Exploring how religious and secular forces interact in the modern world.
It was not a Christian ethic that drew conservative Christians to Donald Trump, but rather a sense of political tribalism and a base transactionalism.
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The narratives that LGBTIQ+ persons relay to van Klinken serve as data points that can then be used to show the folly of those who think LGBTIQ+ persons do not exist or are not worthy of receiving recognition.
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There is a need to broaden approaches to the religion-development nexus and to develop a new conceptual perspective that moves beyond prioritizing the agenda of secular global development institutions and instead critically examines their rhetoric and practices.
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Lynch shows that the postsecular discovery of religion does not constitute a departure from the symbiosis of Christianity and secular modernity, but rather represents its perpetuation through other idioms and technologies.
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If for the continental philosopher there is no possibility of thinking outside Europe, for the colonially appointed philosopher of religion there is no possibility of existence outside a totalizing Christian framework.
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Profound expressions of interfaith solidarity must disrupt the deep legacy of “faith” as an instrument of empire.
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Personal and collective experience shows us that children rightly desire to be received and accepted by their parents as gifts, regardless of their abilities or genetic makeup.
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Uterus transplant makes visible the ways in which social expectations and ideas about the normative body interact with the ethical ends of medicine.
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Imperialism and structural inequalities are highly relevant to the post-Cold War framing of Islam on a global scale, but neither race or “phobia” captures the full complexity of the power dynamics at play.
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Of course, not all religious conservatives feel attracted to the populist message. Which do? Religious nationalists.
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