Posts tagged: religion

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  Secularism and the Freedom of Believers

  Emmanuel Terray, showing the contradictions in the Western tradition between religious freedom and the rule of law, warns how the Republic's enforcement of secularism promotes violence.

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  Trans Ethics, Not Gender Ideology: Against the Church and the Gender Critics

  While the Catholic Church and transphobic feminists alike paint trans activists as propagandists of "gender ideology," trans people have achieved gains in recent years by working not as ideologues, but ethical instructors.

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  Spirituality as a Force of Rebellion: The Movement for Legal Abortion in Argentina

  Today in Argentina we see a battle for political spirituality in the streets, in houses, in beds, and in schools.

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  The Paradox of the Holy Cow

  Historian D.N. Jha describes the contradictions of the purificatory role of cows in early Brāhmaņical society.

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  Early Christian Virgins on Sexuality and Virginity

  Joyce Salisbury examines attitudes toward chastity, sexuality, and gender held by a group of Early Christian women ascetics. 

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  An Interview with Judith Butler

  Judith Butler's new book interweaves her two theories of performativity and precarity with the works of Hannah Arendt, Giorgio Agamben, and Emmanuel Levinas as a way to critically assess and speak to Tahrir Square, Occupy, Black Lives Matter, and other movements of dissent. In this interview, Stephanie Berbec asks her to consider her work in light of the recent events at Standing Rock and the 2016 presidential election.

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  The Lay Catholic Activist: Cesar Chavez in his twenties

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  Subversive Pasolini: La Ricotta and The Gospel According to Matthew — a conversation between Nina Power and Geoffrey Nowell-Smith