Marcia Pally
Biographic Data
| ID | 1152067 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Marcia Pally |
| GIVEN NAMES | Marcia |
| FAMILY NAME | Pally |
| SIGNATURE | PALLY M |
| AFFILIATIONS | New York University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-8172-0143 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 10 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 10 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2008 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
The Suffering of Innocents, Martin Buber, and a Covenantal Reading of the Book of Job
Buber's analysis of Job, offering four responses to the theodical questions that innocent suffering raises, has been highly influential since its publication in 1942, as has been Steven Kepnes's more recent application of Buber's analysis to the Nazi Holocaust. Each of Buber's specific responses has been, at various points in history and today, taken up by sufferers and by those pondering suffering's theodical implications. Yet each response reta…
White Evangelicals and American Right-wing Populism: The Evolutions of an Ethics
This article explores current right-wing populism as an ethical position from the perspective of many, though not all, White American evangelicals. The relevant ethics concern not only abortion or gay marriage (which, research finds, are not top vote-motivators) but views of society (who’s in, who’s not) and government (size and role). Building on ideational approaches to studying populism and incorporating historical and religio-cultural materia…
White Evangelicals and Right-Wing Populism: How Did We Get Here?
How did America’s white evangelicals, from often progressive history, come to right-wing populism? Addressing populism requires understanding how its historico-cultural roots ground present politics. How have the very qualities that contributed much to American vibrancy—an anti-authoritarian government-wariness and energetic community-building—turned, under conditions of distress, to defensive, us-them worldviews? Readers will gain an understandi…
Afghanistan: It Wasn’t a War—That’s Why We Lost It
In these remarks, I’ll not delve into a normative discussion, from either a eopolitical or moral perspective, of what the United States and its allies should have done in Afghanistan prior to the U.S. pullout in August 2021. I’ll instead suggest some ideas of what the project in Afghanistan was, or at least how it has always been understood for all involved save the U.S
Circling the wagons or opening the circle
“To approach eudaimonia or human flourishing,” Darcia Narvaez writes, “one must have a concept of human nature... a normal baseline.” This article asks: what is the human baseline so that we may develop public policy to suit and advance human and planetary flourishing? It proposes that our “baseline” is relational, where each person becomes her singular self through networks of relations with others and planet. Relationality is explored through T…
Why is Populism Persuasive? Populism as Expression of Religio-Cultural History with the U.S. and U.S. Evangelicals as a Case Study
Populism is often criticized as a dark political theology as inscrutable as a religion to which one doesn't belong – a messianic craze incompatible with rational government. This article suggests that populisms, left and right, draw from the very historico-cultural background that grounds the societies in which they occur. They are not in revolt against this background but of it. Being grounded in this longstanding background and its cultural rep…
Leonard Cohen’s Jewish Theodicy: We Are Waiting for Godot, But It Is We Who May Never Arrive
The work of Leonard Cohen, called the “black romantic” by Stephen Scobie, has been explored for its sex, politics, darkness, and struggle with faith. Cohen’s imagery has also been widely interrogated in critical and popular studies. The present article builds on this literature to explore a consistent theology and theodicy in Cohen’s writings. The theology is grounded in the covenant of Cohen’s Jewish tradition. It is Cohen’s reckoning with human…
Peculiar Relations of Affectability”: Peirce and Royce as Resources for the Philosophy of Martin Luther King, Jr
This article is about the philosophical and theological groundings of Martin Luther King, Jr.'s thought rather than about his extraordinary activism and leadership. In that, it is a relatively boring piece, but I hope it will be of some interest to those curious about what might be called the background story. It begins with the pragmatists Charles Sanders Peirce and Josiah Royce, both of whom held to a social theory of learning. Were they writin…
Non-Market Motives at Work in the Market: "New Evangelicals" in Civil Society in the United States and Overseas
In light of the 2008 global financial crisis and its underlying causes, a reassessment of our global market system seems to be afoot, at least in some quarters. If neoliberalism (too much market) yields the Great Recession, if socialist planned markets (not enough market) produce the failed economies of the former Soviet bloc, and if social-market combinations (too much centralization of the market) progress toward the high-cost, centralized prog…
Traditional Change: Evangelicals, Muslims, and Pluralism in America
The dominant narrative for immigrant religious groups in America has been one of success, Muslim-Americans included. Two factors explain this unique environment. Unlike Europe, the U.S. has a participatory—not assimilationist—model of immigration. And it has a pluralist civil society in partnership with secular government, education, and law. Historically, early evangelicalism, the frontier economy, and the immigrant experience all contributed to…
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Traditional Change: Evangelicals, Muslims, and Pluralism in America
The dominant narrative for immigrant religious groups in America has been one of success, Muslim-Americans included. Two factors explain this unique environment. Unlike Europe, the U.S. has a participatory—not assimilationist—model of immigration. And it has a pluralist civil society in partnership with secular government, education, and law. Historically, early evangelicalism, the frontier economy, and the immigrant experience all contributed to…
Non-Market Motives at Work in the Market: "New Evangelicals" in Civil Society in the United States and Overseas
In light of the 2008 global financial crisis and its underlying causes, a reassessment of our global market system seems to be afoot, at least in some quarters. If neoliberalism (too much market) yields the Great Recession, if socialist planned markets (not enough market) produce the failed economies of the former Soviet bloc, and if social-market combinations (too much centralization of the market) progress toward the high-cost, centralized prog…
Peculiar Relations of Affectability”: Peirce and Royce as Resources for the Philosophy of Martin Luther King, Jr
This article is about the philosophical and theological groundings of Martin Luther King, Jr.'s thought rather than about his extraordinary activism and leadership. In that, it is a relatively boring piece, but I hope it will be of some interest to those curious about what might be called the background story. It begins with the pragmatists Charles Sanders Peirce and Josiah Royce, both of whom held to a social theory of learning. Were they writin…
Circling the wagons or opening the circle
“To approach eudaimonia or human flourishing,” Darcia Narvaez writes, “one must have a concept of human nature... a normal baseline.” This article asks: what is the human baseline so that we may develop public policy to suit and advance human and planetary flourishing? It proposes that our “baseline” is relational, where each person becomes her singular self through networks of relations with others and planet. Relationality is explored through T…
Why is Populism Persuasive? Populism as Expression of Religio-Cultural History with the U.S. and U.S. Evangelicals as a Case Study
Populism is often criticized as a dark political theology as inscrutable as a religion to which one doesn't belong – a messianic craze incompatible with rational government. This article suggests that populisms, left and right, draw from the very historico-cultural background that grounds the societies in which they occur. They are not in revolt against this background but of it. Being grounded in this longstanding background and its cultural rep…
Leonard Cohen’s Jewish Theodicy: We Are Waiting for Godot, But It Is We Who May Never Arrive
The work of Leonard Cohen, called the “black romantic” by Stephen Scobie, has been explored for its sex, politics, darkness, and struggle with faith. Cohen’s imagery has also been widely interrogated in critical and popular studies. The present article builds on this literature to explore a consistent theology and theodicy in Cohen’s writings. The theology is grounded in the covenant of Cohen’s Jewish tradition. It is Cohen’s reckoning with human…
Afghanistan: It Wasn’t a War—That’s Why We Lost It
In these remarks, I’ll not delve into a normative discussion, from either a eopolitical or moral perspective, of what the United States and its allies should have done in Afghanistan prior to the U.S. pullout in August 2021. I’ll instead suggest some ideas of what the project in Afghanistan was, or at least how it has always been understood for all involved save the U.S
White Evangelicals and Right-Wing Populism: How Did We Get Here?
How did America’s white evangelicals, from often progressive history, come to right-wing populism? Addressing populism requires understanding how its historico-cultural roots ground present politics. How have the very qualities that contributed much to American vibrancy—an anti-authoritarian government-wariness and energetic community-building—turned, under conditions of distress, to defensive, us-them worldviews? Readers will gain an understandi…
White Evangelicals and American Right-wing Populism: The Evolutions of an Ethics
This article explores current right-wing populism as an ethical position from the perspective of many, though not all, White American evangelicals. The relevant ethics concern not only abortion or gay marriage (which, research finds, are not top vote-motivators) but views of society (who’s in, who’s not) and government (size and role). Building on ideational approaches to studying populism and incorporating historical and religio-cultural materia…
The Suffering of Innocents, Martin Buber, and a Covenantal Reading of the Book of Job
Buber's analysis of Job, offering four responses to the theodical questions that innocent suffering raises, has been highly influential since its publication in 1942, as has been Steven Kepnes's more recent application of Buber's analysis to the Nazi Holocaust. Each of Buber's specific responses has been, at various points in history and today, taken up by sufferers and by those pondering suffering's theodical implications. Yet each response reta…
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