...same way that Rafik Hariri’s assassination has in Lebanon, or whether it will have the tragic but fleeting effect of Indira Gandhi’s assassination in India. Instead of signing a requiem...
india
A Universe of Terms
spirit
by Paul Christopher Johnson
...have to be made. But if spirit marked difference, it also sometimes helped to establish a shared humanness across groups. The chief merchant of the Dutch West India Company, Willem...
A Universe of Terms
spirit
by Peter van der Veer
...The Indian Swami Vivekananda, who became famous thanks to his performance at the World Parliament of Religion in Chicago in 1893, was immensely successful in his propagation of Yoga as...
Book introductions 
by
Alexander Thurston
Salafism in Nigeria: An introduction
by
Alexander Thurston
...Saudi Arabia was exporting Salafism, it was absorbing influences—from Egypt, India, and West Africa—that played a crucial role in forging Salafism. Studying Salafism is important not just for analyzing jihadist...
here & there
The Times responds to charge of anti-Catholicism
by Nathan Schneider...many young Indians choose vocations in the Catholic Church. To do these pieces, I spent many weeks in American parishes and a week living in a seminary in India. If...
Essays
The forgotten story of the Flushing Remonstrance
by Wei Zhu...War.) Accordingly, when Flushing was founded by English colonists under the auspices of the Dutch West India Company (WIC), the town charter allowed for “liberty of conscience,” but mandated that...
Exchanges
by Zachary Zinn...spiritual movements in political life. (2009 – 2010) Read more Mumbai 11/26 This is a collection of responses to the terrorist attacks in India in November 2008. (2008) Read...
Deathless questions and other interviews
The suspicious revolution: An interview with Talal Asad
by Nathan Schneider...People in villages in India, or Africa, or Latin America—they’re not responsible for climate change. There’s an interesting way in which one says, not only, “We’re all in this together,...