Allison Kaplan Sommer and Dahlia Lithwick write at The New Republic write about the struggles of an emergent form of…
Emergent feminism among Orthodox Jewish women in Israel
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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…
Crisis in Egypt roundup
The public protests and ouster of elected Egyptian President Mohamed Morsi by the Egyptian military followed by the appointment of…
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…
SCOTUS roundup: Rulings on DOMA and Prop 8
The U.S. Supreme Court ruled 5 to 4 on Wednesday that the Defense of Marriage Act (DOMA), a 1996 law…
The anatomy of a public square movement
Sociologist (and longtime TIF contributor) Nilüfer Göle assesses the emerging opposition movement in Turkey at Today's Zaman.
Three cheers for God
A Texas judge has ruled on the case of the Texas cheerleaders who were using banners with Christian Bible verses…
Buddhism and the practices of contemporary education
Recently, Matt Bieber interviewed Peter Hershock, author of Buddhism in the Public Sphere, for his blog The Wheat and Chaff.
Blurring the boundaries
Four guided missiles packed with explosive material hurtled into the morning sky. Though the day was brilliant blue and cloudless,…
Everson’s Children
Everson v. Board of Education is considered a landmark of First Amendment jurisprudence. That 1947 case marks the first time…