Reclaiming the Land of the Bible: Missionaries, Secularism, and Evangelical Modernity Elaborates on themes pertaining to the American missionary involvement in the levant, during the middle of the nineteenth century. Arguments used by Johannes Fabian about the historical shift in the understanding of ...
Published on 29 December 2023 Book Review Excerpt | Those who are familiar with Talal Asad’s works, in particular Genealogies of Religion (1993) and Formations of the Secular (2003), will not be surprised that this book too deals with “the idea of the secular” (1). In his previous ...
On February 2 I added a postscript “It is amusing to hear it said in the American and British press that there has been a “smear campaign” against this movie, and one moreover that allegedly started in India. I think my December 31 review here at this site was the very first from...
This scoping review maps the literature on S/R and non-S/R factors that influence utilizing military chaplains—with a particular emphasis on the Australian military context. A systematic scoping review of tertiary literature databases using Arksey and O’Malley (2003) and Joanna Briggs Institute ...
Most academic attention within India has generally focussed on its role in generating conflict and underpinning societal divisions. Religion has also been seen as an impediment to modernization and an obstacle to the formation of a secular state. The pursuit of secularism in the political sphere ...
Revanth Reddy stressed the need for unity and secularism in times of change. “Some people are trying to spread poison. We must work to protect the fabric of our society. We have to be careful of people who are spreading poison for electoral … Read More » Final Deadline Approaches: ...
No wonder the book closes with a chapter on Sholem Aleichem titled “On the Brink,” when European Jewry is about to be wiped out by the somber forces of Nazism and the Final Solution. Kirsch’s nihilistic thesis (the choice of life and secularism at the peril of Orthodoxy, particularity...
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silver Judaica items—Jewish representation in the fine arts, at least prior to the modern era, is decidedly less pronounced. And while Jewish individuals have achieved prominence as modern artists, they tend toward secularism and individualism in both worldview and artistic language. We have yet ...
In Central and Eastern Europe, politicians in Hungary and Poland have described their nations as bastions of Christian civilization threatened by secularism, liberalism, and left-wing progressivism on one side, and Islam on the other (Ádám and Bozóki 2016; Stanley 2016). In Turkey, President...