Minnesota politics is a bit, well, different. But uproar over the place of religion in an election mailing may show…
Minnesota secularism gone global
Senegal
The scope of secular comparison
As I transition my SSRC research from Senegal to the Philippines, I am constantly ruminating over the question: why compare these two…
Skyping secularism: Religion and multiple modernities
Since our previous dispatch from the IWM Summer School in Cortona, we have settled back into our real lives in…
A passing within the Senegalese Mouride Sufi brotherhood
As I depart from Senegal, a more important passing has taken place within the Mouride Sufi brotherhood. Serigne Mouhamadou Lamine…
What’s the writing on the wall?
What makes a religious political party? The question is more than semantic in Senegal. The constitution bars political parties based…