...in Europe, in the United States, anti-Zionism and the critique of Israeli state politics and policies is also frequently conflated with anti-Semitism. An increasing number of scholars on both sides...
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Mumbai revisited
by Veena Das, Sumit Ganguly, William R. Pinch, Vijay Prashad, Arvind Rajagopal, Anupama Rao, Tariq Thachil and Arafaat A. Valiani...to recover from a genocidal attack that had lasted for several months, and which was carried out by Hindu nationalist militias. Numbering in the tens of thousands, these armed Hindu...
The state of religion in China
Stand still and watch
by Fenggang Yang...1966. In 1979, after thirteen years of failed attempts to eradicate religion from the entire society, the ban on religion was lifted. A limited number of churches, temples, and mosques...
The politics of spirituality
The rise of the seculars
by Herbert J. Gans...to the societal and social functions of religion. Thus, I would hypothesize that an increasing number of people are finding religion irrelevant in and to their everyday lives, and to...
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Getting one’s atheism on the cheap
by Charles GelmanJacques Berlinerblau, on The Chronicle of Higher Education‘s Brainstorm blog, enumerates some of the prevalent misconceptions that inform what he calls “Pop Atheism”: 1) That the term “atheist” has a...
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Religious “nones” and the future of American religion
by Jessica Polebaum and Charles GelmanA number of recent studies have attempted to analyze the emergent and fast-growing segment of American society that declines any specific religious identification—a demographic that Barry A. Kosmin and Ariela...
Religion and digital culture
When readers respond
by Tanya Marie Luhrmann...sit on the floor, gripping the phone, throat tight with distress. “I have this habit,” a young woman explained to me over the phone in a conversation about demons: “I...
