Salon has published an excerpt from a new book, How to Be Secular, where the author, Jacques Berlinerblau, diagnoses problematic connotations that have…
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Interview with Kathryn Lofton
Kathryn Lofton recently sat down with Kristian Peterson of the website New Books in Religion, to discuss her recent title, Oprah:…
Muslim Brotherhood candidate wins Egyptian election
The New York Times reports on the atmosphere in Cairo today, after news came in that Mohamed Morsi is the…
New review of Bellah’s Religion in Human Evolution
For Tricycle, an independent Buddhist publication, Linda Heuman reviews Robert Bellah's Religion in Human Evolution, highlighting the place Bellah gives…
Live online panel on Egypt elections
This Friday, June 15, The Duke Islamic Studies Center's Transcultural Islam Project is co-hosting a panel discussion on the upcoming Egyptian run-off…
New York Transit settles over headwear discrimination
Several news outlets have covered recent news of a settlement between the New York City Transit Authority and the United…
Sikh Coalition’s airport profiling app
The Sikh Coalition, a civil-rights advocacy group with offices in New York, California, and Washington, D.C., released an app called…
Marilynne Robinson on religion, secularism, and literature
Joe Fassler interviews writer Marilynne Robinson after the publication of her latest collection of essays.
Political and religious groups clash in Bonn
Last Saturday, a regional political rally in the German city of Bonn turned violent as Salafists, followers of a conservative…
New guidelines are pending for Islamic financial industry
The AAOIFI, a Bahrain-based regulatory body for Islamic financial institutions, announced that it will revise its guidelines.