...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...
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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...
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...
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...