http://blogs.ssrc.org/tif/2008/11/11/the-cooling-embers/ Secularism, religion, and the public sphere Fri, 12 Mar 2010 21:27:55 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.1 hourly 1 http://blogs.ssrc.org/tif/2008/11/11/the-cooling-embers/comment-page-1/#comment-4948 Kathryn Lofton Tue, 11 Nov 2008 18:16:25 +0000 http://blogs.ssrc.org/tif/?p=799#comment-4948 If only all morning-after chalk drawings were worthy of longer looks. I would only add to your finespun portrait a sense that analysts too have had an investment in this culture of complaint, posing as they/we often do a Christian Right as some sort of labyrinthine puppeteer countervailing the liberal cabal. The transformations of demonology on both sides (by its podium and its tracking cultured despisers) will be well worth our (relentlessly reflexive) scrutiny. If only all morning-after chalk drawings were worthy of longer looks. I would only add to your finespun portrait a sense that analysts too have had an investment in this culture of complaint, posing as they/we often do a Christian Right as some sort of labyrinthine puppeteer countervailing the liberal cabal. The transformations of demonology on both sides (by its podium and its tracking cultured despisers) will be well worth our (relentlessly reflexive) scrutiny.

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