...free of state interference is, paradoxically, to require the state to define “religion” so that it can determine which institutions and actors are to be afforded freedoms on the basis...
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Petraeus, Military Anthropology, and Religion
by David Walker...to “fight for a small amount of freedom against such overwhelming odds,” but she fears that “their hopes will certainly be destroyed if and when the country returns to the...
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Catholic bishops on religious liberty
by Wei Zhu...of the tensions between the USCCB and President Barack Obama’s administration. Calling religious liberty the “first freedom,” and more than just “freedom of worship,” the statement explains that: What is...
The Stillborn God
The rules of the games
by Mark Lilla...but they are free to develop an infinite number of strategies within the rules, so there are always surprises. That is how the game is played. The outside observer (me...
Is this all there is
Swinging between enough and not enough
by Jonathan Schorsch
...has exhausted its mysteries, enjoyed all its pleasures? Surprisingly, additional discoveries about what we think we already know seem always to await us. Even if our lives are not problem-free,...
Notes from the field
Why I don’t read non-fiction from Barnes and Noble, and why that’s a problem for public scholarship; or, what I learned in third grade about epistemology and essentialization
by Jeffrey Guhin...the stuff that’s there—particularly in the social sciences section—is pretty basic, often uninteresting, and available for free (to me) in more rigorous form on JSTOR. Forgive me for being such...
Deathless questions and other interviews
Prayer, imagination, and the voice of God—in global perspective
by Steven Barrie-Anthony...you? TML: I’ve sort of allowed my imaginative experience to become more real. I feel like I have given myself a little bit more freedom as a result of doing...
Religion in the public sphere
Taking religion seriously
by Simone Chambers...be allies in struggles against system domination (e.g., marketization, instrumentalization, and bureaucratization) and dogmatic naturalism (e.g., denials of free will, and neuroscience replacing ethics). Second, secular philosophy, especially moral philosophy,...
Political Theology
Pluralizing political theology
by George Shulman...some degree self-authorizing, “decision,” which is also an experience of freedom situated between the norms whose meaning we must interpret and the exceptions we must declare. Kahn also draws on...