For those of us in the United States, Gandhi’s birthday is also an opportunity to reflect on how lessons from…
Gandhi’s birthday and the American religious left
social movements
Does the United States need a religious left?
Such sudden injunctions to mobilize religion for political gains ignore the fact that progressive and radical religious movements have been…
The religious left: Memory, trajectory, relevance
What is the “religious left” and what are its prospects for responding to the current moment of authoritarian populism? The…
Sharia Compliant—An introduction
Observing and participating in Muslim conversations on Islamic law through a decolonial lens led me to see that debate as…
A crisis of political arrogance
In this series, scholars and practitioners attend to these varied ways in which religious individuals and groups engage in public…
Charisma and seduction
Producers, actors, politicians, businessmen, and professors: acclaimed men in these professions have recently been exposed as perpetrators of sexual violence.…
Is the “native” secular?
Headlines scream of burgeoning populism around the world, but the shift in politics today could also be described as a…
Preaching after the Trayvon Martin verdict
How can religion aid or complicate the ways in which people make sense of the trial of George Zimmerman and…
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.
The power of a new political imagination
The Tunisian revolution, as a revolution of ordinary people, inspired the demonstrations in Egypt, leading to Mubarak’s fall. It has…