Haiti has always suffered from a plight of representation: “Black France” for Jules Michelet, “a tropical dog-kennel” for Thomas Carlyle,…
language
Giving up the Holy Ghost
Keane’s account is convincing, but it is important to contextualize the semiotic ideology he defines. I could be misreading Keane…
No view from nowhere
I’ll start with a comment about my own angle of approach. There is of course no view from nowhere, and…
Spiritual machines: An interview with John Lardas Modern
John Lardas Modern, an assistant professor of religious studies at Franklin & Marshall College, draws on Beat poets, phrenologists, prison…
Heraclitean spirituality: ephemeral selves
"That it cannot break time and time's greed---that is the will's loneliest misery." Thus spoke Zarathustra. To try to escape…
Why do we want to know?
"Evangelicals"---getting a handle on the concept requires asking why we want to know.
The measurement of evangelicals
Despite the fact that there is considerable journalistic and scholarly discussion today concerning the role of evangelicals in American public…
Evangelicals and the relational self in Venezuela
Anglophone scholars have long struggled to find a terminology with which to study non-Catholic Christianity in Latin America. We are…
“Trust me”
On Sunday evening at Messiah College, the two contenders for the Democratic presidential nomination agreed to talk in a “deeply…
What we talk about when we talk about shari‘a
A few clarifying points are in order regarding an essay of mine in The New York Times Magazine that drew…