...a local grocery store. “Soon the Jama’a (Muslim Brotherhood) will ban it.” The store owner, Mr. Ahmad, nodded. “Allah yastur al balad, [May god protect the country]—it will be like...
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Overlapping senses of salvation
by Eric Hoenes del Pinal...several interesting points of comparison to note here. As with El Shaddai’s campaign, the moral authority upon which the Sakapultek-Maya evangélicos act seems to be based on their status as...
Le mal des fleurs
...its public spaces. For a start, there are canonical and popular traditions dating back to precolonial times: processions bringing gods out of temples for public worship; performances that remember and...
Pandemic security and insecurity in the Gulf
...reported 350,000 Indians had signed up for these flights, amounting to a tenth of the UAE’s Indian expatriate population. These repatriation flights are taking place in other Gulf countries as...
Who has ‘religion’?
by Christopher McKnight Nichols...on the subject of this essay: Barry A. Kosmin and Ariel Keysar’s exceptional “American Nones: The Profile of the No Religion Population” [pdf], Michael Hout and Claude S. Fischer’s outstanding...
Liberal rights and religious rites
How do Muslim-majority countries manage dual commitments to constitutional protections for liberal rights and Islamic personal status law? Tamir Moustafa offers a rich and nuanced study of the Malaysian case...
Sacred space and the (post)secular state
...August 5, Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi spoke at the groundbreaking ritual for a temple to be built on the site of the Babri Masjid, a sixteenth-century mosque in Ayodhya...
“The Church”
by Winnifred Fallers Sullivan...the reach of conscientious objector status and condemn the teaching of creation science (U.S. v. Seeger and McLean v. Arkansas). The Court in Hosanna-Tabor tells a story of “the church.”...
Conversion marriages: Rethinking categories of religion in colonial India’s courtrooms
...in the Golden Horde, Baba Tukles and Conversion to Islam in Historical and Epic Tradition (Pennsylvania State University Press, 1994), 26. There is plenty of evidence for this understanding of...
From deathbed anecdote to polemical trope: The “old women of Nishapur” in Islamic historiography
...including gender, age, social status, and non-urban location. The polemical layer Finally, the third layer is discernible here only in the final sentence of al-Dhahabī’s account where he briefly notes...