The New York Times reports on the persecution of Muslims in the Xinjiang region of China. Similar to the persecution of Christians in Orissa state in India, religion alone isn’t...
india
here & there
Civil rights and gay rights, 40 years after Stonewall
by Nathan Schneider...famous advocates of Gandhian nonviolence in the 1930s and 1940s, and the Mahatma once summoned him to a conference in India. Beginning with the Montgomery Bus Boycott, he served as...
Global Christianity, Global Critique
The many globalizations of Christianity
by Richard Madsen...the sixteenth century, the conquistadores brought Catholic Christianity to South America and the Philippines. In the seventeenth century, Jesuit, Franciscan, and Dominican missionaries brought it to India, Japan, and China....
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The secular as space, the secular as process: The 2012 UCSIA summer school
by Grace Yukich and John-Harmen Valk...Hungary, India, Italy, Kyrgyzstan, Mexico, the Netherlands, the Philippines, Romania, Russia, Slovakia, Turkey, the United Arab Emirates, the United Kingdom, Ukraine, and the USA). The program demonstrated how essential these...
Religion in the public sphere
Cosmopolitanism and the ideal of postsecular public reason
by Craig Calhoun...differ with different political histories – and also with different juxtapositions to religious claims on and in the public sphere. China is secular in a different sense from India and...
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Dalai Lama to give Templeton money to charity
by David Sloane...The Tibetan spiritual and political leader received the prize for “exceptional contributions to ‘affirming life’s spiritual dimension'”: About £900,000 is going to Save the Children in India, with £125,000 set...
Is this all there is
On democratic despond
by Ebenezer Obadare
...States, followed by the United Kingdom with ten. India, then Spain and South Africa rounded out the list with two and one respectively. In short order, I published an opinion...
A Secular Age
Hybrid consciousness or purified religion
by Richard Madsen...were created in Israel, Greece, India, and China.) Buddhists, Daoists, Muslims, and Christians seek purified versions of their practice. This means rejecting the accretions of tradition and of all those...