Exploring how religious and secular forces interact in the modern world.
Grossman’s story is first of all the story of a mother whose burning love for her young son collapses under the national narrative of violence and death.
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It might be too early to declare the “Men of Letters” as belonging to yesterday.
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Why do we need idolatry to recognize our false claims to possess the absolute, when fallibilism will do? Is it just to offer religious people a piece of the secular pie?
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Haeri illustrates that in Iran, religion is constituted by poetry and that in the public imagination, poetry plays an authoritative role in defining, destabilizing, and pushing the boundaries of religion.
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Although Haeri’s rich ethnography focuses specifically on prayer, something like the distinction between a religion of the law and a religion of the heart so common in nineteenth-century Christianity runs throughout the book.
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To think critically means one has to closely study one’s surroundings and look at things in unprecedented ways. We know that the voice of literature has the power to create such new ways of seeing.
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