Exploring how religious and secular forces interact in the modern world.
US racial formations produce a situation in which Copts are pulled simultaneously into Christian kinship and held at racial distance.
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Teddy Afro’s song, for all its theological limitations, expresses what Ethiopia’s churches have too often lost: the capacity to grieve publicly, truthfully, and across ethnic lines.
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Habermas’s liberal idealism may now linger as a kind of story most visible at the edge of disappearance, where loss and transmission drift together under the shadow of perpetual war.
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Hope thrives not in certainty but in the creative tension of becoming—a disciplined assertion that even amidst dislocation, the potential for renewal persists.
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The modern economy reproduces a political theology of obligation, binding collective life to an abstract order while evacuating it of covenantal purpose.
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The myth that we are disenchanted is a form of self-congratulation used to marginalize those who do not fit the secular paradigm
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The utopia Christian Zionism claims is nothing more than a teleological, fatalistic, and metaphysical vision of history, which blocks any possibility of movement, of liberation, of genuine redemption.
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In order to create a Jewish state, the Israeli judiciary performed the miraculous/magical act of imagining Israel’s establishment as though it were an act of self-generation.
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Modi chose Varanasi as his electoral constituency, since it is the holiest city for Hindus, but he had his sights set on Ayodhya.
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It is perhaps an overstatement to claim that Bannon himself is a full-fledged Traditionalist. . . yet there is clear evidence that he finds aspects of the movement appealing and is even willing to implement them within the halls of power.
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