...famous advocates of Gandhian nonviolence in the 1930s and 1940s, and the Mahatma once summoned him to a conference in India. Beginning with the Montgomery Bus Boycott, he served as...
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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...
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The secular as space, the secular as process: The 2012 UCSIA summer school
by Grace Yukich and John-Harmen Valk...of principled distance, based on the distinctive nature of Indian secularism, also makes this point. Furthermore, it might suggest that the secular as space is not solely achievable via the...
Religion in the public sphere
Cosmopolitanism and the ideal of postsecular public reason
by Craig Calhoun...And of course there are more variations on this theme – states that fund multiple religions, states that grant all religions special privileges, states with established official religions that nonetheless...
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Dalai Lama to give Templeton money to charity
by David SloaneLast week at BBC News, Robert Pigott reported that the Dalai Lama will give to charity the £1.1 million in Templeton prize money that he was awarded earlier this month....
Is this all there is
On democratic despond
by Ebenezer Obadare
...it would seem that the issue in Nigeria and other African countries in a similar limbo is not really that democracy has failed. Rather, there is a nagging sense that,...
A Secular Age
Hybrid consciousness or purified religion
by Richard Madsen...about their logical inconsistencies. Such are the flexibilities of a non-monotheistic culture, rather than a culture that assumes that there is a single jealous God who demands that all things...