Tagged “historical”

Sikhs As Subalterns – Voice, Inequality, And Power, Part 2 (Nirvikar Singh)

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The following is the second installment of a three part series. The first can be found here. It is published as a catalogued .PDF in article in the latest issue

Body Erotic – John Boswell’s History Of Eurochristian Sexuality And The Case For Transcendental Somatics, Part 2 (Kieryn Wurts)

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The following is the second of a three-part series. The first can be found here. Social constructionist theory developed as an answer to essentialist theories

Body Erotic – John Boswell’s History Of Eurochristian Sexuality And The Case For Transcendental Somatics, Part 1 (Kieryn Wurts)

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John Boswell (1947-94) was a Yale philologist who published two major studies betweeen 1980 and 1994 which, considered together, constitute an extended and

A Tainted Trophy And The Framing Of White Supremacy In America, Part 1 (Tink Tinker)

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The following is the first of a three-part series. The entire article appears in the fall 2022 issue of The New Polis Journal It highlights key arguments

Reorientation In The Field – Why Religion Matters, Part 1 (Wendy Felese)

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The following is the first of a two-part series. It was originally published at a 2019 conference in Athens, Greece.1 When teaching classes like World Religions

Christianity As A New Humanism – Historical, Theological, And Philosophical Reflections On The Bible, Hegel, And Robert Musil, Part 4 (Kurt Appel)

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“Damn It, He’s An Injun!” Christian Murder, Colonial Wealth, And Tanned Human Skin, Part 2 (Tink Tinker, wazhazhe udsethe)

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The following is the second of a three-part series. The first installation can be found here. The article in full originally appeared in The New Polis in

God and History, Lecture 5 (Johannes Zachhuber)

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The following is the fifth lecture in an eight-lecture series. The most recent one can be found here. The existentialist approach you heard about last week

Beyond Religious Ideas – The Legacy Of Max Weber In Critical Theory And Critical Religion (Joel Harrison)

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This article was initially published in The New Polis, March 23, 2018. In his essay “The Failure of Nerve in the Academic Study of Religion,” Donald Wiebe

Review – Hear No Evil, See No Evil, Speak No Evil: Negative Reactions to the Jewish Pre- and Post-Holocaust (Madison Tarleton)

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Antisemitism Before and Since the Holocaust: Altered Contexts and Recent Perspectives. Basingstoke United Kingdom: Palgrave Macmillan, 2017 It highlights

Review – New Trends In The Theory And Methods For Studying Religion (David Kim)

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Kovács, Ábrahám, and James L. Cox, Editors. New Trends and Recurring Issues in the Study of Religion: Context and Overview. Budapest: L’Harmattan, 2014

Benjamin’s Concept of History As A Source of Arendt’s Idea of Judgment – Part 2 (Ronald Beiner)

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Part 2 extends the Benjamin-Arendt comparison by testing judgment against crisis and memory, clarifying how historical rupture reshapes political discernment

Benjamin’s Concept of History As A Source of Arendt’s Idea of Judgment – Part 1 (Ronald Beiner)

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Part 1 traces how Walter Benjamin's theses on history inform Hannah Arendt's account of judgment, emphasizing temporality, critique, and political The

Review – Agamben’s Political Reading of the Trial of Jesus (Ryne Beddard)

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*Agamben, Giorgio. Pilate and Jesus (Meridian: Crossing Aesthetics). Translated by Adam Kotsko. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2015 It highlights