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Why Prayer? A Conference on New Directions in the Study of Prayer
by The Editors...of engagement occasioned by new, transdisciplinary research on the practice of prayer. For more information on the conference and how to register, please click here. Registration is free, but space...
Global Christianity, Global Critique
Christianity and its others
by Peter van der Veer...different religious movements: Christian, Muslim, Buddhist, and others. Also, within these religions this competition is intense—for example, between Shi’as and Sunnis, or between Protestants and Catholics. Since Christian missions were...
here & there
Angela Merkel chided for unchristlike comments
by Charles Gelman...Merkel’s coalition party, the Free Democrats (FDP), is calling on Western nations to temper their responses to the news of Osama bin Laden’s death. […] Criticism was also lobbed from...
Political Theology
Political theology and liberalism
by Paul W. Kahn...history that the struggle of the state to free itself of the church was framed not as a conflict of faiths but as a conflict over the place of faith...
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Summer reading: Part II
by Omri Elisha, David Kyuman Kim, Tomoko Masuzawa, Patrick Lee Miller, John Lardas Modern and John Schmalzbauer...books that inhabit that rich “gray” area between the religious and the political. In this spirit, I very much admired George Shulman’s American Prophecy: Race and Redemption in American Politics....
Religion in the public sphere
Religious reasons & secular revelations
by Robert N. BellahThat Jürgen Habermas and I probably agree on most fundamental issues does not mean that there are no differences between us; indeed we have engaged in a friendly debate over...
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Jeffrey Stout to give Gifford Lectures
by Olivia Whitener...2017 Lecture 2 – “Early Modern Critics of Tyranny and Oppression” | Tuesday, May 2, 2017 Lecture 3 – “Why Religion, Faith, and Freedom Proved Hard to Reconcile” | Thursday,...
The politics of religious freedom
Nahda’s return to history
by Nadia Marzouki...in Tunisia is not between religion and politics, but between society and the state. The crucial challenge is the protection of society from the state, not the protection of individuals...