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Aeon Magazine
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Aeon Magazine
Aug 8, 2019
The Problem of Mindfulness
Mindfulness promotes itself as value-neutral but it is loaded with…
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Jun 20, 2019
Medieval People Were Surprisingly Clean (Apart From the Clergy)
People in the Middle Ages took great…
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May 23, 2019
Muslims Lived in America Before Protestantism Even Existed
Muslims came to America more than a century…
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Oct 14, 2018
On Mana: Why We Bestow Certain Objects with Unearthly Powers
From the foreskin of Jesus to the scarf…
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Sep 27, 2018
Consolation Philosophy and the Struggle of Reason in Africa
‘Consolation philosophy’ understands the human being as a unity of feeling and reason, in a cosmos rich with primal emotion
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Sep 26, 2018
The Roots of Writing Lie in Hopes and Dreams, Not in Accounting
Was writing invented for accounting and administration or did it evolve from religious movements, sorcery and dreams?
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Sep 3, 2018
The Abolitionist Benjamin Lay Was a Hero Ahead of His Time
Radical Quaker Benjamin Lay was a pioneer of abolitionism, who lived what he preached. So why was he erased from history?
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Aug 20, 2018
Black. Queer. Born Again: A Life In and Out of the Church
Black life is world-making, born of gaps and dislocations, imaginative leavings and returns, generative escapes and arrivals
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Aug 16, 2018
The Idea of ‘A Muslim World’ Is Both Modern and Misleading
Islamists and Western pundits speak of ‘the West’ and ‘the Muslim world’ but such tribalism is dangerous colonial propaganda
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Jul 3, 2018
What Is Wrong with Tolerance
The ideal of religious tolerance has crippling flaws. It’s time to…
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