...it upholds outdated principles and ideals, and so, does nothing to substantially disrupt the status quo. Religions themselves often participate and help to shape this vision, painting themselves as the...
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A View from the Margins of the Banlieue
by Jana Glaese...are particularly meaningful for women whose “status as French citizens remains precarious.” Nineteenth-century Catholicism, which was the topic of political satire back then, was the religion of a privileged class....
Comparison and classification in American religious history
...do so—through comparison, to the past and to others. Such feats of comparison took a lot of work. In 1875, Spencer F. Baird, a renowned naturalist and assistant secretary of...
Pandemics in the post-grid imaginary
...guarantees medical care, but there has been a lack of basic coordination between federal, state, and local jurisdictions. As state governors scramble to expand testing and obtain personal protective equipment...
Obama, Wright, and Trinity
by Randal JelksThe East Coast media establishment—both “conservatives” and “liberals”—continue to ask the same question about Senator Barack Obama: why did he keep his membership at Trinity United Church of Christ, where...
Contrasting progress on democracy in Tunisia and Egypt
by Alfred Stepan...despite worries about the incompatibility of Islam and democracy, over 500 million Muslims live in Muslim majority countries that are commonly classified as democracies: Indonesia, Turkey, Bangladesh, Senegal, Mali and...
Armenian return conversions in Turkey
...married an Armenian. I have also decided to return to my roots and got baptized [in the Armenian Church]. What is a return conversion? What possibilities do these converts’ experiences...
The butterfly’s unconscious
by Juhn Ahn...his youth, has forgotten the way back?” – Zhuangzi Youth Without Youth takes us through a strange loop that demands us both cognitively and visually to ask similar questions about...
Obama, the Democratic Party, and Islamophobia
...received from the American public signaled the precarious state of Muslims in the United States. It was not supposed to be this way when eight years ago, Barack Hussein Obama...
Words can break bones
...and reactions vary between a voter-drive and a neighborhood barbecue? Is holding certain positions evidence you are not even worth the work? What if you have held certain positions in...