...by several scholars of religion as “fundamentalist” (see for instance, Antoun, Davis and Robinson, and Zadra). More peculiar, perhaps, was the cast of presenters promoting the event: a Jewish professor...
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The headscarf controversy
Turkey’s coup by court
by Jenny White...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...
Secularism: Its Content and Context
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...
A Universe of Terms
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...
Deathless questions and other interviews
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:...
Law, religion, and state building
Colonial reverberations in contemporary religious freedom promotion
Essays
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...
Islam and the Secular State
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...
