Exploring how religious and secular forces interact in the modern world.
Despite its name, the Jewish Question was not a Jewish question as such; it was a European question, whose subject was the Jews.
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The confluence of sacred times and spaces (national and religious) is explosive, and those pulling triggers and making decisions targeting religious celebrations may well be lighting the fuse.
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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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What we can infer from this panel is that the political, racial, and religious markers which compose borders are also etched and negotiated on the bodies of the marginalized others as ‘border-crossers.’
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Religion and flourishing at the 2018 inaugural conference for the Ansari Institute for Global Engagement with Religion.
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How can Poland, one of the most ethnically, denominationally, and religiously homogenous nation-states in the world, counter the empirical absence of ethnic, racial, and religious plurality to meet the modern political goals of pluralism and multi-culturalism?
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Of course, not all religious conservatives feel attracted to the populist message. Which do? Religious nationalists.
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It is precisely this absence of a unified national project that allows for a triumphant recuperation of national symbols by ethnic minorities.
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Newly empowered, US white nationalists straddle pre- or a-modern theology and Christianity, re-constructed and re-lived on internet forums and tv-shows of late-modernity. Willard tracks the contentions in the US white nationalist right through the lens of Arendt’s “Origins of Totalitarianism”.
Read More →The proposed bill on a Charter of Quebec Values, introduced in 2013, generated great tensions, sparking criticism of the Government of Quebec, and igniting public debate on religion, public ethics, and citizenship. However, the proposed bill also served to broaden citizen participation and acted as a catalyst for mobilization and networking across religious associations and institutions. Read the full article »
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