The Hong Kong Institute for the Humanities and Social Sciences, the University of Hong Kong, the National University of Singapore,…
Jessica Polebaum
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“Politics of Religious Freedom”
Professors Saba Mahmood, Elizabeth Shakman Hurd, Winnifred Fallers Sullivan, and Peter Danchin have recently launched a multi-year, Luce-funded project entitled…
Lives of Great Religious Books
Next Thursday, March, 24, NYU's Institute for Public Knowledge and the SSRC's Program on Religion and the Public Sphere will…
Feminist Review examines religion and spirituality
The current issue of Feminist Review is dedicated to the theme of religion and spirituality. In their opening editorial, Lyn…
Reflecting on the minaret ban
At Georgetown/On Faith, Katherine Marshall, Co-Chair of the SSRC Religion and International Affairs Advisory Committee, reports on how Swiss society…
Mosques in America
In a CNN op-ed, Karam Dana and Matt A. Barreto, SSRC Academia in the Public Sphere grantees and co-principal investigators…
Missed signals
At Muftah, Elizabeth Shakman Hurd reflects on how American observers may have overlooked the potential for political uprising, and eventual revolution,…
El poder de la religión
El poder de la religión en la esfera pública, the Spanish language edition of The Power of Religion in the…
SSRC announces dissertation workshop faculty
The Social Science Research Council has announced that Scott Appleby, Qamar-ul Huda, Cecelia Lynch, Ebrahim Moosa, and Danilyn Rutherford will lead…
CFP: Women, Religion, Conflict and Peace
The U.S. Institute of Peace's Religion and Peacemaking Center, Georgetown University's Berkley Center for Religion, Peace, and World Affairs, and the…