On December 10-11, 2014, the Institute of Philosophy (KU Leuven) will host the international conference Towards a Critique of Secular Reason? in Leuven, Belgium. The conference aims to explore the...
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by Peggy Levitt
Religion in nation-building and nation-changing
...Catholicism had been bed-fellows since the early nineteenth century. Therefore, participating in religion was a political act. When Poland regained its independence in 1989, Catholicism re-entered the public sphere, despite...
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by Nicole Greenfield
University blasts in Pakistan and the future of Islam
In the Christian Science Monitor, Mark LeVine considers the significance of the recent Taliban bombing at the International Islamic University in Islamabad, and what it means for Islam: Building such...
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by Jessica Polebaum
India’s Muslims
...and recurring communal violence have marred India’s ideals and values. It has diminished India’s narrative of a secular state where multi-ethnic and multi-religious communities can safely and freely reside. The...
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by Nathan Schneider
Where is the new vision to unite us?
...he describes as the current “moment of stagnation”, our incapacity to bring about political change. What is paralysing the collective will? His new work opens the Manchester International Festival on...
The state of religion in China ![]()
by Fenggang Yang
Stand still and watch
...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...
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by Laura Duane
“A Secular Age”: Tracing the Contours of Religion and Belief
The Mater Dei Institute of Education in Dublin, Ireland is holding an international interdisciplinary conference and graduate summer school from June 8th to 11th, entitled “A Secular Age”: Tracing the...
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by The Editors
Religion and development: “from AIDS to zebras”
Katherine Marshall, co-chair of the SSRC’s Advisory Committee on Religion and International Affairs, speaks of her tenure at the World Bank, where she helped to guide the Bank’s initiative on...