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Daily Archives: June 1, 2024
Seminary to University: An Institutional History of the Study of Religion in Canada (2020)
Aaron W. Hughes responds to his critics: …all our narratives, terms, categories, and frames of reference emerge from the shadows, and we would do well to illumine them. Only by understanding these narratives and frames of reference—their genealogies, their investment … Continue reading
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Is Israel Defensible? The cruel geostrategic logic of the Holy Land
Christopher Caldwell writes for the Claremont Review of Books: …the settlements are part of a conscious but never-written-down government policy: to divide the Palestinian population in such a way as to make the massing of force difficult and conspicuous, to … Continue reading
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Science Envy in Theories of Religion
Aaron W. Hughes published in 2010: In the recently published Contemporary Theories of Religion (Stausberg; 2009, hereafter CTR), at least 9 of the 15 chapters are devoted to theories that interpret and/or explain religion from perspectives that can loosely be … Continue reading
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Max Weber and the Two Universities
Professor Stephen P. Turner published in January 2024: No sooner than the ink had begun to dry (or should we say the pixels stopped changing) on the publications written to celebrate the centennial of Weber’s ‘Science as a Profession and … Continue reading
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Unanswered Threats: Political Constraints on the Balance of Power
Randall Schweller wrote in 2010: ALTHOUGH THE BRITISH EMPIRE according to J. R. Seeley and Winston Churchill was acquired in a fit of absentmindedness, territorial expansion usually advances through a deliberate and collective will to imperial power, through a single-mindedness … Continue reading
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