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      War Criminal Henry Kissinger, First Jewish Secretary of State, Had a Lengthy History of Antisemitism
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      Flagship Biblical Studies Group Faces Bitter Divide Over Statements on Israel/Palestine
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      War Criminal Henry Kissinger, First Jewish Secretary of State, Had a Lengthy History of Antisemitism
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      Netanyahu’s Genocidal Religious Rhetoric isn’t Just an Appeal to the Israeli Right — He Has Another Constituency in Mind
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      With ‘Vermin’ Remark Trump Crosses Fully into Nazi Territory
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      Mike Johnson’s Porn-Monitoring isn’t Just ‘Creepy’ — it’s a Window to the Fascist Desire Driving the White Evangelical Will to Power
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John Modern

John Modern, Associate Professor of Religious Studies at Franklin & Marshall College, is the author of two books, Secularism in Antebellum America (University of Chicago Press 2011) and The Bop Apocalypse: The Religious Visions of Kerouac, Ginsberg, and Burroughs (University of Illinois Press 2001). Modern is contributing editor for The Immanent Frame and co-curator of Frequencies: A Collaborative Genealogy of Spirituality. He tweets at @JohnModern.

 

(A)theologies, Culture, Media AnalysisJuly 28, 2013

My God, David Brooks

By John Modern

One senses that in Brooks’ reading of Charles Taylor’s A Secular Age the principle of choice becomes its own form of transcendence.

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