...an a la carte way that betrays a functional attitude toward reform. For instance, while the government has pushed to repeal the ban on headscarves in universities, it has not...
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Virtual populist regimes
...instances of populist mobilization lies in the way they express the ideologies of the competing nationalisms of India and the nationalities that comprise it. To deal with a situation where...
A different notion of fraternity
by Akeel Bilgrami...He says: Bilgrami is quite clear that in the first instance the caring is for one’s own conception of truth. I am not at all clear about that because I...
media
by Kajri Jain...Protestantism’s role in constituting the category of religion. So, for instance, the pioneering work on images in modern Hinduism came from scholars of religion who initially studied classical texts, such...
Reading the paranormal writing us: An interview with Jeffrey Kripal
by Nathan Schneider...jokingly wrote of the coming Era of Witchcraft. He was only half-joking. NS: What do you think would fall under Charles Fort’s idea of the “damned” today, for instance? JK:...
Colonial reverberations in contemporary religious freedom promotion
...Department’s Office of International Religious Freedom, for instance, annually publishes its list of “countries of particular concern.” These are the states that the office singles out for their engagement in...
The paradoxes of the re-Islamization of Muslim societies
by Olivier Roy...connections (the fact, for instance, that Al-Qaeda systematized a concept of terrorism that was first developed by the Western European ultra-left of the seventies or the fact that most Al-Qaeda...
Arguing with An-Na`im
by Daniel Philpott...sure, but involved an independence of religious authority and a limitation of state responsibilities to typically temporal ones—raising armies and taxes, for instance. It was in good part European colonial...
An exceptional tradition? The Jesuits in the world
...For instance, he used the printing press to circulate letters, reports, and rules. These new technologies gave the Jesuits an unprecedented ability to standardize education and centralize control. The possibility...
Catholicism, conservatism, and antihumanist politics
by Simon During...interest in the politics of antihumanism is never allowed full extension, even if he offers an illuminating account of interwar left-wing humanism, for instance. So we don’t really find an...