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Alberto Toscano on fanaticism
by John D. Boy...East. The book has been reviewed in the UK, and Toscano has also appeared in a video interview with The Guardian to speak about his book. Keep your eyes peeled...
September 27, 2010
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Call for papers: CSID annual conference
by Phillip Quintero...will be held on May 3 and proposals are due by March 15: The Middle East is not the only thing being rocked by the “Arab Spring.” So are preconceptions...
March 13, 2012
Religion and the 2008 election
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...
May 19, 2008
here & there
African apocalypse
by Nathan Schneider...that have made east Africa a tourist paradise. One of the most beautiful creatures n the world, the giraffe, for example, has suffered a crash in numbers. Estimates of the...
January 4, 2010
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Four patriarchs and a Baptist preacher
by Brittany Pheiffer Noble and Wei Zhu...is historically Orthodox in the East and Catholic in the far West, around Lviv. At first glance, then, it seems as though the religious dimensions of Ukraine’s complicated self-identity may...
March 27, 2014
The state of religion in China
The Communist Party and the future of religion in China
by André Laliberté...that seem to end in contradictory directions. On the one hand, the promotion of international Buddhist and Taoist forums and the liberalization of regulations concerning the social activities religious organizations...
October 4, 2013
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The Islamic State’s intellectual genealogy (and what you need to read to understand it)
by Alexander Thurston...re-instantiation of conflicts that occurred during Ibn Taymiyya’s era, when Mongol armies captured and threatened Muslim territory in the Middle East. ISIS invokes Ibn Taymiyya frequently to claim his scholarly...
April 20, 2015
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Reversal in the case of Tariq Ramadan
by Abdullahi Ahmed An-Na’im, Mohammed A. Bamyeh, Richard W. Bulliet, Craig Calhoun, John L. Esposito, Mark Juergensmeyer and Arvind Rajagopal...Hamas in the pursuit of both peace in the Middle East and humanitarian care for suffering Palestinians. There is a broader question about whether it is helpful to condemn as...
July 20, 2009
Uprising in Egypt
Myths of Mubarak
by Elizabeth Shakman Hurd...display the political courage and intellectual creativity needed to transcend the false choice between secular dictators and “crazy Islamists” and support real democracy in the Middle East, for a change....
February 2, 2011