Yesterday, Dan Gilgoff reported on a new initiative to translate the Bible into the language of American political Conservatism, “free market parables” and all. Writes Gilgoff: There’s a verse in...
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Nussbaum on sexual orientation and religion
by Nathan SchneiderAt the OUPblog, Martha Nussbaum suggests a Constitutional parallel between religion and sexual orientation: Now of course the pursuit of sexual happiness is in many important ways unlike religion… Nonetheless,...
Beyond Religious Freedom
A more anxious freedom
by Matthew Scherer...the politics of religious freedom. These dynamic processes of transformation press concepts of secularism as separation into crisis and Beyond Religious Freedom reveals a new landscape marked by policies and...
Religion and the 2008 election
Good ol’ time American politics?
by Stathis Gourgouris...– this is something I’m utterly baffled about and, from a scholarly point of view, unqualified to disentangle. The connection between religion and the new technology surely is an obvious...
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Where is the new vision to unite us?
by Nathan SchneiderAt the Guardian, Madeleine Bunting asks what will come in the wake of the free market, and whether religion is our only hope: “It’s the end of the era of...
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Au contraire, Mr. Beck
by Kathryn Reklis...God of the Oppressed and realizes her humanity through it. Perhaps recognizing that a serious debate will come to little else than more free publicity for Beck, Serene Jones turns...
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Carl Jung rocks
by Daniel VacaIndie-music authority Pitchfork reports that Billy Corgan (of the Smashing Pumpkins) and David Byrne (of the Talking Heads) will participate next month in the Rubin Museum’s upcoming dialogue series on...
The politics of religious freedom
The problem with the history of toleration
by Evan Haefeli...Baptists most anywhere before the nineteenth century. One of the great transitions between the early modern and the modern period is the role that toleration, or religious freedom, has come...
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Teaching evangelicals about pentecostals
by Daniel Vaca...free will is compatible with divine sovereignty. They believe that salvation is by grace and unmerited but is conditional on faith and on accepting the sacrifice and lordship of Jesus—and...