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Notes from the field
“This is not a Secular State”
by David BuckleyIn taxi cabs and formal interviews, I’ve been told that the study of secularism in the Philippines is a bit of an oxymoron. Minority groups like evangelical pastors and Muslim...
Notes from the field
God at the Filipino polls
by David BuckleyThe Philippines is regularly pointed to as one of the more religious countries on the planet. World Values Survey data show that 86% of Filipinos rate God as “Very Important”...
Deathless questions and other interviews
Peace from the ground up: An interview with Myla Leguro
by Nathan Schneider...returned to her native Mindanao, a violence-ridden island in the southern Philippines. There, for more than two decades, she has been working for Catholic Relief Services to forge peaceful relationships...
Book reviews
Exporting Freedom: Religious Liberty and American Power
by Daniel Philpott...the title of a prominent work in U.S. diplomatic history, and promotes religious freedom selectively according to the contours of this power, but does not promote religious freedom simply as...
Notes from the field
The scope of secular comparison
by David Buckley...9th and August 9th, 2010—and my trip to the Philippines, where I have just arrived to conduct research on state secularism. One of the most fruitful tensions from the IWM...
Book introductions
The Politics of Islamic Law: An introduction
by Iza Hussin...in the late nineteenth century with colonial codes that defined Islamic law within the confines of marriage, divorce, inheritance, and ritual. These codes later became a basis for Muslim efforts...
Oprah: The Gospel of an Icon
Spirituality: what remains?
by Webb Keane...opposed to religion, which is identified with “exclusive rituals, legislating hierarchies, codes of membership.” Spirituality, by contrast, would presumably be what remains once these impediments have been removed. It is...
Mere Civility
Civility, identity, and agency
by Jeffrey Collins...promoted a robust, if at times coded, assault on the coherence of Trinitarian orthodoxy. These writings did not exemplify or suggest “civil silence” as to Hobbes’s own dissenting religious opinions....