...might say the same with the episode about the Aghora in Varanasi, India; but here the message is somewhat reversed. Aslan begins by romanticizing an esoteric Hindu sect for their...
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The politics of religious freedom ![]()
by Robert Yelle
Christian genealogies of religious freedom
...(apart from the effect of British colonialism on India) to trace the very different histories of the modernization of cultural traditions in other parts of the world, as these traditions...
Notes from the field ![]()
by Brandon Vaidyanathan
On reductionism
...in many of our categorizations—for example, when we consider Christianity a “Western” religion in places like India. There is certainly a good argument to be made for abandoning certain categories...
The state of religion in China ![]()
by Thomas DuBois
Opiate of the masses with Chinese characteristics
...free speech but in economic security, arguing that the Chinese people are in fact far better off than people in putatively free societies such as India, Russia, or even the...