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One of the enduring assumptions in the study of religion is that belief in the devil emerged as an attempt to explain the existence of evil. Before modern psychology, sociology, or philosophy offered alternative accounts of suffering and human behaviour, so the story goes, Jews and Christians appealed to Satan to explain why bad things […]
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Why is it that when some people seek God they come up short? J. L. Schellenberg, following a path blazed by Friedrich Nietzsche, argues that God is hidden for the simple reason that God does not exist. For if God really were all loving and all powerful, he would take pains to be known by […]
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Debates about the effectiveness of social interventions often begin with a deceptively simple question: ‘does it work?’ Yet this question obscures the deeper epistemic challenges at stake. Social policies and practices operate within richly detailed dynamic systems in which causal processes are rarely uniform or independent of context. As a result, establishing whether an intervention […]
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A few years ago, I started to question the role and status of the human being in the natural realm. Although we know very well that we are animals, we feel that we occupy a special place in nature—at least, so it is in the Western culture. We are part of nature, even though the […]
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In a moment, I’m going to tell you about my book. But before I do that, I’d like to ask you to perform a quick intellectual exercise: think of something that, in your view, is really terrible. It could be a movie, or a song, or a political outlook, or even a person-as long as […]
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Many years ago I developed an amateur interest in British ecclesiastical history, brought about particularly by reading on holiday Diarmaid MacCulloch’s astonishing biography of Thomas Cranmer (1996); and I thought it would be fascinating to link this interest with my professional work in English historical linguistics and philology, thus contributing to what David Crystal and […]
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Extreme voices dominate the national public debate in America over the proper role of religion and politics. Christian nationalists call for Christianity to dominate politics and culture. At the other extreme, strict secularists seek to remove all religious influence in the public square. Unfortunate dynamics in American media coverage make it appear that these views […]
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In the past several years we have witnessed a rapid and unsettling shift from the “post-racial” aspirations of the Obama era and the global outcry of the Black Lives Matter movement after the murder of George Floyd to our present reality, in which far-right nationalist politics are surging in many parts of the globe. The […]
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