At The New Republic, Eg Kilgore explains why the Christian Right will overcome its apprehensions about Mitt Romney's religion.
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Panchen Lama in Hong Kong
by Wei ZhuOn April 25th, 2012, Gyaltsen Norbu, the 11th Panchen Lama, delivered a speech for the first time outside of the Chinese mainland.
May 2, 2012
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What Matters? Ethnographies of Value in a Not So Secular Age
by The EditorsColumbia University Press has just released What Matters?: Ethnographies of Value in a Not So Secular Age, edited by Courtney Bender and Ann Taves.
May 2, 2012
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Misogyny and the Muslim woman
by Taline CoxAt The Atlantic, Max Fisher considers the sources of misogyny in the Middle East in light of recent conversations surrounding Mona Eltahawy's Foreign Policy piece on its prevalence across the region.
May 3, 2012
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United Methodist Church, Israel, and divestment
by David SloaneToday at The New York Times, Laurie Goodstein reports on the United Methodist Church's decision not to divest from companies that supply Israel with equipment used to enforce its control in the occupied Palestinian territories.
May 3, 2012
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The Vatican and the “war on women religious”
by Sarah ShortallThe recent Vatican report on the Leadership Council of Women Religious (LCWR), an umbrella organization representing roughly eighty percent of American sisters, has elicited a fierce reaction in the media from Catholics and non-Catholics alike.
May 4, 2012
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Catholic doctrine and universities
by Candice ScharfIn a recent article, Libby A. Nelson discusses the role of faith in Catholic universities and puts forth the question, how Catholic are these institutions?
May 4, 2012
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New guidelines are pending for Islamic financial industry
by Phillip QuinteroThe AAOIFI, a Bahrain-based regulatory body for Islamic financial institutions, announced that it will revise its guidelines.
May 7, 2012
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West’s witness
by Jessica PolebaumFor New York Magazine, Lisa Miller profiles Cornel West, surveying the course of his academic career, personal life, and variety of public spats with figures like Larry Summers and Barack Obama.
May 8, 2012
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Contingency, divinity, and revelation
by John D. BoyIn The New Inquiry, Adam Kotsko reviews Quentin Meillassoux's The Number and the Siren, a study of Mallarmé's last poem, Un Coup de Dés jamais n’abolira le Hasard (A Throw of Dice Will Never Abolish Chance).
May 9, 2012