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Emergent feminism among Orthodox Jewish women in Israel
Allison Kaplan Sommer and Dahlia Lithwick write at The New Republic write about the struggles of an emergent form of…
Religious progressives in the US
The new Economic Values Survey carried out by the Public Religion Research Institute and the Brookings Institute has surveyed the…
Is the increase in the non-religious a “bad thing”?
A new survey by the Pew Research Center's Forum on Religion & Public Life found that an increasing number of American adults identify as…
Igbo Jews: A Lost Tribe of Israel?
Over at CNN, Chika Oduah writes about the assertion by Igbo Jews that they are descendants of Jacob and one…
Credulity: Enchantment and Modernity in the 19th-Century U.S.
The Heyman Center for the Humanities at Columbia University is co-sponsoring a conference later this week on "credulity."
On the freedom of the concepts of religion and belief
This short piece attempts to come at the current debate on law and religious freedom from two unusual angles. I…
Scientology not a religion?
According to a recent poll by 60 Minutes/Vanity Fair, a majority of Americans do not believe that Scientology is a…
Loss of faith in religious institutions
NPR recently reported on a Gallup poll, which showed Americans' faith in organized religion and religious institutions has declined.
Religious freedom as crisis claims
Adopted in 1950, Article 17 of the Indian Constitution legally abolished untouchability---the ancient Hindu system of social discrimination---forbade its practice…