...to get critical distance on this discourse, is describing law as “cultural” actually the best tactic? “Culture,” of course, is a famously slippery term. Within the discursive regime of multiculturalism,...
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Secularism: Its Content and Context
Gandhian fraternity
by Akeel Bilgrami...don’t deny that Gandhi’s exemplary acts in which he gave of himself, signal this, though I wonder if “signal” is the best term to have used, unless one is clear...
Book reviews
Blood: A Critique of Christianity
by Daniel Steinmetz-Jenkins...goes, thus persists as something entirely different than what it calls itself. Perhaps Christianity’s liquidity best explains Anidjar’s surprising suggestion that nation, state, and capital became “available, sustainable, and readable...
here & there
Faith and investment
by Nicole GreenfieldFrom an article in Time on how stock market investments are guided by religious belief: Which faith plays the market best when it seems headed for the financial equivalent of...
Sharia Compliant 
by
Anver Emon
Islamic law from below: Between trust and distrust
by
Anver Emon
...penises and vaginas. Laissez faire is about trust, at least when it comes to who is in the best position to most efficiently spend my hard earned money. Conservatives and...
Experience between the secular and the divine
William James, phenomenology, and the embodiment of religious experience
Is this all there is
A thousand worlds and this
by Clémence Boulouque
...in his 1710 Theodicy, according to which this is “the best of possible worlds,” a proposition mercilessly mocked by Voltaire in Candide. Yet Midrash Rabbah has a particular edge: The...
Essays
Explaining Islam to the public
by Edward E. Curtis, IV...knowledge; in the best of programs, they are trained to be exceedingly careful about claiming too much. The pressures to become the academic voice of Islam both on campus and...
off the cuff
Multiculturalism in Europe
by Sindre Bangstad, Keith Banting, Will Kymlicka, Rajeev Bhargava, Jocelyne Cesari, Grace Davie, Ruby Gropas and Elizabeth H. Prodromou...comment on the increasing influence of anti-immigration and anti-Islam ideas and parties across Europe and to offer their thoughts on how best to accommodate minority claims (especially those involving Islam)...