...that the modern social order is undergoing, or indeed has ever undergone, the process of secularization; others hold that we have entered a post-secular era. Still others associate secularism with...
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Religion and state secularization
by Simon During...he squarely confronts the most obvious problem it poses. What about states and polities that don’t accept rights-based, liberal-democratic ideals and the rights and goods that they promise? In such...
Comparative Studies in Society and History takes on the secular
by Jake Alter...Shryock, in his Foreword, reminds readers that CSSH “does not do special issues,” but he does concede that this issue has a particular focus: All of the essays presented here...
Somewhere out there: Corporate utopias of space and sea
...sure what to call that. JSM: Perhaps utopia works for both forms of frontierism, even as they mark opposing embodiments of the expansionist urge. What you’ve called the more locative, this-worldly...
Religion is not a standalone category
by Timothy Fitzgerald...on this website: My suggestion… is that we seriously consider the possibility that the story of secularization, on the one hand, and the discursive apparatus that has hitherto sustained our...
The science of people power: An interview with Gene Sharp
by Nathan Schneider...Einstein Institution, which operates out of his home in East Boston. * * * NS: What was the first thing that crossed your mind when you heard that President Mubarak...
Satire and policing the boundary of free expression
by Peter Ronald deSouza...digital borderlessness is that what is perfectly acceptable in one society, produces outrage and street violence in another. The acceptable social codes of one society are considered strongly offensive in...
What are you teaching?
...introduce students to “Islamic” material and intellectual worlds while showing (rather than claiming) that questions such as “what is Islam?” are mired in a framework that needs a complete conceptual...
Tradition Transformed: Tibetan Artists Respond
by Charles Gelman...asked to submit new and recent works that served as the show’s formative voice and inspired the curatorial response. Specific works by the same artists were then selected from New...
Pakistan takes on Islamism
by Laura Duane...falters at this critical juncture, it will be a signal for the Afghan population that the Taliban is winning and that Western forces want out. In the end, though, it...