...families who retain traditional notions of honor seek to control the sexuality of their daughters or are shamed by a son’s announcement that he is gay. Publics in India disagree...
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Crossing and conversion: Introduction
...state-based: they indeed tell us something specific about how conversions work in India, the United States, Morocco, Turkey, France, England, and Israel. But insofar as they traverse colonial and contemporary...
An American political theology?
...than Israel does, notwithstanding Israel’s commitment to personal law jurisdictions for minority communities. As you know, the history of minority jurisdictions—in places such as India, as well—but also indigenous sovereignties—often...
CFP: Global Secularisms
by The Editors...of the “new atheism,” to battles over “shariah law” in Europe and the Middle East, to the reemergence of religion in the politics of India, to battles over the authority...
Religion and state secularization
by Simon During...but not necessarily secular, state, so as to be treated as just another element inside social “diversity.” With the Indian case mainly in mind, Bilgrami resists Taylor’s argument that we...
Comparative Studies in Society and History takes on the secular
by Jake Alter...Agrama on Egypt, Nandini Chatterjee on India, James McDougall on the French and Algeria, Joyce Dalsheim on Israel, Kaled Furani on Edward Said, and Kabir Tambar on Turkey, as well...
Somewhere out there: Corporate utopias of space and sea
...mining; it also became the central term of a landmark Indian Supreme Court ruling that has prevented mining in the bauxite-rich Niyamgiri hills in the Indian state of Odisha. The...
Gandhian fraternity
by Akeel Bilgrami...are available, we must await history’s intervention in creating such internal reasons in a subject’s thought. (My example was the Indian constitutionalists” argument that they should put in a temporal...
Religion is not a standalone category
by Timothy Fitzgerald...of gifts in Japan a religious ritual or a secular, economic exchange? One could extend the examples in many directions, for Japan, UK, USA, India and many other collective representations,...
The science of people power: An interview with Gene Sharp
by Nathan Schneider...In the North-West Frontier Province of British India, the Muslim Pashtuns, who had a reputation for great violence, became even braver and more disciplined nonviolent soldiers than the Hindus, according...