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Reconsidering civil religion
Civil religion and beyond
by Ebrahim Moosa...of that secular/civil/religious moment in 1967, best described. It is also important to recall that the conception of civil religion in Rousseau that Bellah drew on is similar to ideas...
January 22, 2010
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Can life be better than bearable?
by Charles Gelman...our culture today it is self-deception at best and fanaticism at worst. As a counterpoint, Kelly offers the following: But there is another option available. Perhaps Nietzsche was wrong about...
December 13, 2010
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11 years after 9/11
by Wei Zhu...of South Asia, could best be understood as part of the larger political culture in each of their respective national contexts. Browse the full forum and read additional essays here....
September 11, 2012
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Is there a global ethic?
by Jessica Polebaum...world of sin. It is the prophetic voice of religion, which—at its best and, through history, with notable exceptions—stands outside of the political and economic fray, that is positioned to...
November 4, 2011
Essays
Well done better than well said
by Christian Sheppard...be completely known, cannot be completely said. As Plato instructed, the good is beyond being, beyond rational prediction and control, no matter how well-said. The good is best recognized in...
February 3, 2008
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CFP: Global Secularisms
by The Editors...a democratic state. Equating secularism with the rejection of the transcendent, secular humanists insist that secularism is the best way to achieve real human flourishing. Yet the very meanings of...
March 7, 2013
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by Mark C. Taylor...while fans belt out the national anthem. Warriors one and all. Basketball is improvisational and spontaneously emergent rather than programmed and deliberately plotted. Like jazz, basketball is played best when...
February 6, 2008
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The varieties of unbelief and the ghost of Richard Dawkins
by Nathan Schneider...seem to have tried as best they could to avoid a New Atheist-style foodfight. The name itself gestures to the title of a 1964 book by Martin Marty, the great,...
December 8, 2009
The future of Egyptian democracy
The future of political Islam, the Muslim Brotherhood, and Egyptian politics
by Mohammad H. Fadel...explaining to one’s political opponents the usefulness of the “veil of ignorance,” according to which the best procedure for determining what just institutions are is to ask individuals to describe...
March 19, 2014