...in accord with or detrimental to moral judgment and moral behavior. For instance, does Thomas Hobbes’s denial of a qualitative divide between humans and other animals really “cause us to...
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Invisibilizing Hindu terrorism through the “War on Terror”
...the country, Uttar Pradesh, instances of police brutality (popularly known as “encounter killings”) against Muslims and Dalits (so-called untouchables) have raised alarm among several transnational human rights organizations. Speaking about...
Secularism and Hindutva histories
...instance, not only highlights a past when India’s various religious communities seemed less rigidly divided. It also inserts the Mughal state into a teleological narrative of modernity. In this vein,...
A Kingdom that no longer says Whatever
...for instance, seems to me to have limited value when applied to the contemporary crises of secularism and religion in Western Europe and, more specifically, in the Netherlands. For instance,...
Government, civil society, and religious freedom
...specific cases. Such conflict is all the more pervasive if the full range of civil society organizations, both religious and not, is considered. For instance, many in what is often...
media
...Protestantism’s role in constituting the category of religion. So, for instance, the pioneering work on images in modern Hinduism came from scholars of religion who initially studied classical texts, such...
“Citizen science,” environmental action, and religious pluralism
...commonalities between these demographics that are obscured, for instance, by recent electoral maps. Such maps reflect slowly achieved divisions—Republican vs. Democrat, white vs. black, rural vs. urban. However, Restoring Eden...
Praying with one’s legs again
...on the Shabbat before Ninth of Av to mark the destruction of Jerusalem), for instance, is as relevant to her now as it was then. Because Shabbat Hazon revolves around...
Searching for better questions (while building a better world)
...we cannot even detect how biased it is. Graeber and Wengrow offer many examples of the inability of researchers to break free from mainstream assumptions regarding, for instance, the influence...
Reading the paranormal writing us: An interview with Jeffrey Kripal
...jokingly wrote of the coming Era of Witchcraft. He was only half-joking. NS: What do you think would fall under Charles Fort’s idea of the “damned” today, for instance? JK:...