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The Good of Religious Pluralism
Pluralism is often perceived as a threat to faith, associated with relativism and a loss of religious substance. I take a contrary position. It seems to me that pluralism...
A Friendly Dissent from Pentecostalism
Rudolf Bultmann, the German New Testament scholar whose program for the “demythologization” of the Gospel provoked a storm of controversy in the years after World War II, wrote in...
America’s Smiling God
When God Talks Back: Understanding the American Evangelical Relationship with God ?by T. M. Luhrmann Knopf, 464 pages, $28.95 n The methods of anthropology were developed in the early...
We’re Gonna Turn This Around
Richard used to put up cartoons in his bathroom. One, which stayed there for some time, showed a Viking ship arriving on a beach where people were dancing and...
Secularization Falsified
It has been more than a century since Nietzsche proclaimed the death of God. The prophecy was widely accepted as referring to an alleged fact about increasing disbelief in...
Remembering Ivan Illich
Ivan Illich died in Bremen on December 2, 2002 at the age of seventy-six. As a German friend of his put it: “God gave him a beautiful death.” Illich...
Whatever Happened to Sociology?
The title question has been asked frequently in recent years, both within and outside the field. I think that it can be answered rather easily: sociology has fallen victim...
Two Cheers for Class
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At Stake in the Enlightenment
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The 1934 Million Man March
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Berlin Again and Again
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Chain Gangs
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Military Necessities
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The Road to Bosnia
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Chinese Greeting Cards and the East Asian Future
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