by Charles Cameron | Nov 25, 2012 | Monitor
[ by Charles Cameron — today’s solemn commemorations in Iraq, Afghanistan, Pakistan and India in comparative religious perspective ] . I was listening to Mozart‘s Requiem last night, and it is rich in grief shot through with glory. That’s the...
by Charles Cameron | Nov 22, 2012 | Monitor
[ by Charles Cameron — i suppose this is about the state’s claim to a monopoly of violence, seen from both ends ] . I don’t want to go too far with this one, and I’ll start with the turkey and pardon, because pardon and forgiveness and...
by Charles Cameron | Sep 29, 2012 | Monitor
[ by Charles Cameron — more food for thought on religious and irreligious outrage — and Paris again, too ] . Michel Mourre (in friar's habit) and Serge Berna reviewing "The Declaration of Mourre". It will not have escaped the eagle-eyed...
by Charles Cameron | Aug 19, 2012 | Monitor
[ by Charles Cameron — mystery beyond the senses, holy of holies behind the veil, altar beyond the iconostasis, and other considerations bearing on Orthodoxy, Pussy Riot, holy folly and monastic punk ] . Life is full of surprises. glorious photo credit: choir...
by Charles Cameron | Jul 16, 2012 | Monitor
[ by Charles Cameron — follow-up to Liminality I: the kitsch part, dealing with the strange business of liminality, submarines, monks and more ] . Limen is the Latin for threshold, and the liminal is therefore what happens at thresholds. ** Something pretty...
