...discussion on the Egyptian elections. A colleague from Cairo University asked the group to help him decide who to vote for. He said he found it difficult to choose between...
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The politics of religious freedom
Everson’s Children
by Ann Pellegrini...and practice of religious freedom in the United States. Christian dominance in American public life—while a truism—is itself not monolithic in practice. Instead, we might better speak of religious cultures,...
Essays 
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Judith Gurewich
Understanding the president’s reality: A psychoanalytic contribution to public life
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Judith Gurewich
This essay is the first of two parts, inspired by a conversation between the author, Judith Gurewich, and Robert Orsi. The second essay expands on their discussion. It would not...
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Exploring Buddhist violence
by Kathryn ReklisMichael Jerryson discusses his new book Buddhist Warfare, co-edited with Mark Juergensmeyer, explaining “how the notion of a purely mystical and otherworldly Buddhism—promoted by some of the great interpreters of...
Figurative publics: Crowds, protest, and democratic anxieties
Figurative publics: Crowds, protest, and democratic anxieties
In the Shadow of World Literature 
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Avi Alpert
The contested worlds of world literature
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Avi Alpert
...in “world literature” might introduce students to texts from Kenya, Thailand, and Chile, they will all be read through a series of frameworks, and, most crucially, an understanding of what...
Religious Difference in a Secular Age
Democracy and the secular predicament
by Karuna Mantena and Aziz Rana...between democracy and ethno-religious people-hood. This conceptual move linked democratic aspirations to destructive brands of nationalist majoritarianism. It was also the product of a particular historic conjuncture. We can see...
A Secular Age
Discerning the religious spirit of secular states in Asia
by Richard Madsen...the fit between Taylor’s framework and contemporary developments in East and Southeast Asian societies, concentrating mainly on the political and religious transformations taking place in these societies in the aftermath...