...Laxman’s daily cartoon in The Times of India depicting the common man made sense to one who has had to endure the arrogance and daily stupidity of Indian politics. Trevor...
india
here & there
Tradition Transformed: Tibetan Artists Respond
by Charles Gelman...Gonkar Gyatso, Tenzing Rigdol, Losang Gyatso, and Dedron. Several of the artists were born in Tibet while others come from Nepal or one of the large Tibetan settlements in India....
here & there
Pakistan takes on Islamism
by Laura Duane...crucial. So is greater maturity by India, which must revive stalled peace talks with Pakistan on the disputed territory of Kashmir, because reducing the threat along the Indo-Pakistan border would...
Deathless questions and other interviews
Nothing is ever lost: An interview with Robert Bellah
by Nathan Schneider...each of those fields. India, though, was the one place where I really started almost from scratch, like an undergraduate. That turned out to be utterly fascinating. I knew a...
off the cuff
Multiculturalism in Europe
by Sindre Bangstad, Keith Banting, Will Kymlicka, Rajeev Bhargava, Jocelyne Cesari, Grace Davie, Ruby Gropas and Elizabeth H. Prodromou...make a distinction between ‘communitarian’ and what we in India call ‘communal’—between those who see themselves as belonging to a community and those who view their communal affiliation as necessarily...
Out there: Perspectives on the study of Black metaphysical religion
Crystal ball gazers, dream books, and the occult
Book introductions
Blurring the boundaries
by Timothy Samuel Shah...A multitude of simultaneously democratic and luxuriantly faith-saturated societies—including India, Turkey, and Indonesia—explodes the ethical assumption. And ten years after September 11, 2001, religious militancy remains a powerful force—in Iraq,...
Oprah: The Gospel of an Icon
De-provincializing Oprah
by Manuel A. Vásquez...a narrative that, with the rise of alternative poles of economic, cultural, and religious production, such as Brazil, India, China, and Nigeria, has become increasingly myopic. The great virtue of...