...large numbers in Vietnam and—with a fairly enthusiastic use of extra-legal torture against their “enemies”—in Algeria in the 1950s. Of course, outside Europe, Korea and Vietnam made the sacrifice of...
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Religious freedom & U.S. foreign policy
by Thomas F. Farr...example, he secured the designation of Vietnam as a CPC, convinced Hanoi to pass laws against persecution, and then rewarded the government by removing them from the CPC list. This...
The headscarf controversy
Gender equality and Islamic headscarves
by Joan Scott...long denied women the right to vote and its civil code enforced male prerogatives over women in families until well into the twentieth century. The Turkish republic (a one-party state...
here & there
What we cared about in 2008
by Nicole Greenfield...behind its promotion—in 2007, that is, when Harvard published the book. The fact that the NYT slipped the book on to its 2008 list is a clue that such lists...
Religion and digital culture
Religion for commoners
by Nathan Schneider...(contra Clifford Geertz) as representing a way of harnessing collective intelligence toward collective ends: share the code with the world, and the world will fix its bugs in no time....
Uprising in Egypt
Egypt’s revolution and the new feminism
by Margot Badran...all ages—workers, students, professionals, women and men, Muslims and Christians. It was a populist movement mobilized in cyberspace and through local networks, and acted out on national soil. The new...
Is this all there is
Secularism’s two ends
by Vincent Lloyd
...and to oppose the Vietnam War. The problem, Neuhaus and some of his contemporaries came to believe, was that secularism was inhibiting the struggle for justice. The challenging, indeed revolutionary,...
Crossing and conversion 
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Peter van der Veer
Crossing and conversion: Conclusion
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Peter van der Veer
...much later nationalist ethnic purification in Europe, brought to an extreme in the Nazi race laws, connecting religious and racial identity. Conversion is not an innocent business. It is also...