The protests in Turkey started on May 27 with a modest resistance movement against the destruction of Istanbul’s Gezi Park…
Occupy Gezi, beyond the religious-secular cleavage
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New journal: Critical Research on Religion
Sage Publishers has announced the launch of Critical Research on Religion.
Voting for an atheist?
In a recent article, Religion News Service discusses a Gallup poll survey, in which a majority of Americans said they…
Live online panel on Egypt elections
This Friday, June 15, The Duke Islamic Studies Center's Transcultural Islam Project is co-hosting a panel discussion on the upcoming Egyptian run-off…
Multiculturalism in Europe
After the rise of multicultural policies in the 1980s and 1990s, the winds have shifted in Europe. Terrorist attacks in…
Religion and civic engagement in Europe
British think tank Demos has recently released a new report, written by Jonathan Birdwell and Mark Littler, entitled "Faithful Citizens." The…
Muslims and the Republican party
Nona Willis Aronowitz, at GOOD, discusses the impact that Republican, anti-Islamic rhetoric has had on Muslim voters.
On the secularist-Islamist divide
At Al Jazeera English, Elizabeth Shakman Hurd gives an abridged history of the past half-century of Tunisian politics, and relays the Enahddan notion that the…
The year of the Islamist
David Rohde, in Reuters’ Analysis and Opinion blog, designates 2012 as the year of the Islamist and discusses the likelihood…
Do candidates need the Catholic vote anymore?
Ed Kilgore argues that American Catholics no longer represent a voting constituency that is significantly different from non-Catholics.