Cosmic war on a global scale: An interview with Mark Juergensmeyer
As director of the Orfalea Center for Global and International Studies at the University of California, Santa Barbara, Mark Juergensmeyer brings the sociology of religion to bear on the analysis of...
View ArticleHope, tragedy, and prophecy
It is hard not to be convinced by Akeel Bilgrami’s careful, patient, and generous exposition in “Secularism: Its Content and Context.” And indeed there is much with which I agree, especially the...
View ArticleTruth and fraternity?
Akeel Bilgrami’s essay is important and ambitious. Its importance lies in part in making clear what secularism is and should be—its philosophical foundation one might say; its ambition, in its ability...
View ArticleA different notion of fraternity
In his interesting and engaging essay, Uday Mehta addresses, with some genuine feeling of qualm, a large, concluding theme in my paper: the specific and non-standard form of humanism that I had...
View ArticleGandhian fraternity
This post continues and extends Bilgrami’s earlier reply to Uday Mehta.—ed. In expounding his misgiving about the humanism I proposed, Uday Mehta seeks—I think with some strain—to find an...
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