...Western and non-Western settings are not really as stark as Taylor suggests and that “Islamic countries” or “Muslim societies” (as Taylor calls them) have commonalities in their religious experience with...
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The Modern Spirit of Asia
Comparing China and India
by Peter van der Veer...assume the centrality of church-like organizations and a Western, secular state in an analysis of developments in India and China. That critical reflection often shows that Western concepts do not...
The Unintended Reformation
Genre, method, and assumptions
by Brad S. Gregory...little sign of abating. I am also pleased that most reviewers have acknowledged the book’s ambition and erudition, and that some regard it as an important analysis of modern Western...
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Mamdani on the African uprisings
by John D. Boy...flurry of discussion after Tahrir Square, mainly in the press. Many asked whether the Egyptian revolution will spread South of the Sahara. And they responded, without a second thought: No!...
Secularism: Its Content and Context
There is no such thing as a monoculture
by Justin Neuman...Forum on Religious and Public Life’s 2009 analysis of global Muslim populations, Afghanistan, Iran, Mauritania, Tunisia, Western Sahara, and Yemen all report that Muslims constitute over 99% of the population,...
The Unintended Reformation
Beyond supersessionist stories?
by Guido Vanheeswijck...embodied understandings and social imaginaries in the rise of Western modernity, particularly in relation to the redemptive force of religious belief, however optional it may be in contemporary Western society....
The politics of religious freedom
Religious freedom, minority rights, and geopolitics
by Saba Mahmood...U.S. Congress (1998) to promote the right of religious liberty (particularly Christians) in the Middle East must be placed within this long geopolitical history in which Western powers have often...
Religion and digital culture
Religion for commoners
by Nathan Schneider...(contra Clifford Geertz) as representing a way of harnessing collective intelligence toward collective ends: share the code with the world, and the world will fix its bugs in no time....