At SSRC.org, three former recipients of the International Dissertation Research Fellowship (IDRF) reflect on Ronit Ricci’s Islam Translated. In this new volume, Ricci analyzes translations of the Book of One...
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Religion in Human Evolution
Where did religion come from?
by Robert N. Bellah...translations are worthless. You need to find the reliable ones. When working on ancient China I regularly used five translations of the Confucian Analects because they had different virtues. It...
Is this all there is
Secularism and Hindutva histories
by Supriya Gandhi
...argued. They needed to become more like Muslims and Christians in privileging their sacred texts. To remedy this, Alakhdhari published book after book on Hindu thought. His works included translations...
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Believers tout Higgs boson discovery as evidence of God
by Grace Yukich...feed in order to draw out fundamentalist responses to the discovery, which s/he supposes will be “crazy.” Tweets on the feed include: “what a blessing that #science has finally discovered...
Hindutva and the shared scripts of the global right
Normalizing nationalism through social media in transnational Jain communities