Saba Mahmood’s Religious Difference in a Secular Age: A Minority Report is a luminous, fiercely argued book. It requires deep and ongoing engagement precisely because Mahmood stages a conceptual-ethical impasse...
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by Laura Duane...and the public sphere, supporting program work on religion and international affairs, as well as assisting with related publication and communication projects, including The Immanent Frame. For more information, please...
Be fruitful and multiply
...procedures. In 2011, the International Committee for Monitoring Assisted Reproductive Technology, a group that helps standardize voluntary reporting for sixty-five countries, reported that the top five countries using ART per...
Conference: Toward a Critique of Secular Reason?
by Daniel Steinmetz-JenkinsOn 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...
The myth of secular law as savior
...scholars, the good law/bad law dichotomy structures implicit judgments of legal systems. Good law might be state law, or international law, or some other legal system, but good law is...
University blasts in Pakistan and the future of Islam
by Nicole GreenfieldIn 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...
India’s Muslims
by Jessica Polebaum...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...
Where is the new vision to unite us?
by Nathan Schneider...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...
Crossing and conversion: Introduction
...belief or sincerity alone. Instead, conversions reflect protracted controversies over communal maintenance, self-identity, rituals of belonging, state governance, and international norms in which the question of belief or sincerity may...
Stand still and watch
by Fenggang Yang...is entwined with ethnicity; and (5) affects international relations and, therefore, must be handled with caution. This plea for caution has further bound the control apparatus in their handling of...