...missionary activities in the region. The advantages accorded to Westerners under the Ottoman capitulations proved to be crucial for the missionaries in gaining access to Egyptian rural and urban populations....
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by Colin Jager
Pussy Riot’s punk prayer
On February 21, 2012, five members of a Russian punk collective called Pussy Riot entered the Cathedral of Christ the Savior in Moscow. Singing “Mother of God, Chase Putin Out!,”...
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by Elizabeth Shakman Hurd
The specific order of difficulty of religion
...under the rubric of normative diversity, law, and governance. Such an approach would not limit the object of inquiry to religion, or politics, as construed by those in power. It...
Is this all there is ![]()
by Jason Ā. Josephson-Storm
What it isn’t: Or, historical periodization by erasure
...is as if America was pulled abruptly from a “post-racial” (remember that naïveté?) to a “post-truth” age overnight. Hence, the terms “postmodern” and “postmodernism” have returned with a vengeance in...
Islam and the Secular State ![]()
by Joel S. Migdal
Disentangling Islam and the post-colonial state
...at least as a set of public practices, rules, and institutions. What Kuru demonstrates, though, is the importance of each country’s historical trajectory in fashioning its brand of secularism and...
The assassination of Benazir Bhutto ![]()
by Ainslie Embree
How religion gets mixed with violence
rule and strenuous attempts to create a truly Islamic society. Pakistan would be so united as an Islamic society, Zia promised, that “no wedge can be driven [in it] and...
here & there ![]()
by Laura Duane
The war on moral will
...turn increasingly to rules, rules and incentives may make things better in the short run, but they create a downward spiral that makes them worse in the long run. Moral...
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by Daniel Philpott
Arguing with An-Na`im
...freedom to debate and develop their doctrines. As he argues, it can be true both that truth is fixed and that human understanding of it is open to infinite progress...
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by Amanda Kaplan
Ruling against discrimination
The Supreme Court ruled against the Christian Legal Society at the University of California’s Hastings College of Law, which claimed that the First Amendment protected its right to refuse membership...