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  • 14 Oct 2012
    A positive Orthodox Christian theology of democracy

    In The Mystical as Political: Democracy and Non-Radical Orthodoxy, to be published on 25 October 2012, Aristotle Papanikolaou explores the question of whether Orthodox Christianity and liberal democracy are mutually exclusive worldviews.

  • 11 Sep 2012
    What is politics?

    A popular educational website raises questions for Timothy Fitzgerald about the theoretical and methodological problems in isolating and defining a domain of politics or political science in the first place.

  • 17 Mar 2011
    What does 'critical religion' mean?

    With the 'Critical Religion' agenda and blog, says Michael Marten, the intention is to question the category of 'religion' - but then, rather than just holding it to suspicion, or blame, or discredit, or incredulity – a growing tendency among certain public intellectuals, even if against the tide of global demographics – to examine the issues involved from a positive critical standpoint.

  • 3 Apr 2008
    A Critical Defense of Secularism

    The global revival of religion has raised fundamental questions about its role in politics and its claim that it serves as a principle of identity, indispensable to the continuing survival of communit

  • 3 Apr 2008
    What is Wrong with Secularism of all Sorts? Priority for Democracy

    The lecture presents a contextualised criticism of first and second order myths of secularisms and of the conflation of liberal-democratic institutions with secular ones, and argues for the priority o

  • 30 Oct 2007
    Atheism and politics. Political theology and Leo Strauss' "politico-theological problem"

    Part of the Religion and Secularism Network