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Skyping secularism: Religion and multiple modernities
by Thomas Alberts...over what the boundaries of the community are, what constitutes membership and authority within that community, and then, in the end, what ethical principles should guide policy on issues like...
Hindutva appropriations of indigeneity
...that stretches across much of South Asia, enveloping currently independent and non-Hindu-majority nations. In 2022, Hindu nationalists announced that they were formulating a new constitution for this dystopic state that...
The neocolonial futurism of US Hindutva
...anti-Muslim sentiment both within and outside of India. Hindu nationalism or Hindutva conventionally refers to the political ideology of Hindu nativism and exclusivity that recasts the multiethnic, multifaith Indian subcontinent...
Interrogating caste privilege from within
...deep into the self. In the paragraphs that follow, I use an autoethnographic approach to unpack how caste has contributed to the sociopolitical shape of the Indian American community of...
George Lakoff on The Obama Code
by Ruth Braunstein...education, energy, health care. But beyond policy, there will be a vision of America—a moral vision and a view of unity that the pundits often miss. What they miss is...
Prophetic blackness: The legendary tale of Alexander Bedward, “the flying preacher”
...on the year) in St. Andrew Parish, Jamaica, the future prophet endured a childhood of frequent illness that caused him to relocate to Panama, where he eventually gained enough strength...
Secularism and Hindutva histories
by Supriya Gandhi...majoritarian policies and sentiments that the present government promotes. Critics of Modi’s brand of religious nationalism penned somber reflections on Indian democracy, often lamenting the decline of secularism and the...
Violence, publicity, and sovereignty
by Arvind Rajagopal...of discourse on Indian airwaves, but the result is not what was foreseen by free speech advocates. Instead of official propaganda, which no one believed, audiences in India now get...
Translating “courts” cautiously
...that need to be considered. Here I will draw out some translation lessons that my work on Indian dar ul qazas—often characterized as “Muslim courts”—has brought into relief. In India,...