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Eddie Glaude on Race and The American Soul: Part 1

October 25, 2017 Leave a Comment

Beginning with a distinction between African American religions and African American religious life, Professor Glaude explains how black religious life and thought have historically entered public discourse to mediate matters of race and justice.

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To Let Live and Make Die: Human Ethics and Moral Machines

October 06, 2016 Leave a Comment

Sylvester Johnson In this new, present age of intelligent machines, religious studies experts especially will be faced with a paradigm shift. They have approached problems of ethics and morality by assuming that moral communities are exclusively constituted by communities of biological humans.

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Seven Questions for Ted Smith

November 13, 2015 Leave a Comment
“Tragic Prelude,” a mural portion by John Steuart Curry, in the Kansas Statehouse, 1937–42.

The deepest roots of this book, Weird John Brown, are in my attempts to think about how to live as a white man in a United States that is so deeply disfigured by slavery and its legacies. 

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An Interview with Frans de Waal Part 3: Science & Religion

October 30, 2014 Leave a Comment

This is part 3 of our series of interviews with Frans de Waal. Check out part 1 and part 2 of our interview series. Frans de Waal is an eminent primatologist renowned not only for his many publications in scientific journals, but also

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An Interview with Frans de Waal Part 2: Freud, Biology of Morality, and a Secular Ethics

October 23, 2014 Leave a Comment

This is part 2 of our series of interviews with Frans de Waal. Check out part 1 of our interview here. Frans de Waal is an eminent primatologist renowned not only for his many publications in scientific journals, but also for

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Halal Hysteria and Secularity

July 31, 2014 1 Comment
"Halal Kitchen" by 12th St David

By Hasan Azad Do Muslims belong in the West? This is the real question behind the recent halal hysteria in Britain. This is also the question behind previous—and, no doubt, future—questions about the headscarf (hijab), about the face veil (niqab),

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