...traffic circle in suburban Maryland; the other ordered century-old swastikas decorating wall tiles on halls at Indiana University to be removed.1 It is easy to deplore the well-meaning but flat-footed...
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Is this all there is ![]()
by Anna Strhan
A new Jerusalem
...and sang songs in languages other than English, from countries including Somalia, Poland, Albania, Italy, Cambodia, Ethiopia, India, and China. At the end of the assembly, all the children came...
here & there ![]()
by Nicole Greenfield
Secularizing Buddhism
...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...
Rethinking secularism ![]()
by Monika Wohlrab-Sahr
Multiple secularities and their normativity as an empirical subject
...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...
The Unintended Reformation ![]()
by Ernst van den Hemel
A Kingdom that no longer says Whatever
...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...
Religion in Human Evolution ![]()
by Steven M. Tipton
Where religion comes from and leads us
...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...
Secularism: Its Content and Context ![]()
by Regina Schwartz
Secularism, belief, and truth
...(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...
Is this all there is ![]()
by Yvonne Sherwood
“Drawing the line” and freedom of movement
...between Palestine and Israel and India and Pakistan. I think, ironically, that you can find a darker version of the bulging contingent wayward line in Tristram Shandy in the bloody...
Islam and the Secular State ![]()
by John L. Esposito
The challenge of creating change
...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...
