...and at nineteen she raised that anthem of female financial autonomy, “Independent Woman.” Even after she had solidly risen to the heights of international stardom, Beyoncé’s lyrics still veered toward...
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Cosmology and the environment
...discussion—ed. Our respondents are: Whitney Bauman, Associate Professor of Religious Studies, Florida International University David Christian, Professor of History and Director of Big History Institute, Macquarie University Willis Jenkins, Professor...
Essay Competition on religious and linguistic freedoms
by Charles Gelman...Based on an international essay competition, the Roundtables will bring together about 40 junior scholars, activists, and journalists to discuss their work in two interdisciplinary workshops and panel discussions from...
The new gurus
by Courtney Bender, Donna Schaper, Elizabeth McAlister, Mara E. Donaldson, Melani McAlister, Michele Dillon, Carl Raschke and Kathryn Lofton...University Mara E. Donaldson, Professor of Religion, Dickinson College Melani McAlister, Associate Professor of American Studies and International Affairs, George Washington University Michele Dillon, Professor of Sociology, University of New...
Controversy over French proposal to edit the Quran: A transatlantic perspective
...fundamentalist churches, which still do not recognize this papal intervention). Sacred texts remain sacred. How they are read and interpreted is the only thing that has changed (cf. Rachid Benzine,...
Is absolute secularity conceivable?
by Simon During...contexts have changed. Numerous applications of the displacement model of secularization are current, but here I will point to just one. It concerns philosophical anthropology. The argument is that certain...
The headscarf controversy
by Binnaz Toprak...by Ronald Inglehart of the University of Michigan and his international team in 75 countries that contain approximately 80% of the world’s population), what distinguishes Muslim publics from publics elsewhere...
Good ol’ time American politics?
by Stathis Gourgouris...it would not have been worthy of sociological research and scholarly exchange. Whatever might be our assessment of this long history of religion and politics in America, something has changed...
Wording and worlding: On the form of Bouteldja’s writing
...she asked her parents to stay out of sight of her teachers and classmates as they dropped her off at the airport. She told them that this was because the...
Veiled threats?
by Ruth Braunstein...these superior technologies spread to police on patrol and airport security lines, we can do away with the photo, hence with what remains of the first and second arguments. A...