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A covering at the threshold (opens the original)
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There are many kinds of religious dress. Hasidic Jews pray with a gartel, a belt that separates the upper body from the lower. Muslim women cover the head with a scarf, and sometimes the face as well. Buddhist monks wear robes in saffron or maroon, according to their tradition. Sikhs wrap a turban around the head. Catholics and Protestants put on special clothes for the rite, because dress is part of worship, not an add-on.If you zoom in, further nuances open up. The Chabad hat is not the shtrei
A theological phenomenon (opens the original)
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In recent years I have been studying woke not as another political movement (not to be confused with the Enlightenment), but as a theological phenomenon that seeks to remake the world from the ground up.It began when I was a research fellow at Princeton, where I was invited to lecture on contemporary political philosophy in the James Madison Program. I later gave a fuller, deeper version of these ideas at the ASR conference, one of the most serious professional arenas for sociologists of religio
A moral totem (opens the original)
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A very interesting story exploded this week. At Cambridge there was a Black professor, Dr Jason Arday, the poster child of diversity policy. Then a researcher at Ghent University, Nathan Cofnas, showed in black and white that this academic career rested on actual literary theft. Arday resigned, and shortly afterwards he was found dead. Ghent’s administration announced that it stands for human dignity and against racism, and therefore punished Cofnas.Why was Cofnas accused of racism? Because Dr A
A theology speaking the language of management (opens the original)
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Deloitte is one of the largest professional firms in the world. As a contractor to the United States it signed that it would not sort employees by race or by sex. Inside the firm, according to the complaint, each unit had demographic targets, and every month a scorecard arrived: green, yellow, red. Mentoring was open only to those who fell into the category.This week the firm paid $21.5 million to the government to settle the allegations.The question that interests me is why they kept going. The
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