...United States might be described as religions, the Internal Revenue Code supplies certain benefits to those collective bodies that apply to be recognized as “churches and religious organizations.” The exemption...
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Uprising in Egypt
Egypt’s revolution and the new feminism
by Margot Badran...Alexandria, Suez, and cities and towns throughout the country, including even the oasis city of Kharga, deep in the Western Desert of Upper Egypt. The choreography of shouting, gesticulating, dancing...
The Unintended Reformation
Historical arguments and omissions
by Brad S. Gregory...ushered in Western modernity, with its separation of church and state, secularization of public politics, privatization of religion, and freedom of religious belief and worship” (6). The book’s aim is...
The Modern Spirit of Asia
Looking back while hurtling forward
by Richard Madsen...the uncertainties that were a byproduct of imperial interaction. Take for example modern Western notions of the nature of religion, spirituality, secularism, and magic. The increased knowledge of non-Western traditions...
Global Christianity, Global Critique
The many globalizations of Christianity
by Richard Madsen...Christianity, and its “global critique” is the work of Western philosophers and theologians. What is new about this global Christianity and why are Western intellectuals now concerned about it? What...
Essays
Ducking the Arab Spring in Morocco
by Abdeslam Maghraoui...The World Bank, Western donors, and International NGOs have bankrolled this strategy. With the exception of the widely applauded family code reforms introduced in 2004, all of the king’s reform...
here & there
Tariq Ramadan returns to the U.S.
by Jessica Polebaum...“Western” and that which is “Islamic,” and emphasizing his faith in the creative potential of Western Muslims to elaborate and inhabit a distinctly Western Islamic tradition. At once a celebration...
Deathless questions and other interviews
The future of China’s past: An interview with Mayfair Yang
by Nathan Schneider...and activities were anti-colonial and anti-Western. However, seldom discussed is how much of nineteenth-century Western social evolutionism and Orientalist discourse Maoism absorbed and propagated. This discourse says that all societies...
Sex, secularism, and “femonationalism” 
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Sara Farris
On In the Name of Women’s Rights
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Sara Farris
...assimilated to Western values (because, qua women, they do not really have a mind of their own) and who can positively contribute to Western economies by working in the understaffed...