The New York Times‘s Hillary Brenhouse explores the proliferation in European and American higher education of courses and degrees in Islamic banking and finance: At semiannual meetings of the International...
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CFP and fellowship opportunities
by Wei ZhuThe Religion Network of the Social Science History Association has announced a call for papers, panels, and book sessions for the 40th annual meeting of the Social Science History Association...
Candor or respect?
by Nathan Schneider...Faisal Devji (The New School University), Philip Hamburger (Columbia Law School), Marci Hamilton (Cardozo Law School), Leonard Leo (US Commission on International Religious Freedom), Tomoko Masuzawa (University of Michigan), Flemming...
The stories we tell
by Annie Hardison-Moody...evangelical Christians. Although in the past the feminist movement has been reticent to talk about religion, in my own work with international women’s human rights activists I have noticed a...
De-provincializing Oprah
by Manuel A. Vásquez...paranoid anxiety that characterize America (and much of the world) at the turn of the twenty-first century. A particular strength of the book is its capacity to embed Oprah in...
Bibles for the hip and secular
by Nicole GreenfieldLynn Neary reports for NPR’s Morning Edition on the publication of two new bibles that target a modern, and even secular, audience. Bible Illuminated: The Book is a “flashy coffee-table...
Nonreligion and Secularity Research Network launches website
by Wei ZhuThe Nonreligion and Secularity Research Network (NSRN) recently launched its new website. “An international and interdisciplinary network of researchers founded in 2008,” the NSRN: […] aims to centralise existing research...
AIDS and LGBT equality
by Taline CoxIn honor of the International AIDS Conference that will take place in Washington, D.C. later this month, Diane Winston, a member of the SSRC New Directions in the Study of...