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https://muse.jhu.edu/article/967874
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Across every page, every paragraph, or every sentence, reading is an act of constant movement. This is a fitting theme for the present issue, which moves within each article and across the issue as a whole with what feels like an unusual degree of propulsion. If you'll pardon the martial imagery, the image I'm getting is that of a slingshot, one that pulls far back into the tradition, then releases, with particular vehemence, a projectile that passes through time from past-through-present-and-ahead-into-the-future. Staying with the image, if the space between the fork of the slingshot is the present, and if the tautly stretched cord at its moment of maximum tension is some point in the past, then the future is
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Project MUSE®https://muse.jhu.edu/2026-05-14T00:00:00-05:00https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/496/image/coversmallEditor's Note2025-08-20text/htmlen-USEditor's Note2025-08-202025TWOProject MUSE®57402026-05-14T00:00:00-05:002025-08-20The Relevance of Theological Rationality to Public Discourse
https://muse.jhu.edu/article/967875
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Why take an interest in theology at a time when religion has such a bad reputation? How can we address the relationship—seemingly tenuous in a secularized society—between politics and religion? And how can we do so without either violently excluding one from the other or naively reconciling them, but instead finding pathways for their mutual enrichment?Too often, when tackling the overused theme of "the role of religion in politics," one falls into two overly simplistic reductions. On the one hand, religion is equated with its dogmas and the institutions that protect them; on the other, religion is reduced to personal convictions, often inherited through primary socialization. Either way, it places us
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Project MUSE®https://muse.jhu.edu/2026-05-14T00:00:00-05:00https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/496/image/coversmallThe Relevance of Theological Rationality to Public Discourse2025-08-20text/htmlen-USThe Relevance of Theological Rationality to Public Discourse2025-08-202025TWOProject MUSE®1090792026-05-14T00:00:00-05:002025-08-20Science and Ethical Neutrality: A Nineteenth-Century American Alternative
https://muse.jhu.edu/article/967876
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In an era marked by global challenges such as climate change, public health crises, and social inequalities, science is increasingly invoked as an indispensable guide for developing solutions and shaping collective decision-making. However, despite its undisputed centrality, the scientific community largely maintains a predominantly descriptive and neutral stance, delegating to other spheres—such as politics, civil society, and cultural institutions—the responsibility of addressing the normative, ethical, and religious dimensions of what is right, desirable, or meaningful.The tension between the descriptive nature of science and its potential normative role is not a new problem. It is rooted in long-standing
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Project MUSE®https://muse.jhu.edu/2026-05-14T00:00:00-05:00https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/496/image/coversmallScience and Ethical Neutrality: A Nineteenth-Century American Alternative2025-08-20text/htmlen-USScience and Ethical Neutrality: A Nineteenth-Century American Alternative2025-08-202025TWOProject MUSE®1162222026-05-14T00:00:00-05:002025-08-20Of Gods and Monsters: Populist and Pluralist Prospects in the Anthropocene
https://muse.jhu.edu/article/967877
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The concern motivating this article is that the socioecological pressures of the Anthropocene are energizing ethnocentric populist and pluralist democratic political formations, but with different degrees of intensity. Specifically, the article engages several biocultural theories to explain how and why the Anthropocene's cognitive environments may be especially favorable to the authoritarian tendencies of right-wing populism.1 The article's thesis is that understanding the evolutionary roots, cognitive biases, dispositional forms, and environmental drivers of xenophobic hate and ethnocentric intolerance is vital to advancing countervailing pluralist, democratic, and ecologically responsible political and cultural
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Project MUSE®https://muse.jhu.edu/2026-05-14T00:00:00-05:00https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/496/image/coversmallOf Gods and Monsters: Populist and Pluralist Prospects in the Anthropocene2025-08-20text/htmlen-USOf Gods and Monsters: Populist and Pluralist Prospects in the Anthropocene2025-08-202025TWOProject MUSE®1118462026-05-14T00:00:00-05:002025-08-20About the Authors
https://muse.jhu.edu/article/967878
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Anne Guillard recently completed a postdoc position at the Institute of Ethics and Human Rights at the University of Fribourg (Switzerland) funded by the Swiss National Research Foundation. With an interest in the rationalities of beliefs in liberal democratic societies, she holds a double PhD in Political Sciences—Political Theory (Sciences Po Paris, France) and Theology (University of Geneva). Her latest book is entitled Vers une éthique plurielle. Le théologique à l'appui du libéralisme (Towards a Pluralistic Ethics: A Theological Support for Liberalism, Cerf, 2024).Michael S. Hogue, a previous editor of the AJTP, is Professor of Theology, Ethics, and Philosophy of Religion at Meadville Lombard Theological
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Project MUSE®https://muse.jhu.edu/2026-05-14T00:00:00-05:00https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/496/image/coversmallAbout the Authors2025-08-20text/htmlen-USAbout the Authors2025-08-202025TWOProject MUSE®28602026-05-14T00:00:00-05:002025-08-20The Cosmic Spirit: Awakenings at the Heart of All Religions, the Earth, and the Multiverse by Roland Faber (review)
https://muse.jhu.edu/article/967879
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As the title suggests, Roland Faber's Cosmic Spirit covers the universe of religious experience with a bold, provocative expansiveness, aided and abetted by his comprehension of Alfred North Whitehead's process theology, and reinforced by post-structuralists such as Gilles Deleuze and Jacques Derrida. This rich use of process theology may be expected, as Faber is the Kilsby Family/John B. Cobb Jr. Professor of Process Studies at Claremont School of Theology. If you are unfamiliar or uncertain about Whitehead's process theology, Faber's The Becoming of God: Process Theology, Philosophy, and Multireligious Engagement (2017) serves as a cogent introduction, both to Whitehead and to Faber's post-structuralist
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Project MUSE®https://muse.jhu.edu/2026-05-14T00:00:00-05:00https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/496/image/coversmallThe Cosmic Spirit: Awakenings at the Heart of All Religions, the Earth, and the Multiverse by Roland Faber (review)2025-08-20text/htmlen-USThe Cosmic Spirit: Awakenings at the Heart of All Religions, the Earth, and the Multiverse by Roland Faber (review)2025-08-202025TWOProject MUSE®105372026-05-14T00:00:00-05:002025-08-20Fighting for the Higher Law: Black and White Transcendentalists Against Slavery by Peter Wirzbicki (review)
https://muse.jhu.edu/article/967880
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In his inaugural monograph, Fighting for the Higher Law: Black and White Transcendentalists Against Slavery, Peter Wirzbicki considers how African American intellectuals in their battle against human chattel bondage "drew tremendous energy from the philosophic and ethical commitments that Transcendentalism encouraged" (4). Wirzbicki is among a growing number of historians who have refocused the study of antislavery away from the bourgeois liberalism of white reformers to the activism of African Americans themselves. Black thinkers who figure prominently in his book include Alexander Crummell, Thomas Sidney, William C. Nell, and Charlotte Forten—intellectuals motivated by the likes of Samuel Taylor Coleridge
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Project MUSE®https://muse.jhu.edu/2026-05-14T00:00:00-05:00https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/496/image/coversmallFighting for the Higher Law: Black and White Transcendentalists Against Slavery by Peter Wirzbicki (review)2025-08-20text/htmlen-USFighting for the Higher Law: Black and White Transcendentalists Against Slavery by Peter Wirzbicki (review)2025-08-202025TWOProject MUSE®119612026-05-14T00:00:00-05:002025-08-20The Harvard Lectures of Alfred North Whitehead, 1925–1927: General Metaphysical Problems of Science ed. by Brian G. Henning, Joseph Petek, and George Lucas (review)
https://muse.jhu.edu/article/967881
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This tome adds a valuable contribution to the painstaking scholarly effort to reconstruct the development and totality of the works of Alfred North Whitehead. Carefully guided by the able editorial hands of George Lucas, Brian Henning, and Joseph Petek, Edinburgh University Press is engaged in a massive and invaluable enterprise to publish a critical edition of all of Whitehead's writings: lectures, essays, letters, articles, and books. This present work is the second published volume of Whitehead's lectures at Harvard. Whereas the initial set, published in 2017, addressed Whitehead's first year (1924–1925), this book contains his lectures from the following two academic years (1925–1927).To begin, one is awed by
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Project MUSE®https://muse.jhu.edu/2026-05-14T00:00:00-05:00https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/496/image/coversmallThe Harvard Lectures of Alfred North Whitehead, 1925–1927: General Metaphysical Problems of Science ed. by Brian G. Henning, Joseph Petek, and George Lucas (review)2025-08-20text/htmlen-USThe Harvard Lectures of Alfred North Whitehead, 1925–1927: General Metaphysical Problems of Science ed. by Brian G. Henning, Joseph Petek, and George Lucas (review)2025-08-202025TWOProject MUSE®142282026-05-14T00:00:00-05:002025-08-20Affect and Attention After Deleuze and Whitehead: Ecological Attunement by Russell J. Duvernoy (review)
https://muse.jhu.edu/article/967882
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Russell Duvernoy's new book Affect and Attention After Deleuze and Whitehead: Ecological Attunement can be seen as a further contribution to the growing body of work that articulates some of the central ideas and authors in continental philosophy with key concepts and thinkers from the process tradition. Published in the New Perspectives in Ontology series with Edinburgh University Press, what is distinctive about Duvernoy's book is that it attempts to explore the existential implications raised by the new speculative metaphysics and process ontologies emerging out of the conjunction of Deleuze and Whitehead. Duvernoy emphasizes that he is less interested in an exhaustive study of the detailed convergences and
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Project MUSE®https://muse.jhu.edu/2026-05-14T00:00:00-05:00https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/496/image/coversmallAffect and Attention After Deleuze and Whitehead: Ecological Attunement by Russell J. Duvernoy (review)2025-08-20text/htmlen-USAffect and Attention After Deleuze and Whitehead: Ecological Attunement by Russell J. Duvernoy (review)2025-08-202025TWOProject MUSE®134312026-05-14T00:00:00-05:002025-08-20Modern Virtue: Mary Wollstonecraft and a Tradition of Dissent by Emily Dumler-Winckler (review)
https://muse.jhu.edu/article/967883
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In this rigorous, well-written book, Emily Dumler-Winckler re-introduces the reader to the theological and philosophical thought of the late 18th century British women's rights activist Mary Wollstonecraft. As Dumler-Winckler points out in the introduction, her central aim in this re-turn to Wollstonecraft is to think differently about the relationship between tradition and dissent. Instead of pitting these concepts against each other, where tradition is inherently conservative and dissent marks a simple opposition to tradition, Dumler-Winckler claims that "dissent is tradition bound in the sense that dissenters use certain insights of a tradition or traditions to challenge or supplement other arguments, claims
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Project MUSE®https://muse.jhu.edu/2026-05-14T00:00:00-05:00https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/496/image/coversmallModern Virtue: Mary Wollstonecraft and a Tradition of Dissent by Emily Dumler-Winckler (review)2025-08-20text/htmlen-USModern Virtue: Mary Wollstonecraft and a Tradition of Dissent by Emily Dumler-Winckler (review)2025-08-202025TWOProject MUSE®124812026-05-14T00:00:00-05:002025-08-20