At Miller-McCune, Michael Scott Moore reports on a German family that was granted asylum by a federal immigration judge in…
A right to home-school?
politics
Demography and de-secularization
Profile Books recently published Shall the Religious Inherit the Earth?, an analysis of the demographic contradictions of modern capitalist societies,…
Symposium: The Traffic in Policy
This Friday, April 30, the Hemispheric Institute of Performance and Politics at New York University will hold a day-long symposium…
Secularism and religious co-existence in Lebanon
This weekend, a group of Lebanese citizens will take to the streets of Beirut to participate in a Laïque Pride…
Religion and violence in the early church
The ever prolific American historian Philip Jenkins recently published yet another book, The Jesus Wars, which deals with the issue…
The Kenyan constitution and the failure of Pan-African theology
In The Zeleza Post, Wandia Njoya comments on the upcoming referendum on a new constitution in Kenya, where the Christian…
It’s all about reconciliation: A conversation with Tariq Ramadan
I had the opportunity to sit for a conversation with the Swiss philosopher Tariq Ramadan at the end of the…
The Politics of Religion
On April 16-17, 2010, Macaulay Honors College of The City University of New York is hosting an international conference on The…
What is a metaphor a metaphor for?
Haiti has always suffered from a plight of representation: “Black France” for Jules Michelet, “a tropical dog-kennel” for Thomas Carlyle,…
Radical Orthodoxy’s new home?
This past November, a new think tank called ResPublica was launched in London, in the opulent surrounds of the Royal…