...religious or a secular viewpoint. At times, though, religious traditions can pose challenges to the logic of human rights. NS: How so? Take the category of the victim, for instance,...
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For Love of the Prophet 
by
Abdelwahab El-Affendi
The inevitable Islamic State? The paradoxes of Sudanese politics and society
by
Abdelwahab El-Affendi
...have no autonomy from the state, and to be heavily penetrated, even shaped, by the state. In this regard, the many instances where dynamic civil action manifests itself as autonomous,...
here & there
Perceiving the President
by Aaron Weinstein...less than half now say Obama is a Christian. Among Democrats, for instance, 46% say Obama is a Christian, down from 55% in March 2009. Beyond the simple politics of...
Indigeneity and secularity 
by
J. Michelle Molina
Fluid indigeneity: Indians, Catholicism, and Spanish law in the mutable Americas
by
J. Michelle Molina
...a wealth of archival sources for ethno-historians. Even persons remote from urban centers had access to a plurality of jurisdictions, from the court of “first instance” (the cabildo or municipal...
Religious freedom
Words for a faithful world
by Chris Seiple...maintain stability. In other words, unemployed youth, motivated by political entrepreneurs who manipulate religion for their own ends, cause instability for the state. I have found over the past several...
Religion and digital culture
Religion for commoners
by Nathan Schneider...think about religion. Marx’s dialectical-materialist religion, for instance, is always collective, and is illusory from the get-go. Weber’s religion of the office turns soteriology into a management philosophy. And so...
Is this all there is
On democratic despond
by Ebenezer Obadare
...the election, millionaire businessman MKO Abiola, installed as president. Not least because it was dominated by an often bloody confrontation between a military state and civil society, the 1990s was...
Deathless questions and other interviews
Religions and rights: An interview with Richard Amesbury
by Nathan Schneider...obviously better than speaking for the privileged, but not as good as allowing the downtrodden to speak for themselves. NS: And that is what liberation theology, for instance, sought to...