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Did the Church Create or Co-Opt Human Rights?

By Austin Dacey

…rson” even while renouncing the rights traditions of the Enlightenment and French Revolution. Moyn makes the case that this notion of rights grounded in dignity was adopted by Pope Pius XI and Pope Pius XII and through them, by the world. In a 2014 article, “The Secret History of Constitutional Dignity,” he claims it is “self-evident that the prominence of this notion in wartime, including its connection to rights, was due to the Pope more than al…

Which is the ‘Real’ Reality?: Doctor Who Part IV

By Henry Jenkins

…k and the Doctor. But why would the Doctor have an adult relationship with French and English historical figures, but not the people he knows best? Is that how he keeps score? Or is he just uncomfortable being intimate with people he has emotions for? Or is the episode almost non-canon, with such comments intended to be dismissed as the perverse self-recriminations of The Doctor’s alter ego? Obviously an amorous reading would run contrary to the i…

The Pope is Not a Biblical Literalist

By Kate Childs Graham

…the College des Bernardins in Paris to “representatives from the world of French culture.” In his speech he spoke out against Biblical Literalism and fundamentalism. He stated: Scripture requires exegesis, and it requires the context of the community in which it came to birth and in which it is lived. This is where its unity is to be found, and here too its unifying meaning is opened up. … It perceives in the words the Word, the ‘Logos’ itself, w…

Why Did a Muslim Civil Rights Group Oppose Democrats’ Plans to Confront White Nationalism?

By Elizabeth Shakman Hurd and Brannon Ingram

…estant, secular, white) sensibilities. In Islam: An American Religion, the French political scientist Nadia Marzouki uses the term “formatting” to describe how Muslims in the U.S. are pressured, often by would-be liberal allies, to represent themselves as quintessentially “American” and to represent Islam as fundamentally “spiritual” (i.e. apolitical and non-threatening). American Muslims are pressured to “format” how they practice Islam around Am…

How Should We Speak of Unspeakable Evil?

By Louis A. Ruprecht

…ights (and capacities) to do so. Perhaps this is where poetry can help. The Odyssey (and what was the twentieth century, if not a moral odyssey?) was one of the first poems to imagine how we gain voices of the dead a hearing in Tragic sacrifice. The kind that lays a claim on all of us. In 1954, the French writer Marguerite Yourcenar, herself no stranger to calamity, put the dilemma thus: The sorcerer who pricks his thumb before he evokes the shade…

Queer Nuns: Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence Are ‘Serious Parody,’ Forcing us to Redefine Nuns

By Melissa Wilcox

…shed about them in English (and only one has ever been published at all—in French). Are you hoping to just inform readers? Entertain them? Piss them off? I actually don’t like pissing people off. I know some scholars rise to fame that way, but I’ve always thought quite poorly of that approach and wondered why it was necessary. I’d simply like my readers to come away more informed and more intrigued. I became a religious studies scholar because I w…

Literary Critic George Steiner, Whose Views on Anti-Semitism Drew Controversy, Dies at 90

By Ed Simon

…itan world of European Jewry that was almost obliterated by the Nazis, the French-born Steiner was a man who ranged over nations and continents, having taught in Switzerland, Austria, America and Britain, holding positions at those famous universities in the Cambridge on either side of the Atlantic. His readings, interpretations, and analyses were recorded in millions of words, both in academic study and The New Yorker, for which he wrote book rev…

Douthat’s Wager: Go to Church, Even If You Don’t Believe

By Jonathan Malesic

…Douthat makes is similar to one made by another conservative Catholic, the French mathematician and philosopher Blaise Pascal, more than 350 years ago. The argument known as Pascal’s Wager is the idea that it’s better to believe in God than not, because even if the odds in favor of God’s existence are pretty remote, the cost of belief is relatively low and the potential benefit is enormous. Likewise, the benefit of not believing is low compared to…

You Are More Than Your Brain: A Revolutionary Theory of Consciousness

By John Stoehr

…re in fact empty heads turned toward one single self-evident world, as the French philosopher Maurice Merleau-Ponty famously said, whence then is the grand illusion? Indeed, the Cartesian school’s reductionist consciousness-in-the-head paradigm begins to seem more like religion than science. And given that it carries on a tradition that began with Descartes, that makes a kind of sense. Descartes invented an immaterial Church-approved, soul-like “t…

Wolves Repelled by Christian Rock, Bibles for Porn, Fox Rejects Super Bowl Ad

By Michael J. Altman

…is trying to get more Muslims writing for TV and movies in Hollywood. The number of US Muslims accused of terrorism dropped by half in 2010, a new study reports. A pair of doves just didn’t want to leave the Pope’s window this week. People who believe the end of the world will come on 12/21/12 are flocking to a French mountain. A Norwegian boy fended off a pack of wolves by terrorizing them with a song by the slightly Christian band Creed. German…