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“We must remain mad in order to be sane”
The Kashmir conflict is as much a battle of narratives as it is a fight over territory.
Religion
"You always admire what you really don't understand."
— Blaise Pascal
The Changing Face of Anti-Semitism
Anti-Semitism is always being updated.
Profoundly American
Kevin Hart reviews Marilynne Robinson's recent collection of essays.
Environmentalism as a Religious Idea
Stoll provides a history of how theology, the arts, and the sciences stimulated each other to deeper understandings of our relationship to nature.
In Dialogue with Dogma: Women Doing Battle with Religion
Two books on women's traditional roles inside a high-commitment, orthodox religion in the US.
Why Liberalism Needs Islam
American and European missionaries of liberalism are trying to proselytize Muslims to the system of values of Western liberalism.
The View from the Edges
Aysha Hidayatullah takes stock of the work Muslim women commentators on the Qur'an have done so far.
Two-Way Monologue: How to Get Past Science vs. Religion
Anyone tempted to believe that the history of human thought tends toward progress is well advised to consider the long-running, endlessly circular arguments over science and religion.
Activists or Revolutionaries? Iranian Women in “Jewels of Allah”
Nina Ansary on the lesser-known roles of Iranian women activists, reformers, and actors for and against the Islamic state.
A Therapeutic Cartography
On Peter Harrison's latest book The Territories of Science and Religion
Defining the Dissident
Hirsi Ali is not a dissident — she effectively deploys her past for maximum gain in the divisive political realities of her present.
Greening Justice: Can Disparate Actors Heed Pope Francis’s Call for Unity?
A new encyclical on climate change from Pope Francis unites spiritual, material, and moral visions of environmental justice.
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