...encounter with a South Indian goddess opened me up to the question of the divinity of gender. To play on Mary Daly’s provocation, how might we go beyond the divination...
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Islam and the Secular State
The challenge of creating change
by John L. Esposito...An-Na‘im’s choice of India, Turkey and Indonesia as examples of how secularism is contextualized in different societies is instructive. He eschews a single solution for all cases, a single formulation...
August 25, 2008
Is this all there is
“Drawing the line” and freedom of movement
by Yvonne Sherwood...lines: some so straight that you can see the colonial geographer’s ruler; some tortured, like the bloody “partition” lines drawn on “religious” grounds between Palestine and Israel and India and...
November 22, 2017
Secularism: Its Content and Context
Secularism, belief, and truth
by Regina Schwartz...(like that of the US) vs an authoritarian secularism (like that of Ataturk’s Turkey), and how the case of India in the early 20th century led to certain concessions by...
October 27, 2011
Religion in Human Evolution
Where religion comes from and leads us
by Steven M. Tipton...constituted through all the dimensions of human action. Religious rejection of the world emerges in the first millennium BCE in Israel, Greece, India, and China at the core of every...
November 18, 2011
The Unintended Reformation
A Kingdom that no longer says Whatever
by Ernst van den Hemel...Peter van der Veer has recently stated in an analysis of secularization in the context of China and India under modern-day globalization, emphasis on the economic dimension of secularization often...
December 2, 2013
Rethinking secularism
Multiple secularities and their normativity as an empirical subject
by Monika Wohlrab-Sahr...debate can certainly help to confront our taken-for-granted assumptions with other perspectives: European religious liberties look different when compared with a multi-religious society like India (even if not explicitly mentioned...
December 13, 2011
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Secularizing Buddhism
by Nicole Greenfield...a series of both practices and beliefs that have spread and mixed with many other influences. Buddhism as it entered Tibet from India melded and mixed with the Shamanistic Bon...
August 14, 2009
Hindutva and the shared scripts of the global right
The pastor, the swarm, and the movement
October 26, 2022
...not be included in that category. Yet a definition of fascism that relies on a paramilitary mass movement would seem to include India’s Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP). Alone among its...
October 26, 2022
A Universe of Terms
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by Winnifred Fallers Sullivan...traffic circle in suburban Maryland; the other ordered century-old swastikas decorating wall tiles on halls at Indiana University to be removed.1There have been many other recent cross decisions in the...
March 13, 2020