The Washington Post has initiated a discussion on sameness, similarity, and difference among religions, with the following prompt: Are all religions the same? The Dalai Lama, who just celebrated his...
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The politics of national identity
The politics of national identity: Introduction
by Ruth Braunstein...forms of difference. They also show how national belonging has become defined in complex ways—by groups on the political left and right—through secularist projects that are themselves constituted in relation...
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Breivik and “Christianism”
by Amanda KaplanAndrew Sullivan discusses the difference between Christianity and “Chritianism” in light of the recent terrorist attack in Norway. “Both Christianism and Islamism,” he writes, “are not about genuine faith; they...
A Universe of Terms
performance
by William Robert
...and lips remained closed.1Angela of Foligno, Memorial, in The Complete Works, trans. Paul Lachance (Mahway, NJ: Paulist Press, 1993), 182. The woman was Angela of Foligno (c. 1248–1309), a widow,...
Modernity's resonances: New inquiries into the secular 
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Graham Jones
Secularism’s enchantments and disenchantments: A reply to Goto-Jones and Zhan
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Graham Jones
...and symbolic violence. To think is to compare, Mei Zhan tells us; to compare is to produce similarity and difference, commonality and alterity. To interact—as a close-up magician might with...
National identity, nationalism, and the politics of religion
National identity, nationalism, and the politics of religion
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New sins, new virtues
by Nicole GreenfieldIn addressing the problems of an overcrowded, overheated planet, religious leaders—including the Pope—have begun to broaden their message. The Economist reports: The document [Charity in Truth, the encyclical released on...
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In praise of doubt
by Nathan Schneider...of the same disease afflicting modern society. Fundamentalism enforces a consensus about ultimate ends without accounting for difference, while relativism makes sharing common values impossible. In “In Praise of Doubt,”...
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Contending Modernities
by R. Scott Appleby, Lisa Sowle Cahill, Jocelyne Cesari, Robert W. Hefner, Sherman Jackson, Slavica Jakelić, Bernice Martin, David Martin, Martin E. Marty, Aminah McCloud, Robert Orsi, Eboo Patel and Christian Smith
...communities with both overlapping and incommensurate epistemologies and worldviews. To make matters all the more complex, these supposedly self-contained discursive communities are themselves internally plural, and their priorities and self-understandings...