The Immanent Frame – Page 16 – Secularism, religion, and the public sphere

Freedom struggles of China’s Christian rights lawyers

September 19, 2023

In 2008 or 2009, at an early stage of an extensive research program on criminal defense lawyers in China, I was asked a surprising question. Fu Hualing, an academic authority on China’s…

September 19, 2023

National identity, nationalism, and the politics of religion

Conducts of revolt: Refusing a Napoleonic politics of religion

Winnifred Fallers Sullivan·

August 23, 2023

One of the interesting things about religious nationalisms is their interchangeablity. I remember reading Peter van der Veer’s book, Religious Nationalism: Hindus and Muslims in India, when it came out in 1994.…

August 23, 2023

National identity, nationalism, and the politics of religion

Toward illiberal secularisms in Western francophone societies

David Koussens·

August 16, 2023

Secularism requires that the state be separate from, and neutral vis-à-vis, religious groups. The state must also protect the religious freedom of all citizens, regardless of their beliefs. As demonstrated by scholars…

August 16, 2023

National identity, nationalism, and the politics of religion

Competing narratives of the “us” in “our culture and heritage”

Lori G. Beaman·

August 9, 2023

Although 19.3 million people reported a Christian affiliation in the 2021 Canadian census (representing just over half of the Canadian population at 53.3 percent), this was a decrease from 67.3 percent in…

August 9, 2023

National identity, nationalism, and the politics of religion

Monotheistic religious nationalisms in India and Pakistan

Sadia Saeed·

August 2, 2023

On January 17, 2023, BBC World aired the first episode of its controversial two-part miniseries titled India: The Modi Question. The series investigates Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s troubled relationship with India’s…

August 2, 2023

National identity, nationalism, and the politics of religion

Us and them vs. them: How Christian nationalism facilitates multiracial coalitions of exclusion

Samuel L. Perry·

July 26, 2023

The rise of ethno-nationalist movements around the world has been one of the most notable political trends of the past two decades. That trend certainly includes the United States. The American strain…

July 26, 2023

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Freedom struggles of China’s Christian rights lawyers

Conducts of revolt: Refusing a Napoleonic politics of religion

Toward illiberal secularisms in Western francophone societies

Competing narratives of the “us” in “our culture and heritage”

Monotheistic religious nationalisms in India and Pakistan

Us and them vs. them: How Christian nationalism facilitates multiracial coalitions of exclusion