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Articles tagged with religion
Challenges to Christian political control are often spun as being threats to child welfare. “Don’t Say Gay” laws are the latest in a long history dating back to medieval attacks on Jews.
The mystical connection between white Southern nostalgia, the global family values movement, and Russia.
Against the philosopher’s dying wish, the final volume of History of Sexuality has now been published. How should we approach it, and what can it teach us about how Christianity shaped the modern self?
An anthropologist reflects on West African divination as a case study in hope during times of great uncertainty.
A proposed French bill says so. But, strictly speaking, there can be no such thing as blasphemy within the terms of secular public order.
A recent report neglects to mention how France forced Arab Jews to adopt the European persona of Jew as citizen and see Arabs and Muslims as others.
A new book suggests that modern readers can still follow the path of reason that Spinoza traced to true well-being, but they might not want to.
On Ashura, Shi’a Muslims grieve the Prophet’s grandson. But with Iran crippled by COVID-19 and U.S. sanctions, it was also an occasion this year to mourn the country’s deaths from disease and despair.
Pestilence and plague have often prompted waves of apocalyptic thinking, calling into question the steady march of progress in human history.
