...showing us how these expressions are increasingly displaced outside the bounds of the dominant Western cultural concepts of “religion.” Burning Man is on the vanguard of contemporary religious movements that...
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Exchanges
by Zachary Zinn...show how groups in Western Europe and the United States draw on religious and secular symbols when determining belonging. (2016) Read more Religion and digital culture Scholars and journalists...
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Contextualizing the Faulks controversy
by Charles Gelman...thus. If he overstated “in order to make a point more clearly” he ended up uttering standard judgment of western civilisation from Dante to Amis. Read the full article here....
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Prominent Pakistani cleric condemns political violence
by Charles Gelman...young Muslims in Britain, Scandinavia and Canada, many of whom are of Pakistani backgrounds. While domestic politics in Muslim countries, the presence of foreign troops and the impact Western foreign...
Notes from the field
Initial thoughts from the IWM summer school
by David Buckley...Muslim immigration in Western Europe, religious pluralism in South Asia. . . . these are all distinct empirical issues to some extent, although grouped within the categorization of the post-secular....
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The unlikely disciple
by Nicole Greenfield...him some Bible verses to read, and they never would have seen each other again. Cold-turkey evangelism provides the shortest, most non-committal conversion offer of any Western religion—which, I suspect,...
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Pakistan is already an Islamic state
by Laura Duane...had been merely the “official” religion. Nineteen-seventy-three, in other words, represents Pakistan’s “Iran moment“—when the government made itself beholden to religious law. Most western observers missed the radical change because...
A Secular Age
A case of heteronomous thinking
by Stathis Gourgouris...toward secular authorization since arguably the 12th century of Western Christian history, the most substantial significance of secularization is that it is by definition an unfinished project: By definition, because...
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Building a new way forward
by Ruth Braunstein...Western intervention, invasion, and domination, but also admires the West, the U.S., in particular for its technology, freedoms, and democracy. As the Gallup World Poll, the largest, most systematic poll...