...Thanksgiving, but it was not necessarily the Christian role we would assume. The Indian Country Today reprints an op-ed by John C. Mohawk, in which he tells us that American...
india
Is this all there is
Money—flat, broad, and deep
by Devin Singh
...that ancient enemy, the Islamic empires at Europe’s gates. Vasco da Gama and Christopher Columbus wanted to reach India and the Far East without dealing with the turbaned Moors who...
here & there
Values for the Post-Crisis Economy
by Ruth Braunstein...on values conducted through Facebook. The poll reached over 130,000 respondents in France, Germany, India, Indonesia, Israel, Mexico, Saudi Arabia, South Africa, Turkey and the United States. The poll results...
here & there
Muslim persecution in China
by Laura DuaneThe 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...
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...
