...Abdullahi Ahmed An-Na'im Duke University Press 2005 S y m p osium: Talking Peace with God s, Part 2 THE INTERDEPENDENCE OF RELIGION, SECULARISM, AND HUMAN RIGHTS Prospects for Islamic Societies Abdullahi Ahmed An-Na’im...

...Matthew Mutter Levine George , ed., The Joy of Secularism: 11 Essays for How We Live Now . ( Princeton, NJ : Princeton University Press , 2011 ), 272 pp. © 2014 by Duke University Press 2014...

...Michael P. Kramer Habermas Jürgen , Reder Michael , Schmidt Josef , Briskorn Norbert , and Ricken Friedo , An Awareness of What Is Missing: Faith and Reason in a Post-Secular Age , trans. Cronin Ciaran ( Cambridge : Polity , 2010 ), 87 pp. © 2011 by Duke...

...Joanna Picciotto Joshua Landy and Michael Saler, Re-Enchantment of the World: Secular Magic in a Rational Age (Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 2009), 408 pp. Duke University Press 2011 LITTLE REVIEWS Steve Pincus, 1688: The First Modern Revolution...

... to be popular in peninsular India between the thirteenth and the eighteenth centuries in vernacular languages such as Telugu, Kannada, and Marathi. Secular and this-worldly in orientation, it can be broadly contrasted to the far better known body of texts on dharma , which are concerned to preserve a normative...

...Sari Nusseibeh Mahmood Saba , Religious Difference in a Secular Age: A Minority Report . ( Princeton, NJ : Princeton University Press , 2016 ), 237 pp. © 2017 by Duke University Press 2017...

... of the democratic and pluralist States in which they live. My concern—as a practicing Catholic and a practicing lawyer—is that the increasingly fierce Church criticism, which arose during the papacy of John Paul II and now of Benedict XVI, of the perceived trend towards secularization in the social and political...

... that was inclusive, rather than exclusive, and that understood all boundaries and identities as fluid or blurry, rather than as fixed and immutable. Or one might say that Husain strove to project what Ashis Nandy has called “Indian-style secularism,” celebrating creation, humanity, and beauty in the multiple...

... Orthodox, early Hasidic, Shi'ite, Jain and other Indic, Taoist, and Zen religious traditions. This introduction emphasizes the secular approaches, mostly antipolitical or postphilosophical, that wear the adjective “quietist” metaphorically, including the postmodern currents that Martha Nussbaum has named...

... psychoanalysis and literary theory, which “are likely to found the ‘unifying bond’ that secular, political rationality has until now lacked.” Thus, she concludes, “modern thought, which is neither hostile nor indulgent toward religion, may be our one good option as we face, on the one hand, mounting obscurantism...

... on the Gospels in order to document and argue for the symmetry or symbiosis that he perceived between Judaism and Christianity. Oswald Rufeisen, from a twentieth-century secular Zionist background in Poland, converted to Catholicism during World War II, became a monk, and attempted to immigrate to Israel...

... concept that dictates the diplomatic and domestic policy of modern states. At the same time, secular political theory has moved away from medieval clerical acknowledgment of compatibilities between turbulence and peace, producing temporally bounded categories of peace and war that facilitate damage...

...—war, revolution, and what one scholar has called “secular kenosis ”—that mark radical differences between Russians and Americans. He then describes a debate between Tolstoy and Dostoevsky over whether morality demands military intervention when a barbarous regime practices widespread torture...

... is not” in its Neoplatonic or Augustinian character as privation, and a human possibility that Novillians, like the Houyhnhnms, conceal from themselves. Just as transcendence is intimated negatively in the memory of an “elsewhere,” the integrity of this purely immanent, secular world is compromised by evil's...

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... of the Catholic hier- archy at the present time. His defense here of universal reason, when he could have written in defense of his universal faith, would have been inspirational for non-Catholic and even secular intellectuals at an earlier point in history. Given the direction that philosophy has taken...

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.... Gorringe, Earthly Visions: Theology and the Challenge of Art (New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 2011), 264 pp. Earthly Visions seeks to make secular art redemptive, pursuing meditational sup- port in works of art that have been read as having vacated religious meaning. The author does...

.... Gorringe, Earthly Visions: Theology and the Challenge of Art (New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 2011), 264 pp. Earthly Visions seeks to make secular art redemptive, pursuing meditational sup- port in works of art that have been read as having vacated religious meaning. The author does...