Catholic Culture reports that Cardinal Gaudencio Rosales of Manila has "called for prayers of reparation for a blasphemous art exhibit."…
Religiosity, censorship, and art
the Philippines
Minnesota secularism gone global
Minnesota politics is a bit, well, different. But uproar over the place of religion in an election mailing may show…
Peace from the ground up: An interview with Myla Leguro
After spending two years earning her master’s degree at the University of Notre Dame’s Kroc Institute for International Peace Studies—and…
Skyping secularism: Religion and democracy
At the end of our last post (an extension of our discussions at the IWM Summer School in Cortona), we…
God at the Filipino polls
In a country as religious as the Philippines, it would be easy to assume that clerics have a significant hand in…
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…
Classifying the conflict in Mindanao
At Religion Dispatches, Bruce B. Lawrence explores the ongoing conflict in Mindanao and argues that to conceptualize the conflict as…