Exploring how religious and secular forces interact in the modern world.
By sustaining affirmation while facing uncertainty, hope sustains social movements that resist authoritarianism with creativity and courage.
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I wonder if it is precisely the cultivated desire to persist (in a certain manner) that forecloses the possibility of rupture, abolition, and dissolution.
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Letting differences in content generate a more differentiated account of kinds of hope might bring us closer to Derrida’s desired future of radical democracy and justice.
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Postwar Protestant intellectuals spearheaded a complementary but distinct form of secularization: one in which the church did not retreat from politics but identified itself as the very source of secular democratic principles.
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If ecclesiastical or clerical hierarchy is modeled on that of the heavens, on what authority could an ordinary person dispute this power arrangement, modify it, or dissent from it?
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Springs’s account of restorative justice might be strengthened by reframing it not only as a set of practices and a theory of justice but as a moral tradition.
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The past and future of India always redeems the violent exclusions in the present.
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Personal and collective identities always hold tensions, ambivalences, paradoxes, and even contradictions. But when these become so extreme that the gaps cannot be negotiated, mitigated, bridged, or even discussed, they become a reason for deep (political) concern.
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Branding as “antisemitic” criticism of Israeli actions pertaining to its occupation—on the ground that this applies a double standard—is Orwellian.
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Who are “we the people”? What makes this question puzzling is that it cannot, without circularity, be answered democratically, by appealing to the will of the people.
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