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Beyond the Battlefield of Belief: Dismantling the Culture of Religious Combat
5+ hour, 28+ min ago (851+ words) The Quranic Ethic of Communication This first movement performs a close reading of a cluster of Quranic verses that, taken together, compose an ordered communicative method rather than a scattered set of injunctions to politeness. Altercation as the Corruption Foucault…...
The Greatest Tragedy of Canaan Was and Remains the Absence of a Shared Destiny
3+ day, 6+ hour ago (508+ words) In the heart of the Levant, where mountains meet the sea and history merges with legend, the civilization of the Canaanites emerged. They built cities, mastered shipbuilding, and ventured across the Mediterranean, becoming among the earliest great maritime peoples of…...
Revisiting ‘The Holy Family’: Marx, Engels and the Foundations of Historical Materialism
1+ mon, 3+ day ago (1239+ words) The Holy Family represents the moment when Marx and Engels broke decisively with German idealism and laid the intellectual foundations for historical materialism. It shifted the focus of revolutionary theory from abstract philosophical speculation to the concrete material conditions of…...
New Atheism, Western Hegemony, and the Imperial Calculus
1+ mon, 1+ week ago (786+ words) The Ontological Hollowness of the New Atheist Paradigm The Idealist Fallacy and Ahistoricism The Reification of the “Civilisational” Binary Indifference to Palestinian Suffering and the Zionist Alibi The Ethical Double Standard of State Terror Scientism and the Failure of Epistemology…...
A Critique of Tribal Exegesis: A Refutation of Alan Shlemon’s “Jihad and War in Islam and Christianity”
1+ mon, 4+ week ago (1188+ words) From the Doctrine of Discovery to the Transatlantic Slave Trade Comparative Structural Violence: The Asymmetry of Power One of the most fundamental flaws in Shlemon’s analysis is his complete disregard for the profound asymmetry of global power in the twenty-first…...
Religion in Sociological Perspective: Key Concepts and Approaches
3+ mon, 1+ week ago (416+ words) RELIGION AS IDEOLOGY: THE MARXIST PERSPECTIVE RELIGION, KNOWLEDGE, AND MEANING Drawing from the sociology of knowledge, the chapter discusses the ideas of Peter Berger and Thomas Luckmann, who argue that religion constructs a “sacred universe of meaning.” By placing social…...
What do we (anti-Zionist) Jews talk about when we talk about Zionism? Israel’s inherent right to exist?
3+ mon, 1+ week ago (1077+ words) What do we (anti-Zionist) Jews talk about when we talk about Zionism? In the small Appalachian, industrial city of my birth, Birmingham, Alabama, the locals were given to throw pennies against the windows of my step-grandfather’s small, retail men’s clothing…...
Why Abrahamic Religions Should Oppose Patriarchal Interpretation
3+ mon, 1+ week ago (401+ words) This paper argues that Judaism, Christianity, and Islam — the three great Abrahamic faiths — possess within their own scriptures, traditions…...
The Men Who Bury Their Own Bodies
3+ mon, 1+ week ago (425+ words) There is something deeply unsettling in this gesture, not because it is extraordinary, but because it has become imaginable. To mark one’s own grave, to arrange one’s own identification, to prepare for a death that may pass unnoticed—these are…...
Onward Israel’s Spartan Soldiers
4+ mon, 1+ week ago (1247+ words) South Lebanon village, a few miles from the border. Fortunately, the war ended before the Israeli military advanced too far into Southern Lebanon. In other parts of Lebanon, Israel’s military destroyed bridges, main roads, and neighborhoods. To enter Lebanon from…...