Most of Religious Difference in a Secular Age: A Minority Report is an original and thorough exploration of the historical…
Equality time
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Minority matters
Trenchantly framed as “a minority report,” Saba Mahmood’s Religious Difference in a Secular Age: A Minority Report offers more than just…
A thought-provoking study
In Religious Difference in a Secular Age: A Minority Report, Saba Mahmood has produced a valuable account both of how the…
Does faith trump equality?
This week at The Guardian's Belief page, the editors ask whether faith trumps equality: "When religions believe they must discriminate…
Common sense
Obama's speeches are glorious. They are a joy to listen to and to read later. He is able to dig…
Human rights in the era of the AKP
For human rights advocates in Turkey, all political alliances are necessarily alliances of convenience. The reasons for this are myriad,…
Relationships and recognition
A woman emerges from a failed relationship of two years' duration. Despondent over the relationship's demise, she laments that family,…
Promoting marriage and Christianity in America
Following the recent California Supreme Court ruling in favor of same-sex marriage, National Public Radio offered a report on “the…
The race to marriage
On April 3, 2008, state authorities raided a polygamous compound in Eldorado, Texas founded by Warren Jeffs, the now imprisoned…
Gender equality and Islamic headscarves
In Turkey there is now a great deal of controversy about proposed revisions to the constitution that would include lifting…