...effort at further illumination will necessarily transform what is depicted. The book traces in provocative outline the recent histories of India and China, arguing that neither formulations of modernity were...
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Book introductions
The Politics of Islamic Law: An introduction
by Iza Hussin...by whom? In what domains of Muslim life has Islamic law been made silent? What political compacts and struggles underwrite these claims for presence or absence, and upon what institutional...
Law's Religion
Keeping up with “culture”
by J. Barton Scott...the history of the culture concept in Canadian law? Are there, for example, Canadian stories that parallel the story that Tisa Wenger tells about Pueblo Indians, who skillfully navigated the...
Islam and the Secular State
Disentangling Islam and the post-colonial state
by Joel S. Migdal...Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary. All this is to say that any simple categorization of states as simply secular or religious will probably miss what is most interesting in...
The headscarf controversy
Gender equality and Islamic headscarves
by Joan Scott...that code was revised in 2001 (with the support of the AKP), women were defined as men’s property and rape was considered a violation of a male property-holder’s right. Ideas...
A Universe of Terms
media
by Kajri Jain
...an inescapable political force despite India’s putative secularism, and that print, cinema, and television had something to do with this—that communication and media studies began to wake up to religion....
Crossing and conversion 
by
Peter van der Veer
Crossing and conversion: Conclusion
by
Peter van der Veer
...of the conflicts of conscience that are the result of this. Legal systems are rooted in politics. It is especially postcolonial states like India, Vietnam, and China that find conversion...
here & there
Christian persecution in India
by Laura DuaneThe New York Times reports on a growing trend of the persecution of Christians in India: India, the world’s most populous democracy and officially a secular nation, is today haunted...