In honor of the International AIDS Conference that will take place in Washington, D.C. later this month, Diane Winston, a…
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Misogyny and the Muslim woman
At The Atlantic, Max Fisher considers the sources of misogyny in the Middle East in light of recent conversations surrounding…
Mary’s voice
In the wake of controversy over the Vatican's recent rebuke of American nuns' activities and announcement of plans to reorganize…
Sacred space in Sri Lanka
BBC news reports the ordered removal of a mosque in the central town of Dambulla, Sri Lanka.
Pope Benedict XVI’s trip to Cuba
Last week at The New Republic, Carlos Eire reviewed the Pope’s recent visit to Cuba.
Neuroscience and free will
Last month, The Chronicle of Higher Education posted a series of articles discussing “what science can and cannot tell us…
Ghosts in Antebellum America
At Religion in American History, John Turner, Professor of History at the University of Southern Alabama, reviews two books that…
Women’s Rights, Muslim Family Law, and the Politics of Consent
Lila Abu-Lughod and Anumpama Rao---editors of Women’s Rights, Muslim Family Law, and the Politics of Consent, a special issue of…
Changing religious attitudes towards gay marriage
On February 7, 2012, the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals ruled that California’s 2008 Proposition 8- a referendum banning same-sex…
CFP: Irreligion, Secularism and Social Change
The Religious Studies Project has disseminated a Call for Papers on behalf of Per Smith in the hope of creating…