce yourself a certain way? Have you ever perused someone’s bookshelf and silently criticized either their...
here & there
A right to home-school?
by Ruth Braunstein...a French parliamentary committee early this year, recommending a new dress code for women in public buildings, “is a challenge to our republic.” Europeans believe in creating a clear civic...
Christian Moderns
Colonialism and conflict
by Stephen Berkwitz...much like that of his fellow Franciscan brothers. And another colonial writer noted in the seventh century that the Buddha left a code of laws that were similar to Moses’s....
The politics of religious freedom
Paradoxes of “religious freedom” in Egypt
by Tamir Moustafa and Asifa Quraishi-Landes...platform opts instead to promote the sharia as a “frame of reference. ” Working hard to assuage anxieties both at home and abroad, the Party explicitly calls for a “civil...
Uprising in Egypt
Contrasting progress on democracy in Tunisia and Egypt
by Alfred Stepan...has signed an agreement with some secular parties that he will not try to change Tunisia’s women-friendly family code, the best in the Arab world. In the new democratic environment,...
American Grace
Public sociology: rigor and relevance
by David E. Campbell and Robert D. Putnam...there might be historians around. At the risk of straining a metaphor to the breaking point, our point is simply that just as humans have a genetic code that shapes,...
The future of marriage
“Traditional” marriage or a break with tradition?
by Stephanie Coontz...minor children of men who died before age 65—if the couple was legally married. The federal tax code was rewritten to provide special benefits to married couples. Private employers followed...
The politics of national identity
Building secularity via religious revival and the “patrimonialization” of religion
by Geneviève Zubrzycki...“bad Catholics,” or masons (all code names for Jews), and now also sexual minorities and feminist-terrorists (likewise, often accused of being Jewish). On the one hand, ethno-Catholic nationalists contend that...
Christian Human Rights
Christian human rights and the Jews
by Paul Hanebrink...systematic opposition to all religion.” Were Christian human rights an inclusive idea? Modern antisemitism had thrived in Europe as a “cultural code”—the belief that a “Jewish spirit” or a “Jewish...