Ireland: Sacred Spaces and The Pursuit of New Gods
Crawford Gribben on Ireland’s Ancient Religious Traditions O ne-night last week, I raised the blind and looked out of my bedroom window towards
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The Future of Secularism
The future of liberalism lies in secularism. What is needed for a renaissance in liberalism worldwide is a spiritual revival in secularism itself. To put this another way, the current crisis in values after the Death of God could be thought of as the birth pangs of the creation of the first genuinely secular civilization in human history.
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Scientific Certainty and Religious Mystery
It is not difficult to see why natural disaster phenomena find religious signification. From the primeval deluge in Genesis to the Great Mississippi Flood of 1927, religious meaning is often attributed to the calamitous effects of natural disasters which unsettle the status quo.
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Religious Freedom: An American Ideal
Tisa Wenger on Jack Rakove W hat comes to mind when you hear the words “religious freedom?” Who and what, in practice, has
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The Mystery of Making: Makoto Fujimura’s Theology of Hope
Leah Silvieus on Makoto Fujimura I first encountered Van Gogh’s The Church in Auvers–sur-Oise amid a spiritual crisis the summer I turned 21.
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Does Religion Exist?
Aaron W. Hughes and Russell T. McCutcheon In the once well-known (and still cited) appendix to his 1912 book, A Psychological Study of
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Scholarship Out of Time: Weimar’s Lost Existence
Samuel J. Loncar on Anachronism in Philosophy, Religion, and Heidegger’s Existence and Time (Sein und Zeit) The Forum provides a home for original
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James Baldwin: Witnessing in Dark Times
Jamil W. Drake on Eddie S. Glaude On May 16, 1969, James Baldwin appeared as a guest on the Dick Cavett Show. Live
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Do We Need God For Happiness?
Timothy Larsen on Tanya M. Luhrmann When we get to Constantine the Great, my students often experience a fair amount of frustration. At
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Religious Diversity vs the Supreme Court?
Mitch McConnell and Donald Trump paid off their debt to the white evangelical community for its political support. And they did so with
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