... the return of religion in its more public forms in recent decades, any more than one could have foreseen the great reopening of the question of secularization within social theory since 1990. If, as I argue, the complete eradication of religious thought, which is to say a “finished” project of secularization...

... of India because of its denial of an afterworld. Beginning in the mid-1570s, the Mughal emperor Akbar the Great instigated a series of religious and philosophical debates at his court at Fatehpur Sikri in India. Assembled representatives of many religions and philosophies of the world, including...

... Christianity religion satire historical novel Jay Parini ( 1992b : 282) once asked Gore Vidal to explain the popularity of his historical series Narratives of Empire . In his response, Vidal speculated that “history is so badly taught in the schools, which means there's a real hunger for information...

... Coltrane . 1976 . Cambridge, MA. : Da Capo Press , 2001 . Cox Harvey . Fire From Heaven: The Rise of Pentecostal Spirituality and the Reshaping of Religion in the Twenty-First Century . Reading, MA. : Perseus , 1995 . —. `` Jazz and Pentecostalism .'' Archives de Sciences Sociales...

...-4365106 © 2018 by University of Oklahoma 54 GENRE atheistic rationality, which is contrasted and promoted against mysticism or reli- gious belief. Writing on “the struggle between science and religion” in McEwan’s Black Dogs, Arthur Bradley and Andrew Tate (2010, 16...

... French Secularism.” In Political Theologies: Public Religions in a Post-Secular World , edited by de Vries Hent Sullivan Lawrence E. , 494 – 526 . New York : Fordham University Press . ———. 2007 . On Suicide Bombing . New York : Columbia University Press . Aston Margaret...

... to religion. “Night works ethically,” he summarizes his argument, “to create critical thinkers who are ready to endure this destabilization of their unshakable truths, who are capable of seeing their cherished ideas and beliefs less as absolute or self-evident truths and more as difficult, opaque...

... for many readers, although the afterlife and Protestant religion more broadly are hardly unfamiliar to students of this period's literature. Another key term—soul—is not as easily supposed. The meaning of soul is conveyed in the figural language of flight and known by its inability to be confined by stuff...

...: A Commentary on the Letter to the Romans, translated by Patricia Dailey (Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2005). Contemporary continental philosophy, particularly the tendency that is known in the Anglophone world as "post-structuralism", has rarely been directly interested in religion...

...Hsuan L. Hsu COPYRIGHT © 2007 BY THE UNIVERSITY OF OKLAHOMA 2007 WORKS CITED Anonymous . `` The Buddhist Religion: It Is Explained By a Chinaman .'' New York Times ( Apr 30 , 1877 ) 8 . —-. `` A Chinaman's Strong English .'' Washington Post ( Jan 27 1893 ) 1 - 2...

... was the assumption by modernist literature of the unifying role previously performed in Russia by religion. In other words, in a ritualistic culture that had been deprived of its ritual authorities, literature effec- tively adopted the function of ordering life through lyric discourse and ground- ing...

... Society, Volume 4. Testa Eboracum, or Wills Registered at York. Part 1 . London : 1. B. Nichols and Son , 1836 . Thomas Keith . Religion and the Decline of Magic . New York : Charles Scribner’s Sons , 1971 . Tilley Morris Palmer . A Dictionary of the Proverbs of England...

.... Hallward Peter ( New York : Verson , 2001 ). Carey John . “ A Work in Praise of Terrorism? September 11 and Samson Agonistes ” The Times Literary Supplement , September 6 , 2002 . Derrida Jacques . Acts of Religion , ed. and intro by Anidjar Gil ( New York...

... therein of Wollaston's meditation on the soul's immortality in Religion of Nature, Delineat'd . Wollaston presents that meditation as if by a “man walking in some retired field, far from noise, and free from prejudice,” and the “Elegy” can be understood as extending it. See Gray 1911 : 11; Wollaston...

... of poetry and poetics, pragmatist philosophy, and religion/spirituality in late modernity. His current project, Making a Living Poetry : The Process of Poetic Vocation in Postwar America , investigates how evolving concepts of a poet's “vocation” reconfigure artistic practice, social engagement...

... the pure spirit of morality and piety.” Shorter’s (1861b, v) preface similarly prioritizes moral improvement and religion along with the goal of “deepen[ing] the love of Nature.” This emphasis on morality and piety certainly suggests one reason Bowman and Shorter would have felt the need to contain...

... Review of Anthropology 34 : 741 – 56 . White Hayden . 1999 . Figural Realism: Studies in the Mimesis Effect . Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press . Wiener Margaret J. 2004 . “Making Worlds through Religion, Science, and Magic.” Anthropology News 45 ( 8 ): 10...

... . Mythology: The Voyage of the Hero . New York : Oxford UP , 1998 . Lees Gene . Cats of Any Color: Jazz Black and White . New York : Oxford UP , 1995 . Leonard Neil . Jazz: Myth and Religion . New York : Oxford UP , 1987 . Mandel Howard . Future Jazz . New York...

... or about religion. It is not always possible to separate them sharply from the philosophical text Some of these notes are ephemeral; others on the other hand—the majority— are of great interest. Sometimes they are strikingly beautiful and profound. (Fore- word, my emphasis...

... of justice, of freedom of thought, of our language, of the right to educate our children according to our ide- als, imposing upon us a system of education not only destructive of our national ideals, but imperilling [sic] the very foundations of the Christian religion. (228...